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Bet on Race Horses being one of your new favourite bands in 2010. Having pulled off the enviable feat of producing a four-track, 7” concept EP Man In My Mind, they have just unleashed their full-length, fully realised album, Goodbye Falkenburg , which is conceived as a collage of a salty old sailor's life memories: “stories of good times and bad, of girls and champagne, of loneliness and longing.” Bursting with ideas, zig-zagging between musical reference points from The Beatles to Suicide, this is an ambitious –and brilliant – debut, the place where Barbershop meets post-rock via folk, oompah, psychedelia and pop. Read more → Race Horses' debut album "Goodbye Falkenburg" is now available to order on CD from FP SHOP or Digitally from iTunes Race Horses (Live) 09 Feb BRISTOL Thekla with FAN FARLO Man In My Mind (video) |
Villagers
Extracted from ‘The Memoirs of Matthew J. Anthony,' previously available only from L.A.M. Fiction - ‘Villagers' began life as a nameless collection of musical poems, all under the pen of one Conor J. O'Brien. “Ultimately, I've learned that a song is not an isolated thing. You have to wash the dishes before you write a song. It should never be taken too seriously. It must be treated with joy and humour, regardless of the subject matter,” muses Conor, as he strokes his hairless chin. Read more → Described as "folk-centered soul songs surrounded by epic pop arrangements" Villagers are currently recording their debut album for release via Domino in 2010. Villagers (Live) 12 Feb DUBLIN Vicar Street DROP HAITI's DEBT FUNDRAISER 10pm
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Luke Haines
Variously described as a national treasure and one of Britain's greatest living songwriters FP are delighted to welcome LUKE HAINES for the release of his new solo album 21st Century Man/Achtung Mutha. The album is now available as a Limited Edition 2 x CD Digi Pack CD and Digtal Download “A perfect piece of curtain twitching Rock n Roll. Morrissey would give his last quiff- hair to write something similar” WORD Album Of The Month “21 st Century Man” boasts both intelligent humour and exquisite songwriting: quite possibly one of the best British records of 2009” ARTROCKER 5/5 "Britain's most fearlessly offensive songwriter paints his jaw-dropping masterpiece for the 21st century." INDEPENDENT 4/5 "Audacious and funny" UNCUT 4/5 "Haines is at his mordant best on the self knowing title track 21st Century Man" TIMES 4/5 "Deliciously droll" MIRROR 4/5 "Haines remains as cold as winter and as aloof as gentry, so his intelligent demanding world remains unaltered" Q "The terrific English Southern Man is evidence that Haines is far from finished" MOJO "Glorious, glockenspiel-sparkled opening track from Haines's forthcoming album, 21st Century Man, which features satanists next door, missing children found alive and church bells chiming for the afternoon swingers." GUARDIAN Luke Haines (Live) Sat 30 Jan 2010 SPAIN Tan Tinned FestivalSat 27 Feb 2010 SPAIN Mini Festival Thurs 15 April 2010 LONDON The Garage, Highbury & Islington TICKETS
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