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Tonight - STEPHEN FRETWELL At The Ruby Sessions

  • 08-03-2005 3:19pm
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    jmc
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    STEPHEN FRETWELL
    Live at The Ruby Sessions
    @ Doyles, D'Olier St, Dublin 2.

    Tonight - Tuesday, March 8th '05

    Also appearing...
    Les Keyes
    Steafan Hanvey
    Eamon Brady

    Doors: 9.00pm
    Adm: €5 euro (profits to the Dublin Simon Community)

    As well as appearing at The Ruby Sessions tonight (Tuesday), STEPHEN FRETWELL is Special Guest to KT TUNSTALL at The Olympia Theatre on Friday, May 27th.

    Stephen Fretwell is Manchester's greatest secret.

    Whether it's alone with guitar or with his band, Stephen sings songs of love, longing and real life.

    Fretwell's long awaited full length studio album, 'Magpie' was released through Fiction Records (also home to Snow Patrol) in November 2004.

    'MAGPIE' was recorded live at London's Abbey Road Studio's over two weeks, with studio Engineer Guy Massey.

    .."Fretwell is magic" NME 8/10

    "Unequivocally stunning... one man standing on his own in the world as up right as the hairs on your neck after one listen to this album, Gorgeous" - THE FLY

    "Expressing deep rooted emotion through the most spartan of touches, Fretwell deftly leaves the listener craving more" - ****Q Recommends, Q Magazine

    "Outdoing Nick Drake for stark raving beauty...Elbow had to wait almost a decade to break through don't let Fretwell hang around any longer " - The Times Eye Magazine ****

    "Reflective and emotional....Magpie is beautiful....The sleeper hit of 2005" **** - THE SUN

    "after a lengthly period as Manchester's best kept secret Fretwell's tenderly abrasive tunes finally get a full length release. 'Brother' echoes Dylan in it's caustic intonation while the small town soul of 'New York' is all Springsteen.. Fretwell is a secret worth hearing.." *** Uncut Magazine

    .."Fretwell deftly leaves his listeners craving more" - Q Magazine 4/5 'Recommended' Nov 2004

    .."One man standing in the world, as upright as the hairs on the back of your neck after one listen to this album. Gorgeous." – The Fly November 2004

    .."Lines and Sicknote outdo Nick Drake for stark raving beauty in depression" - Times Eye 4/5 November 20th 2004.

    .."not in your face, but in your heart? Yes" - Times Culture 4/5


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