SMOKE FAIRIES + Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards + Left With Pictures

Thu 4th Jun 2009

Eat Your Own Ears presents 
SMOKE FAIRIES
+ Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards
+ Left With Pictures

Doors 7.30
Left With Pictures 7.45
Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards 8.30
Smoke Fairies 9.30

£7 via SeeTickets (0870 264 3333)
and TicketWeb (08700 600 100)
£9 door

Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies, aka Smoke Fairies, only opted for their University History course in order to secure a year studying in New Orleans. It was there, during their stint playing the city's bars and cafés, that the duo began to cross-pollinate the tenets of trad-folk and swamp blues that make up their cool, sultry sound.

Four years on, with Bryan Ferry and Richard Hawley's seal of approval now intact, Smoke Fairies have released their first single Living With Ghosts - a song awash with the wistful melancholy that has seen them pull in fans from far and wide. Blamire: "We see people absorbed as we play and surely that's what they connect to in a song – the things they don't go around saying every day." MOJO

"Frankly the best thing i have heard in years" - Richard Hawley

"Dark, lustful blues-folk" - Mojo

"Beautifully harmonised, wistful songs ... This is enchanting" - The Guardian

"Smoke Fairies are stronger, sexier and more sultry … yet still maintain a fragile vulnerability; ethereally enchanting" – The Times

"Spectral folk-blues… takes us from the spooky, medieval sounds of Sussex to finger-picking in a Catskills Shack and on into blues-soaked New Orleans" - Timeout 

"These girls are Bob Dylan's dream" - Channel4.com

"Hard to put into words how good these two ladies are." - thebeatsurrender.co.uk

"Mean, moody, and magnificent... this is amazing stuff for a debut album, lets hope they have all the success they deserve." - roomthirteen.com- roomthirteen.com

"Fragile folk... these girls produce just about the loveliest two part harmonies you're likely to hear" Music Mart

"this is music for the soul - music of the Gods - music from the Gods!" Peter Brown - rbfanzine.co.uk

"Haunting. Tuneful. Musically accomplished. If you want a four-word review for this duo, there it is." Indie-Music.com

"The Fairies were simply magical" (Jarvis Cocker's Meltdown) musiclikedirt.com

"Me and my friends don't like that song, but here is a pound anyway- don't go spending it on drugs"- old lady on the street

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