Live music listings: September 2006
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Wed 13th
Live Nation presents
IAIN ARCHER
+ Paul Steel
+ Thom Stone
Doors 7.30
£7.50 via WeGotTickets or here
Iain Archer, Ivor Novello award-winner [for co-writing 'Run' during his time with Snow Patrol] is on the verge of releasing his fourth, most open-hearted solo album, 'Magnetic North', a confident mix of pop nous, emotional nakedness and frayed experimentalism.
"As good an advert for guitar rock interleaved with hushed excursions into spectral/pastoral pop as you'll hear this year." (Sunday Times)
"Fresh-faced, yearn along gems." (Q Magazine)
"Unassuming, but gripping." (Uncut)
"These songs are warm and soft to the core, practically blushing with melody, and Archer's fragile voice is sweet and delicious. Lovely." (Time Out)
Brighton-based Paul Steel, 19, supports, and is picking up new and enthusiastic fans by the cartload, including XTC's Andy Partridge, High Llama's Sean O'Hagan, legendary Brian Wilson collaborator Van Dyke Parks and Brian's current band Wondermints.
Recent support slots with Aqualung, Spinto Band, Air Traffic, Jim Noir, David Ford, Heavy Blinkers and Duke Special; and recording sessions with Craig Silvey (Magic Numbers, The Coral), Simon Lord (Simian, Bent) and Charlie Francis (High Llama's, REM) have continued to build the buzz.
Paul's style has been compared to contemporary psychedelic pop artists Super Furry Animals, Grandaddy and Sufjan Stevens.
"A triumph of reason and passion for a writer at any age, but most impressive for an 19 year old. Filled with epiphanies that lead him in a totally individual direction." [Van Dyke Parks]
"Paul is most definitely a major songwriting talent and a totally realised producer. His understanding of arrangement is beyond question. This is very special music." [Sean O'Hagan, The High Llamas.]
"Gorgeous music. Are you really as young as they say..? If so, there's hope yet." [Wondermints] |
