GRUFF RHYS
With special guest
Martin Carr (The Boo Radleys)
THE PEPPER CANISTER CHURCH
DECEMBER 16TH SOLD OUT
EXTRA DATE ADDED DECEMBER 17TH
Tickets on sale now!
The new album, film, book and app project 'American Interior' is OUT NOW! Buy on iTunes - http://po.st/GRAIiTunes
Recently nominated for the AIM independent music award, Guardian first book award and Gordon Burn Prize, MCD is delighted to announce an over 14's headline show for Gruff Rhys in The Pepper Canister Church on the 16th of December.
Tickets priced at €23 inclusive of booking fee are on sale now via ticketmaster.
In 2012 he embarked on an investigative concert tour of the American Interior, retracing the steps, and looking for the grave of a relative called John Evans.
John Evans left Wales for Baltimore in 1792 and walked into the wilderness of the Allegheny mountains in search of a lost tribe of Welsh-speaking Native Americans, believed to be the descendants of Prince Madog.
Over seven eventful years, with very little in the way of resources, he embarked on a series of incredible adventures, lived with several First Nation tribes and left a trail of political chaos from which America never recovered.
Gruff took his cue and travelled through the Midwest playing gigs and writing songs. In St Louis he picked up Kliph Scurlock from The Flaming Lips, who joined him on drums.
They powered up the Missouri River by boat, playing more shows on the shore. In Omaha they went to Mike Mogis’s Arc studio and cut a record, then carried on upriver to play the UMOnHOn and Fort Berthold reservations.
Dylan Goch who directed a film called ‘Separado!’ about his previous investigative concert tour joined him again and shot a new documentary on the way.
When he got home he wrote a book about the tour and John Evans’s epic adventure. It’s called American Interior. The film is also called American Interior. As is the album.
Just so there’s no confusion there’s an App that tells the same story in a brand new way. It’s called American Interior too.
Evans was last sighted in New Spain in 1799 under a new name: Don Juan Evans. Did he find the tribe he was looking for? What became of him? What is it that sends men and women to the ends of the Earth in the vain pursuit of glory? I’ll try and explain all in a PowerPoint presentation (across the nation) this summer.
With special guest
Martin Carr (The Boo Radleys)
THE PEPPER CANISTER CHURCH
DECEMBER 16TH SOLD OUT
EXTRA DATE ADDED DECEMBER 17TH
Tickets on sale now!
The new album, film, book and app project 'American Interior' is OUT NOW! Buy on iTunes - http://po.st/GRAIiTunes
Recently nominated for the AIM independent music award, Guardian first book award and Gordon Burn Prize, MCD is delighted to announce an over 14's headline show for Gruff Rhys in The Pepper Canister Church on the 16th of December.
Tickets priced at €23 inclusive of booking fee are on sale now via ticketmaster.
In 2012 he embarked on an investigative concert tour of the American Interior, retracing the steps, and looking for the grave of a relative called John Evans.
John Evans left Wales for Baltimore in 1792 and walked into the wilderness of the Allegheny mountains in search of a lost tribe of Welsh-speaking Native Americans, believed to be the descendants of Prince Madog.
Over seven eventful years, with very little in the way of resources, he embarked on a series of incredible adventures, lived with several First Nation tribes and left a trail of political chaos from which America never recovered.
Gruff took his cue and travelled through the Midwest playing gigs and writing songs. In St Louis he picked up Kliph Scurlock from The Flaming Lips, who joined him on drums.
They powered up the Missouri River by boat, playing more shows on the shore. In Omaha they went to Mike Mogis’s Arc studio and cut a record, then carried on upriver to play the UMOnHOn and Fort Berthold reservations.
Dylan Goch who directed a film called ‘Separado!’ about his previous investigative concert tour joined him again and shot a new documentary on the way.
When he got home he wrote a book about the tour and John Evans’s epic adventure. It’s called American Interior. The film is also called American Interior. As is the album.
Just so there’s no confusion there’s an App that tells the same story in a brand new way. It’s called American Interior too.
Evans was last sighted in New Spain in 1799 under a new name: Don Juan Evans. Did he find the tribe he was looking for? What became of him? What is it that sends men and women to the ends of the Earth in the vain pursuit of glory? I’ll try and explain all in a PowerPoint presentation (across the nation) this summer.
