After a really very long time, dear reader, the record version (significantly recomposed, rearranged and reworked for a Home Listening Experience) of the 2021 big band piece-in-residence at Gateshead’s Glasshouse International Centre for Music (FKA Sage Gateshead) is back from the mastering engineer and about to come out. We’re currently screen-printing a very limited run of physical posters to accompany the release later this month, and WE HAVE DATES. They are as follows:
Sunday Sep 14th: LIVERPOOL [The Consulate, email me for the address!] 16.00
Saturday Sep 20th: LONDON [The Bath House, 80 Eastway | E9 5JH] 19.30
Thursday Sep 25th: NEWCASTLE [Cobalt Studios, 10 Boyd Street | NE2 1AP] 19.00
For this slender clutch of dates, I will be joined by the trio at the core of that 2021 big band, Rob Hughes, Ian Sankey, and my very own flesh-and-blood sister Louise Snape, and this is our touring photo, featuring Wimbrel the Goat Mother and a smattering of instruments not plugged into anything. You’ll forgive us, naturally, as there was nothing to plug them into in this working byre in the depths of Northumberland.
Thanks to a good many folks who have had a hand in getting us this far, not least to Hannes Fritsch, who consulted on many of the mixes on this record, and did a supreme job mastering it all. Herr Fritsch, I’m indebted to you, as per usual. Thanks also to Arts Council England, who have contributed funding to help us make these dates happen. Above is a track that isn’t anywhere else on the interwebs yet for to whet your appetite. It’s named after those chewable toothbrushes you often find in the toilets at service stations along motorways, and it feels like one of them, too: a minty blast followed by the deep sadness that accompanies the realisation that your teeth aren’t actually any cleaner than before you bought this thing for three quid in a squalid roadside loo, and that really what you want is your toothbrush, a sink, and your own pillow. To hear us play this and other manically weary tunes, come to a show near you!
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