Shows

The Local at The End of the Road Festival Fri 12th September 2008

Oh yes, The Local is back...

Described by Time Out as "Later with Jools Holland meets Phoenix Nights", London based live music night ‘The Local' will set up shop in Dorset once again this year as part of the End of the Road festival.

 

From The Local's organiser and host Howard Monk: "Building on the success of last year's Local tent we come back again bigger, better and more eclectic than ever. As well as the bright new things on The Local stage including Essie Jain, The Miserable Rich, A.p.a.T.t, Birdengine, By the Fireside, Karima Francis we have some killer favourites of our own for you - Dead Meadow, The Chap, The Constantines and Wildbirds and Peacedrums. And as usual, the kind of surprises you got on our stage last year!"

 

The full lineup for the local tent is:

 

A.p.a.T.t, Alessi, Birdengine, David Thomas Broughton, The Chap, The Constantines, Cut a Shine 21st Century Barn Dance, Dead Meadow, Karima Francis, Charlotte Hatherley, Essie Jain, Folk Orchestra, Denis Jones, One Little Plane, The Singing Adams, The Miserable Rich, Wildbirds and Peacedrums, Pictish Trail with Rozi Plain, By the Fireside, Robyn G Shiels

 

Tickets are £105 for the WHOLE weekend! (link) 

 

A.p.a.T.t (Live)

"a.P.A.t.T. are an enticing, bewildering and daunting prospect. They can sweep through several genres in the space of an opening verse, rewriting musical histories with a collectively raised eyebrow. If you so much as dip your toes in to test the water, you find yourself dragged into a Wonka-esque tour of expertly-executed skits take in Zappa, classical music both ancient and modern, punk, jazz, metal and whole bundle of stuff that hasn't been invented yet. Dexterous, Monstrous and mind-wideningly wondrous. " Plan B

 

Alessi (Live)

A teenager shouldn't be able to do lustful, world-weary folk this well. What's more, she's doing so while easily avoiding the faux-American potholes so many stumble in to. Paying attention to the smallest details, Alessi’s song writing is really something to behold.

 

Birdengine (Live)

Birdengine is the alias of reclusive artist Lawry Joseph Tilbury. Hailing from the deepest Dorset countryside, his music captures the imagination with tales of dead mermaids, kings trapped in jars, feral children and the moon. His debut Drift release I Fed Thee Rabbit Water was recorded entirely by Lawry, with no thought to present his songs as anything other than they are, odes to all things dark and magical.

 

David Thomas Broughton (Live)

Equal parts Devendra and Daniel Johnston, David Thomas Broughton makes delicately fragranced music that is both overtly fragile and inwardly strong - drawing the ear deep within the compositions then keeping you tethered through emotional intensity. Boomkat

 

'Layer upon layer of musical quality from Broughton, whose songs are touching and sensitive' The Guardian Guide

 

The Chap (Live)

The Chap courted a good deal of attention thanks to their odd glitch pop aesthetic, as captured on albums Ham and The Horse, but with Mega Breakfast they've outdone themselves, introducing their new material via the barbershop quartet-meets-Hot Chip dynamics of 'They Have A Name', only to slip into the single 'Fun & Interesting', which sounds disconcertingly like Queen in its theatrical harmonised vocal execution. In fact, seldom does something so daft sound so lovingly crafted. Boomkat

 

The Constantines (Live)

“The Constantines maintain a feverishly partisan dedication to the wild delirium of rock ’n roll… air punchingly anthemic.” – NME

 

“Once the Constantines start heading off-stage, the “woo hoos” start going off like air-raid sirens. No one’s saying it, but everyone’s thinking it: we have something to believe in again. The Constantines are the children of Fugazi, stepbrothers to Make-Up and Trail of Dead, the grand-kids of Springsteen and Strummer. They call what they do soul music, not because of what it sounds like, but where it hits you.” EYE Weekly

 

Cut a Shine 21st Century Barn Dance (Live)

Cut A Shine is a troupe of musicians, dancers and singers, determined and enthusiastic to preserve, promote, reinterpret and propagate traditional folk music and dance to as wider audience as possible.

 

Dead Meadow (Live)

Dead Meadows music is a lot of things: heavy, dreamy, trippy, expansive, reflective and evocative. Many of their stoner rock compatriots share those attributes, but dont mistake Dead Meadow for banner-waving proponents of the genre. On their fourth and most fully realized album, the band displays its greatest sonic range to date. On Feathers, the bands first album as a quartet with the addition of guitarist Cory Shane, Dead Meadow whispers and suggests as much as they pummel and throb.

 

Karima Francis (Live)

A tiny figure on stage dressed in a rugby top fastened fully to the collar, a pair of snug fitting converse wrapped around the bottom of some not so snug fitting skinny jeans. Her stance lacks confidence as she hides behind the feminine well-groomed fringe swooping across her face that fronts her full head of dreadlocks. The audience barely hear her husky attempt to hush them as she introduces herself, but they are soon silenced by the sound of her music. This amazing singer gives out an initial shock as her powerful and virtuous voice could not be expected from such a delicate appearing young lady. Gigwise

 

Charlotte Hatherley (Live)

She had toured the world a thousand times with ASH and made three studio albums with the boys before she decided to record the collection of self-penned songs that had been growing steadily whilst killing time on the road. This collection became her first solo album, 'Grey Will Fade', recorded in Los Angeles with Sir Eric Drew Feldman.

 

Essie Jain (Live)

Jain builds stark miniatures out of a few light strums of guitar and her haunting alto. On her captivating new album, her voice is multitracked in precise harmonies that can be warm or ghostly Time Out, NY

 

A compelling balance between intimacy and reserve Time Out, London

 

Timothy Victor’s Folk Orchestra (Live)

There’s a place called Moscow in Polk County, Texas. I’m told there’s also a Moscow on the banks of the Moskva river in Russia. The Folk Orchestra have visited neither of these places and probably never will but their sound owes much to both the southern states of the USA and Eastern Europe.

 

Swinging, lyrically wry alt.folk, which taps both southern USA and eastern European traditions. TimeOut

 

Denis Jones (Live)

Denis Jones is at ease as he casually creates a myriad of sounds with his trusty loop pedal. This is the modern day equivalent of a one man band, without the cumbersome inconvenience of a big drum on your back, he even throws in a touch of beat boxing just to mix things up a bit. At grass roots though this is a beautiful, heartfelt acoustic offering with vocals that contain an urgency and sincerity that are utterly compelling. XFM Online

 

One Little Plane (Live)

This is a lovely summer's record, one for sunny week end mornings and all the times in between. Colin Greenwood, Radiohead

 

One of the first things to strike you about the debut album Until, is its not by any measure a run of the mill collection of songs. While it does have its share of folksy acoustic guitar moments, Kathryn Bint's voice and her unorthodox song arrangements aligns her with the more interesting female songwriters out there like Bat For Lashes, Stina Nordenstam and Emiliana Torrini. Boomkat

 

The Singing Adams (Live)

If the Broken Family Band are "indie with a twang", as singer and guitarist Steven Adams likes to describe them, his solo project, the Singing Adams, make folk songs that snarl. They are sometimes tender - "Let me press on your skin/ A hand that loves you," he muses - but more often self-hating; Adams views love through a prism of darkness. The Guardian

 

The Miserable Rich (Live)

The Miserable Rich began with one main objective: to turn the traditions of indie, folk and electronica on their collective head. Quickly growing into a modern chamber quintet, providing a home for Mike Siddell (Lightspeed Champion, Kate Walsh, Hope Of The States) & Rhys Lovell and Jim Briffett (Clearlake), they spent the summer of 2007 bringing woozy downer-folk together with the spiralling beauty of simple strings and de Malplaquet's astonishingly versatile voice.

 

Wildbirds and Peacedrums (Live)

It’s no overstatement to say their self produced debut, Heartcore, is something of a minor masterpiece. Stoolpigeon

 

Divinely evocative Time Out

 

Pictish Trail with Rozi Plain (Live)

The work of Johnny Lynch, aka ‘The Pictish Trail’ is more stirringly subversive stuff from the Fence Collective. Lynch writes warm, welcoming tales with tiny keyboard patterns, acoustic neo-folk rumblings and all manner of undeniable oddball noises. Rozi Plain possesses a voice that somehow sounds like it's singing just for you, and her songs shine in your eyes and on your cheekbones like permanent summer sun. Perfect.

 

By the Fireside (Live)

London based musician and producer Daniel Lea is enchanted by the forgotten narratives of yesterday. Trawling the past for visual and lyrical inspiration, gathering snippets from forgotten histories, By The Fireside is his music box and storytelling vehicle.

 

Robyn G Shiels (Live)

Beautifully bleak, but absolutely full of emotion. Amazingly, this is his debut release; words fail me. Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound

Unlike countless other releases that name check the likes of Will Oldham, Low and Red House Painters as musical references, this is a record that can withstand – and I’d argue surpass – those comparisons with ease. Comes With a Smile

 

Tickets are £105 for the WHOLE weekend! (link)