Booking
The Local Booking Roster
Sam Amidon – UK and Ireland
“Amidon has one of the most inviting voices around today…In bridging the very old and the very new on a handful of albums and collaborations, he has managed to meld the rural and the urban, the organic and the synthetic, the oral tradition and the written score.” -Pitchfork
Matt Bauer – UK and Ireland
Super hushed voice. “An album of fragile beauty” -Under the Radar
David Thomas Broughton – Management and booking worldwide
“the most brilliant and baffling show I’m likely to see this year” – Hank Schteamer, Time Out New York
“David Thomas Broughton = an actual, honest-to-god, straight up genius.” – The Internet Sleeps Sundays
Bushman’s Revenge – UK and Ireland
everything here is rock first, made with fierce proficient connection — then free flight.
David Fricke, Rolling Stone (US)
The Chapin Sisters- UK and Ireland
“The one virtue the Chapin Sisters shares with classic sister acts of old becomes apparent when they sing together: that shiver of spotless, familial unity that makes every syllable woundingly poignant.” – FLAVORPILL San Francisco
Correatown – EU
“Correa could sing the horoscopes and draw you in…”-Popmatters.com
On Tour in MAY 2012.
Elephant9 – UK and Ireland
a funky traverse across the progressive spectrum of jazz rock – a territory explored by the likes of Keith Emerson and Weather Report in the ’70s. – The Line of Best Fit
Dana Falconberry – UK and Ireland
“Within her voice echoes the legacy of stories long passed down in song, the simple and direct witness to time and perseverance that connects the personal with the communal, worn desperation and youthful defiance, and the anachronistic balance of past and present.” – Doug Freeman, Austin Chronicle
Sallie Ford and The Sound Outside – UK and Ireland
Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside vigorously mines a sweet spot between modern and vintage. Sallie’s voice has elicited comparisons to classic jazz and blues icons, yet it is stoked with the fire of youth and rebellion, too, an instrument capable of conveying raw emotion and nuanced artistry in the same breath.
New album out on Fargo. Sallie Ford is available June and July 2012.
Alex Highton – Management and booking Worldwide
“Lovely stuff…..like Gruff Rhys does The White Album” – Real Wood Records
RM Hubbert – EU Booking
RM Hubbert is a guitarist from Glasgow in Scotland. He writes music about love, death, friendship, mental illness and occasionally a dog called D Bone. It’s not as depressing as the previous sentence suggests.
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Judson Claiborne – Europe
The music alone should satisfy your appetite—a lazy slice of Americana to ease the transition from daylight-saving time. – Time Out Chicago
Monolithic – UK and Ireland
“Stian Westerhus and Kenneth Knapstad are a duo that manages to sound heavier than most five-pieces” -Nümusic Review Inferno Festival 2010
Oh Ruin – Management and Booking Worldwide
“Crooning tales of childhood mischief and the first sweet stings of love, combining stomping blues with campfire quiet troubadour tunes. A little loose, a little rough around the edges, with melodies borrowed from old Irish folk songs, and stories set to intricate finger picked paeans. While honing his song writing craft, Eoin’s been learning the art of the luthier, making the guitar he now plays.”
Papier Tigre - UK and Ireland
Papier Tigre is an impressive live act and a tireless touring band. In about 5 years they have played more than 350 shows in 23 different countries including China, Hong Kong, Japan, Brazil, the USA, Canada and of course all the way across Europe. In the UK, the band appeared at 2008 All Tomorrow’s Parties by invitation of Explosions In The Sky.
She Keeps Bees – Europe
a loosely hammering, bluesy howl that sounds like it was as exciting to make as it is to listen to – Rob Fitzpatrick, The Guardian
The Sweetback Sisters – Europe
“The Sweetback Sisters achieve the difficult task of approaching their frankly old-fashioned music with an enthusiasm that is not devoid of humor, yet never descends into parody. ” Allmusic.com, May 2011
Tiny Ruins – Europe
Tiny Ruins is the project of Bristol-born, New Zealand-raised musician and songwriter Hollie Fullbrook. Debut Album out now on Australia’s Spunk Records. Hollie will tour with Spunk Trio including Holly Throsby and Jordan Ireland in Feb, and open for Handsome Family in May 2012.
Leif Vollebekk – UK and Ireland
Vollebekk has a great sense for melody and arranging — he knows when to give a song space to breathe — and he’s a gifted multi-instrumentalist, playing guitar and piano, harmonica and violin.” -Robin Hilton, NPR
Mirel Wagner – UK and Ireland
Mirel Wagner is a 23 year old singer/songwriter, born in Ethiopia and raised
in Espoo, Finland. She writes gloomy Blues and Folk songs,
stripped down to the bone. It’s just about her airy but rough voice and a
minimalistic guitar picking.