A HAWK AND A HACKSAW + Nancy Cunliffe + Team Brick

Wed 9th Aug 2006

The Luminaire presents
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW
+ Nancy Cunliffe
+ Team Brick

Doors 7.30
£9 via WeGotTickets
£10 door

A Hawk And A Hacksaw make joyous gypsy song cycles that reel effortlessly across the most varied of terrain, dipping in and out of modern composition and American and Eastern European folk traditions. With rings on their fingers and bells on their toes they skip before the whooping audience with multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Barnes - best known as the drummer for Neutral Milk Hotel - on accordion, vocals and percussion (simultaneously!) accompanied by Heather Trost on violin, glockenspiel and melodica.
They have just recorded a new album in the USA and Romania with Fanfare Ciocarlia. This revelatory third album will be out on Leaf this autumn. Word of mouth and a slew of special appearances have ensured AHAAH a cult status and make them down right special.
Listen here and get a load of the press...
“A bold, brave and beautiful record…bizarre, startling and quite inspired” [DJ Magazine, ****]
“Playful and timeless, “Darkness At Noon” is defiantly strange and vibrantly alive” [Rocksound, 8/10]
“A kind of wandering minstrel for the digital age…absorbing, exuberant (and) sensitive” [Q Magazine]
“Utterly overwhelming…listening to Darkness at Noon is a rich experience and worth investing time in. When Barnes gets the mixture right, his awesome talent becomes shatteringly apparent.” [Music News, ****]
“A tense, atmospheric album (that) blends mariachi, folk and a dozen other global influences…Barnes has a masterly knack of reining in such a myriad range of music.” [Music Week]
“Although it absorbs characteristics from various traditions, Barnes’s music retains an otherworldly quality that gives his compositions a markedly strange hue…Darkness At Noon works because it doggedly pursues its convictions through to a satisfying conclusion and in doing so creates its own kind of offbeat logic.” [The Wire]
“Superb…”Darkness at Noon” displays an astonishingly diverse array of musical voices… Barnes's project boldly proposes a new art music for the 21st century.” [The Irish Times]

Nancy Cunliffe is a 22 year-old singer and songwriter from Lancashire, often-stunning audiences into silence with her unique voice and original songs. Think classic British folk – hinting at the vocal style of Sandy Denny, Jacqui McShee or Vashti Bunyan - her range encompasses swooping melodies to pure piercing highs.
Having already spent time living in Wales, Thailand and Liverpool, Nancy has used her experiences to shape her music, lyrics and choice of instrumentation. She not only writes and sings her beautiful mesmerizing music, but is also a talented multi-instrumentalist playing anything from guitar to Celtic harp to Thai kim to recorder and anything else a little bit different on the way. Her many gigs during the last year have included supports for Josephine Foster and Regina Spektor, and she's played live in session for John Kennedy on XFM and enjoyed support from the well respected experimental music programme Mixing It (BBC Radio 3), Shake Some Action’s Sean Rowley (BBC6) and Resonance FM.
“This beauty needs to be heard. Highly recommended.” [Rough Trade]

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