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Willkommen Collective
The Willkommen Collective is a Brighton-based community of musicians, promoters and artists. The collective includes the bands Sons of Noel and Adrian, The Leisure Society, Kristin McClement, The Climbers, The Miserable Rich, Shoreline and many more. They also run a record label, Willkommen Records, and put on monthly gigs in Brighton, England. The bands share many members and often work collectively. History In May 2009, Willkommen Collective ran three shows as part of a residency at the Brighton Festival. In June, July and August 2009 the collective ran a series of shows dubbed the "Willkommen takeover..." series including an event at the Union Chapel, Islington, Stanmer House and De La Warr Pavilion. The Stanmer House show has become an annual festival known as Foxtrot and featured Laura Marling and Anna Calvi in 2010 and Herman Dune and Sam Amidon in 2011. In February 2010 the Collective performed en masse as "The Willkommen Orchestra" at King's Place, London and Brighton U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sons Of Noel And Adrian
Sons of Noel and Adrian is an experimental band based in Brighton, England. They are known for their live performances with up to thirteen musicians on stage, all of whom play with many other bands. They are one of the founding groups of the Willkommen Collective. Historyamaolpdx The band's debut self-titled album was released worldwide in April 2010 (distributed by Shellshock), coinciding with a seven date tour of Germany and ten date tour of the UK. It features the likes of Nick Hemming from The Leisure Society on banjo and mandolin, Mike Siddell from Hope of the States and Lightspeed Champion on the violin and Will Calderbank from The Miserable Rich on the cello. Critics described the album as a more orchestral take on the American nu-folk movement, as "equal parts Shostakovich and Will Oldham". The lead single 'The Wreck is Not a Boat' received airplay on BBC Radio 1 and BBC 6 Music from Rob Da Bank, Gideon Coe and more. The band then toured the UK twice with friends Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Chill (music Festival)
The Big Chill was an annual festival of alternative, dance and chill-out music and comedy, held in the grounds of Eastnor Castle during early August. The 2011 line-up included The Chemical Brothers, Kanye West, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, Jessie J, Robert Plant, Calvin Harris, Neneh Cherry, Aloe Blacc, Chipmunk (rapper), Chipmunk, Katy B & Example (rapper), Example. The festival has not been staged since 2011. History Founded in 1994 by Pete Lawrence and Katrina Larkin, The Big Chill began as a series of ambient parties at the Union Chapel, Islington, Union Chapel in Islington, but developed into an outdoor festival in 1995, with an unlicensed event in the Black Mountains, Wales, Black Mountains of Wales. In the early days the most prominent DJs were Matt Black (DJ), Matt Black of Coldcut, Tom Middleton of Global Communication and Mixmaster Morris, also known as the Irresistible Force (production identity), Irresistible Force. In 1996 the event took place in Norfolk and in 1998 a new h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Gatrill
Emma Gatrill is a multi-instrumentalist based in Brighton, UK. She is primarily a harpist, clarinetist and singer. Her debut album, ''Chapter I'' (2012), was a collection of harp songs accompanied by various members of the Willkommen Collective. Gatrill released her second album, ''Cocoon'', in 2017 via the Japanese label Flau. Critics noted that the arrangements drew from a much wider and often darker sonic palette – introducing vintage monosynths, drum machines and vibraphone. Stereogum's review compared her music to Julia Holter and Sufjan Stevens. The album also gained positive coverage in Clash Music, Drowned In Sound, Record Collector, The Line of Best Fit, GoldFlakePaint, and PRS for Music's M Magazine. Gatrill has recorded and toured widely as a session musician, including playing clarinet with Laura Marling’s band on Glastonbury's Pyramid stage performance in 2011, Broken Social Scene on UK festival dates, recording a BBC Radio 6Music session with Samantha Crain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachael Dadd
Rachael Dadd is an English folk and lo-fi musician based in Bristol, England. She is currently signed to French independent label Talitres. Dadd has played at a variety of UK music festivals including Glastonbury, End of the Road, Green Man and Truck. She has also toured with Alessi's Ark, Francois and the Atlas Mountains, This Is The Kit and Rozi Plain. Music career Dadd has played alongside a wide range of notable UK bands and artists including Laura Marling, Sons of Noel and Adrian, and Curly Hair. In February 2009 and again in July 2009, she toured the UK with Alessi's Ark. In recent years, she has played at Glastonbury Festival every year. She regularly collaborates with This Is the Kit frontwoman Kate Stables, with whom she performed in the band Whalebone Polly. Additionally she performs alongside Wig Smith as The Hand and with Rozi Plain. She also performs with her husband, Japanese musician ad performance artist ICHI. Multi-instrumentalist Emma Gatrill often p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodpecker Wooliams
Woodpecker Wooliams was the musical moniker of Brighton, UK-based musician Gemma Williams. She produced music as Woodpecker Wooliams from 2009 to 2013, releasing the studio albums ''Diving Down'' (2009) and ''The Bird School of Being Human'' (2012). Williams has since worked on Becky Becky with Peter J D Mason. History Woodpecker Wooliams, consisting of voice, harp, analogue synths and 'noise', began in 2009 after Williams' midwifery training was interrupted by "a sudden and severe illness". An album called ''The Bird School of Being Human'' was released on Robot Elephant Records in September 2012, co-produced with Marcus Hamblett. It was described by ''The Sunday Times'' as "a stunning find", and "musically and emotionally belting" in a BBC Music review. In 2012 Woodpecker Wooliams was ''The Guardians "New band of the Day". Woodpecker Wooliams performed a live radio session in 2013 for Tom Robinson's BBC Radio 6 show. Music from this album, and the earlier ''Diving Down'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rozi Plain
Rozi Plain is a London-based musician originally from Winchester, England. Biography Rozi Plain was born Rosalind Leyden in Winchester, England, in 1986. In 2006 she moved to Bristol to study art, and she participated in the Cleaner Records group there. She recorded two records published by King Creosote’s Fence Records, ''Inside Over Here'' (2008) and ''Joined Sometimes Unjoined'' (2012). In 2012 she moved to London.Interview published in 2012 on thelineofbestfit.com, accessed 28 July 2020. In November 2012 she recorded a live session for 's |
Peggy Sue (band)
Peggy Sue is an English indie pop/indie folk band from Brighton. The band has toured with a number of well-known indie artists including Mumford & Sons, The Maccabees, First Aid Kit, Kate Nash, and Jack White. History Peggy Sue was formerly known as Peggy Sue and the Pirates and Peggy Sue and the Pictures. In June 2008, the band announced that they were shortening their name from Peggy Sue and the Pirates to just Peggy Sue. The band have also released music under the name of Peggy Sue and the Pictures, a collaboration with Left with Pictures, and Peggy Sue and Les Triplettes. On 10 April 2009, it was announced that Peggy Sue had signed to US-based Yep Roc Records, and the label was releasing ''Body Parts'' EP for free. On 9 December 2009, Peggy Sue signed with Wichita Recordings, and the label released the band's debut album ''Fossils and Other Phantoms'' in April 2010. On 12 September 2011, the second album ''Acrobats'' came out on Wichita Recordings, to a generally po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessi's Ark
Alessi's Ark is the musical project of Alessi Laurent-Marke (born 30 June 1990), an English singer-songwriter. Career Named after the Italian design company, Alessi Laurent-Marke grew up in Hammersmith, London where her father, Alan Marke, is a television producer who has worked on TV shows such as Modern Toss, Snuff Box and Shooting Stars and is also the managing director of TV production company Channel X. She first became interested in music when her mother gave her a copy of Graham Nash's 1971 album '' Songs for Beginners''. She took up the drums at the age of 11 when her secondary school required students to take up an instrument, her choice inspired by seeing drummer Meg White perform with the White Stripes at a concert at Alexandra Palace. Her drum teacher played locally in different bands and through this she began going to see him and various bands live with her dad, sometimes going to as many as four shows a week. This led to her starting her own fanzine called Brai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Hamblett
Marcus Hamblett is an English musician and record producer. Music from his solo album, ''Concrete'', has been played on BBC Radio 3's Late Junction shows by Mara Carlyle, Nick Luscombe and Max Reinhardt and on BBC 6 Music by Tom Robinson. The Quietus said his album, "could be called post-rock if it didn't also sound pre-rock, or maybe as if rock had never happened and folk, modern jazz and the classical avant-garde had merged into a stream of hip, innovative music to soundtrack the changes and discontents of the second half of the twentieth century instead, and Joe Meek had dug John Cage." He is also a session musician, receiving credit for playing a variety of instruments (double bass, synthesizers, guitar, trumpet etc.) on albums by Laura Marling, The Staves, Lucy Rose, Villagers, Fear of Men, Peggy Sue, Bear's Den, Woodpecker Wooliams, Rachael Dadd, Landshapes and Rozi Plain. His live session work has involved touring with Sarah Blasko, Broken Social Scene, Olympia and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hamilton Yarns
Hamilton may refer to: People * Hamilton (name), a common British surname and occasional given name, usually of Scottish origin, including a list of persons with the surname ** The Duke of Hamilton, the premier peer of Scotland ** Lord Hamilton (other), several Scottish, Irish and British peers, and some members of the judiciary, who may be referred to simply as ''Hamilton'' ** Clan Hamilton, an ancient Scottish kindred * Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804), first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States * Lewis Hamilton, a British Formula One driver *William Rowan Hamilton (1805–1865), Irish physicist, astronomer, and mathematician for whom ''Hamiltonian mechanics'' is named * Hamílton (footballer) (born 1980), Togolese footballer Places Australia * Hamilton, New South Wales, suburb of Newcastle * Hamilton Hill, Western Australia, suburb of Perth * Hamilton, South Australia * Hamilton, Tasmania * Hamilton, Victoria Queen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Hampton
Mary Hampton is a folk singer, songwriter, accordionist and guitarist from Brighton, England. Hampton has released two self-produced CD-Rs, ''Book One'' (2006) and ''Book Two'' (2007), containing a mix of original and traditional songs. In 2008 she released ''My Mother's Children'', her first commercially available album, on Navigator Records. The album has been described as "a sparse collection of her own songs, which recline with shimmering sensuality in various shady cloaks of weirdness" and as "songs of unnerving delicacy, elemental and acoustic simplicity...potent and enchanting". In addition, Hampton contributed vocals to ''Rough Music'', a 2005 album by Eliza Carthy, and sang on ''Blow It Up, Burn It Down, Kick It 'Til It Bleeds'', a 2006 album by Stereolab side project Imitation Electric Piano. Hampton appeared at the 2008 Green Man Festival The Green Man Festival is an independent music, science and arts festival held annually in mid-August in the Brecon Beacons, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Hemming
Nicholas Hemming (born 7 April 1973) is an English musician and guitarist. He was formerly of the early 1990s indie band She Talks to Angels, is a key musician in the Willkommen Collective, and is currently the lead singer for The Leisure Society. Hemming also plays banjo and mandolin with Sons of Noel and Adrian and with Shoreline. Hemming wrote and performed music for the films ''A Room for Romeo Brass'' (1999), ''Dead Man's Shoes'' (2004), and "Tyrannosaur" (2011). He penned The Leisure Society's debut single "The Last of the Melting Snow", receiving critical and public acclaim and extensive radio play on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show, Marc Riley's BBC Radio 6 Music show, Lauren Laverne's 6 Music show and Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie's BBC Radio 2 show, where they were voted 'Record of the Week' by listeners, with a record 90% of the vote. The track has also been championed by Elbow frontman Guy Garvey, who named it his favourite song of 2008. The song was nominated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
