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Wed 14th The Luminaire presents LETCHER + The All New Adventures Of Us + Bruises + Sam 'Get Cape Wear Cape Fly' DJ Set
£5 via WeGotTickets Tonight we present The All New Adventures of Us' single/label launch on Mannequin Republic; Sam from Get Cape Wear Cape Fly's new label. Our headliners are Letcher, led by Chris Letcher, a South African-born singer songwriter and film composer based in London. His is a wonderfully literate, immpecably arranged pop music. Witness: "A 16-track album, Frieze is everything that Letcher promised in those early years -- keenly intelligent, musically dense, utterly memorable, always sliding through any attempts to nail it down to a genre. In its expansive musical vision that is unafraid to hook in experimental sounds - Letcher's solo offering could be called art rock or art pop even but even then these descriptions really don't do justice to Frieze... It's impossible not to be drawn into the highly visual and moody lyrical content." [Entertainment Africa] And there's more, and they are right: "This is simply a great album. Truly world class. Intricate, complex, melodic, ambitious, funny, literate and so damn listenable it will make you gasp... Probably the best songwriter this country has produced for years" - [***** Jeremy Daniel, The Star] "The album Frieze illustrates that Chris Letcher is one of the greatest songwriters to grace the shores of this southern-most tip of Africa. Its 16 tracks are typical Letcher fare -- intimate literary excursions. But, these new songs are transformed into a mature collage of sound " **** [Mail & Guardian] And so to The All New Adventures of Us: Imagine the Secret Seven going to music school and running away with all the instruments before the lesson even begins. Mandolins, pianos, guitars, strings, casiotones, trumpets, theremins, boy/girl vocals, melodicas, harmonicas, lapsteel guitars, organs, glockenspiels, tambourines, ba bas, oohhhs and HEY!s all set the back drop for stories that wouldn’t be out of place in a book by Eric Carle. The All New Adventures of Us is about making people see clearly with their eyes closed, vivid imagery and attention to detail firmly intact. The goal is simple; to tell a story through song. No hidden agenda, simply to explain. And in poetry cooed in the sweetest of contexts, explanations are what Tanaou stands for. Far from the headquarters of Northampton, England, the landscapes and narratives are constructed deep in the Umea snow, in the north of Sweden with the northern lights glowing overhead and eighth member/producer Magnus Lindberg behind the desk, ready to capture every defeat & every victory, as and when it falls from their fingers and lips. The intrepid seven will kick off 2007 with a Maida Vale session for Huw Stephens in February following on from their storming shows as part of the BBC Electric Proms Next Stage Tour and they'll be releasing their debut single ‘St Crispin’s Got Our Backs’/’The Art Of The High Five’ on Get Cape Wear Cape Fly’s newly launched label The Mannequin Republic, on 5 March. Main support are Bruises
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