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A solo acoustic collection of Bedlam Six songs performed by Louis Barabbas is now on general release, unveiling how the bombastic tunes of Debt’s own dirt-swing ensemble start out.
The album is available as a CD and download from Louis’ online store as well as all the usual digital retailers and streaming services.
The title track of Felix Hagan & The Family‘s “Kiss The Misfits” EP (out next month) now has a great new video, featuring brief appearances from various members of The Family fanbase (including fellow performers Frank Turner, Louis Barabbas, Kieren King and others).
Baeble Music have premiered and reviewed the video here.
Snowapple are returning to Mexico for a few shows and press sessions, mostly in Distrito Federal (aka Mexico City) but also a couple of extra performances in other towns (more TBC).
Here is their itinerary…
19th Oct – UP RADIO ( radio session)
20th Oct – RADIO CDMX (radio session)
20th Oct – EXA TV (TV session)21st Oct – CAPITAL 21 (TV session)
21st Oct – GRITA RADIO (radio session)
21st Oct – LEGION AMERICANA, Mexico City
22nd Oct – EL CONVITE, Mexico City
22nd Oct – SEGUNDO PISO, Mexico City
23rd Oct – RADIO UNAM (radio session)
24th Oct – FILM CLUB CAFE, Mexico City
27th Oct – ROCK LAB, Mexico City
28th Oct – UC RADIO (radio session)
28th Oct – FORO HILVANA, Mexico City
29th Oct – GATO CALEVARA, Mexico City
30th Oct – BAR FLY, Cholula
1st Nov – CAFE CULTURA NUEVA BABEL, Oaxaca
The much-anticipated new album by Alabaster dePlume is now on general release, available from all the usual digital retailers and Alabaster’s online store.
A limited edition vinyl version is available as a pre-order from QRATES.
Here are a few words about the record…
A peach is a sweet and soft and good thing with a stone in the middle, and this is an album about being a person. Smartphones, analogue tape, valve microphones, computers, group games and a grand banquet were used to create this collection of songs, tunes and monologues, that use a series of contradictions to talk about being alive.
Long-term collaborators John Ellis (piano) and Paddy Steer (percussion, bass, lapsteel, synth) join Angus Fairbairn (vocal, tenor sax) along with eleven other musicians and nearly a hundred other voices in presenting sounds likened to Ethiopian jazz and Japanese folk music. Scripts and vocal delivery evoke Ivor Cutler, Emo Philips and Leonard Cohen, for this combination of theatre, live-captured music, songs, humour and philosophy.
It is a unique collection, made by unusual means designed around the artistry and conveyance of its many contributors. Created over three years in London and Manchester, it’ll be celebrated in those two towns on the dates below, following its vinyl and digital release on Manchester label Debt Records, on 28th September 2015.
A composer, musician and performer, Alabaster DePlume (Angus Fairbairn) has toured northern Europe, appeared on UK national radio and developed theatre for Bram Stoker Festival in Dublin. His many combined arts projects are based around music, and personal inclusion. In this, his third album, he has employed as many voices as he can, in conveying a method of survival he’s been taught, he says, by everyone he’s met.
Hope grows naturally, like a
dandelion between the bricks.
I feel good…
Album launch party: 4th October at The Wonder Inn, Manchester, UK.
Here’s the first track “I Feel Good”:
The first single from Louis Barabbas‘ upcoming solo album is now on general release, available from all the usual digital retailers and streaming services. We recommend buying direct from the artist’s own online store, however, where the song is available in FLAC, MP3 and other formats as a name-your-price download.
Watch Paul Wright’s amazing music video for “You Did This To Me” here:
PRESS RELEASE
Louis Barabbas releases debut solo single “You Did This To Me”.
The Bedlam Six frontman reveals a different side to his personality in this quietly funky think-piece about blame and affection – an oddly passive-aggressive love song that may raise the eyebrows of existing fans.
“The songs that emerge as Bedlam Six numbers are often wheedled out from a tangle of other compositions that don’t really fit the band’s performance style” explains Louis, “for every erratic snarling foot-stomper there tends to also be a slightly malformed wordy afterbirth. When the band went on hiatus last year I figured it was time to see if a few of these could be turned into anything. The resulting collection became a solo album called Gentle Songs Of Ceaseless Horror. This is the first glimpse into that project.”
You did this to me
As the leaves began to fall
Exposed your heart and all its teeth
As the shadows dripped from every wall
Teaming up with producer Biff Roxby (Honeyfeet, Bedlam Six) alongside rhythm section Phill Howley (Liz Green, Shyfinger) and Joel Roberts (The Chaps, Lou & The Llamas), Louis’ new single is a very different proposition from his usual flamboyant Dirt-Swing exploits with The Bedlam Six. By turns reminiscent of Leonard Cohen, J. J. Cale and even Hans Zimmer, “You Did This To Me” will have Louis’ audience wondering what else to expect from the new album.
The music video directed by Paul Wright doubles as the first chapter in an unsettling film narrative that will accompany the album.