homogeny is elusive

i'd just like to assure you all that the formatting of this blog is not an indication of our preferred visual style, but rather an indication of my inability to make any two posts look alike.


it is driving me insane. i am concerned for my safety andthe safety of those around me. i also suspect we'd gladly offer concert tickets or downloads or something to any good people who could explain this nonsense to us before someone has to lock us up.

thanks...

p.S. for anyone reading this as an RSS feed, you should be told that the true nature of this message of depth can only be seen at the blog itself...

from the ether

this from the good people at the dyverse music blog...

Kirsty McGee: No.5 (Hobopop Recordings) 

The case for Kirsty McGee as the best artist to come out of Manchester's neo-folk scene is strengthened by this live album, which manages the leap from orthodox acoustica to garage orchestra, with twisted electric guitar, malformed banjo, junkyard percussion and plangent reeds. Some of the songs are familiar from her other records, but the assured delivery shows how she now wears them like a second skin. McGee has a genius for removing the soft centre out of love songs and replacing with the hard nut of real feeling - Bliss and Dust Devils are skewed yet achingly vulnerable songs. Yet shape-shifting is no problem: she writes credibly as a scared soldier in Last Orders or as an unashamed Social Darwinist in Bonecrusher (bonus song, with cartoon animation). Her voice, with its crystalline diction and adventurous phrasing, is closer to jazz than folk.

we're having a lot of fun on tour right now... we're playing in durham next, on thursday. we heard a great singer at the open mic that opened our penrith show, and asked him to open up for us at the next show. we're delighted that he agreed - so watch out for a set from the astonishing rob heron at gala theatre on thursday.

http://www.kirstymcgee.com


http://www.facebook.com/kirstymcgeemusic


http://kirstymcgee.bandcamp.com


http://www.hobopop.com