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Alasdair Roberts live in Manchester!
Pop Art vs. Industry presents:
ALASDAIR ROBERT + JAMES SUMMERFIELD + PATRICK BRISCOE
Friday 27th May @ Irish Association Social Club, High Lane, Chorlton
£6 adv
Raised in the countryside of central Scotland, Alasdair Roberts has been releasing records between 1996 and the present day, both under his own name and originally as Appendix Out. After a 7”on Will Oldham’s Palace Records, and 3 LPs of delicate lo-fi indie rock on the legendary Drag City as AO, Alasdair began releasing records of beautiful and stark folk songs under his own name. 2001’s “The Crook of My Arm”was released on Secretly Canadian (one of Pop Art’s favourite labels) and showed Alasdair fully embracing the direction once hinted at as AO, with twelve solo guitar-and voice versions of traditional Scottish, English and Irish folk songs. For 2002’s “Farewell Sorrow” (Rough Trade) drank deeper still from the dark and ancient well of British song tradition, but this time creating a record of twelve original songs, recorded with a small band. For his new record, “No Earthly Man” (Drag City), Roberts presents another set of traditional British ballads and songs, all centred around that favourite folk subject, death. Featuring performances from Will Oldham and Isobel Campbell, Roberts and his companions have managed to make a record about death which is not the wailing, wallowing, self-pitying ordeal one might expect from such a thing in our present age - in fact it’s celebratory, at times positively joyous. Whilst very much rooted in the folk tradition, Alasdair takes a subtle yet radical approach to the traditional material, with powerfully haunting results.
More info at:
www.alasdairroberts.com
www.jamessummerfield.com
www.popartrecords.co.uk
ALASDAIR ROBERT + JAMES SUMMERFIELD + PATRICK BRISCOE
Friday 27th May @ Irish Association Social Club, High Lane, Chorlton
£6 adv
Raised in the countryside of central Scotland, Alasdair Roberts has been releasing records between 1996 and the present day, both under his own name and originally as Appendix Out. After a 7”on Will Oldham’s Palace Records, and 3 LPs of delicate lo-fi indie rock on the legendary Drag City as AO, Alasdair began releasing records of beautiful and stark folk songs under his own name. 2001’s “The Crook of My Arm”was released on Secretly Canadian (one of Pop Art’s favourite labels) and showed Alasdair fully embracing the direction once hinted at as AO, with twelve solo guitar-and voice versions of traditional Scottish, English and Irish folk songs. For 2002’s “Farewell Sorrow” (Rough Trade) drank deeper still from the dark and ancient well of British song tradition, but this time creating a record of twelve original songs, recorded with a small band. For his new record, “No Earthly Man” (Drag City), Roberts presents another set of traditional British ballads and songs, all centred around that favourite folk subject, death. Featuring performances from Will Oldham and Isobel Campbell, Roberts and his companions have managed to make a record about death which is not the wailing, wallowing, self-pitying ordeal one might expect from such a thing in our present age - in fact it’s celebratory, at times positively joyous. Whilst very much rooted in the folk tradition, Alasdair takes a subtle yet radical approach to the traditional material, with powerfully haunting results.
More info at:
www.alasdairroberts.com
www.jamessummerfield.com
www.popartrecords.co.uk