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Skylark and the Scorpion – Weather the Storm & Hey Lover.
'FEATURED ARTIST' ON GUY GARVEY'S FINEST HOUR (01.09.19)
OUT 4 OCTOBER 2019, VIA SKINNY DOG RECORDS
DEBUT SINGLE 'HEY LOVER'
ALBUM LAUNCH SHOW – FRIDAY 4 OCTOBER – Tickets here
Weather The Storm by Skylark and the Scorpion is both a record of majestic folk beauty and a breathtaking cinematic experience from Skylark aka Petra Jean Phillipson (David Holmes/Martina Topley Bird/Marianne Faithful) and the Scorpion aka Nick J Webb (The Lea Shores/Nadine Shah).
The ambitious musical odyssey tells the tale of two haunted souls on their search for re-connection. It's a conceptual project formed around the pairing of creator, producer, songwriter Nick and vocalist Petra. The album finds the duo assume the roles of two ill-fated lovers as they traverse through a turbulent story arc told through the album's captivating song cycle. A real labour of love, the record arrives at the end of a journey almost as epic in reality as it is in its fiction.
To mark the album's announcement, Skylark and the Scorpion are revealing the first two chapters of a 40-minute short film that accompanies the entire record. The film follows the emotional journey of the two lovers. Viewers will be able to tune into a progressive narrative that will gradually unfurl their destiny with a string of videos, each soundtracked by a song featured on the album with a new instalment set to be unveiled every week leading up to the full release in autumn.
You can watch the videos for 'Hey Lover' – the first track for radio – and the film trailer for 'Weather The Storm' below.
Guided by Petra's inimitable siren song, the lead single (and fittingly the first song Petra and Nick ever recorded together), 'Hey Lover' flows through layers of languid orchestrations and rippling acoustic arpeggios, with a glorious opening salvo.
Weather the Storm film trailer. Director: Finlay Mackay / Producer and Editor: Nick J. Webb / Director of Photography: Peter Bathurst
Nick and Petra were joined by a talented array of hand-picked musicians and friends. Contributions from ambient music composer Roger Eno (brother of Brian Eno, who added piano and accordion to the mix) and orchestral arranger Nell Catchpole (on violin/viola), with additional contributions from Tim Harries (double bass), Jamie Spencer Smith (guitars), Fontane Liang (harp) and Nick Foot (percussion). Webb, who also plays the cornet, then completed the album by adding brass arrangements, before sending the results to celebrated producer Ben Hillier for mixing the elegant finished article we hear today.
Featured Artist on Guy Garvey's Finest Hour – BBC Radio 6 Music
Weather the Storm album launch show. Friday 4 October at:
St Matthias Church, Wordsworth Rd, London, N168DD. Tickets here
Posted in ALBUM RELEASE, BREAKING NEWS, SINGLE RELEASE	| Tagged 6Music, Ben Hillier, Brian Eno, David Holmes, featured artist, film, Guy Garvey, Hey Lover, Marianne Faithful, Martina Topley Bird, Nadine Shah, Nick Webb, Petra Jean Phillipson, Roger Eno, Skylark and the Scorpion, St Matthias Church, Weather The Storm
The Rainband – Rise Again
Impact Date: OUT NOW
Rise Again is the new single from The Rainband and is released in tribute to MotoGP legend Marco Simoncelli on 17 June with profits going to the charitable foundation named in his memory.
With a live tribute to Simoncelli already in mind for their June gig in front of 60,000 race fans at Silverstone, The Rainband were approached by the newly formed Marco Simoncelli Foundation and agreed to write a song to help raise funds to build disabled care homes across the world, a cause close to the racing hero's heart.
The Rainband were booked to play at Silverstone after event organisers got in touch following the band's sell out hometown show at Manchester's HMV Ritz at the end of last year.
Martin Finnigan, lead singer of The Rainband, said
:
"Being invited to open the British and Italian MotoGPs is a big honour for us. When we met Marco's dad Paolo he talked about his vision for the Foundation. I agreed straight away to donate everything from the single to the work of the Foundation. It's a great cause, in the name of a great man and I am proud we are involved. MotoGP champion and friend of Simoncelli, James Toseland plays keyboard on the single, another huge honour. It's also wonderful that so many sport and music personalities have agreed to get behind the track including; Lewis Hamilton, Mark Webber, Jensen Button, Bradley Button, Guy Garvey, Elbow, Johnny Marr, Mike Joyce, Ocean Colour Scene, James, Kaiser Chiefs, Simple Minds…"
Posted on June 13, 2012 by Liam Walsh.	Posted in SINGLE RELEASE	| Tagged Grand Prix motorcycle racing, Guy Garvey, James Toseland, Johnny Marr, Kaiser Chiefs, Marco Simoncelli, Marco Simoncelli Foundation, Mike Joyce, MotoGP, Ocean Colour Scene, Rainband, Rise Again, Silverstone, The Rainband
Ten – Various Various (inc Elbow, Doves, Liam Frost, Cherry Ghost
Release Date: 4th April 2011
makonline.org
Twitter: @McrAidKosovo
Facebook: Manchester Aid to Kosovo
Website: http://www.makoneline.org
Album launch gigs: Manchester – 4 April 2011 at Deaf Institute, London – 7th April 2011 at Union Chapel
"We have always been proud to be associated with MAK (Music Aid to Kosovo). Aside from the great work they do in Kosovo, they have brought together Manchester's music community on many occasions. MAK events are always a document of the times". – Guy Garvey, Elbow
Early in 2001, the release of Manchester Aid to Kosovo's compilation, 'Cohesion', gave many music fans outside of this rainy Northern city the first chance to hear the then little known group Elbow. The band donated the sublime 'Scattered Black and Whites', whilst other emerging Manchester legends, Doves gave the track 'Valley'. In the intervening years both bands plus a host of other notable names included on that first album at the start of their careers (such as I Am Kloot, Badly Drawn Boy, Mr Scruff) have supported MAK in helping recovery from ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. Check out makonline.org for more information about the work of the charity.
10 years on and follow up compilation 'ten' sees the now familiar voices of Guy Garvey and Jimi Goodwin surrounded by a new group of emerging Manchester artists. This 18 track album, curated by The Travelling Band's Jo Dudderidge, demonstrates how the poetic grandeur from the likes of Garvey, Goodwin, Frost et al has influenced a u-turn in the city's musical output. Where the grey, overcoat of 'dance–miserabilism' h as been cast aside, not to reveal a post-Oasis hangover, but in fact a deep, warmly humorous and slyly experimental slew of artists intent on reclaiming the Manchester music scene for themselves.From the skittering, heart stopping afro-folk of Josephine Oniyama's 'Fun In The Dark' through to the gorgeous slow-core balladry of The Travelling Band's 'Hindsight', 'ten' is littered with countless gems, each a gateway to understanding how Manchester found a new voice for itself in the late 00's.
Manchester Music has funded much of the work of MAK (approximately a third of its total income) enabling MAK to create the 22-acre Manchester Peace Park in N.E Kosovo at the request of children medically evacuated to Manchester. One of these children, Jehona Bogujevci, who survived the massacre of her family, went on to study graphics in Manchester and the artwork for 'ten' is Jehona's first commission since her graduation.
MAK is involved in art, education, ecology, sport and human rights, as well as the Peace Park and music projects. The new republic of Kosovo remains the poorest country in Europe, and its young people lack the freedom to travel. So in 2009 'The Travelling Band' became one of the first British bands to perform in Kosovo, playing at the Peace Park, in theatres, cafes, on the streets and even on horse drawn wagons, with the aim to inspire. Kosovo musicians around them to get out, go public and make it happen.
It's hoped the album will both facilitate more projects and encourage creativity. MAK has proved that linking recovery and creativity creates strength, opportunity and of course, great music.
Check out Elbow's Some Riot (Live at Abbey Road), which appears on 'ten' here:
To mark the release of 'ten', there are launch events in Manchester and London featuring, MAK Patron Badly Drawn Boy, Liam Frost and many other artists featured on the album:
Mon 4th April – Deaf Institute, Manchester –
tickets and line-up http://bit.ly/dSxCo6
Thurs 7th April – Union Chapel, London –
tickets and line-up http://bit.ly/en8fRq
CD and ticket bundles are available from http://www.makonline.org/ten
Posted on February 9, 2011 by Liam Walsh.	Posted in ALBUM RELEASE, BLOG, BREAKING NEWS	| Tagged Badly Drawn Boy, charity, Cohesion, Doves, Elbow, Guy Garvey, I Am Kloot, Jimi Goodwin, Josephine Oniyama, Kosovo, Manchester, Manchester Aid for Kosovo, Mr Scruff, Sideways Saloon, Ten, The Travelling Band
John Cooper Clarke – 2011 UK Tour!
The legend that is John Cooper Clarke gets back on the road for some high profile UK shows, leading up to Christmas 2010. Finishing at the Scala in London, the tour takes in 9 cities. JCC is getting back to his roots, doing what he knows best. Live Entertaining!
His career has recently taken a massive upturn. Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys, Plan B and Richard Hawley all name checked him as a major influence. JCC plays a cabaret performer in Plan Bs new movie and he is still talking about making a new album with Mr Hawley.
Not only headlining Latitude, The Green Man and Beautiful Days festivals in 2010, but JCC has been presenting his own unique shows on 6Music, sitting in for Jarvis Cocker and Guy Garvey (negotiations about his own shows on the station are ongoing).
Catch John Cooper Clarke Live:
Sat 12th Globe Cardiff
Sun 13th Sub 89 Reading
Thurs 31st The Railway Winchester
Fri 1st Cheltenham Poetry Festival Cheltenham
Sat 2nd Princess Pavilion Falmouth
Sun 3rd Phoenix Exeter
Sat 9th De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill on Sea
Sun 10th Rose Theatre Kingston
Sat 16th Dylan Thomas's Boathouse Laugharne
Sun 17th Dylan Thomas's Boathouse Laugharne
Tue 19th Ashcroft Arts Centre Fareham
Sat 14th Guernsey Literary Festival St Martin
Fri 27th The Foundry, Sheffield Uni Sheffield
Sat 28th The Ctiadel St Helens
Sun 29th 53 Degrees Preston
Sat 18th The Junction Cambridge
*John Cooper Clarke is available for interviews. Contact liam@askmepr.com
Posted on November 3, 2010 by Liam Walsh.	Posted in BREAKING NEWS, LATEST	| Tagged 6Music, Arctic Monkeys, Beautiful Days, Green Man, Guy Garvey, Jarvis Cocker, John Cooper Clarke, Latitude, Plan B, Richard Hawley
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