Band Of Holy Joy
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The Thunderbolt
Bristol
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Description
Music - General
Three of the best singer songwriters around, on one bill
Band of Holy Joy - Formed from the ashes of an unrecorded '77 punk band, Speed, Band Of Holy Joy's initial musical forays were largely in the domain of industrial bricolage and occasional bursts of madness.
By the time they began releasing records under their own name in the 1980s, the band's humanist tendencies came to the fore, with astounding portraits of people on the periphery, resulting in such classics as Rosemary Smith, Mad Dot and Don't Stick Knives In Babbies Heads.
The sharp sensibilities of founder and leader Johny Brown eventually led to a star-making deal with Rough Trade, a few near hits and career momentum shattered when the label collapsed mere days after what might have been the band's breakthrough album.
Slowly, a new Band Of Holy Joy has blossomed. The band operates, well, differently. In some aspects, they're an art collective. Inspired by the possibilities which burst forth after punk, the band's expression takes many forms. Visual artist Inga Tillere plays a large role in shaping the band's aesthetic and live events, and in musical foil James Stephen Finn, Daryl Holley, Brenno Balbino and Peter Smith. Johny's poetic vision transcends expectations without resorting to desperate reaches into esoterica.
The Band Of Holy Joy model of today is a sleek beat outfit that owes as much to indie music in the proper sense of indie as it does to the Brechtian connotations of past Band Of Holy Joy incarnations. They have lineage but never dwell on it preferring to forge forward. They have a history too but never let it drag them back. For the past few years they have been quietly growing and gestating and now they have emerged fully reborn with renewed purpose of sound and vision.
Stuart Moxham - founding member and songwriter of Young Marble Giants and The Gist, has consistently ploughed his own distinctive furrow, at the edges of alternative music, for over forty years. Creator of eleven albums to date, with a handful of new LPs in the bag on the burgeoning Tiny Global Productions label, Moxham is currently enjoying a fruitful late period of creativity and a wider appreciation of his catalogue since the recent 40th anniversary re-release of the remarkable debut album "Colossal Youth".
His most recent collaboration with the long time French musical arranger Louis Philippe, "The Devil Laughs" caused seismic critical and fan interest - and sales too. He is currently performing a career - spanning live set featuring songs from all his projects and using specially mixed backing tracks taken from studio multitrack originals. He is joined by daughter Melody Moxham, whose beautiful voice graces several of his more recent records as well as the live shows.
Helen McCookerybook - Don't be taken in by the pseudonym . Helen is the hardest working singer/songwriter/author/film maker/lecturer/illustrator on the planet. Her credits stretch as long as the Tyne. Helen first came to prominence with Peel favourites The Chefs and Helen and the Horns. She now, mainly, performs solo and has become a favourite of 6 Music's Gideon Coe. 2017's full length release 'The Sea' and 2019's 'Green' are must haves in anyone's collection
Opening Act - I See Islands
I See Islands is Seamus Joseph O?Donnell, a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Mallaig on the west coast of Scotland.
Now firmly rooted in Tynemouth, O?Donnell set about building a home studio which gave him the facilities to turn his internal musings into songs.
It was here that the songs began to take shape for what would go onto form ?Within A Light Beam?, the forthcoming debut album from I See Islands.
Musically, ?Within A Light Beam? contains a plethora of reference points. Whether it be the stripped back folk of Steve Mason or King Creosote, laconic melancholy of Bon Iver or experimental anguish that Trentemoller and Grandaddy convey so effortlessly.
"This record is a break up recovery album. It?s about going through recovery from a dark place into a good one, so all the songs I?ve chosen suit ?Within A Light Beam? just because of the way everything blended into one another.?
Band of Holy Joy - Formed from the ashes of an unrecorded '77 punk band, Speed, Band Of Holy Joy's initial musical forays were largely in the domain of industrial bricolage and occasional bursts of madness.
By the time they began releasing records under their own name in the 1980s, the band's humanist tendencies came to the fore, with astounding portraits of people on the periphery, resulting in such classics as Rosemary Smith, Mad Dot and Don't Stick Knives In Babbies Heads.
The sharp sensibilities of founder and leader Johny Brown eventually led to a star-making deal with Rough Trade, a few near hits and career momentum shattered when the label collapsed mere days after what might have been the band's breakthrough album.
Slowly, a new Band Of Holy Joy has blossomed. The band operates, well, differently. In some aspects, they're an art collective. Inspired by the possibilities which burst forth after punk, the band's expression takes many forms. Visual artist Inga Tillere plays a large role in shaping the band's aesthetic and live events, and in musical foil James Stephen Finn, Daryl Holley, Brenno Balbino and Peter Smith. Johny's poetic vision transcends expectations without resorting to desperate reaches into esoterica.
The Band Of Holy Joy model of today is a sleek beat outfit that owes as much to indie music in the proper sense of indie as it does to the Brechtian connotations of past Band Of Holy Joy incarnations. They have lineage but never dwell on it preferring to forge forward. They have a history too but never let it drag them back. For the past few years they have been quietly growing and gestating and now they have emerged fully reborn with renewed purpose of sound and vision.
Stuart Moxham - founding member and songwriter of Young Marble Giants and The Gist, has consistently ploughed his own distinctive furrow, at the edges of alternative music, for over forty years. Creator of eleven albums to date, with a handful of new LPs in the bag on the burgeoning Tiny Global Productions label, Moxham is currently enjoying a fruitful late period of creativity and a wider appreciation of his catalogue since the recent 40th anniversary re-release of the remarkable debut album "Colossal Youth".
His most recent collaboration with the long time French musical arranger Louis Philippe, "The Devil Laughs" caused seismic critical and fan interest - and sales too. He is currently performing a career - spanning live set featuring songs from all his projects and using specially mixed backing tracks taken from studio multitrack originals. He is joined by daughter Melody Moxham, whose beautiful voice graces several of his more recent records as well as the live shows.
Helen McCookerybook - Don't be taken in by the pseudonym . Helen is the hardest working singer/songwriter/author/film maker/lecturer/illustrator on the planet. Her credits stretch as long as the Tyne. Helen first came to prominence with Peel favourites The Chefs and Helen and the Horns. She now, mainly, performs solo and has become a favourite of 6 Music's Gideon Coe. 2017's full length release 'The Sea' and 2019's 'Green' are must haves in anyone's collection
Opening Act - I See Islands
I See Islands is Seamus Joseph O?Donnell, a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Mallaig on the west coast of Scotland.
Now firmly rooted in Tynemouth, O?Donnell set about building a home studio which gave him the facilities to turn his internal musings into songs.
It was here that the songs began to take shape for what would go onto form ?Within A Light Beam?, the forthcoming debut album from I See Islands.
Musically, ?Within A Light Beam? contains a plethora of reference points. Whether it be the stripped back folk of Steve Mason or King Creosote, laconic melancholy of Bon Iver or experimental anguish that Trentemoller and Grandaddy convey so effortlessly.
"This record is a break up recovery album. It?s about going through recovery from a dark place into a good one, so all the songs I?ve chosen suit ?Within A Light Beam? just because of the way everything blended into one another.?
