The Handsome Family announce UK and Ireland Tour

The Handsome Family announce UK and Ireland Tour

21 years and 9 albums into their career, Brett and Rennie Sparks, otherwise known as The Handsome Family, finally got their reward for their genius songwriting and ceaseless touring. In early 2014 T Bone Burnett chose their 2003 song ‘Far From Any Road’ as the theme tune to the soon to be cult HBO TV series True Detective. The song has now had over 5 million YouTube views and, as a result, the band have been playing sold out across Europe, Australia and the USA. March 2015 will see The Handsome Family play an extensive tour of Ireland and the UK. Tickets for all shows go on sale today.

UK/IRELAND TOUR – MARCH 2015

06        LONDON, St Giles In The Fields
09        STIRLING, Tolbooth
10        EDINBURGH, Pleasance Theatre
11        GLASGOW, St Andrews In The Square
13        BRISTOL, St Georges
15        GATESHEAD, Old Town Hall
16        LEEDS, Irish Centre
17        READING, Sub 89
18        SHEFFIELD, Memorial Hall
20        LIVERPOOL, The Leaf
21        MANCHESTER, The Martin Harris Centre
22        CARDIFF, Globe
23        NORWICH, Arts Centre
25        BELFAST, Empire Music Hall
26        LIMERICK, Dolans
27        DUBLIN, Whelans
28        CORK, Crane Lane Theatre*
29        CORK, Crane Lane Theatre*

*Tickets from Plugd Records, Cork +353 (0)21 427 6300

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The Handsome Family to play sold out show in London next week

The Handsome Family to play sold out show in London next week

The Handsome Family have been feted by the likes of Ringo Starr and covered by artists such as Jeff Tweedy, Cerys Matthews, Christy Moore and Andrew Bird. In a career that spans twenty years they've toured the world in their own charmingly DIY fashion - one car, one hotel room, one stage.... night after night after night - and in that time they've performed as a duo, with a band and have had onstage collaborations with such folk-royalty as Eliza Carthy, country legend Charlie Louvin and indie-kings like Nick Cave and Jarvis Cocker. In each and every instance they've more than held their own, thanks in the main to their songs - a series of unique and wondrous compositions that, as Jeff Tweedy once said, are the “product of two beautiful brains”.

Following an extensive European tour earlier in the year to support their latest album 'Wilderness', The Handsome Familly return to London for a sold-out London show at Islington Assembly Hall on Wednesday 29th October 2014.

2014 has been a big year for The Handsome Family, with their track 'Far From Any Road' being chosen for the main title sequence of cult HBO series 'True Detectives'.

Wild animals, tall tales, and folk-lore from American history populate Wilderness - the latest studio album from New Mexico's Handsome Family, released on Loose Music. Recorded at home in Albuquerque and at the Wilco Loft in Chicago it's a record that found husband & wife duo Brett and Rennie Sparks blending Appalachian holler, psych-rock and Tin Pan Alley inspired melodies to conjure up a world where David Attenborough meets David Lynch in a Honky-Tonk bar at midnight.

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Merry Christmas from Harvest Sun

A few Christmas words from Harvest sun and news on more gigs for 2012

Right before we go any further we would just like to thank anyone who attended any of our gigs over the past 12 months in any shape or form, sober or straight, we salute you and would like to wish you a very merry Christmas.  We've had some great shows from early in the year with Gruff Rhys in February to the journey Wooden Shjips took us on at the Kazimier in September then onto Roddy Frame and Other Lives a month or so back.

The year isn't all over music-wise though, we've got a cracking New Years Party at The Static Gallery, a class of 2012 if you will.  It's gonna be a cracker.  We have Loved Ones, The Sundowners, Endeci, It's Murder Beams, Grand Lunar and Cantmixwontmixshdntmixdontmix DJ's keeping the disco going long into the night.  Tickets only £6 from Probe Records and ticketline RIGHT NOW.

Now for the nitty gritty, since our last mail out we've added some great new shows to our 2012 fixture list.  These are Cass McCombs, Veronica Falls, High Places, Diagrams, Lindo Ortega, Phantom Limb and Harvest Sun all timers, The Handsome Family. 

Most of these should all appear at least once in everyone's collection.  If not, re-write that Christmas list cos every one is worth checking out.  Take Lindi Ortega for instance, a relatively unknown Country singer from Canada; well she's just beaten the likes of Fucked Up, Chilly Gonzalez and Timber Timbre to the #1 Canadian album of the year over at Snob Music.  High praise indeed.

We could go on all day, but there isn't any sign of a dud in them there gigs.  Here they all are here...

19/01 LANTERNS ON THE LAKE @ The Static Gallery

26/01  JOSH ROUSE @ The Black-E

01/02  LINDI ORTEGA @ Leaf Bold Street

14/02  HIGH PLACES @ Mojo

23/02  THE WAR ON DRUGS @ The Kazimier

24/02  COLD SPECKS @ Leaf Bold Street

25/02  FANFARLO @ The Static Gallery

07/03  CASS McCOMBS @ Leaf Bold Street

08/03  VERONICA FALLS @ Leaf Bold Street

09/03  PHANTOM LIMB @ Mello Mello

16/03  DIAGRAMS @ Mojo

23/05  THE HANDSOME FAMILY @ Leaf Bold Street

 

Tickets for all shows available right here:

 

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