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Gideon Coe airplay!

admin — Tue, 15 May 2012 22:11:26 +0000

Cheers to Gideon Coe for playing the Static Caravan remix of Gently Johnny last night!

Listen again here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01hljzg#segments

Gently Johnny Limited edition vinyl!

admin — Sun, 06 May 2012 17:54:54 +0000

On 28th May, Static Caravan are releasing a double whammy of Gently Johnny 7″ green vinyl with Woodbine & Ivy Band on one side and Sproatly Smith on the other.

There are ONLY 300 of these green vinyl with sticker and insert in a Ben Javens designed sleeve.

Sproatly Smith, psych-folk enigmas from the Herefordshire Marshes have been described by fRoots as “The mystery flagship band of the new wave of weirdlore”.

The Woodbine and Ivy Band’s Gently Johnny is a remix of the album version (here featuring Jenny McCormick on vocals) featured on the critically acclaimed debut on Folk Police Recordings: Stewart Lee in the Times described it as “Walking the primrose path of the satanically seductive”.

It looks like these may well sell out in pre orders so order one now if you want one!

http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/products/WoodbineAndIvyBandSproatlySmith-GentlyJohnny-StaticCaravan-83250.html

http://www.staticcaravan.org/

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Steve Lamacq Radio Play!

admin — Tue, 01 May 2012 20:43:00 +0000

Over the past week, Steve Lamacq has played the single “Love” from the Sweet Demon album – on both his BBC Radio 2 Rock College and his prime time BBC Radio 6 programmes – cheers Steve!

The single can be bought on itunes and the album can be found in the shop here or on amazon

Shop open!

admin — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:22:50 +0000

Sweet Demon is now available to buy from the website shop.

Sweet Demon now for sale!

admin — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:07:19 +0000

Sweet Demon is now for sale and you can buy it “in all good stores”.

Order from Amazon here…

Sweet Demon released 2nd April!

admin — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:34:37 +0000

Jenny’s new album, Sweet Demon, will be released on 2nd April 2012. A romantic album from start to finish, each of the 10 tracks pays homage to the romantic in all its madness, sadness and insane happiness. From the twangy guitar and double bass of lonesome opener, The Cinder Rosary, to the swelling Hammond of the uplifting The Bough Won’t Break, Jenny McCormick’s new collection of songs – some self-penned, some traditional – some joyous, others reflective – show her love of folklore and poetry more visibly than ever before.

The mood is perhaps best encapsulated on album highlight, Love, a joyous alt-country tinged track with a guest appearance from the talented guitarist, James Walbourne. The album also contains a co-write between Jenny and Sam Genders, of celebrated folktronica band Tunng. For all its twisted imagery of monsters and chariots, Monocle, is a beautifully uplifting and romantic highlight.

The musicians came together as a result of a couple of years spent collaborating in both The Memory Band and the Woodbine & Ivy Band, including Jon Thorne on bass, John Ellis on keys and Stuart McCallum on guitar.

Pre-order the album here!

The Woodbine & Ivy Band album out on Monday!

admin — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 11:48:45 +0000

The Woodbine & Ivy Band is a group of Manchester musicians who came together to arrange and perform the ten traditional songs that make up this album. For each song they invited a different singer to contribute a lead vocal. Jenny is amongst the guests that include Jackie Oates, Fay Hield, Nancy Wallace, Olivia Chaney, Pinkie Maclure and Jim Causley.The band channels the hazy spirit of classic country rock in their exploration of the English and Scottish song tradition. Featuring layered guitars and a fluid yet muscular rhythm section, these songs are awash with warm pedal steel guitar and laced with harp, trumpet, Hammond organ and synthesiser, creating an expansive sound that reaches beyond that usually associated with traditional song. There is a sly tipping of the cap towards the electric folk revival of the 1970s, although the musicians involved are not all from a folk background: instead they bring a diversity of influences to bear on their interpretations of the songs.The Woodbine & Ivy Band are drawn to autumnal songs with a vein of melancholia or a sprinkling of the supernatural at their core: from the sinister innocence at the heart of Gently Johnny to Twa Corbies’ macabre spectacle of two crows discussing their prospective human feast to the haunting tale of the discovery and fate of the Poor Murdered Woman, the band delve into the darker realms of the human imagination. Not all the tracks are so strange and arcane: Spencer the Rover is an everyday redemption song, whilst the Roaming Journeyman is a celebration of cheerily drunken exuberance.

The singers were initially invited to perform the songs a cappella and, during a series of intense late night sessions, the band used these performances as a guide to the choice of instrumentation and the mood of the arrangements. The fruits of these free-ranging sessions were consolidated during recording dates in North Manchester’s Limefield Studio, where the legendary folk producer, Bill Leader, was around to lend a hand and give the band his quiet nod of approval.

The musicians and singers were gathered together under the direction of Peter Philipson and Michael Doward and include some of Manchester’s finest players in John Ellis, Rachael Gladwin, Luke Das-Gupta and Alan Cook. The final recording session brought together a 12 piece vocal chorus to add rousing singaround backing vocals as a concluding flourish.

Amongst their influences, the Woodbine & Ivy Band cite the music of Sandy Denny, John Martyn, The Byrds, Pentangle, Crazy Horse and the drone rock of Spaceman 3. This album is also one for fans of Joe Boyd’s Witchseason Productions and much of the music released on the Harvest, Leader and Transatlantic record labels

In the shops on 21th November. Buy from the Folk Police Store

Spencer the Rover (featuring Fay Hield) is available as a digital download Christmas single from iTunes. It’s nearly 40 years since Steeleye Span took Gaudete into the Christmas charts. We reckon this means it’s about time for another Christmas folk rock hit, so please spread the word!

Oh My Days

admin — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:55:02 +0000

The third Memory Band album, Oh My Days, was released on February 7th. It is available in all good record stores and direct from the Spinney website .