Lone Pigeon and The Pictish Trail

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Lone Pigeon and special guest The Pictish Trail plus support from Jonnie Common and John Stammers - Dj set from Miles (Wonderful Sounds / Superimposers)

Friday 22 April 2011 at Islington Mill, James Street, Salford
5pm - 10pm / £6 adv - £8 OTD



A good friday, with a piano and two of Scotlands finest. Lone Pigeon has just released his 7 CD box set on Domino Records and fellow Fence co-hort is fresh from a tour with KT Tunstall.


http://www.islingtonmill.com/


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Lone Pigeon

In the summer of 1996, The Lone Pigeon was the singer/songwriter and co founder of The Beta Band (The Pigeons being the original name for the Beta Band). However, by the time of their signing to Regal later that year, he was forced to fly home to Scotland due to ill-health, and has subsequently proved too unstable to rejoin the now defunct London based band. His co-writing credits include 'Dry the Rain', 'B + A' and 'Dogs got a Bone' from the 'Champion Versions' EP, and 'The Cow's Wrong' on The Beta Band's debut album.

Back in Fife, The Lone Pigeon has continued to work as a prolific musician and artist and has become an integral member of the Fence Collective. So what is Fence? A micro-indie label and collective of northeast Fife bands, Billy Pilgrim, Gummi Bako, James Yorkston, King Creosote, Pip Dylan, who play on each other's songs live and on each other's records. The Fence collective have quietly been writing and recording songs for years with little regard for the music industry, simply handing out CDs to friends or anyone listening, yet producing some of the most exciting home-grown music to grace Britain.

http://www.myspace.com/thelonepigeon


The Pictish Trail

Is the nom de plume of 28-yr-old singer-songwriter Johnny Lynch, who - alongside Kenny Anderson (aka King Creosote) - runs micro-indie DIY-folk collective Fence Records, in a remote fishing village in Fife, Scotland. His music is a sonorous mixture of acoustic-driven balladry and lo-fi synthesised pop, that has been described as "a post-summer trove of sun-warped electro, anamorphic folk" (Plan B Magazine).

Over the past 7 years he's recorded various mini-albums, EP's and singles of his own material for the Fence label - working with a number of artists such as King Creosote, KT Tunstall, James Yorkston, The Red Well and The Earlies along the way, amongst a legion of others. The Pictish Trail's debut full-length album, Secret Soundz Vol.1, was released in 2008, to glowing reviews: "Glorious, 4 STARS" MOJO // "4 STARS" Metro // "Compulsory listening, 4 STARS" The Observer // "Limitless imagination" NME. In 2009, Johnny embarked on an extensive tour of the album - playing shows across the UK, main-land Europe and America. Earlier this year, he released an album of brand new material - an electronic-pop collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Adem - under the name SILVER COLUMNS.

On tour with Josie Long throughout the Autumn of 2010, Johnny is promoting the release of a new Pictish Trail EP, In Rooms, which contains 50 songs - each 30 seconds in length! The EP was born out of the 100 Days Project that Josie started at the end of 2009 - Johnny's project was to write & record a new 30-second song every day. The result is a collection of süper-concentrated pop, ranging from the plaintive to the playful. Expect live performances to be intimate, funny, endearing ... and maybe a wee bit haphazard too!

http://thepictishtrail.com/