PARIS MOTEL + James Apollo + Newton Faulkner

Sat 7th Oct 2006

The Luminaire presents
PARIS MOTEL
+ James Apollo
+ Newton Faulkner

Doors 7.30
£5 via WeGotTickets
£6 door

Paris Motel is essentially a one woman band in the form of Amy May whose configuration can vary between being a string quartet and a fifty piece orchestra, depending on the gig in question.
The live performance "sounds as if it's being played by ghosts, in a field, across the delta, and floats over you in drifts and swells"; "ethereal music for a spectral hoe-down" and "coupling classical creepy Victorian plucking with whiny honky-tonk, groovy soul, and kitschy folk". Paris Motel released the '071' E.P.on their own Hotel Records imprint to great reviews and are currently working on a new E.P./Album between playing festivals and any venue that can hold them.

Now here's the scoop on or main support James Apollo. He's played here before - solo - and he was utterly beguiling. This time he comes armed with a band. Kevin Hunt, Alan Estevez, Matt Palin; we salute you.
"James Apollo's songs are Americana in the truest sense: drenched in Civil War ghosts, Steinbeckian landscapes and the kind of loneliness known only to someone who grew up in Libertyville, Arkansas. [Sunday Times]
A Tumbleweed. A hapless dreamer. A savage purveyor of roots eccentricity. James Apollo is the drifting soul that has been swindling the stout-hearted compendium of urban hipsters and farmer's daughters for years. Lighting out for the road at legal driving age, James refused the ties of the respectable citizen. The experiences have lent all the knowledge of an aging hobo, with all the grace of a slow dance with Fred and Ginger

"Conjures up a set of haunted, western-rich folk with hints of Latin rhythms and Tom Waits-style cabaret." [The Onion]

The evening is opened by Newton Faulkner who plays the acoustic six-string with precision and flair. This, combined with his instantly memorable vocal lines, led The Independent to list him as One to Watch for 2006.

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