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Wed 11th The Luminaire presents KRIS DELMHORST + The Cedars + The Blazing Zoos
Doors 7.30 Kris Delmhorst is an American singer/songwriter, part of the Boston folk scene. She was involved in producing 1998's Respond compilation, a fundraiser for domestic violence groups, and it included her song 'Weatherman'. In 1999, she released a live album with The Vinal Avenue String Band, consisting of herself, Sean Staples, and Ry Cavanaugh. She has also recorded three full-length solo albums and one EP. Delmhorst is married to fellow singer/songwriter Jeffrey Foucault. [1] In 2003, Delmhorst, Foucault, and Peter Mulvey released an album entitled 'Redbird' and followed this in 2006 with 'Strange Conversation'. Delmhorst's wine-deep, honey-bright voice can deliver even a centuries-old phrase directly to the doorstep of the listener's soul. Her sweet, sleepy vocals keep the album fresh and relaxed; her voice is the album's greatest instrument, both powerful and tender, falling somewhere between that of Jolie Holland and Patty Griffin, dusky, warm, distinctive. Her interpretations are typically inspired, with highlights ranging from the shuffling, horn-backed 'Galuppi Baldessare' to the colourfully arranged blend of jazz and blues of the title track and 'Everything is Music'. Lest we might expect a batch of straight-laced art songs, though, 'Strange Conversation' is a rollicking and even rootsy affair, full of tasty, vibrato-colored electric guitar, clarinet licks, fiddle and other touches of Americana from the post-modern saloon. Main suport, The Cedars are a mesmerising Americana 4-piece with infectious stomping rhythms, a mournful, muscular female vocal and a mean dose of slide guitar. Playing songs of jilted love, distant lovers, murder and revenge, these guys conjure up scenes of dusty crossroads and cracked river beds so vivid that your throat gets dry just listening to them. Since they formed in 2006, they have played a raft of gigs including the Reading Festival and received radio play in the UK and the USA. Tonight sees The Cedars playing a rare duo set. "They're very clearly a class act; there are a whole raft of signed bands unfit to lick the shiny boots of The Cedars." [Music Mart] The Blazing Zoos are a bracingly bitter five-piece country band from London. The story of their gestation is long and peculiar, but involves a brief imprisonment in West Africa, a sleep-deprived hallucination in Libya and an impulsive journey to Nashville, all endured or enjoyed by the group’s singer and songwriter, the journalist and author Andrew Mueller, in late 2005 and early 2006.
For reasons which made a certain amount of sense at the time, The Blazing Zoos’ live debut, in the summer of 2006, occurred at a beach festival in southern Albania. The Blazing Zoos' present lineup includes former Jesus Jones members Mike Edwards (lead guitar) and Gen Matthews
(drums), along with Alec Pointon (bass) and Robin Colgan (piano). They are presently unsigned, but working on rectifying this.
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