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CW STONEKING
9.20pm - 10.00pm
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Aussie genius CW cites as his influences as ‘pre-war blues, phoney jungle music and 1920s calypso’, and boasts a voice you’ve only previously heard crackling out of a vintage gramophone. Evoking the ghosts of long-lost dustbowl bluesmen, his debut album King Hokum won a string of prizes at the Aussie version of the BRITS, and follow-up Jungle Blues did likewise a year later.
Peering enigmatically from beneath his ever-present hat, he’s an antipodean Leon Redbone, a guitar-toting Tom Waits with an endless supply of tall tales… Jungle Blues, we’re reliably informed, was inspired in part by his amazing survival of a shipwreck off the storm-lashed coast of West Africa. Brilliant, funny, touching, and a hazy window into a long-lost era.
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LONE WOLF
8.10pm - 9.00pm
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Whitby born and Leeds bred, Paul Marshall is Lone Wolf. Influenced by acts such as Tom Waits, Joanna Newsom, Fleet Foxes, Nick Drake, Jeniferever and Nick Cave, Lone Wolf mixes incredible finger picked guitar with luscious heartfelt vocals. Label mate of Midlake, Explosions In The Sky and Beach House on the super cool Bella Union imprint, we're over the moon to be able to announce this sterling late addition to the bill [replaces Johnny Flynn].
"The voice is velvet, the claws sharp and most tracks burst into epic kitchen-sink climaxes" - **** Uncut
"Softly sung sweetness, lustrous harmonies and dextrous guitar work" - **** Q Magazine
"An absolutely gorgeous first attempt from a one to watch artist" - Clash Magazine
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CATE LE BON
7.05pm - 7.50pm
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Dreamy folk meets dark electronica! Cate was discovered by Super Furry Animals’ frontman Gruff Rhys, and accompanied him on his 2007 tour, gaining no little acclaim along the way. She’s since taken her place amongst Welsh musical royalty, with various former Gorky’s alumni queuing up to work alongside her.
With a bleak lyrical outlook – she admits her childhood was haunted by ‘an abnormal fixation with death’ - deliciously wonky guitars and gloriously deadpan vocals, debut album Me Oh My has even earned her comparisons to tragic Velvet Underground chanteuse Nico.‘Strikingly different… a musical icon for the Twilight generation’ – The Independent.
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RICHARD JAMES
6.00pm -6.45pm
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Founder member and co-songwriter from cult heroes Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - this is gorgeous, shimmering pastoral stuff! Just like Gorky's, in fact. If you don't believe us, just check these rather splendid reviews:
“a solo record that shines brilliantly in its own right.” Mojo
“This is a triumph of quiet perseverance: crafted, insidious and, at last, cool.” The Times
“The songs ebb and flow in creating an overall sense of happiness and wellbeing. Music for the soul.” Drowned in Sound
“a sultry charming collection…carefully distilled influences: John Fahey, snatches of Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel and the atmospheric folk of the late 60s.” Uncut
“Falling in love with a guy like Richard James would be as easy as falling off a log. Ditto his music.” The Times
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SWEET BABOO
5.00pm - 5.40pm
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Like a one-man, welsh Teenage Fanclub, Stephen ‘Sweet Baboo’ Black is as full of sweet-toothed pop and rustic charm as you’d ever expect from a man who cites The Beach Boys, Gorky’s and early solo McCartney as influences. And yet there’s also touch of the country and western troubadour about this modest, floppy-fringed maestro.
The second Sweet Baboo album Hello Wave was released last summer, and – in the words of the man himself – ‘deals with topics such as God, demons, demon cats, and moving to the country dressed as a bumblebee’. What we’re not sure about is whether he named his musical alter ego after Sally Brown’s affectionate nickname for Linus in Peanuts? Hopefully we’ll get a chance to ask him at the show.
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NADINE SHAH
4.05pm - 4.45pm
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There can’t be many part Norwegian, part Pakistani girls living in the windswept North-Eastern coastal village of Whitburn… and certainly none that have recently returned from a national tour supporting 80s angst-pop legends Shakespeare’s Sister. But, armed with a heartbreaking voice and her own crashing piano, jagged chords, Nadine Shah is making an impressive habit of uniqueness.
6 Music’s Tom Robinson is already a fan of her anger-fuelled, black-humoured torch songs, and Nadine has earned comparisons to the mighty Dresden Dolls… which might explain why the music world’s bigwigs are beginning to sit up and take note. Legendary producer Ben Hillier (Blur, Depeche Mode, Elbow, Doves) amongst them – he’s currently working on her much-anticipated debut album.
The world expects, and we think Nadine will deliver…big style.
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LITTLE GLITCHES
3.20pm - 3.50pm
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Mixing hazy electronic burbles with lush, acoustic folk-pop, this Sheffield four-piece have hints of complex pyschedelia as well, and debut EP Sudden Moment Of Clarity swiftly became a firm favourite of Steve Lamacq, who made it his 6 Music Record of the Week.
Comparisons to Fleet Foxes and Grizzly Bear have come thick and fast, which isn’t surprising for a band whose impeccable four-part harmonies soar out of those dark, twisted backings. But there’s also a hint of Yorkshire steel in this intriguing take on vintage Americana.
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THE WOVEN PROJECT
WITH GEORGIA SEDDON
2.35pm - 3.05pm
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This warm-hearted Hartlepool folk collective seemed to have it all… shimmering guitars, humming accordions and the breathless, whispered vocals of frontman Brian Batey. And then, out of nowhere, crystal-voiced songstress Georgia Seddon came into their lives, and things moved into an extra dimension.
Now, we don’t usually credit ourselves as matchmakers, but The Woven Project and Georgia’s first-ever meeting just happened to take place on this very stage at last year’s MML! Since then, the first recordings of this happy union have emerged, with the epic, gorgeous single-to-be Whatever suggesting great things are afoot for both parties. Yearning, heartfelt acoustic melancholy, to have and to hold forrever.
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CATTLE AND CANE
1.45pm - 2.15pm
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One of the sweetest, most haunting new folk bands around… and they’re from Teesside! Based around three teenage members of the prodigious Hammill family, Cattle and Cane sound like Fleet Foxes with Stockton accents. Songs like Belle and Sold My Soul have a sepia-tinted, timeless quality... they could just as easily have emerged from pre-war America as post-millenium Teesside.
Grizzled, ageing stalwarts of the Teesside musical fraternity are already declaring them the best young band they’ve seen for many a moon, and brother and sister duo Joe and Helen Hamill are able to shift the hardest of hearts with their perfect, soaring harmonies.
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LENO
1.00pm - 1.30pm
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You’d think life would be busy enough for a full-time member of Teesside’s rampaging, country-soul superstars Young Rebel Set. But no… guitarist Andy Parmley is now forging an impressive solo career as acoustic troubadour Leno, with coveted Pete Doherty support slots already under his snake-hipped belt.
This is no half-arsed side project, though… the bagful of rousing, Dylan-esque stompers that have already sneaked onto Myspace are fully-formed gems, with air-punching anthems like A Minute To Pray full with fire and fervour. According to the man himself, they may yet become fully-formed Young Rebel Set numbers – in the meantime, catch them live in their ragged, acoustic glory.
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