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Summer Sundae and Field Day Festivals 8th and 9th August
This weekend I’ll be playing with the band at the Summer Sundae Festival in Leicester (Friday) and then the Field Day Festival in Hackney, London (Saturday). There are 2 gigs at Summer Sundae actually – one with Kenny Anderson of King Creosote in the Phrased and Confused tent at 3.30pm and myself with the band on the Indoor Stage at 5.40pm. The Phrased and Confused Tent is in connection with the arts project of the same name which Jamie and I got involved with in October 2006. It aims to bring together poetry and music. I hope to play the song ‘A Glorious Day’ that I wrote with the poet Brendan Cleary during the Phrased and Confused tour. Kenny and I plan to play a few songs together from our Burnsong Songhouse experience that also took place in 2006.
The Field Day gig will be sometime in the early afternoon on the Saturday.
Support to Zoey Van Goey Single Launch 5th July
I’ll be playing a short acoustic set with Jamie next month as support to Glasgow band Zoey Van Goey at the lanch of their debut single “Sweethearts In Disguise,” on July 5th at Stereo in Glasgow.
If I get my act together I may even be able to play a couple of new songs…
The Burnsong Songhouse Tour 2008
Coming up very soon is the 2008 Burnsong Tour which sees the songwriters who were involved with the 2006 Burnsong Songhouse get back together to tour Scotland with the songs they wrote during that week. The touring compliment consists of King Creosote, Future Pilot AKA, Karine Polwart, Kim Edgar, MC Soom T and Michael Johnston and myself.
The dates are as follows:
2 May The Byre, Saint Andrews
3 May Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh
4 May Buccleuch Centre, Langholm
5 May The Sage, Gateshead
9 May Eden Court, Inverness
10 May Eastwood Theatre, East Renfrewshire
11 May Perth Theatre, Perth
12 May Aberdeen Music Hall, Aberdeen
If you fancy it, please go to the link above to see more details and book tickets.
Benefit Gig, Mono, Glasgow 24th April
On Thursday 24th April there will be a benefit gig held at Mono on Kings Court in Glasgow in aid of The Orphan Support Project, Zomba, Malawi.
Line Up:
Eugene Kelly
Emma Pollock
Frances McKee
With readings from Alan Bissett and Hal Duncan
Tickets £5 on the door.
Spanish Tour
After months of date changes and uncertainty a Spanish tour has finally been booked and is pretty much as follows:
13th March Moby Dick Madrid
14th March 12 & Medio Murcia
15th March La [2] Barcelona
16th March Theatre Lloseta Mallorca
16th March La Caja De Musica Madrid
17th March La Lata De Bombillas Zaragoza
18th March Gazteszena Donosti
Interestingly, there appear to be 2 shows on the 16th March, one in Madrid in the afternoon and the other in Mallorca. We are trusting that the promoter knows his way around the Spanish airlines in order to make that one happen.
Please go here to buy tickets.