SALFORD: Hey! Manchester @ Islington Mill

Wednesday 24th October, 2012

7:30pm

Event information

Last Harbour are an expansive collective playing ‘swooning dustbowl baroque’ (Plan B) that comes from ‘the same tangled patch of briar as The Bad Seeds and Tindersticks‘ (Uncut). The only claims they make for their music are that it be honest and searching. From dusty laments to doom-filled rock, from starkly beautiful duets to drifting clouds of ambient noise, there’s always an intensity that strikes hard. Last Harbour’s acclaimed 2010 album Volo and EP Lights were co-produced by Richard Formby (Wild Beasts, Spacemen 3) and were featured across 6Music shows including Gideon Coe, Tom Robinson and a session on Marc Riley.

Last Harbour’s new album Your heart, it carries the sound was written in an isolated Northumbrian cottage and recorded live in a mid-19th Century church in their hometown of Manchester. The band’s expansive sound is perfectly realised on this acclaimed record. From dusty laments to doom-filled rock, from starkly beautiful duets to drifting clouds of textured sound, the only claims they make for their music are that it is honest and heartfelt.

The band have played alongside, among others, Dirty Three, Josh T Pearson, Michael Gira (Swans/Angels of Light), Willard Grant Conspiracy, Lanterns on the Lake, Mark Mulcahy, Devendra Banhart and The Handsome Family. They were also featured on the I Am Cold Rock Will Oldham tribute alongside Calexico, Iron & Wine and Mark Kozelek.

‘The final frontier of funeral pop’ – Artrocker

‘Rich and foreboding, tracing a thread back to the post-industrial landscapes of Joy Division’ – Drowned in Sound

‘Like Scott Walker re-ordering Bowie’s Heroes’ – Uncut

‘This album sounds magnificent’ – The Sunday Times

James Street
Salford
M3 5HW

www.heymanchester.com