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An event will be taking place on September 6th at Leith Depot. Tickets are available at https://www.eventim-light.com/uk/a/656f3b4c9ccc0913cb57ba4f/e/66508a7b62f6e943bb511208.David Lance Callahan
Should be heard far and wide, printed on broadsheets across the land and used at the
closedown of broadcasting every night” – Mickey Bradley (BBC Radio Ulster/The
Undertones)
“The year’s stand-out album for me” – Stewart Lee
“A sort of modern-day pastoral” – Simon Armitage (Poet Laureate)
“Locates a common ground between trad British folk and Saharan blues . . . Terrific” – Mojo
“Arguably his generation’s best lyricist” – Mojo
“So many stand out tracks that it sounds like a greatest hits set from a parallel universe.” –
Louder Than War
Stewart Lee’s newsletter January 2022: “the year’s stand-out album for me was English
Primitive by David Lance Callahan, where the Wolfhounds’ frontman gave his usually acerbic
social commentaries a kind of visionary mythic quality, weaving them into extended cyclical
mantras of folk-blues guitar to create a magic realist state of the nation musical address.”
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s ‘Song of the Week’ on 6 Music: “a sort of modern-day
pastoral”
“It's an often dark, spooked-out concoction, difficult to pin down and seemingly determined
to swerve every expectation … [has] the eldritch power of old folk music … an impressive
work, deep and troubling.” Ben Wood, Bearded Magazine.
http://www.beardedmagazine.com/albums/article/david-lance-callahan-english-primitive-i-
Helen McCookerybook's songs cover everything from the social impact of
new technology to wry observations about relationships. Now a solo
guitarist/vocalist influenced by Linda Lewis, Nick Drake and Jake Thackray,
her musical journey started as a bass player in a Brighton punk band in the
late 1970s. Her previous bands The Chefs and Helen and the Horns were
regulars on BBC Radio 1’s John Peel show; nowadays Radio London’s Gary
Crowley and BBC6’s Gideon Coe play her new music. She has collaborated
with Gina Birch, Vic Godard, Lester Square, Robert Rotifer and many more.
Her last CD was Drawing on my Dreams Drawing on my Dreams, by Helen
McCookerybook and she is currently recording a new album of songs to be
released concurrently with a compilation album of material by The Chefs that
will include a ‘lost’ album of songs from the 1980s.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Leith Depot, 138-142 Leith Walk,Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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