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Stress!! & Homelights Tour present Adrian Crowley, James Yorkston, Alasdair Roberts

  • 09-11-2009 9:57pm
    #1
    beatpoet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭


    Kelly’s, Galway – Fri Dec 4th

    Doors 8pm, tickets €10, €12 on door

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    HOMELIGHTS 2009 – the tour!

    Adrian Crowley

    James Yorkston

    Alasdair Roberts

    Further to them announcement of the HOMELIGHTS 2009 festival featuring Adrian Crowley and a stellar cast of friends and influences comes HOMELIGHTS THE TOUR taking in shows in Belfast, Galway, Cork and Kilkenny. For these shows Adrian Crowley will be joined by acclaimed modern day folk artist James Yorkston who was an integral early member of Fife’s Fence Collective and is currently recording for influential independent record label Domino Records. Yorkston released his fourth studio album in 2008, When The Haar Rolls In. The album featured guests appearances from English folk legends Norma and Mike Waterson and was accompanied by a remix disc and a cover versions disc, the latter of which featured Adrian Crowley himself. He followed that this year with Folk Songs, a self explanatory collection learned from cassettes and CDs by Anne Briggs and Shirley Collins, Jean Ritchie and Nic Jones, Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr.

    Joining Adrian and James is another acclaimed Scottish songwriter Alasdair Roberts, who has released three album as Appendix Out for the Drag City label and five Alasdair Roberts albums for labels such as Secretly Canadian, Rough Trade and Drag City, including his 2009 LP Spoils. He has also recorded with label-mates Will Oldham and Jason Molina as the Amalgamated Sons of rest.

    Adrian Crowley is one of Ireland’s most essential young songwriters and recording artists. His fifth album Season of the Sparks is released on Chemikal Underground on November 9th.

    "Crowley has come of age, he has moved up several levels in one bound.. from apprentice to grandmaster." - Jim Carroll (The Irish Times) May 2009.

    "Crowley's most consistently beautiful album yet" **** (4 stars) The Irish Times

    "The current Adrian Crowley record should get 8 out of 5.Unfortunatley I'm not allowed to do this so 5 it is" - ***** (5 stars) Hot Press

    " Unspeakably beautiful"- **** (4 stars) RTE Guide

    "A true magical mystery tour" **** (4 stars)- Q magazine

    "Timeless.."- UNCUT

    "..Spare, ghostly and beautiful. A great album" **** (4 stars) - The Sunday Times



    The trio will be visiting:

    Crane Lane, Cork – Wed Dec 2nd

    Doors 8pm, tickets €15 from www.tickets.ie & Plug’d Records

    Cleere’s, Kilkenny – Thurs Dec 3rd

    Doors 8pm, tickets €15 from www.tickets.ie

    Kelly’s, Galway – Fri Dec 4th

    Doors 8pm, tickets €10, €12 on door

    The Black Box, Belfast – Sat Dec 5th

    Doors 8pm, tickets £9 from www.blackboxbelfast.com

    www.myspace.com/homelightsfestival

    www.myspace.com/adriancrowley

    www.adriancrowley.com

    www.chemikal.co.uk

    www.jamesyorkston.co.uk

    www.myspace.com/jamesyorkston

    www.dominorecordco.com/artists/james-yorkston-and-the-athletes

    www.alasdairroberts.com

    www.myspace.com/alasdairrobertsofficial

    www.dragcity.com/artists/alasdair-roberts


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