The Miserable Rich at St Bride's Church Liverpool

The Miserable Rich announce a fourteen date tour of the UK in unusual venues and with a very curious flavour. The band's third album, Miss You In The Days, is released on Halloween - recorded in Britain's most haunted stately it is a collection of songs inspired by ghosts, poltergeists and other spooky apparitions. All performed and narrated in their own inimitable sophisticated 'Chamber Pop' style.

The band are accompanied on the tour by performance poet Alabaster Deplume, who will be introducing each evening with a set of spine-chilling tales based on the songs from The Miserable Rich's album.

Part funded by PRS Foundation and part by fans via a successful (still running) 'Pledge Music' campaign, the tour begins with a full-on fancy dress Halloween Ball at Westminster Reference Library (a double header with The Real Tuesday Weld) on the 29th October, and visits arts centres, churches and creepy railway arches; there is even one very special show at the aforementioned haunted stately home, Blickling Hall, fittingly enough on Halloween itself...

Lead singer James De Malplaquet explains: "As an experience, how do you top recording an album in a Jacobean Palace, the birthplace of Ann Boleyn? We'd already decided to release the album at Halloween, and wanted to put

together a tour to do it justice. We decided to add a dramatic element to the proceedings, with ghost stories, exclusive acoustic previews in spooky crypts, and a free mix tape for those getting into the spirit and dressing up."

Pledge Music is an increasingly popular fan-funded model where fans 'Pledge' money in exchange for exclusive merchandise, allowing bands to allocate funds to promotion and other costs. In this case - being able to make an album documentary, including this video of the recording of the secret album track, recorded in a haunted pub attic: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIEmkWrgDRw

For more info please see www.themiserablerich.co.uk

29/10/11 LONDON Westminster Reference Library

30/10/11 WINDSOR Firestation Arts Centre

31/10/11 BLICKLING Blickling Hall

2/11/11 OXFORD Oxford Castle

3/11/11 MANCHESTER St Philip with St Stephen Church

4/11/11 LIVERPOOL St Bride's Church

5/11/11 FALMOUTH Miss Peapod's

6/11/11 EXETER Phoenix Arts Centre

7/11/11 SOUTHAMPTON Guava Bar

8/11/11 BRISTOL The Crypt of St John's-in-the-Wall

9/11/11 LEEDS Temple Works

10/11/11 CARDIFF Clwb Ifor Bach

11/11/11 WOLVERHAMPTON Newhampton Arts Centre

12/11/11 BRIGHTON Green Door Store

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Sarabeth Tucek @ St Brides Church Review

The Random Family brought another laid back folk fuelled night at St Brides Church in Liverpool on Saturday, with them performing a set full of toe tapping moments, on stage giggles over Scouse/London pronunciations and voices so mellow, they melted across the atmospheric, candle lit church creating a fabulous atmosphere and a perfect warm up set for American singer/songwriter, Sarabeth Tucek, the headliner for tonight's mini folk fest.

Sarabeth Tucek took to the stage with with fellow guitarist and producer of her album, Luther Russell and began her acoustic set. The opening vocals were high and to be honest, fairly annoying but soon edged towards a deeper, silky tone but she still managed to stretch each lyric out as far as possible and put as many pauses in between them as often as possible, resulting in each song feeling like it was going on for an eternity. And this style carried on for most of the set. The fact that there was no character or crowd interaction, apart from plugging her latest album, certainly didn't help at all. If it hadn't have been for the extremely talented Luther Russell's' performance on the electric acoustic guitar and his little quips every now and then, I'm afraid I may have fell asleep by track seven or eight instead of just stifling several yawns.

Aside from that, I did have a good time listening to The Random Family, a truly talented Liverpool folk group and I'm looking forward to hearing a bit more them very soon, especially if they hand out those chocolate rice krispie cakes again!!

More photos can be seen here 

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.262021303819610.65578.124377034250705&type=1

Review by Alison Goggin

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Sarabeth Tucek releases single Smie for No One

Sarabeth Tucek

Smile For No One

New single released September 12

Formats:

Download (SCR031D)

Tracklisting:

1. Smile For No One

2. Something/Anything

3. Get Well Soon

(In My Room Demo)

Producer:

Luther Russell

Sarabeth Tucek releases her new single, ‘Smile For No One’, via Sonic Cathedral Recordings on September 12.

It is the second single to be taken from Sarabeth’s album ‘Get Well Soon’ which, upon its release in April, was acclaimed by everyone from The Times and Q magazine to the Daily Mirror and The Quietus. It was that rare thing, an album that appealed to people of all musical persuasions, its title track becoming something of a panacea for the general malaise of modern life.

However, the subject matter of ‘Get Well Soon’ was actually very personal to Sarabeth, the album being based around her reaction to the death of her father some years previously. ‘Smile For No One, with its countrified harmonies (courtesy of producer and multi-instrumentalist Luther Russell), represents one of the lighter moments on the album, at least musically.

“I wanted the feel of the music to belie the lyrical content,” says Sarabeth of the track, before going on to explain how the prominent piano was added as an “homage to Cat Stevens”. She was introduced to Stevens’ classic 1970 album ‘Tea For The Tillerman’ by her mother and it has been a long-time favourite.

The B-sides available on the new digital-only single release include a short and bittersweet new song called ‘Something/Anything’, which was apparently written and recorded without any prior knowledge of Todd Rundgren’s 1972 double album of the same name. The other track is the ‘In My Room Demo’ version of the title track of ‘Get Well Soon’, which adds a chiming guitar refrain that makes the song sound even more like some long-lost outtake from Big Star’s ‘Third/Sister Lovers’.

Sarabeth Tucek plays the following live dates in September:

September 1 – London – St Pancras Old Church

September 2 – Dorset – End Of The Road Festival (Local Stage)

September 3 – Liverpool – St Bride’s Church

September 4 – Newcastle – Cluny 2

September 5 – Glasgow – Captain’s Rest

September 6 – Leeds – Oporto

September 7 – Manchester – Castle Hotel

September 9 – Oxford – St Columba’s Church

Weblinks:

sarabethtucek.com

facebook.com/sarabethtucek

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Up and coming music events in Liverpool

Over the next few months Liverpool will play host to some amazing gigs. From the amazing Wooden Shjips, Jezz Kerr and the wonderful Vic Goddard, there is something for everyone. Some of these gigs have (not surprisingly) already sold out but there are plenty more available to please everyone. Make sure you experience what the local promoters have to offer and in some wonderful intimate venues

31/08

=BEST COAST

STEALING SHEEP

7.30pm @ Mojo

£10adv from Seetickets here

03/09 

SARABETH TUCEK

THE RANDOM FAMILY | BIRD | LIZZIE NUNNERY

8pm @ St Bride’s Church (BYOB)

£6adv from Seetickets here

06/09

WOODEN SHJIPS

THE FRESH & ONLY'S

MUGSTAR | DJ BERNIE CONNOR

8pm @ The Kazimier

£10adv from Seetickets here

09/09 

DANIEL MARTIN MOORE 

(SUBPOP)

EVA PETERSEN | ANDY STEELE | MORE TBA

8pm @ The Scandinavian Church (BYOB)

£7adv from Seetickets here

10/09 

VIC GODARD & SUBWAY SECT

THE LADY KILLERS | BEATNIK HURRICANE | MASHEMON | DJ JOE McKECHNIE

8pm @ The Williamson Tunnels

£8adv from Seetickets here

16/09 

JEZ KERR 

(A CERTAIN RATIO)

THE TEA STREET BAND | DASS UNSER | DJ BERNIE CONNOR

8pm @ The Static Gallery

£7adv from Seetickets here

22/09

BIDO LITO! SOCIAL CLUB

LINE UP TBA

8pm @ The Shipping Forecast

£4otd

22/09

CLOCK OPERA

PLUS GUESTS

7.30pm @ Mojo

£5adv from Seetickets here

24/09

LOVE INKS

THE SUM DRUMS | ALL WE ARE

TERRA ALPHA | SEEK MAGIC DJ's

AFTER PARTY FROM GOOD INTENTIONS DJ's

8pm @ The Williamson Tunnels

£6adv from Seetickets here

28/09

PRINCE FATTY SOUNDSYSTEM

& HOLLIE COOK

PLUS GUESTS

7.30pm @ Mojo

£5adv from Seetickets here

25/09

CAVE PAINTING

SENSORITES / METAMUSIC

8pm @ The Shipping Forecast

£5adv from Seetickets here

05/10

ART BRUT

PLUS GUESTS

7.30pm @ Mojo

£9adv from Seetickets here

06/10

WILLIAM TYLER

(Lambchop / Silver Jews / Bonnie 'PrinCe' Billy)

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER

    CAVALIER SONG / MORE TBA

8pm @ Leaf Bold Street

£8adv from Seetickets here

15/10

RODDY FRAME

PLUS GUESTS

8pm @ The Kazimier

£SOLD OUT

15/10

THE BLOOD ARM

PLUS GUESTS

8pm @ Mojo

£5adv from Seetickets here

19/10

An evening with...

GEORGE GALLOWAY

8.00pm @ Mojo

£15adv from Seetickets here

20/10

BASTILLE

PLUS GUESTS

8pm @ Mojo

£5adv from Seetickets here

20/10

BIDO LITO! SOCIAL CLUB

LINE UP TBA

8pm @ The Shipping Forecast

£4otd

26/10

KALEIDOSCOPE

ELEPHANT STONE (USA) | BY THE SEA

LUCKY BEACHES | DJ KOOLAID BOB (Probe Records)

'PSYCHEDELIC SUNSHINE FOLK FOR DAYDREAM BELIEVERS'

8pm @ The Shipping Forecast,

£5adv

16/11

=THE MOONS

PLUS GUESTS

8pm @ Mojo

£7adv from Seetickets here

23/11

COLOURMUSIC

PLUS GUESTS

7.30pm @ Mojo

£6adv from Seetickets here

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Sarabeth Tucek on tour this September

Sarabeth Tucek releases her new single, ‘Smile For No One’, via Sonic Cathedral Recordings on September 12.

It is the second single to be taken from Sarabeth’s album ‘Get Well Soon’ which, upon its release in April, was acclaimed by everyone from The Times and Q magazine to the Daily Mirror and The Quietus. It was that rare thing, an album that appealed to people of all musical persuasions, its title track becoming something of a panacea for the general malaise of modern life.

However, the subject matter of ‘Get Well Soon’ was actually very personal to Sarabeth, the album being based around her reaction to the death of her father some years previously. ‘Smile For No One, with its countrified harmonies (courtesy of producer and multi-instrumentalist Luther Russell), represents one of the lighter moments on the album, at least musically.

“I wanted the feel of the music to belie the lyrical content,” says Sarabeth of the track, before going on to explain how the prominent piano was added as an “homage to Cat Stevens”. She was introduced to Stevens’ classic 1970 album ‘Tea For The Tillerman’ by her mother and it has been a long-time favourite.

The B-sides available on the new digital-only single release include a short and bittersweet new song called ‘Something/Anything’, which was apparently written and recorded without any prior knowledge of Todd Rundgren’s 1972 double album of the same name. The other track is the ‘In My Room Demo’ version of the title track of ‘Get Well Soon’, which adds a chiming guitar refrain that makes the song sound even more like some long-lost outtake from Big Star’s ‘Third/Sister Lovers’.

Sarabeth Tucek plays the following live dates in September:

September 1 – London – St Pancras Old Church

September 2 – Dorset – End Of The Road Festival (Local Stage)

September 3 – Liverpool – St Bride’s Church

September 4 – Newcastle – Cluny 2

September 5 – Glasgow – Captain’s Rest

September 6 – Leeds – Oporto

September 7 – Manchester – Castle Hotel

September 9 – Oxford – St Columba’s Church

 

 

 

Smile For No One
New single released September 12

Formats:

Download (SCR031D)

 

Tracklisting:

1. Smile For No One

2. Something/Anything

3. Get Well Soon
(In My Room Demo)

 

Producer:

Luther Russell

 

Weblinks:

sarabethtucek.com

facebook.com/sarabethtucek

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