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Seamus Fogarty-Expect a live show that dips into numerous genres from krautrock to traditional balladry and everything in between, old songs and new, mixing conventional instrumentation with found sounds and live electronics, all fronted by Fogarty’s plaintive vocal and songwriting.
Fogarty has spent much of 2023 touring Ireland & the UK with Lisa O’Neill and has also appeared at many notable festivals including the main stage of Green Man, Eurosonic, Latitude, Electric Picnic, Cambridge Folk and Haldern Pop. He has appeared on Other Voices and recorded live sessions for Mark Radcliffe on his BBC Radio 2 show and Cerys Matthews on BBC 6Music.
Released in October 2023, The Hee Haw EP is the first release by Irish alt-folk alchemist Seamus Fogarty in three years. It’s a remarkable collection of songs and instrumentals that Seamus has been working on and collecting over the last decade with the first single ‘They Recognised Him’ garnering high praise from a diverse range of DJs and personalities across the BBC, from Huw Stephens to Gideon Coe to Cillian Murphy
His last album, ‘A Bag Of Eyes’, was released on Domino Records at the end of 2020. His second album for Domino, it followed on from the success of 2017’s ‘The Curious Hand’, an album that was widely praised for its unique fusion of traditional and electronic instrumentation. He released his debut full-length, ‘God Damn You Mountain’, on cult Scottish label Fence Records in 2012.
‘Magical journeys through fable and modern life and back again, often in the same song’
The Guardian *****
‘Nestles beautifully at the point where the digital and analogue worlds collide’ The Skinny *****
‘By turns gritty and poetic...a real original’ The Observer (UK) ****
‘That rare thing in folk: original, self-contained and unencumbered by the genre’ Mojo****
“The ghostly emotional wallop of the tunes will take your breath away” The Irish Times ****
L.T.Leif-
A wild dog chasing the sun! L.T.Leif brings the many-hearted music of the swampwitch. Slow-felt swamp rock.
Based out of Glasgow and rooted in the DIY spirit of the Canadian prairies, Leif is also deep-dipped in Iceland, Finland, and the Pacific NW. Leif has been involved in many bands and projects, first entering the scene with orchestral pop sweethearts The Consonant C, strongholds of the Canadian DIY music scene. Since the group disbanded in 2011, Leif has explored many configurations and approaches, from experimental noise collaborations with the infamous Bug Incision crew, to playing sold-out shows with the punk-hearted OK JAZZ. Leif also drummed with slacker-rock bands (Hex Ray and Hungry Freaks), played synths with Matt Swann (of Astral Swanns), and sang in a witch Choir (Hermitess). This, the band that takes Leif’s name as its title, is perhaps the most precise of these projects, and represents Leif at their most exposed. The themes are personal, reflective, and distilled, and carry an attention to detail that reveals a generosity and an openness of both heart and thinking.
Otis Jordan-
Improvisational multi-instrumentalist Otis Jordan deftly collages together folk, psyche and jazz. Recent releases include his beautiful 2022 album, ‘Restless Guests’. Released on Them There records and recorded at Green Door Studio, Glasgow. A cut and paste mixtape of fractured folk, sci-fi sounds and psych. Instruments are plucked, strung, hammered, and bowed into webs of rhythms and resonance. With a penchant for delightfully disorientating the listener into deceptive, audio wormholes, Jordan thrives on crafty found-sound experimentation
7.30-11pm
£5-15
Lost in Leith
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82 commercial street, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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