Goodbye, Faithful Kingdom! present
Piney Gir and The Age of Reason
The Monroe Transfer
Cartridge
SoundsXP DJs
3rd March @ The Macbeth, 70 Hoxton Street, London
Doors @ 8pm
The genre spanning and very ace Piney Gir headlines March 3rd’s Goodbye, Faithful Kingdom! She is augmented by sonic collaborators The Age of Reason and they’ll be debuting tracks from forthcoming album The Yearling. Support comes from the Dandelion Radio endorsed avant-popsters Cartridge and glacial instrumentalists The Monroe Transfer. On the decks are Ged and Paul from one of the only truly independent music webzines: SoundsXP.com.
“indie monthly Goodbye, Faithful Kingdom! is gaining a granite reputation for presenting meaningful and progressive underground acts” Flavorpill
PINEY GIR AND THE AGE OF REASON
http://www.myspace.com/pineygir
When Piney Gir turns her busy hands to music it's a bit like a great new boutique just opened downtown. Genres are dusted off like fabulous half forgotten dresses, there is a flurry of accessorizing and eventually a beautiful girl steps out of the changing room.
But enough with the metaphors. The Yearling is Piney Gir's third full album, marking the latest move in a fascinating career that's already spanned jazz, electronic pop and full on country y'all. Angela Penhaligon, for she is Piney, has made perhaps her definitive album, all Kansas plains heartbreak fed through a blend of electronica, folk, wistful pop and knowing jazz. No boundaries, no apologies, all melodies.
Produced with The Age of Reason and an international cast of musicians from gospel choirs in Kansas City to saw players in Tooting, the album is a sumptuous musical ride. Which other writer could combine delicate heartbreak sci-fi folk (The Weeping Machine), with straight to the bop pop (Say I’m Sorry), whilst plying her way with a campfire narrative (Miss Havisham) and all of it dipped in the gal’s never less than pin-sharp eye for a great story about the wanderings of the heart.
Quite a cocktail, … this is Piney’s most dazzling record yet… the yearning of
her country record, a dose of the heartbreak-on-the-road (who knows?!) with
cutting edge production that takes its nods from everything between German
electronica and warm 70s FM radio. The Yearling. It’ll stay with you all year.
Catch it live at Goodbye, Faithful Kingdom!
She's been a star of the bill at Glastonbury, Big Chill, Bestival, Truck and too many more festivals to mention, a dash of cheering gingham and frothy petticoats amid the UK summer field days.
THE MONROE TRANSFER
http://www.myspace.com/electricoldwirenoise
The Monroe Transfer are a 7-piece group, making beautifully detailed and passionately executed instrumental music on a variety of instruments. Forthcoming releases include a unique CD & DVD double-pack of ‘I Dreamt I Was A Hammer And Everything Was Glass’, featuring animated film by Gemma Burditt to be released on Organ Grinder Records.
The Monroe Transfer also provide the soundtrack to upcoming film Pandora’s Box.
"At their most beautiful they’re able to lightly brush the places that so few other instrumental acts can...it’s exciting when a band that features not a single singer is able to take you away to someplace other than the here and now on fabulous waves of orchestral sound. The Monroe Transfer, at their most beautiful, are that band." - Drowned in Sound
“the Monroe Transfer play music that sounds like it’s beamed out of an ancient Dansette – all keening strings and otherworldly orchestra flourishes” – Time Out
CARTRIDGE
http://www.myspace.com/cartridge
cArtridge is a London-based band fronted by a male/female duo. Formed as an attempt to create atonal pop music whilst at Goldsmiths, the band released their first album ‘Cases’ to rave reviews in 2006. The album made it to ‘album of the month’ in the renowned Organ fanzine and was picked up by Radio 1, BBC Newcastle, Resonance FM and Pulserated among others. Their track ‘Fooling Around’ was chosen by Rob Da Bank for the Radio 1 Best of Unsigned Podcast and featured in the top half of last year’s Dandelion Radio Peel Festive Fifty.
cArtridge has appeared at festivals in England and abroad and played venues such as Luminaire, Barfly, Spitz, 93 Feet East and Bush Hall. Recently the band recorded new tracks for a Dandelion Radio session and they are now working on a new album to be released in 2009.
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