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T. E. Yates’ Evil Cat

T.E. Yates

11/09/15

© T. E. Yates 2015

Part film night, part concert, Debt Records invites you to the launch of T.E. Yates‘ new animated music video with live sets from Alabaster dePlume, James G. Wilson and Yates himself (plus band) with DJ Rub The Sleep Out expertly filling in the gaps. The price of entry is £5 on the door.

Some background…

T.E. Yates has locked himself away for a very long time. For over a year he’s been working on an animated adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1843 short horror story The Black Cat. Faithful to the original text, and synchronised to the music of the aptly named song Evil Cat from his own Possessed EP, Yates has now emerged from the shadows in order to present this creation to the world.
Yates will be joined by a seven piece band on the night for a special performance to celebrate the release of the animation.
Also performing are Debt Records’ very own Alabaster dePlume and Yates’ regular guitarist James G. Wilson. Regular Big Hands DJ Rub The Sleep Out will be picking tunes on the night.

Entry is priced at £5 on the door. The event begins at 7:30. It is to be held at The Wonder Inn, 29 Shudehill, Manchester, M4 2AF.
A raffle will be held for paying entrants – the prizes shall be framed original artwork from the animation.

A Facebook event page has been created here.

The Sessions Of March

Honeyfeet, Louis Barabbas, Walk

In March of this year a team of archivists made up of event promoters, camera men and sound engineers set themselves a challenge to take a snapshot of the Manchester underground music scene. The collection of live sessions (aptly named The Sessions Of March) is being compiled at www.thesessionsofmarch.com. The recording crew were none other than the Debt Records technical team Biff Roxby and Dan Watkins (in the guise of their company WR Audio). It’s a lovely collection that is growing all the time.

Here are a few tracks by participants on the Debt roster…

View more at www.thesessionsofmarch.com.

New album from Alabaster dePlume scheduled for October release

Alabaster dePlume, Events

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PRESS RELEASE
Alabaster DePlume releases third album “Peach”
Impact Date: 2nd October 2015

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…

Manchester launch: 4th October at The Wonder Inn
London launch: 31st October at The Total Refreshment Centre, Dalston