As the
world awaits the next album from the reformed Rockingbirds, singer and
songwriter Alan Tyler kicks back with a new acoustic trio aimed at taking his
songs – and some well-chosen country covers – to the bars and folk clubs of the
land.
Rounded out
by longtime cohort Fiddlin’ Jim Morrison plus Rockingbirds new boy Patrick
Ralla on harmonies, guitar and banjo, The
Alan Tyler Show sets out their stall with neat renditions of songs
by many of Alan’s favourite artists – including Gram Parsons, George Jones and
Townes Van Zandt – alongside some of his previously unreleased ‘River Songs’,
exploring London’s country heritage; the hidden waterways and the “fields
beneath” which enrich and breathe life into England’s capital city.
Alan Tyler is best known for fronting Camden Town
country-rockers The Rockingbirds whose trend-bucking releases for Heavenly
during the early-90s anticipated the alt.country revolution alongside US
contemporaries The Jayhawks and Uncle Tupelo. Touring widely, with memorable
performances at Glastonbury, Reading and Cambridge Folk Festival, plus
appearances on Jools Holland’s Later and Top Of The Pops, the band called it a
day in November 1995. With various members going on to serve with the likes of
Edwyn Collins, Manic Street Preachers, Beth Orton and Dexys, Alan released two
solo albums and a further two with his band The Lost Sons Of Littlefield. He
also founded the long-running Sunday afternoon club Come Down And Meet The
Folks, now in its twentieth year.
A reunited Rockingbirds received a standing ovation for
their part in Heavenly’s 18th Birthday celebrations on London’s
South Bank in 2008. They made good on their reunion with the release of the
highly praised The Return Of The
Rockingbirds on Loose in 2013. A new album – More Rockingbirds – is due later this year.
“Tyler is one of the
best songwriters of his genre and era.”
The Independent
Dates…
1 May 2015 - The Green Note, Camden, London
15-17 May 2015 - Wood Festival, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire
15-17 May 2015 - Wood Festival, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire
10 June 2015 – What’s Cookin’,
Leytonstone, London
28 June 2015 - Leigh Folk Festival, Essex
28 June 2015 - Leigh Folk Festival, Essex
4/5 July 2015 –
Maverick Festival, Woodbridge, Suffolk
The Alan Tyler Show is now taking bookings.
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