Thank Folk It’s Friday – 14th June

June 14, 2013 at 15:26 (News, Week in Review)
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TFIF

This Week in Folk

All the News From The Week That Was

- Paul Kelly has announced a mammoth national tour with dates all through July and August. Details here

- Melbourne singer-songwriter Grizzly Jim Lawrie is two weeks into his June residency at The Old Bar on Wednesday nights. Details here

- Americana singer-songwriter John Flanagan is hitting the road with Begin Agains fiddle player Jane Patterson for a series of dates through NSW in July. Details here

- Sydney singer-songwriter Matt Walters is about to head back into the studio but before he does he’s got three very special shows planned. Details here

- Neko Case has revealed details of her new album The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You including the first single “Man” featuring M. Ward. Details here

- The Civil Wars have revealed the first single from their forthcoming self titled album, “The One That Got Away”. Details here

- Melbourne’s Fraser A Gorman has released his new video “Dark Eyes” and has a residency planned at The Spotted Mallard in July. Details here

- Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros have dusted off some awesome 80s break dancing footage for their new video “Better Days”. Details here

- Country Roads in Sydney have announced a really exciting June lineup – The Morrisons, The Rusty Spring Syncopators and All Our Exes Live in Texas. Details here

- Timber and Steel are presenting the national tour for Mark Wilkinson this August and September. Details here

- Isaac Graham is hitting the road in July and August to tour his upcoming album Glorious Momentum. Details here

- Folktronica six-piece Tunng have released their new video “The Village”. Details here

- Check out the new video from Castlecomer for “Forrest”. Details here

Interviews

“Country music and the melodies just really resonate to me” – Darren Cross from Jep and Dep chats to Gareth Hugh Evans. Interview here

Releases This Week

Fossils
Fossils – Aoife O’Donovan
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Timber and Steel Presents

Buffalo Tales
Buffalo Tales
Friday 21st June – The Bucket List, Sydney, NSW
The Bucket List

The Teskey Brothers
The Teskey Brothers with The Scrimshaw Four, Super Deluxe
Sunday 16th June – The Workers Club, Melbourne, VIC (afternoon)
Tickets on The Door

Captain Apples
Captain Apples with Pepperjack, Beloved Elk
Sunday 16th June – The Workers Club, Melbourne, VIC (evening)
Tickets on The Door

Gigs Next Week

Country Roads feat. The Morrisons, The Rusty Spring Syncopators, All Our Exes Live In Texas
Thursday 20th June – Oxford Art Factory, Sydney, NSW

Eleanor McEvoy
Saturday 15th June – The Polish Club, Hobart, TAS

Evan and the Brave
Friday 14th June – Hibernian House, Sydney, NSW

Grizzly Jim Lawrie w/ Brave Face, Kashmere Club, Venice Music, New Gods DJs
Wednesday 19th June – The Old Bar, Melbourne, VIC

Imogen Clark
Sunday 16th June – The Toxteth Hotel, Sydney, NSW

Martha Wainwright
Friday 14th June – Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne VIC
Saturday 15th June – Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne VIC
Sunday 16th June – Memorial Hall, Leongatha VIC

Matt Walters
Thursday 20th June – The Empress Hotel, Melbourne, VIC

MoFo feat. Karl Christoph, Jacky Wotton
Friday 14th – The Gaelic Club, Sydney, NSW

Mustered Courage
Saturday 15th June – Royal Mail Hotel, Goodna, QLD
Saturday 15th June – The Joynt, Brisbane, QLD
Sunday 16th June – Nimbin Hotel, Nimbin, NSW

Perch Creek Family Jugband
Saturday 15th June – The Workers Club, Melbourne, VIC

Texture Like Sun, Ella Hooper, Krista Polvere
Tuesday 18th June – The Toff in Town, Melbourne, VIC

The BordererS
Saturday 15th June – Wollongong City Diggers Club, Wollongong, NSW

The Stillsons
Friday 21st June – Grace Darling, Melbourne, VIC

Tigertown
Friday 14th June – The Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine, VIC
Saturday 15th June – Bella Union, Melbourne, VIC
Thursday 20th June – Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane, QLD
Friday 21st June – Solbar, Maroochydore, QLD

Wagons
Saturday 15th June – The Vanguard, Sydney, NSW

Friday Folk Flashback

“City of New Orleans” – Steve Goodman

This week the “Top Half Times” – the newsletter from the annual Top Half Folk Festival – found its way into my inbox and part of the content was a list of 10 essential folk songs. Among the usual Guthrie’s, Dylan’s and Seeger’s I came across “City of New Orleans” and just had to revisit. Good morning America, how are you?

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Watch The New Castlecomer Video “Forrest”

June 14, 2013 at 11:42 (News, Video News)
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Castlecomer
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On the 12th July Sydney five piece Castlecomer will be releasing their brand new EP Lone Survivor. We’ve already heard the first track “Rosie” and today they released the video for their wonderfully world music infused song “Forrest”. Check out the clip below:

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New Tunng Video “The Village”

June 14, 2013 at 09:57 (News, Video News)
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Tunng
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UK folktronica act Tunng release their brand new album Turbines next week and to celebrate they’ve released a brand new video. The video is for the track “The Village” – check it out below:

Turbines will be released on the 17th June. The other track floating around the web from it is “So Far From Here” which you can listen to below:

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Isaac Graham Announces Glorious Momentum Tour

June 14, 2013 at 09:06 (News, Tour News)
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Isaac Graham
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To celebrate his new album Glorious Momentum (due on the 28th June) punk-folk singer-songwriter Isaac Graham is hitting the road this July and August with his band The Great Unknown.

The tour is set to take Isaac Graham up and down the east coast (with a brief stop in South Australia) and includes a number of regional shows. The full list of dates are below – for more information check out the official Facebook event here:

Friday 19th July – Yours And Owls, Wollongong, NSW
Friday 26th July – The Bunker, Coogee, NSW
Saturday 27th July – The Lass O’Gowrie, Newcastle, NSW
Thursday 1st August – Crowbar, Brisbane, QLD
Friday 2nd August – The Purple Carrot, Bellingen, NSW
Saturday 3rd August – The Star Hotel, Macksville, NSW
Friday 9th August – Crown And Anchor, Adelaide, SA
Saturday 10th August – The Public Bar, Melbourne, VIC
Wednesday 14th August – Lizotte’s, Kincumber, NSW
Thursday 15th August – Phoenix Bar, Canberra, ACT
Friday 16th August – Blackwire Records, Annandale, NSW
Saturday 17th August – The Commercial Hotel, Milton, NSW

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Interview: Darren Cross, Jep and Dep

June 13, 2013 at 15:40 (Interviews)
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Jep and Dep
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Sydney duo Jep and Dep are halfway through their Timber and Steel presented NSW tour so we thought it was about time to sit down with one half of the band, Darren Cross, and find out how they’ve been getting along.

Gareth Hugh Evans: Most people would know you from Gerling, yet Jep and Dep has a completely different sound musically. What’s drawn you away from rock and to the country side of the music spectrum?

Darren Cross: Once Gerling called it a day i did a fair bit of experimenting with dance music and samples and stuff and toured the country a few times and it fell on deaf ears. I got very disheartened by making music this way. So I brought it all back to basics. Learnt how to finger pick, found out about amazing music like Townes Van Zandt, Roscoe Holcombe, even early Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings – I also really loved the troubadour mind set. Touring with Gerling was such a big thing – lots and lots of instruments and sound-checks – so to play with just a guitar – to me was such a great idea, no where to hide- just a guitar and a voice and some songs. At the same time all of this was happening I met Jessica and we started Jep and Dep. I taught Jess a few chords on the guitar and we started writing songs really naturally, almost immediately. Country music and the melodies just really resonate to me. Even stuff like Glen Campbell [laughs].

GHE: How has the reaction been from Gerling fans to the new sound?

DC: Not really sure. Gerling fans were always very supportive of our genre hoping so I’m sure they are not too confused! I have produced music with a few different styles since Gerling – E.L.F weird dance based stuff, Betty Airs 50s Grunge act and more recently Darren Cross alt-country troubadour style. Gerling fans were mostly progressive thinkers so I’m sure they can enjoy Jep and Dep as well.

GHE: You’re currently on the road for Timber and Steel. How have the shows been so far?

DC: The shows have been “Intimate”. Its always great to have a crack at playing in regional areas like Parramatta and Newcastle but some times it is hard to get people to the shows. We had more luck in Berlin and Germany with the regional areas – people in Germany listened to the music-enjoyed it, didnt speak through our set and gave us Euros, dinner and drinks at the end of the show. Pretty damn good – but we wanna get out to the regional areas as much as we can. Ask us – we will come.

GHE: Your last video, “Bluebird Skies”, was shot in Berlin, Paris and Bejing. It must be pretty cool to take your music all over the world.

DC: To travel and also play music at the same time is so much fun! We actually toured Germany before we toured Melbourne, Tasmania and Adelaide. Europe in general is very respectful to the musician – its really encouraging. So many places to play!

GHE: You also perform alt-country music solo as The Darren Cross Band and are often seen supporting Jep and Dep. How do you decide what’s a Jep and Dep song and what’s a Darren Cross solo song?

DC: The more recent Darren Cross solo music is much more troubadour inspired and depressing than Jep and Dep, and both Jess and myself equally write Jep and Dep so melodically it’s different. The Jep and Dep stuff is more prettier with Jess’s beautiful voice – more atmospheric. Darren Cross is much more rougher, burnt out. Jep and Dep is also written with two people singing the parts as well, whereas Darren Cross is totally in the solo/troubadour mind set of performance – at the moment anyway!

GHE: Once the tour wraps up what’s next for Jep and Dep?

DC: More gigs, more writing and more work on our debut album. A European tour at the end of the year is also on the cards.

The remaining dates for the Jep and Dep tour are below:

Saturday 22nd June – FBi Social, Kings Cross, NSW
Wednesday 26th June – City Conversations, Sydney Town Hall, Sydney, NSW
Thursday 27th June – Green Room, Enmore, NSW

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Timber and Steel Presents: Mark Wilkinson Let The River Run Album Tour

June 13, 2013 at 13:36 (News, Timber and Steel Events, Tour News)
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Mark Wilkinson
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Australian singer-songwriter Mark Wilkinson is about to release his much anticipated sophomore record Let The River Run, produced by The Cat Empire’s Ollie McGill, and we’re very proud to announce Timber and Steel is presenting the album tour this August and September.

Taking in dates around the country Wilkinson will be joined by Timber and Steel favourites Little Bighorn in the support slot. Check out the full list of dates below – and make sure you get tickets soon as these are more than likely to sell out:

Thursday 15th August – Beav’s Bar, Geelong, VIC
Friday 16th August – The Thornbury Theatre, Melbourne, VIC
Thursday 22nd August – The Brass Monkey, Cronulla, NSW
Friday 23rd August – The Abbey, Canberra, ACT
Saturday 24th August – Mars Hill Cafe, Parramatta, NSW
Friday 30th August – The Heritage Hotel, Bulli, NSW
Saturday 31st August – The Basement, Sydney, NSW
Friday 6th September – The Promethean, Adelaide, SA
Saturday 7th September – The Ellington, Perth, WA
Wednesday 11th September – The Rails, Byron Bay, NSW
Thursday 12th September – Cafe Le Monde, Noosa, QLD
Friday 13th September – Mandala Organic Arts Cafe, Gold Coast, QLD
Saturday 14th September – Bon Amici Cafe, Toowoomba, QLD
Sunday 15th September – Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane, QLD
Thursday 19th September – Lizotte’s, Newcastle, NSW
Friday 20th September – Lizotte’s, Central Coast, NSW
Saturday 21st September – The Clarendon Guesthouse, Katoomba, NSW

To get more information on the tour check out the official Facebook invite here. Mark Wilkinson is also planning a series of live videos in the coming months – check out the first installment “For The First Time In Years” below:

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Country Roads in Sydney Announces June Lineup

June 13, 2013 at 12:27 (News, Regular Night News)
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The Morrisons
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Country Roads, the monthly alt-country night at The Oxford Art Factory, has definitely cemented itself as a must-see event on the Sydney alt-country and folk calendar and June’s show is shaping up to be one of the best yet.

On Thursday 20th June three of the country’s best contemporary folk, bluegrass, roots, blues and country musicians take the stage including country-soul five-piece The Morrisons (above), junk-blues favourites The Rusty Spring Syncopators and all-girl country super-group All Our Exes Live In Texas.

The night kicks off at 8pm and entry is free. For more information check out the official Facebook invite here.

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New Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros Video, “Better Days”

June 13, 2013 at 10:36 (News, Video News)
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Edward Sharpe
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We’ve already heard the first single from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros’ upcoming self titled album, “Better Days”, but the video is a brand new experience. Combining footage from a bunch of retro break-dancing and disco films the video, directed by Michele Civetta, is pretty awesome. Check it out below:

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros is due for release on the 29th July.

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Fraser A Gorman & Big Harvest Release New Single “Dark Eyes”

June 13, 2013 at 09:10 (News, Tour News)
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Fraser A Gorman
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The latest single from Melbourne’s Fraser A Gorman and his band Big Harvest, titled “Dark Eyes”, has just hit the web with a brand new clip shot on the property of an 1820s mansion 40kms south of Ballarat. Check it out below:

To celebrate the single’s release Fraser A Gorman has announced an intimate solo residency at The Spotted Mallard in Melbourne throughout July with a bunch of special guests. Check out the full list of dates below:

Wednesday 3rd July – The Spotted Mallard, Melbourne, VIC w/ Stu Mackenzie (King Gizzard)
Wednesday 10th July – The Spotted Mallard, Melbourne, VIC w/ Bob Harrow (Immigrant Union)
Wenesday 17th July – The Spotted Mallard, Melbourne, VIC w/ Mike Skinner (Mallee Songs)
Wednesday 24th July – The Spotted Mallard, Melbourne, VIC w/ Tim Neilson (The Death Rattles)
Wednesday 31st July – The Spotted Mallard, Melbourne, VIC w/ Forever Son

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New Single From The Civil Wars, “The One That Got Away”

June 12, 2013 at 11:48 (News, Single News)
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Civil Wars
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The Civil Wars will be releasing their long awaited self titled album on the 6th August and today they revealed the first single “The One That Got Away”. If you read the comments on Youtube for this track you’ll get an idea of just how anticipated this track is. Take a listen below:

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