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Tue 28th The Luminaire presents CANDIE PAYNE + Ed Laurie + Ain
Doors 7.30
24 year old Candie Payne's sound is trenchantly modern, updating the sonic and stylistic tricks of decades past and forming compelling contemporary tales. Candie was four when she was uprooted from an idyllic suburb of Liverpool to 1980’s pre-Giuliani New York. As the burgeoning sound of hip hop ruled the streets, this fast moving, multi-racial metropolis was a world away from what the young Candie and her family expected she would be growing up in, indelibly marking the impressionable youngster. Returning to Liverpool in the early 1990s - she came from block rockin’ beats to a city firmly in the grip of acid house and, toughened by her formative years in the Big Apple, she returned a more confident and outspoken character, with a freshly altered outlook on life. This, coupled with her parent's taste in music [Artie Shaw, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra...] and that of her elder brother [The Who, Nirvana, The Byrds and Jimi Hendrix were on heavy rotation at home] laid a foundation on which to carve out her own ouvre. Tonight we celebrate the release [on Delatsonic] of 'Take Me', a limited 7" single and look forward to her debut album 'I Wish I Could Have Loved You More', due early 2007. The album evokes Dusty in the daisy age, an air of Francoise Hardy, Nancy Sinatra, John Barry, or Scott Walker with a warped modern approach not dissimilar to that of Aphex Twin or the Wu Tangs’ RZA. Her furious girl-meets-boy pop songs recall late sixties British cinema or a Smiths single sleeve. If you like clever kitchen sink drama pop with touches of the classics but something all of it’s own then this is most definitely for you. Main support is Ed Laurie, "...a singer-songwriter with a similar emotional warmth as such legendary troubadours as Leonard Cohen. A sweet offering if ever we've heard one!" [The Stool Pigeon] It’s easy to see why Ed Laurie is fast transcending the UK nu-folk scene. Ed paints a haunting and exotic landscape with his unmistakable baritone and Latin-tinged rhythms picked out on a nylon-stringed guitar. Musical, magical realism. Think the child of Cesaria Evora if she was involved in a bizarre love-in with Jose Gonzalez, Cohen and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
First on is Ain. Ain plays an old acoustic guitar generally tuned to open d and sometimes taps his foot on a wooden wine box. His songs have a definite twinge of old folk-blues like that of Skip James or John Hurt - short, simple songs with an easy emptiness to them. He tries not to make the lyrics overly delta-bluesy as that could come off a bit crass, seeing as he never worked in the cotton fields, but he tries to add some of the wording or imagery they might use. |
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