Wednesday 9 October 2013

THE PENNY BLACK REMEDY - HEX INDUCTION WEEK

Up To My Neck In A Hex is the second single to be taken from The Penny Black Remedy’s latest album, Inhale… Exhale… OK, Now You Can Panic!. The digital-only single – coupled with Self-Help For The Hopelessly Optimistic - is due for release on Monday 28 October and will be accompanied by a new video, directed by Gary Sobczyk.

Both tracks will be available to download free of charge from the band's website from Monday 21 to Sunday 27 October.

The song is a personal account of writer Keith M Thomson’s readiness to escape from his psychologically restrictive beliefs in, adherence to and the subsequent vicious cycles of age-old superstitions, curses and plain bad luck.  It alludes to a constant internal battle between self-determined destiny and pre-determined destiny and reflects nostalgically upon a time when it was simply more practical to live life as a stone-hearted cynic.

The song ultimately acknowledges the futility and irrationality of living life strictly in accordance to a series of random occurrences and mercifully sees Keith take his first few positive steps to breaking out of a grudgingly self-imposed psychological prison sentence.

With their high octane live sets and unique musical fusion of Americana, Punk, Folk and Ska, The Penny Black Remedy have been thrilling crowds across the UK and the rest of Europe since the band’s inception in London in 2007. Their live performances, as forceful as party political campaign rallies, but unlike those - honest to the core, have seen them build a fiercely loyal following, many of whom happily brave many miles and borders to see them. Songwriter Keith M Thomson’s fine blend of darkly humorous lyrics and joyful life affirming melodies have enticed diverse, international, audiences to fully engage in their distinctively interactive shows by enthusiastically singing-along to every word. Some of these songs can be found on their album, ‘No One’s Fault But Your Own’ (released on their own independent label, Soundinistas, and globally distributed by Cadiz Music).

Joining Thomson in his colourful and culturally diverse collective are Croatian vocalist Marijana Hajdarhodzic, and Dutch drummer Wilco van Eijk. Keith, Marijana and Wilco were proud to recently welcome UK Subs and Flying Padovanis legend Paul Slack on bass duties. Since last year, TPBR have on occasion been joined on stage by exceedingly energetic and equally charismatic brass section, The Horns of Fury.

The Penny Black Remedy’s highlights so far have included sharing bills with bands such as the Buzzcocks and Fishbone, being voted by the audience in the ‘top 3 best acts’ at Larmer Tree Festival, and playing festival scene few years running (Glastonbury, The Secret Garden Party, Bestival, Larmer Tree), The Guardian’ Robin Denselow stating that the song ‘I Won't Argue When I'm Dead’ is "Quite simply, the finest country sing-along I've heard on the vexed pop topic of how one's body should be disposed of after death”.

The Balkan-tinged folkies offer up a wry but measured worldview. The Daily Mirror

Stand-out track? All of ‘em – turn it up! ***** R2 Magazine

London-based festival favourites hit cross-cultural sweet spot. Uncut Magazine

You would need a soul made of wood and a heart of soap not to love this album, or the band that made it. If you are in any way predisposed to dancing, joy, or the celebration of life, might I suggest that you acquire this record immediately. Fortitude Magazine

The twang may have gone but the thrills remain, as do the unfeasibly long song titles, quick fire lyrics and that backbone of a Gypsy beat, now augmented with surf guitar and ska horns. Americana-UK.com

http://thepennyblackremedy.com/

Monday 19 August 2013

THE LUCKY STRIKES EMERGE FROM EXILE

Essex folk-rock champions The Lucky Strikes put the seal on a busy summer with the release of their long-awaited fourth album, The Exile And The Sea. And like its two predecessors, The Exile… is based around a concept, something that the band have retrieved from the prog-rock doldrums and breathed new life into. Previous long players, The Chronicles Of Solomon Quick and Gabriel, Forgive My 22 Sins were based on stories set in the Southern States of the US - inspired in part by their travels there. But this time the band have drawn on the local history of their Thames Estuary homeland for each song.

Submerging themselves in the folklore of the area, the band trawled local newspaper archives and journals as well as the working men's clubs of their hometown to unearth stories of fishermen, ghosts, smugglers and poets. The infamous fire that partially destroyed Southend Pier in 2005 is retold in ‘The Beast Burnt Down’, where "timbers crack, black smoke moves skyward".  Meanwhile, ‘Goldspring’ recalls the story of Goldspring Thompson, press-ganged in the 19th Century, only to escape and hide out for three days in the wheat fields of Canvey Island, surviving on corn and ditchwater.  All songs loosely gravitate towards one of Southend's cultural landmarks, the now sadly closed Grand Hotel. Once the hangout of choice for Dr Feelgood and Eddie & The Hot Rods, it was the starting point for the album. Indeed the phantom that supposedly haunted the pub is the subject in the waltzing ‘Ghost And The Actress’. Aurally, the band’s sound has morphed through garage-blues and country-rock to a sound all their own, much more rooted in English and Celtic folk. 

It’s more than two and a half years since The Lucky Strikes released the acclaimed Gabriel, Forgive My 22 Sins, but in that time the band has not rested. The writing and recording of The Exile has been intensive but has been built around extensive touring. Moreover, frontman Matthew Boulter has found time to release two solo albums, as well as touring and recording with Simone Felice which has brought greater depth, strength and experience to the partnership.  Now happily established on their own Harbour Song label, The Lucky Strikes are ready to set sail once again.

“Simply too good to ignore. You heard it here first” R2 magazine
“Like The Waterboys on trucker pills” Q magazine
“Dark and dirty Americana to chill your soul” Classic Rock magazine
“The songwriting sensibilities of Ray Davies… informed by Kevin Coyne” Americana-UK

www.facebook.com/TheLuckyStrikesOfficial
www.theluckystrikes.com

www.harboursong.co.uk

Tuesday 6 August 2013

PHIL MARTIN EMERGES FROM THE DARKNESS WITH SECOND ALBUM

Multi-instrumentalist Phil Martin returns in September with his new album Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark. Unlike his acclaimed debut Before We Go To Paradise, released early last year and largely a solo acoustic affair, this time Phil has surrounded himself with an array of guests, providing a full band sound that throws light on the various hidden depths of his songs. Indeed, Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark is something of a This Is Your Life of an album, featuring a roll-call of the various musicians he’s worked with during his long musical career.

Recorded in a number of studios – as well as making the most of the wonderful acoustic environment of St Paul’s Church, Brentford – Phil and producer Steve Parry, solicited contributions from current and former colleagues across the UK (and beyond, via the wonders of Dropbox), including members of Red Harvest, Kindred Spirit, Dr Millar & The Cute Hoors and The Bitter Springs. While Phil’s first album drew upon the influence of some of Britain’s greatest poets, the overall result here is a kaleidoscope of original song; a quintessentially English psychedelicised take on folk, pop, jazz and vaudeville that summons the spirit of Kevin Ayers and the Canterbury Scene.

Having served time on the 80s and 90s indie-folk scene with Dr Millar & The Cute Hoors and The Shanakies (Blur’s support band of choice for the Parklife Tour), Phil has latterly been found among the ranks of Vic Godard & The Subway Sect, Jowe Head & The Demi-Monde, The Men They Couldn’t Hang and his current band The Bitter Springs (recent recipients of considerable media love for their Everyone’s Cup Of Tea album). Influenced as much by Jake Thackray as Marc Bolan, Phil Martin is –  in the truest sense – both languid balladeer and punk demagogue.

Phil will be launching Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark with a special show at The Betsey Trotwood, 56 Farringdon Rd, London on Saturday 14 September.

Praise for Before We Go To Paradise
“Before We Go To Paradise is an achievement, displaying Phil Martin’s talents as a lyricist, composer, musician, singer and even artist… a remarkable album.”  Pennyblackmusic.com
“Phil’s arrangements were spot on… as a writer, he hits the nail on the head. Well worth investing in…”    8/10 Whisperin’ & Hollerin’
“Refreshingly original…”  Mudkiss
“Before We Go To Paradise is as fine a piece of songwriting as you'll find this side of Robb Johnson…” FATEA
www.philmartinmusic.com

Tuesday 25 June 2013

PEDALJETS - WHAT'S IN BETWEEN

US garage rockers the Pedaljets  release their first new material in 23 years in the form of a new album What’s In Between on their own Electric Moth label.  For those who might have missed them the first time around, the roaring riffs of  the single ‘Riverview’, a possible love child of Iggy Pop and Bob Dylan, and the dark insinuation of ‘Terra Nova’, a hearkening back to the their early days with shades of Mission of Burma, The Wipers, and a bit of classic Midwest Replacements-style longing, act as the perfect introduction no matter the decade.   

Originating in Lawrence, Kansas in 1984, the Pedaljets returned to the studio in late 2009. Original Pedaljet lead guitarist Phil Wade was unavailable, so Paul Malinowski (bass player for Midwest rock titans, Shiner and Season to Risk) assumed second guitar duties, as well as performing all recording/engineering. The album was mixed by John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, The Hold Steady, etc.) at Headgear Studios, Brooklyn. You can hear the results! Packaged in the inventive design-work of The Sea And Cake’s Archer Prewitt, each song is at once vintage Midwest in-your-face rock and a totally new approach to what is timeless and resonant and beyond conventional formulaic alternative pop and rock. The guys have learned something after all these years.
 
The Pedaljets could be considered a missing link between The Replacements and Nirvana. From their beginning, the Pedaljets toured the country nonstop, often opening for the likes of Hüsker , Flaming Lips, The Replacements, Meat Puppets, and other usual suspects of 1980s alternative/punk America, releasing two albums – Today Today (1988) and Pedaljets (1989), both albums receiving solid national attention and acclaim, even though the band felt the latter was rushed and unfinished. After six years of almost nonstop touring, and born out of disappointment with that second album, the Pedaljets  disbanded in July 1990. Ironically, at the time they broke up, the Pedaljets’ flag was flying higher than ever, the band packing out clubs around the country and appearing on MTV.
 
Tentatively resurfacing in 2006, the band discovered that the tapes from the second album were salvageable so, over the course of a year working with engineer Paul Malinowski, the album was completely retooled. Re-recruiting original designer Archer Prewitt for the artwork and working with local label Oxblood Records, the story had come full circle. The LP was rereleased in 2008, MOJO featuring the lead track ‘Giants Of May’ on its playlist.

“Potency and killer riffs in equal measure. A belated but timely return.” 8/10 Uncut
  
“Grungy country supplied by a Kansas City band that set out to make an album many years ago but only just got around to completing the task. You’ll be glad they did." MOJO

"Riff heavy chugalongs like ‘Long Distance Dead Man’ that spawned a genre of its own, grunge."  Americana-UK

www.myspace.com/thepedaljets 

Saturday 22 June 2013

FOGHORN LEGHORN RETURN - NOT BEFORE TIME!

London bluegrass allstars Foghorn Leghorn return to celebrate their 21st Anniversary with their appropriately titled third album Not Before Time on their own Slammer Records label. Recorded during November and December last year at double-bassist Chris Clarke’s Reservoir Studios in North London,  Not Before Time comprises eleven Foghorn originals alongside the Bill Evans instrumental ‘Petersberg Gal’, a perfect showpiece for fleet-finger banjo-picker Tim Kent. But this is no pseudo mountain music: many of the original songs concern themselves with life and death in their home city of London. Accordingly, the album comes wrapped in a vibrant ‘Day Of The Dead’ sleeve design by artist Frank Burgess.

While this momentous occasion is nothing to be sniffed at, the release also marks the fourth year of Foghorn’s own club night, My Grass Is Blue, which takes place every second Thursday of the month at noted London live music pub, The Betsey Trotwood in Clerkenwell. It’s here that the band have roadtested the songs for the album, alongside handpicked special guests including The Coal Porters, The Arlenes, Danny George Wilson and The Cedars. They also put in a cameo appearance on the forthcoming album from Danny & The Champions Of The World, with whom Clarke has been holding down the bass job for the past three years.

With several decades of service on the UK roots music scene between them, Clarke and Kent – both of whom have served time in the legendary Rockingbirds – are joined by Eamonn Flynn (Southern Tenant Folk Union, Hackney 5-O) on mandolin, Kevin O’Neill (Snake Oil Rattlers) on Dobro, Del Brookes on guitar and new boy Paul Fay (Sons Of the Desert, The Other Brothers) on fiddle. Releasing albums Keep It In The Family  (2001) and Grasslands (2004), together they have racked up hundreds of gigs and festivals – including several Glastonbury appearances – and been championed by the great Andy Kershaw. After twenty-one years it’s time to take it to the next level – Not Before Time!

“Hot pickin’ from Hackney!” Andy Kerhsaw

“A sharp injection of jollity!”  Loose Ends, BBC Radio 4

  

Monday 13 May 2013

THE PENNY BLACK REMEDY - PREPARE TO PANIC!


The Penny Black Remedy are delighted to announce that they will be releasing their new album, Inhale... Exhale... OK, Now You Can Panic! on Monday 15 July. As a taster for the new album, the song ‘Some People Just Don't Know When To Quit’ is available as a download single from today (Monday 13 May), accompanied by the exclusive non-album B-Side, ‘Miserlou’ (TPBR's unique take on the Dick Dale classic and a staple of their live set).

The band will launch the album with a special show at The Water Rats, London on Thursday 13 June.

With their high octane live sets and unique musical fusion of Americana, Punk, Folk and Ska, The Penny Black Remedy have been thrilling crowds across the UK and the rest of Europe since the band’s inception in London in 2007. Their live performances, as forceful as party political campaign rallies, but unlike those - honest to the core, have seen them build a fiercely loyal following, many of whom happily brave many miles and borders to see them. Songwriter Keith M Thomson’s fine blend of darkly humorous lyrics and joyful life affirming melodies have enticed diverse, international, audiences to fully engage in their distinctively interactive shows by enthusiastically singing-along to every word. Some of these songs can be found on their album, ‘No One’s Fault But Your Own’ (released on their own independent label, Soundinistas, and globally distributed by Cadiz Music).

Thomson says: “The fact that most of my songs are about death, lost love, living in a constant state of crippling paranoid fear and coping with the daily grind of everyday life is irrelevant. Encouraging people to sing loudly and out of tune about the absurdity of general existence seems to instil a sense of comfort and emotional unity....I think.”

Joining Thomson in his colourful and culturally diverse collective are Croatian vocalist Marijana Hajdarhodzic, and Dutch drummer Wilco van Eijk. Keith, Marijana and Wilco were proud to recently welcome UK Subs and Flying Padovanis legend Paul Slack on bass duties. Since last year, TPBR have on occasion been joined on stage by exceedingly energetic and equally charismatic brass section, The Horns of Fury.

The Penny Black Remedy’s highlights so far have included sharing bills with bands such as the Buzzcocks and Fishbone, being voted by the audience in the ‘top 3 best acts’ at Larmer Tree Festival, and playing festival scene few years running (Glastonbury, The Secret Garden Party, Bestival, Larmer Tree), The Guardian’ Robin Denselow stating that the song ‘I Won't Argue When I'm Dead’ is "Quite simply, the finest country sing-along I've heard on the vexed pop topic of how one's body should be disposed of after death”.

“This track [‘You Have Wasted Your Life, Now Please Stop Wasting Your Money’] will become your summer anthem.”  Chris Hawkins, BBC 6Music
“The Penny Black Remedy could well be one of London’s best kept secrets .. but not for much longer.” Clink Magazine
“This band have everything, energy, attitude, contagious lyrics and killer tunes.” Rhythm & Booze
“No One’s Fault But Your Own is an earthshaking cauldron of ska, blues and rock’n’roll”  Musicians Magazine
 “No One’s Fault But Your Own is a storming debut album that includes everything.” Noize Makes Enemies


M G BOULTER - THE WATER OR THE WAVE


After being forced into hibernation by the long winter, Lucky Strikes frontman Matthew Boulter emerges with his second album of glorious, gentle, life-affirming songs to take us into Summer. The Water Or The Wave features eleven original songs, conceived on the road at various folk club and festival shows throughout the past year and given life beside the grassy marshland and mudflats of his South Essex home on the Thames Delta.

Ably assisted by engineer Rees Broomfield at The Broom Cupboard Studio in Rayleigh, Matthew recruited various friends and colleagues for the album sessions, including Lucky Strikes compatriots Paul Ambrose and Jim Wilson, Bryony Afferson and Lizzy O’Connor from fast-rising London folk and bluegrass band Troubadour Rose and, by no means least, legendary Dire Straits and Bob Dylan drummer Pick Withers. This impressive cast have helped Matthew create a work of considerable warmth and subtlety.

Releasing his debut album in Spring 2012 under the name The Whispering Pines, Matthew has been an integral member of The Lucky Strikes since 2007, starting out on bass before switching to guitar and vocals, as well as penning much of their material. A highly proficient pedal- and lap-steel player, he’s much sought after on the UK Americana circuit; something that led to him being invited to play with New York songwriter Simone Felice.  Since accompanying Felice on various dates including a prestigious Green Man Festival headline set in 2011,  Matthew has become  a full member of The Simone Felice Band, touring the US and UK, also opening shows as solo performer.  Despite this impressive workload, Matthew has continued to lend his many skills to shows and recordings by the likes of Cusack, Deer Park, Dead flowers, Neil McSweeney, Rosalie Deighton, Conor Oberst and members of Mumford & Sons. On The Water Or The Wave, M G Boulter turns another page…

Praise for The Whispering Pines

“Gorgeous, in a word” **** Uncut
“A dreamlike album of lyrical beauty…. Another very fine addition to a promising portfolio” **** R2
“A pleasant, smoky vibe…. Check him out” **** Maverick
“When you hear an album that reminds you of your childhood and your dreams, the best film you’ve seen all year, your favourite record of all time, and your first love – that has to be a good day” No Depression
“Introspective, gentle, tinged with darkness and a sorrowful undertow, these are elegant songs delivered with restraint and oodles of world-weary charm” FATEA
"Beautiful, engaging, and not quite like anything else out there" Flyinshoes

www.facebook.com/TheWhisperingPines                   www.mgboulter.co.uk

Tuesday 16 April 2013

STRANGER TIMES: STIV STRIKES BACK!


If you were lucky enough to catch Stiv Cantarelli and his band The Silent Strangers on tour in the UK in February, you’ll know that they’re a highly potent force. Fusing wide-open Americana with front-porch Delta blues, delivered with the ferocity of punk, Cantarelli brings the influences of his eclectic tastes to bear on a live show that nods in equal parts towards Son House, Neil Young, The Stooges and The Who, not to mention similarly inclined blues-channelling Australian rock legends The Birthday Party and The Scientists. All delivered on an electrified 1934 thrift-store acoustic, backed by locomotive rhythm section Antonio Perugini and Fabrizio Gramellini. If you missed it, pick up the album Black Music / White Music for barely bolted-down living-room listening. And get ready for action!

Spurred on by the success of those shows, and the media love heaped on the album, Stiv and The Strangers venture out from their retreat in Italy’s Romagna hills for another round of dates at the end of May, including a Mod-tastic Bank Holiday bash in Southend-on-Sea!

Full dates are….

Mon 27 May               Railway Hotel, Southend-on-Sea
Tues 28 May              12 Bar Club, London
Wed 29 May              Ten Feet Tall, Cardiff
Thurs 30 May            Railway, Winchester (Uncut Sessions)
Fri 31 May                  Puzzle Hall Inn, Sowerby Bridge
Sat 1 June                  Greystones, Sheffield

The tour will be accompanied by the Three Sides EP, the title a tip-of-the-cap to Keith Moon’s ’75 solo album. Featuring the album tracks ‘Mahogany Jones’ and ‘Hundred Thousand Stones’, alongside a brand new song ‘Ten Minutes’ Drive’, the EP will be released digitally by Stovepony Records and distributed by Cargo from Tuesday 28 May, but special limited edition tour CDs featuring three different cover designs and different track order will be available at gigs at a recession-busting snip.

Destroy!

Love for Black Music / White Music….

A long night’s ramble through the musical fleshpots of the soul… The urge to listen again is powerful. 4/5  R2

Destined to be a seminal classic 9/10 Vive Le Rock

An overwhelming success… 9/10 Americana-UK.com

This is bluesy country punk for grown-ups Q

An exciting mix of post punk rock and desert blues  4/5  AAAmusic.co.uk

A really fascinating album…. It will reward the time you give it. Stiv Cantarelli & The Silent Strangers take a no compromise approach to their recording and long term it definitely pays off.  FATEA

Cantarelli has grown into a bluesman whose songs can break your heart, while also sounding like they could handle themselves in a barroom brawl. Classic Rock Blues

Fantastic album… Absolute killer.  Pennyblackmusic.co.uk





Thursday 7 March 2013

MORNING BRIDE: THE RETURN


“A brilliant roots-rock band with solid gold tunes” (according to the late, lamented The Word magazine), Morning Bride return with their long-awaited second album The North Sea Rising, the follow-up to their critically-acclaimed debut Lea Valley Delta Blues

The North Sea Rising is in turn big-skied and lo-fi; sometimes dark, often blue, but ultimately life-affirming, and always with an inherent pop sensibility. Variously described as gothic Americana, off-kilter folk rock, alt-country pop and most things in between, Morning Bride remain as resolutely impossible to define as ever.

Created over three days in a basement studio beneath a ukelele shop on East London's Brick Lane, The North Sea Rising captures Morning Bride's natural evolution towards a warmer and more intimate sound, allowing lead singer Amity Joy Dunn's delicate, honey-dripping voice to truly shine, and Mark James Pearson's songs to breathe more deeply.

Amity and Mark's lush harmonies blend effortlessly with Pete Bennett’s bottleneck guitar, against a backdrop of strings, melodicas and organs, creating a trademark sound described by The Independent as 'astonishing'.

Morning Bride play Servant Jazz Quarters, 10 Bradbury Street, London N16 on Saturday 16 March.

PRAISE FOR LEA VALLEY DELTA BLUES.....
“ASTONISHING.... EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE YOU STUMBLE UPON A BAND AND WONDER HOW IT IS THAT NOT MORE PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THEM, BUT ARE SECRETLY PLEASED THEY DON'T. MORNING BRIDE ARE THAT KIND OF BAND” - THE INDEPENDENT
"A SHIMMERING SLICE OF ANGLO-AMERICANA TO DRINK AND DIE FOR" - PLAN B MAGAZINE
"SPELLBINDING" – R2 MAGAZINE
"ROOTSY ROCK POP TUNES WITH BIG FAT HOOKS THAT ON ANY REASONABLE PLANET WOULD BE ALL OVER YOUR RADIO” – 9 out of 10 - AMERICANA UK
"DARK YET LUSH COUNTRY-TINGED POP - RECOMMENDED" - TIME OUT MAGAZINE


Thursday 3 January 2013

STIV CANTARELLI AND THE SILENT STRANGERS


In 1999 Stiv Cantarelli and his band Satellite Inn signed their first record deal with MoodFood Records of Cary, North Carolina. Funnily enough, they’d been asked to replaced Ryan Adams’ Whiskeytown who were moving to Outpost Records and already bound for glory. After months of hard Stateside graft, MoodFood got the roots rock classic Cold Morning Songs out of the deal; Stiv gained firm friends in Portland, Oregon band Richmond Fontaine, who wound up backing him on his 2011 solo album Innerstate (released on RF’s El Cortez label), mixing the raw edges of punk rock with border stories that could have come from both sides of the Atlantic.

“Plenty of promises here, not least the lowdown delights of The Rookie” – Uncut Magazine
“It’s a gentle gem of an album with songs built to last” – R2 Magazine
“Excellent stuff” – ElectricGhost

If Innerstate was the soulful chronicle of a roadtrip, then Black Music/White Music may be considered a change of pace that was much needed, mainly by Stiv himself. Uncertain about what to do, he decided to wipe the slate clean and start over. To allow a real change Stiv needed his family's help. He returned to the days of Satellite Inn. Together with his pals Antonio Perugini and Fabrizio Gramellini, they became Stiv Cantarelli and the Silent Strangers. An abandoned church in  their homeland in the middle of Tuscany’s Romagna hills provided the perfect scenery for a series of recordings. The raw energy of those sessions and the stripped-to-the bone music that came out from them, blended with large doses of swamp blues and massive injections of never hidden post-punk roots (recently rediscovered on dates with Bob Mould) became the mainline. Even Stiv's often obscure lyrics became deeper, and darker, to give birth to what was in the plot from the very beginning. A change.

In order to get the complete picture, enter Petrushka Morsink (Willard Grant Conspiracy, Transmissionary Six, Cords). Stiv's longtime friend and collaborator took the master to her own Studio Metro in Enschede, Holland, to enlighten the songs with razorblade guitar riffs, outerspace sounds and melancholic backing vocals. She crafted Black Music/White Music by creating a unique spectrum of sounds that very much explains the working title and tells a lot about what Stiv Cantarelli and the Silent Strangers’ music was made with.

Black Music / White Music is released on Stovepony Records on Monday 18 February when Stiv and the band will be touring the UK...

Tues 19 Feb            Buffalo Bar, Cardiff
Wed 20 Feb            The Greystones, Sheffield
Thur 21 Feb             The Birkbeck Tavern, London E11
Fri 22 Feb               The Betsey Trotwood, London EC1 (with LOWLANDS)
Sat 23 Feb              The Railway Hotel, Southend
Sun 24 Feb             The Apple Tree, London WC1 (with LOWLANDS)