Michael Hurley + Rozi Plain + Dean Mcphee
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Sun 8 April 2012 // 19:00
(Sun 8th April / 7pm / £9 advance)
A Qu Junktions n ShieldShape Joint
Air is abuzz with anticipation and chitter-chat – MICHAEL HURLEY is going to play The Cube. Mr. Hurley's songbook is one of the most important living, walking, talking, singing, playing bodies of work in Northern American culture. He is a singer of beautiful old style Americana songs, by turns melancholic and funny, and wrung into life on the banjo, fiddle and guitar.
Hurley's songs seem to criss-cross time and labels without convention, just like the man himself. Micheal certainly has a unusual flair for setting his own course, but it is the rich seam of lyrics mined by Hurley that really transcend any hep media tags you might wanna throw at him. Michael’s influence in today’s American music is immense; his repertoire has been lauded, visited and spread wide; but this is his first fully-fledged tour in Europe in more than 10 years.
http://www.snockonews.net/
Film about him : Snock 'N Roll: Adventures With Michael Hurley (Complete Film) http://www.myspace.com/video/marc-israel/snock-39-n-roll-adventures-with-michael-hurley-complete-film/51000107
The perfect middle section to this bill is ROZI PLAIN, whose effortless, beatific and gracious songs have come to mean a lot to folks round here. She has a timeless, English, rustic and dewy-eyed sound, but with a raw and tender undertow that allows her songs to snag unexpected heartstrings, making you wistful for a time and place and somebody that you have yet to experience. Dreamy…
http://roziplain.co.uk/
DEAN MCPHEE is a solo electric guitarist who lives in West Yorkshire. He plays a Fender Telecaster through a valve amp and effects. His fluid, hypnotic and melodic style touches on Davey Graham territory, but factors in aspects of Krautrock and sprawling post-rock atmospherics. Something says this is a intense guitar player that needs to be heard direct with no interference. The Wire talked of his...”free-ranging variations on melodic ideas via a mesmerising progression of harmonics, cleanly picked notes, full chords and string-bending arabesques…”
http://www.deanmcphee.com
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A Qu Junktions n ShieldShape Joint
Air is abuzz with anticipation and chitter-chat – MICHAEL HURLEY is going to play The Cube. Mr. Hurley's songbook is one of the most important living, walking, talking, singing, playing bodies of work in Northern American culture. He is a singer of beautiful old style Americana songs, by turns melancholic and funny, and wrung into life on the banjo, fiddle and guitar.
Hurley's songs seem to criss-cross time and labels without convention, just like the man himself. Micheal certainly has a unusual flair for setting his own course, but it is the rich seam of lyrics mined by Hurley that really transcend any hep media tags you might wanna throw at him. Michael’s influence in today’s American music is immense; his repertoire has been lauded, visited and spread wide; but this is his first fully-fledged tour in Europe in more than 10 years.
http://www.snockonews.net/
Film about him : Snock 'N Roll: Adventures With Michael Hurley (Complete Film) http://www.myspace.com/video/marc-israel/snock-39-n-roll-adventures-with-michael-hurley-complete-film/51000107
The perfect middle section to this bill is ROZI PLAIN, whose effortless, beatific and gracious songs have come to mean a lot to folks round here. She has a timeless, English, rustic and dewy-eyed sound, but with a raw and tender undertow that allows her songs to snag unexpected heartstrings, making you wistful for a time and place and somebody that you have yet to experience. Dreamy…
http://roziplain.co.uk/
DEAN MCPHEE is a solo electric guitarist who lives in West Yorkshire. He plays a Fender Telecaster through a valve amp and effects. His fluid, hypnotic and melodic style touches on Davey Graham territory, but factors in aspects of Krautrock and sprawling post-rock atmospherics. Something says this is a intense guitar player that needs to be heard direct with no interference. The Wire talked of his...”free-ranging variations on melodic ideas via a mesmerising progression of harmonics, cleanly picked notes, full chords and string-bending arabesques…”
http://www.deanmcphee.com
Brought to the wider, weirder public by
ShieldShaped - http://shieldshaped.blogspot.com/
Qu Junktions – http://www.qujunktions.com