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Sun 9th

The Luminaire presents
LITTLE WINGS
+ Viking Moses
+ Guests

Doors 8.00
£6 advance via WeGotTickets, £7 on the door assuming we don't sell out

Shoeless and bearded Kyle Field, the amiable bloke who is Little Wings, is a surfer ("I'm a Californian, I'm required to love Led Zeppelin and surfing") a stoner ("playing really stoned is one of my favourite things to do") an artist ("I also want to show my artwork as I am making a lot of it and it is a part of me, just as much as the music") and a songwriter. The prolific Field has knocked out eight albums in four years under his Little Wings banner.
Field has shared stages with Will Oldham (Bonnie Prince Billy) and Devendra Banhart, both as a supporting act and as part of their bands and collaborated with the likes of Jason Lytle of Grandaddy, Viking Moses and Calvin johnson of Dub Narcotic/K records.
Little Wings songs fuse a post-modern Beach boys idealogy with narcotic, country tinged laments and stupendously silly indie pop leanings, all assembled in ramshackle fashion, all sung in Field's fabulously gruff voice. "Little Wings was made with the idea that there would never actually be anyone in the band and it would always be an open, ongoing collaboration, and it would never be defined by any one version," Field says, "I feel like every show, or every song, or every record is just a one-time thing only, the shows become really free that way, because it's impossible to stay true to something that's ever-changing."
Little Wings live shows display all the power and whimsy of Kyle's universe in shocking clarity. Once you enter that universe, there is no escape. You will voraciously devour the entire Little Wings oeuvre.
Many folk musicians adopt a bohemian persona to fit their music, but Viking Moses is the real deal.
Living a nomadic life for nearly a decade now, Brendon Massei has released banjo and acoustic guitar albums under several names. Perpetually on tour (since 1996), he has played with Will Oldham, Cat Power, Songs: Ohia and Devendra Banhart, to name a few, yet Massei?s body of work has received little commercial or critical attention. His newest full-length under the Viking Moses moniker, the story-song cycle Crosses, is by far his most accomplished work, and ranks among the best of the newest crop of American folk recordings.