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Bridie Jackson and The Arbour will be playing a live session for Dermot O’Leary’s BBC Radio 2 show on Saturday 22nd June.
The group will be playing two songs and chatting about various things Arbour.
The programme will air at 3pm and then be available subsequently on the BBC iPlayer.
Sequencer blues duo Walk have been invited onto Marc Riley’s BBC 6 Music show to play a live session.
The show airs at 7pm on Monday 22nd April.
The dust has barely settled since Bridie Jackson and The Arbour won the Glastonbury Festival emerging talent competition with a unanimous vote from the Pilton panel of judges. The Arbour have never been ones to rest on their laurels, however, and have now teamed up with Debt Records’ in house producer Biff Roxby to create a stark and daring contrast to their acclaimed debut single “Scarecrow”.
The song “Please Forgive Me My Human Ways” first appeared on 2012’s “Bitter Lullabies” LP, a sparse and haunting acapella lament in which “those brave in love sleep so well”. Roxby’s reimagining adds a gruesome bass line and heavy drum beat, an electronic swarm that looms threateningly over the central gospel harmonies in a crucible of conflicting tones. The result is powerful and unsettling, demonstrating once again the versatility of Bridie Jackson’s extraordinary songwriting.
It has been an amazing few months for The Arbour. Debut single “Scarecrow” garnered universal acclaim from niche and mainstream media alike, receiving radio support from BBC Radio 2, 3, 4 and 6 as well as local stations all over the country, plus endorsements from the likes of broadcaster Clive Anderson, singer Tom Hingley and internet pioneer Bill Thompson. On 6th April, it was announced that they had won the Glastonbury emerging talent competition, selected from eight thousand hopefuls.
“Please Forgive Me My Human Ways” will be released in a limited edition physical range at selected shops for UK Record Store Day on Saturday 20th April and then direct from The Arbour’s online shop the following Monday. It will be on general release two weeks later on 6th May (Sigmund Freud’s birthday).
Photo © Jason Bryant 2013
Whittled down from 8000 applicants to just eight finalists, the Glastonbury emerging talent competition took place at Pilton Working Men’s Club on Saturday 6th April, judged by a panel of music industry professionals. The prize: a main stage slot at Glastonbury Festival 2013.
And the winner is our own amazing Bridie Jackson and The Arbour!
Congratulations on a thoroughly well-deserved win!
PRESS RELEASE
Eponymous single from Manchester duo Walk on general release 25th February, 2013.
It is with great pleasure that we announce the debut release from our newest signing Walk, the sequencer blues project of Rik Warren and David Schlechtriemen. Walk are the only act this label has ever had a bidding war over. They are also the only band that have prompted us to go against one of our firmest rules – not to sign anyone that has not been on the live circuit for at least three years. But for artists like Walk one makes these exceptions. Though they have only been gigging for a few months the duo are already being championed by BBC 6 Music’s Marc Riley, as well as local press and audiences all over the North West.
Despite the freshness of Walk’s sound, the two characters at the centre of the project are far from new arrivals. Critics and audiences will no doubt recognise David as the enigmatic long-haired drummer from bands such as Driver, Drive Faster and Rik as harmonica blower and clarinet player in Honeyfeet.
Together they create music that is at once simple, mysterious and infectious – modern yet traditional. Walk is contemporary blues music in the truest sense: not nostalgic or hokey but honest, emotive and surprising.
The digital 45 will be on general release through all the usual online distributors and the band’s own online shop from 25th February, 2013.