Green Man Festival Tour Feat. Mary Hampton, Pete Greenwood And Green Man DJs
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Wed 3 December 2008 // 20:00
(Wed 3rd / 8pm / £7, £6 advance)
London-born Mary Hampton has lived for some time in a room over-looking the sea in Brighton. Her first real introduction to folk music was a traditional English folk song squeezed between Frank Zappa and Penderecki on a friend's compilation tape. Ever since, Mary has been entranced by both the wide-reaching genre of folk and the notion of 'found' music, taking influences from Anne Briggs, Bob Dylan, Bach, traditional hardinger fiddle music and British bird song In August 2008, Mary released her highly-anticipated debut album, My Mother's Children, on Navigator Records, described by folk veteran Eliza Carthy as 'terrifying and gorgeous...unusual and strong....epic and tiny...an album I know I am going to love for life.' In the past, Mary has recorded with both Carthy and Imitation Electric Piano (with members of ground-breaking band Stereolab) and supported St Etienne, Bellowhead and British Sea Power. 2008 alone has seen Mary tour with alt-folk heroes Adem and perform at the infamous Green Man and End Of The Road festivals.
Raised in Leeds, Pete Greenwood relocated to London in 2002 to pursue his love of music and has gone on to become an accomplished and renowned musician and songwriter, creating sprawling lyrical tales of taxi drivers on the Westway, Victorian gin, Charles Manson and the search for a pair of decent shoes, all told in his soft, earthy tones and strung together by the narrative songwriting tradition of more conventional folk. Pete released his début album, Sirens, in August 2008 on Heavenly Recordings.
The Cube Microplex is proud to welcome both Mary and Pete to the stage as part of the 2008 Green Man Festival Tour, for what promises to be a mesmerising and heart-warming evening of stories, songs and surprises. The eclectic Green Man DJs will be on hand in the bar to entertain between sets, and there'll even be a chance to win tickets for next year’s Green Man Festival!
'If Joanna Newsom's spiders-in-the-hair folk floats your tankard, then Brighton's Mary Hampton is the new brew. Spectral and spartan she mixes poetry and classical influences into plinking, piano-led folk ballads...giving her début an exotic, gothic drama.'- Q
'Coffee-table-shattering purity...these are songs of unnerving delicacy, elemental and acoustic simplicity...potent and enchanting.' - **** Uncut
'...songs,which recline with shimmering sensuality in various shady cloaks of weirdness...fragility, desolation and humour...' The Telegraph
London-born Mary Hampton has lived for some time in a room over-looking the sea in Brighton. Her first real introduction to folk music was a traditional English folk song squeezed between Frank Zappa and Penderecki on a friend's compilation tape. Ever since, Mary has been entranced by both the wide-reaching genre of folk and the notion of 'found' music, taking influences from Anne Briggs, Bob Dylan, Bach, traditional hardinger fiddle music and British bird song In August 2008, Mary released her highly-anticipated debut album, My Mother's Children, on Navigator Records, described by folk veteran Eliza Carthy as 'terrifying and gorgeous...unusual and strong....epic and tiny...an album I know I am going to love for life.' In the past, Mary has recorded with both Carthy and Imitation Electric Piano (with members of ground-breaking band Stereolab) and supported St Etienne, Bellowhead and British Sea Power. 2008 alone has seen Mary tour with alt-folk heroes Adem and perform at the infamous Green Man and End Of The Road festivals.
Raised in Leeds, Pete Greenwood relocated to London in 2002 to pursue his love of music and has gone on to become an accomplished and renowned musician and songwriter, creating sprawling lyrical tales of taxi drivers on the Westway, Victorian gin, Charles Manson and the search for a pair of decent shoes, all told in his soft, earthy tones and strung together by the narrative songwriting tradition of more conventional folk. Pete released his début album, Sirens, in August 2008 on Heavenly Recordings.
The Cube Microplex is proud to welcome both Mary and Pete to the stage as part of the 2008 Green Man Festival Tour, for what promises to be a mesmerising and heart-warming evening of stories, songs and surprises. The eclectic Green Man DJs will be on hand in the bar to entertain between sets, and there'll even be a chance to win tickets for next year’s Green Man Festival!
'If Joanna Newsom's spiders-in-the-hair folk floats your tankard, then Brighton's Mary Hampton is the new brew. Spectral and spartan she mixes poetry and classical influences into plinking, piano-led folk ballads...giving her début an exotic, gothic drama.'- Q
'Coffee-table-shattering purity...these are songs of unnerving delicacy, elemental and acoustic simplicity...potent and enchanting.' - **** Uncut
'...songs,which recline with shimmering sensuality in various shady cloaks of weirdness...fragility, desolation and humour...' The Telegraph