Wednesday 8th February, 2012
Cargo
83 Rivington Street, London, EC2A 3AY
7pm / £8
Following Still Corner's sell out album launch at Cafe Oto last month, we're excited to announce another London show for the band at Cargo in the New Year
It was a dark and foggy night when Still Corners songwriter Greg Hughes first laid eyes on vocalist Tessa Murray (now filled out to a 4-piece by Leon Dufficy and Luke Jarvis). “It sounds stupid but it’s completely true,” he recounts. “I was on a train that was going to London Bridge. But for some reason it went to this other stop and I got out. And this other person got out. It was Tessa.” It was a fitting moment for the American musician who came to London to pursue a career in music. A devoted cinephile whose first release Remember Pepper recalls both the youthful tone of French New Wave and the unease of Italian horror. Fusing whispered intimacy to the emotional expansiveness of composer Ennio Morricone, Hughes crafts deceptively simple songs that linger like half-remembered dreams.
www.myspace.com/stillcorners
"Mixing 60s production with dream-pop shimmer, are these wafty British etherealists heralding a new golden age of indie?" The Guardian
“Uncomplicated, subtle but memorable songwriting” BBC
Ed Wallis, singer and songwriter for My Sad Captains, wrote much of the material for the band’s second album ‘Fight Less, Win More’ alone in a borrowed house in San Francisco, over a lonely Thanksgiving. The songs flowed out of him, full of yearning for distant places and distant people.
Returning to England, the band – Jim Wallis (drums, keyboards, vocals), Nick Goss (guitar, sonics) and Dan Davis (bass) – decamped to the Cornish countryside to record the album in a barn where the natural acoustics combined with the band’s collective input brought the record to life. Highly personal and at times claustrophobic, the tracks opened out to become wide and expansive.
www.mysadcaptains.co.uk
‘Fight Less…’ is a joyous ride through the blessed strain of indie ploughed by US contemporaries like Grandaddy and Atlas Sound while still sounding like a product of home. Cherish this one’ - 8/10 Loud And Quiet
Now a five-to-seven-piece band (depending on the project in hand), Hooded Fang sprung to life in the attic bedroom shared by Daniel and April, the name coming from a classic children’s book written by Mordecai Richler. Conveniently, Nick Hune-Brown, keyboardist, lived downstairs. The band used to rehearse in that attic room and they would even put on shows for local and touring bands.
'Tosta Mista' is the brilliant debut UK album by Polaris Prize nominated Canadian collective Hooded Fang. With surf guitars, ‘verbed-out vocals and danceable ‘60s drum breaks, it’s a veritable garage rock riot. 'Tosta Mista' sounds like the whole of the Nuggets box set condensed into an album that’s just 23 minutes long. Still fiercely independent, Hooded Fang are releasing this latest album on their own Daps Records, which will be a fully-functioning entity putting out records by other artists this year.
www.hoodedfang.com
Tickets for this show are priced at £8 and are on sale now from the following links: WeGotTickets / TicketWeb / SeeTickets
