Upcoming MILES OF SMILES actions:

Monday 16th February 2009 (in association with Colour Ride)

COURTIS / MOORE (No-Fi)
http://www.geocities.com/a_courtis
http://www.myspace.com/aaronmooretheaccidental
Improv/drone super-duo with Anla Coutis (heroic guitarist in exuberant,
exhilarating Argentine noise trio Reynols) and Volcano the Bear's shamanic
multi-instumentalist Aaron Moore

THE REBEL
http://www.therebel.co.uk/
Provocative, literate DiY rock from Ben Waller of The Country Teasers

THE HUNTER GRACCHUS (Singing Knives)
http://www.myspace.com/thehuntergracchus
Creeping, primitive improvisations from Singing Knives label founder and
accomplices.

The Miller,
96 Snowsfields Rd, London Bridge SE1 3SS
8pm ~ £6
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/41925

*****

Saturday 28 February 2009

VETIVER (Sub Pop/Bella Union/Fat Cat)
http://www.myspace.com/vetiverse
Andy Cabic's freak-folk evangelists return for one-off headline show to showcase
new album 'Tight Knit', a swift follow-up to last year's covers LP 'Thing of
the Past'. The performance also launches a series of special Miles of Smiles
shows in the beautiful ball room at Cecil Sharp House, the headquarters of the
English Folk Dance and Song Society.

HUSH ARBORS (Ecstatic Peace!/Digitalis/Blackest Rainbow)
http://www.myspace.com/husharborsmusic
Spooked, compelling acoustic psych and mescaline-fried, minimal rock excursions
from frequent Sunburned Hand/Current 93/Six Organs of Admittance guitarist Keith Wood.

Cecil Sharp House,
2 Regents Park Road, Camden, NW1 7AY
8pm ~ £9 adv
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/41755

*****

Monday 2 March 2009

ZOMES (Holy Mountain)
http://www.holymountain.com/artists/zomes
Grainy, reduced
Krautrock which teeters on the brink of Himalayan devotional
musics, from Lungfish guitarist Asa Osborne.

JOANNE ROBERTSON (Textile)
http://www.myspace.com/jorobertsonblood39n39feathers
Blood’n’Feathers founder sketches intimate, ominous-yet-affirmative fragements.

INVISIBLE BEES
http://www.myspace.com/invisiblebees
Sparse, warmly enveloping drone.

Cafe Oto,
18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston, E8 3DL
8pm ~ £6
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/43261

*****

Sunday 22nd March 2009

PETER WALKER (Vanguard/Tompkins Square)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Walk ... itarist%29
Legendary American folk guitarist; friend and accomplice of Karen Dalton and
Sandy Bull; student of Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Kahn; 'musical director' to
acid pioneer Timothy Leary; scholar of Flamenco... For the second of Miles of
Smiles series of shows at Cecil Sharp House, Peter Walker returns to the UK to
play pieces from across his extensive, remarkable back-catalogue, from his early
Vanguard output to the fine trio of LPs delivered since his 'rediscovery' by
Tompkins Square, doubtless also dipping into an equally rich store of anecdotes
gathered through a life lived in service of his instrument.

NANCY ELIZABETH (Leaf)
http://www.myspace.com/nancyelizabethcunliffe
Lancashire chanteuse, James Yorkston collaborator and student of folk
ethnography previews forthcoming second album for Leaf.

BRETHREN OF THE FREE SPIRIT (Audiomer/Important)
http://www.myspace.com/thebrethrenofthefreespirit
Glimmering finger-picker James Blackshaw and Belgian Lutenist Jozef van Wissem
play from meticulous/miraculous second LP, 'The Wolf Also Shall Dwell With The
Lamb'.

Cecil Sharp House,
2 Regents Park Road, Camden, NW1 7AY
7.30pm ~ £8 adv/£10
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/41756

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