TREMBLING BELLS + DAN HAYWOOD'S NEW HAWKS + PO)))NIES + MIKEY KENNEY

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Trembling Bells are 21st century troubadours who know their history, joyously attempting to synthesise traditional folk forms with the bathetic romanticism of country music, the deceptive complexity of medieval music and the swagger of classic Rock. Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen are the guiding lights in a music that embraces British folk-rock, American roots and electric psychedelia. They are on a quest to connect with the core tradition of Song and live deep within its mysteries ... a rhapsodic celebration of the power of Song.

In Spring 2012 the Trembling Bells are playing, singing and duelling with Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, performing a new collection of songs written by the Trembling Bells some of which appear on the forthcoming collaborative album 'The Marble Downs', out on Honest Jon's on April 9th 2012.

In this album Alex Neilson has synthesized his love of seat-of-your-pants improv and raw folk into his songwriting with the Bells. While Bonnie has long since shed the Appalachian dirt of his earlier records to enter a fertile period of grace. Now these paths converge on ´The Marble Downs´ - a
triumphant exercise in major key ensemble playing concerned with minor key heartbreak, and a marriage of some of the most mercurial and imaginative musicians of our time.

Trembling Bells have enjoyed much success since their inception in 2008. The band have gained favour with such musical titans as Joe Boyd, Paul Weller and the The Unthanks as well as unanimous critical acclaim for their first three albums, Carbeth and Abandoned Love and The
Constand Pageant (all on Honest Jons records). They featured heavily in the Wire cover story alongside Alasdair Roberts documenting the emerging experimental folk scene in Scotland (Caledonia Dreaming, March 2010), while also being mentioned in Rob Young's book, Electric
Eden.

"The group do cast their net wider than British folk. The pounding punk-prog number Otley Rock Oracle, channelling Mountain's Nantucket Sleighride, belongs by virtue of its hallucinatory folkloric narrative. Cold Heart Of Mine's blues harp connects Americana with its European roots and Hastings' raga like licks look East. In the 21st century nothing can exist in splendid isolation. The Constant Pageant offers a poetic incantation of British identity far brighter than Michael Gove's proposed GCSE history syllabus." (Stewart Lee)

Trembling Bells' third album 'The Constant Pageant' had a bounteous spring 2011 release. With reviews and praise coming in from folk publications, the mainstream music journalists and Stewart Lee who invited them to play at his Southbank festival with Mike Heron (Incredible String Band)
. From its very first notes, the album flies the flag with a more confident, anthemic sound than ever before. on a quest to connect with the core tradition of Song and live deep within its mysteries ... a rhapsodic celebration of the power of music.



'brilliant... concise, deeply romantic, totally original ****' (Mojo).

"..it is still tempting to say that The Constant Pageant is the strongest collection Trembling Bells

have yet put out. The band sound assertive and in complete control of their strange aesthetic; they've also produced some mightily catchy and haunting songs" (Pop Matters)

'freewheeling and delightfully quirky ****' (The Guardian).

'simply stunning... the greatest fusion of folk and glam rock that has ever been committed to tape. 4.5 stars' (The Sun).

'CD Of The Week... terrific... they take the antic forms, loosen them and make them arresting and new once more' (The Observer).

"A little country, a little folk, smidgens of baroque, Medieval "earlie musik," and the odd dirty, old garage rock guitar are tossed together into a kaleidoscopic stew that traverses many genres with equal aplomb." (Foxy Digitalis)

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DAN HAYWOOD'S NEW HAWKS

A new and literate voice in British music arrives. Dan Haywood's New Hawks are a collection of songs, and also a band, whose epic scope marries transatlantic cosmic roots music with a poetic and soulful British folk. A rambling, rolling band whose crazed stage presence, with various players
swapping instruments and psychic powers amongst themselves, has already assured them cult status.

Haywood himself is a compelling frontal figure, orating his adventures with a certain awkward relish and a weird glint in his eye, both the court jester and king. The band is a collective of kindred spirits from across Northern England carefully assembled by Haywood to perform the 32 tracks
that form their monumental debut album, and they bring flesh to the smart and ever-shifting arrangements with guitars, fiddles, cello, drums, hand percussion and more.

The album was conceived in painstaking fashion over five years as a way of documenting Haywood's bird-and-people-watching travels around Highland Scotland. A vast modern-day Joycean folk-rock cartography with Dan Haywood as your charismatic navigator poet, and as many ruggedly beautiful crannies to explore as the Scottish wilderness it is inspired by.

Live presentations of the New Hawks have been select and special; a string of UK dates with fellow psycho-geographers A Hawk and A Hacksaw in spring 2011 and other shows with The Unthanks and Alasdair Roberts.

Autumn 2011 saw them on a headline tour, delving deep into their distinct repertoire and stunning audiences in Europe and the UK.

The album is currently available as a collectable triple vinyl boxset, double CD and download. A 7" single "John's Shoes / Superquarry" was released in January 2012 on Static Caravan.

Album Press

"This strong, 32 -song album is positively livid with ideas and resists easy categorisation" THE WIRE MAGAZINE

"A wild-eyed mix of cosmic country and chamber-folk, this makes for a thrilling noise" UNCUT MAGAZINE

"Charmingly, it succeeds in being both engaging and oddly uplifting while also being as dour in texture as a North Sea shoreline" INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

"A lifework in its extensive meditations" SHINDIG MAGAZINE

"Defiantly individual, surely a future cult classic, it's raw takes on folk and country are a timeless delight" 24/7 MAGAZINE

"A grand, definitive statement sacrificing none of his unique poetic elegance for the sake of either conformity or convention " THE LINE OF BEST FIT