The new record by Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six is released today, exclusively through the band’s online shop.
Available in 10” Vinyl, CD and Download.
On general release (via iTunes, etc) on 8th April.
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Alabaster dePlume releases not just a single, but also a book
We are thrilled to announce that Alabaster dePlume’s debut solo release, “I Don’t Know”, is now available to buy from all the usual digital retailers. Not only that, he has also written a book of poems, “I Hate Spoo”, which can be purchased from the Alabaster dePlume online shop.
Alabaster also performed the song for Manchester Scenewipe.
A few words about the release:
During a spell of complete seclusion in a remote cabin in Dartmoor, Alabaster dePlume took an opportunity to write a short book of poems, and this song. He tells us it is terrifyingly easy to spend time without humanity, and that gathering firewood does wonders for wistful pentatonic melodies. On the porch, in the moonlit-dark, by a chair reserved for a far-distant friend, with occasional fauna passing by in the stillness, the singer personified something of a ludicrous and pretentious stereotype, whilst creating an original and genuinely sincere piece of work. The song addresses a number of characters, known all the more clearly, at the time, for their absence. It was put to tape by the inimitable Paddy Steer, of Homelife, who also plays double bass on the recording.
Alabaster dePlume is currently on a UK tour with The Miserable Rich and his full album will be released on Debt Records in the new year.
For more information about Alabaster dePlume, visit his website.
Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six “Live At The Dancehouse Theatre” now on sale
Now on general release, “Live At The Dancehouse Theatre”, the new album from Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six.
The seventeen-track album was recorded live at a packed out show at Manchester’s beautiful Dancehouse Theatre on Saturday 5th February, 2011. The album sleeve features photography from local photographer Gordon Jackson and the names of audience members present on the night.
Described by Louis as the band’s “most joyful, energetic and honest album to date” the record is now on general release.
We hope you like it.
Louis Barabbas joins the Un-Convention Advisory Board
Debt Records co-founder John Louis (aka Louis Barabbas) has accepted a position on the Un-Convention advisory board.
Un-Convention is a global grassroots music event and community that meets physically and virtually to share ideas and debate cutting edge issues around music, technology and creativity, facilitating members engagement with their peers. Un-Convention is not about the business of music. The community is driven by a not for profit initiative that sees opportunity for the grassroots in the changes to the way music is being produced, consumed and sustained.
The jobs involved as part of this three year post include:
- Advising on overall strategy and direction of Un-Convention, particularly in terms of issues such as branding, content, event strand, geographical reach, external image, organisational developments, significant policy changes, sustainability and growth, partnerships, identity and positioning of Un-Convention; and other major questions of strategy and direction that may arise
- Help establish and develop Un-Convention’s position within networks of practice, locally, nationally and internationally.
- Advise on fund raising activities, including identifying opportunities especially those most relevant to the focus areas of Un-Convention.
- Act as a sounding Advisory Board for new ideas and developments for Un-Convention.
- Assist the Executive Team to build and deliver cases for institutional change where these are required.
- Provide appropriate and constructive challenges to the assumptions and operating routines of Un-Convention.
- Act as an ambassador for Un-Convention and champion the organisation externally.
For more information, visit the Un-Convention website.
Get Religion!
“Get Religion!”, the new studio record by Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six, is now on general release as both a download (from places like iTunes, etc) and as a carbon-neutral full-colour davinci presentation CD pack with eight-page booklet and original artwork by A. Valliard.
The six-track mini-album features all the hallmarks that have made the band so popular on the UK alternative circuit: the vocal sparring of Alison Cegielka’s mellifluous soul tones and Louis’ broken-bagpipe growl, treading a tightrope over The Bedlam Six’s muscular rhythm section, grand piano, electric guitar and one-man trombone army. As well as the usual songs of love, lust and loathing, the record also resumes the story of Matilda the cat-killer (a projected ten-song narrative running through all the band’s releases, begun in their first album) with the eponymous heroine now blossomed into a jail-bound debutante.