Friday November 23rd 2007
The Yorkshire House, 2 Parliament Street, Lancaster, LA1 1DB.
Doors 8pm, Entry £5
Advance Tickets:
http://www.wegottickets.com/location/LAWM
LAWM presents one of our favourite bands – from Toronto, Canada: Picastro. A night of Lo fi indie alt.folk excellence. With great support
from Brighton's Birdengine, Lancaster's New Hawks and Stephen Hudson
Picastro
Far out middle eastern drones, balkan gypsy strings & ancient blues wrestle for your attention while Liz Hysen's voice cuts straight to the
heart. The queue to collaborate with her is a long and illustrious one, with Owen Pallett, Beirut and XiuXiu players making it in time for
the latest LP 'Whore Luck'.
Comparisons to Godspeed You Black You Emperor! and Dirty Three are inevitable, but Picastro also lay down all sorts ofeastern European folk
vibes. The beauty of the album unfurls slowly but surely. -The Independent
What raises Picastro above the herd of atmospheric noise-makers is that these tracks aren't instrumental jams, they're songs- with all the
structure and emotional closure that this implies. -The Sunday Times U.K.
Heavy on doom, atmosphere, with violin, cello, piano and guitar all creating a sense of incipient Menace. -Q Magazine
Beginning in 1997 and ostensibly a vehicle for singer-songwriter Liz Hysen, Toronto based Picastro (Polyvinyl/Monotreme Records) weave her
songs into an abstract framework of extended, moody soundtracks. Here the singers identity is absorbed into the overall impression left by
the music. Reported comparisons with Cat Power are therefore wide of the mark. Hysens role is oddly selfless, her voice subdued to a
general murmur amid the musics burgeoning drama. The songs are instead a vehicle for the group to expand their vocabulary, creating a
gloomy variant of folk blues with a wide reach. Over the years Picastro has invloved a wide range of additional musicians including Owen
Pallett (Final Fantasy). Picastro have just released their latest album, 'Whore Luck' and were one of the inspirations for starting the
LAWM night in the first place so we're very happy indeed that they're playing!
http://www.myspace.com/picastro
Birdengine
Birdengine (Drift Records) is the name Mr Lawry Joseph Tilbury chooses to make music with. He hails from the Dorset countryside and began
making music as a child. Venturing at night into the fields and forests surrounding his childhood home, with a broken nylon guitar, a
record player and a couple of carefully scratched and doctored records, performing his ramshackle and melancholy sound for only himself,
the woodland creatures and the moon. He has since fled the countryside and moved to a nearby city but has managed to hold on to the eerie
and pastoral sound that infiltrates his music. Recording only on a 4-track tape recorder and using a whole range of dictaphones, home-made
tape loops and music boxes, he harbours a deep loathing for digital equipment opting instead for the humble hiss of a tape cassette. Based
in Brighton, birdengine's live shows are rare and consist normaly of just voice and nylon guitar. His body of work ranges from soft and
slow waltzes to thick electronic dirges all retaining that distinctive weird, sad and isolated birdengine sound.
‘….like visiting a museum of curiosities packed with shelves of malformed foetuses and two-headed dogs pickled in jars; the songs are full
of rustic-mythic weirdness' - The Independent
‘Tilbury's music has the nervy pastoral loneliness of immediately post-Barrett Floyd….. it's a very beautiful record.’ - Word Magazine
http://www.myspace.com/birdengine
Dan Haywood's New Hawks
Dan Haywood's New Hawks (Timbreland Records) an arching, tragi-cosmik song-cycle by Dan Haywood (formerly of "promising"alternative-rockers
The Puma-Sutras, and creator of Dan Haywood's Dapple). Wrote the twenty-nine New Hawks (songs) in a month-long burst awhile back. It was a
shocker. Aided by a host of kind, talented musicians, including Therese Standish (strings), Jeff Jefferson and Billy Myall (rack)- New
Hawks are now being brought to a venue near you. and, scratching and screeching, into the stoooodio. That's what they say anyway. We say
they're very probably the most interesting and creative band furrowing an experimental alt.country path for many many miles around.
http://www.myspace.com/newhawks
Stephen Hudson
Kicking off the night is a solo set from Stephen Hudson, singer with Uncle Jeff and The Ampersands. Solo Hudson's material is stripped back
acoustic, alt.folk featuring his lyrical observations on life!
http://www.myspace.com/stephenhudson
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