MANCHESTER: Hey! Manchester @ International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Wednesday 25th September, 2013

7:30pm

Event information

Acclaimed recording artist and producer Ethan Johns has released the Ryan Adams-produced single Don’t Reach Too Far this May through his own Three Crows Records label. Taken from Johns’ debut solo album If Not Now Then When?, the track features Johns himself on vocals, guitar, harmonica, Ryan Adams on drums and bass, and Chris Holland on organ. John’s also announces a new batch of headline shows in hand-picked venues throughout the summer, and a few select autumn dates including in Manchester and at the prestigious Union Chapel in London.

Don’t Reach Too Far is a foot-stomping, floor-pounding number. ‘The recording was completely unplanned,’ says Johns. ‘Ryan and I were hanging at his studio in LA and I literally had books of songs on the table. This one came to the surface – a song birthed from a stream of consciousness. I had only ever sung it three times: once when I wrote it, and twice in the studio. Ryan kept the second take. It was so immediate – the energy was flying! Ryan just caught it right there and then, kind of like an instamatic photograph. If punk was invented by cowboys in Texas and beamed to a Sears and Roebuck reel to reel in a garage in Long Beach in 1963, it might have sounded like this…’

If Not Now Then When? was originally released on 12-inch vinyl last November alongside a nationwide tour of independent record stores. The Brit Award-winning producer, whose vast production credits include The Vaccines, Kings of Leon, Ray LaMontagne, Laura Marling and Ryan Adams to name but a few not only performed songs from the album, but also held Q&A sessions at each of these shows. A wider release on CD and digital download came out earlier this year, followed by a hugely successful headline tour of the country.

‘Goes a long way to pinpointing just why Laura Marling, Ryan Adams, and Ray LaMontagne keep calling on his services as musician and producer’ – Mojo

Tour support comes from Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou.

This show takes place at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, a charity that encourages and supports public and scholarly interest in all aspects of the life and work of Anthony Burgess, the late novelist (best known for A Clockwork Orange), poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. The foundation, situated just off Oxford Road, features a fully licensed cafe-bar and an engine room, which will host this concert.

Engine House
Chorlton Mill
3 Cambridge Street
Manchester
M1 5BY

www.heymanchester.com