FOGGYFOLK PRESENTS
Alasdair Roberts
(Scottish folk musician & Drag City recording artist)
& special guest:
Mary Hampton
(beautiful new Brighton based folk artist)
Whelan’s, Dublin
Sunday May 27th, 8pm
Tickets available from WAV, Ticketmaster, City Discs & Road Records
Alasdair Roberts is a Scottish singer and guitarist. Raised in Callander, Central Scotland, he has been based in Glasgow for the past ten years. His first releases consisted of homemade four-track recordings of his songs under the name Appendix Out, including four songs on the Up Records (of Accrington, England) compilation 4×4 (1995) and the Ice Age 7” on Will Oldham’s Palace Records (1996).
Appendix Out went on to release three albums on the Drag City label: The Rye Bears a Poison (1997), Daylight Saving (1999) and The Night Is Advancing (2001), the latter of which was produced by Drag City’s Rian Murphy and Sean O’Hagan of High Llamas.
Around the time of The Night Is Advancing, Alasdair was gradually becoming more and more immersed in the traditional song and balladry of the British Isles, resulting in the first release under his own name, the solo guitar-and-voice album of traditional songs The Crook of My Arm (Secretly Canadian, 2001). In 2001 Alasdair also found the time to collaborate with Jason Molina and Will Oldham; the result was the Amalgamated Sons of Rest EP (Galaxia), a brief collection of songs written by the three individuals, covers, traditional songs and one co-written track.
A couple of years later, the Appendix Out name was abandoned for good with the release of Alasdair’s second album, the Rian Murphy-produced Farewell Sorrow (Drag City, 2003). Unlike its predecessor, this record consisted of Alasdair’s self-written songs and featured a half-American, half-British backing band of Tom Crossley, Gareth Eggie, Bill Lowman and Rian Murphy.
Alasdair’s third album No Earthly Man (Drag City), produced by Will Oldham, was released in 2005. A collection of traditional British ballads of a tragic nature, this time Alasdair was accompanied by a large cast of players including Isobel Campbell, Tom Crossley, Gareth Eggie, Phil Johnson, Kirsten Koppel, an anonymous chorus of farm-workers, John McCusker, Alex Neilson and brothers Paul and Will Oldham. In late 2005, Alasdair completed a six-week long solo US tour in support of No Earthly Man.
Alasdair (accompanied by a band featuring Tom Crossley, Gareth Eggie and Gerard Love) released a new album, another collection of self-written songs entitled The Amber Gatherers in January 2007 on Drag City Records.
www.alasdairroberts.com
Mary Hampton lives in Brighton in a room overlooking the sea. She finds old songs and keeps them in coloured vials in her fridge. Sometimes she makes up new songs. And sometimes she does neither one thing nor the other.
“a stately clarity” - The Times
“bewildering” - Time Out London
“sweet and earthy” - Time Out New York
“a woman who appears to have spent much of her life attempting to imitate the shimmer of wind-chimes. The effect is mesmerizing” - The Guardian
“Her EP, Book One, homemade, its lyric sheet folded like origami, presents six “songs of refusal”, barbed evasions and rejections. There’s “Silver Dagger”, in quiet and sullen contrast to Dolly Parton’s beserk Appalachian horror-folk reading of a few years back, and “Let No Man Steal Your Thyme”, less carefree than Pentangle’s joyous version. Hampton sings old new folk’s material with new new folk’s emphasis on minute sonic detail.” - Financial Times
www.myspace.com/maryhampton
Alasdair Roberts
(Scottish folk musician & Drag City recording artist)
& special guest:
Mary Hampton
(beautiful new Brighton based folk artist)
Whelan’s, Dublin
Sunday May 27th, 8pm
Tickets available from WAV, Ticketmaster, City Discs & Road Records
Alasdair Roberts is a Scottish singer and guitarist. Raised in Callander, Central Scotland, he has been based in Glasgow for the past ten years. His first releases consisted of homemade four-track recordings of his songs under the name Appendix Out, including four songs on the Up Records (of Accrington, England) compilation 4×4 (1995) and the Ice Age 7” on Will Oldham’s Palace Records (1996).
Appendix Out went on to release three albums on the Drag City label: The Rye Bears a Poison (1997), Daylight Saving (1999) and The Night Is Advancing (2001), the latter of which was produced by Drag City’s Rian Murphy and Sean O’Hagan of High Llamas.
Around the time of The Night Is Advancing, Alasdair was gradually becoming more and more immersed in the traditional song and balladry of the British Isles, resulting in the first release under his own name, the solo guitar-and-voice album of traditional songs The Crook of My Arm (Secretly Canadian, 2001). In 2001 Alasdair also found the time to collaborate with Jason Molina and Will Oldham; the result was the Amalgamated Sons of Rest EP (Galaxia), a brief collection of songs written by the three individuals, covers, traditional songs and one co-written track.
A couple of years later, the Appendix Out name was abandoned for good with the release of Alasdair’s second album, the Rian Murphy-produced Farewell Sorrow (Drag City, 2003). Unlike its predecessor, this record consisted of Alasdair’s self-written songs and featured a half-American, half-British backing band of Tom Crossley, Gareth Eggie, Bill Lowman and Rian Murphy.
Alasdair’s third album No Earthly Man (Drag City), produced by Will Oldham, was released in 2005. A collection of traditional British ballads of a tragic nature, this time Alasdair was accompanied by a large cast of players including Isobel Campbell, Tom Crossley, Gareth Eggie, Phil Johnson, Kirsten Koppel, an anonymous chorus of farm-workers, John McCusker, Alex Neilson and brothers Paul and Will Oldham. In late 2005, Alasdair completed a six-week long solo US tour in support of No Earthly Man.
Alasdair (accompanied by a band featuring Tom Crossley, Gareth Eggie and Gerard Love) released a new album, another collection of self-written songs entitled The Amber Gatherers in January 2007 on Drag City Records.
www.alasdairroberts.com
Mary Hampton lives in Brighton in a room overlooking the sea. She finds old songs and keeps them in coloured vials in her fridge. Sometimes she makes up new songs. And sometimes she does neither one thing nor the other.
“a stately clarity” - The Times
“bewildering” - Time Out London
“sweet and earthy” - Time Out New York
“a woman who appears to have spent much of her life attempting to imitate the shimmer of wind-chimes. The effect is mesmerizing” - The Guardian
“Her EP, Book One, homemade, its lyric sheet folded like origami, presents six “songs of refusal”, barbed evasions and rejections. There’s “Silver Dagger”, in quiet and sullen contrast to Dolly Parton’s beserk Appalachian horror-folk reading of a few years back, and “Let No Man Steal Your Thyme”, less carefree than Pentangle’s joyous version. Hampton sings old new folk’s material with new new folk’s emphasis on minute sonic detail.” - Financial Times
www.myspace.com/maryhampton
