M Stevens & The Ghasts - ""Sycamore Helicopters"" Album Launch (1 Viewer)

[hugh]

The new album from M Stevens & The Ghasts, which is called `Sycamore Helicopters', will be released on Popical Island and launched on Saturday 12th October with a gig at the Bello Bar in Dublin. Sycamore Helicopters, like its predecessor Birds, is full of the mordant wit, tongue in cheek turn of phrase and very surreal take on Irish life that songwriter Mike Stevens is known for, but adds a strong narrative thread. It's an album of stories about the temporary nature of our delicate realities. Expertly crafted with the help of producer Les Keye, and mastered beautifully by Joe Chester, Sycamore Helicopters widens the sonic palette of the Ghasts (Mark Jordan, Hugh McCabe, Ciaran Canavan and Donagh O’Brien) by mean of robust, tender and often adventurous arrangements. This was helped enormously by the additional instrumentation provided by Norah Stevens (violin) and Mary Barnecutt (cello), as well as Anna Stevens (flute, backing vocals), Sadhbh McCabe (harp) and Les Keye (percussion, backing vocals).

Joining M Stevens and The Ghasts on the night of October 12th will be their erstwhile co-conspirator and Popical Island luminary Padraig Cooney with his new project (Padraig Cooney & Bedtime Now) and also the Dublin debut of the experimental electronic songs and sounds of Cork-based musician Twitcher (Lisa O'Grady).

Tickets on sale now from Eventbrite:
TIcket link

http://mstevensband.com

 

[snakybus]

One of us is woke.

 

[chris d]

Day before Daniel Romano. Got some groundwork to lay.

 

[Anthony]

My previous "can not attend" has been upgraded to "hopefully attend".

 

[Anthony]

also, I'm dumb. Explain the punctuation on the album title to me.

 

[hugh]

also, I'm dumb. Explain the punctuation on the album title to me.

Do you mean the wobbly quotes around the title?

 

[Anthony]

Do you mean the wobbly quotes around the title?

yes

 

[hugh]

yes

Yeah that's my fault.

 

[ann post]

One of us is woke.

What about a glasses / woke / beard venn diagram though instead of those temu punctuation marks?

 

[hugh]

Can't figure out how to fix it. I guess we are just going to have to live with it.

 

[pete]

Can't figure out how to fix it. I guess we are just going to have to live with it.

fixed

 

[snakybus]

What about a glasses / woke / beard venn diagram though instead of those temu punctuation marks?

You forgot bald/hat.

 

[pete]

Sorry I meant “fixed”.

 

[snakybus]

So, Hugh made a rather lovely video for one of our songs, 'Red Roses'. He filmed it in Marrakesh and looks deadly.

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[hugh]

Saturday's gig is cancelled due to drummer injury. Oh well.

 

[chris d]

Lads.

 

[snakybus]

Unfortunately it can't be helped. Broken shoulder, ouch.

We'll go ahead and release the album, and play again as a band as soon as we can.

 

[Anthony]

Listening party, online?

 

[pete]

Get well soon @rampz

 

[snakybus]

Good call @Anthony

We're having a listening party tomorrow at 7.00:

Sycamore Helicopters Listening Party from M Stevens & The Ghasts