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Red Balloon Music presents... JUANITA STEIN (Howling Bells)
Laura James, We Were Strangers
Presented by: Red Balloon Music| 0 | MANCHESTER: Gullivers NQ |
|---|---|
| P | Sunday 1st October, 2017 |
| N | 7:30pm |
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Red Balloon Music are very proud to present the first solo Manchester headline show from Howling Bells lead singer Juanita Stein!
Support comes from Red Balloon Music favourites Laura James and We Were Strangers.
JUANITA STEIN:
http://www.juanitastein.com
Juanita Stein formed Howling Bells with her brother, Joel, and friends when they moved to London together in 2004. Four acclaimed albums followed, along with headline tours and festival shows around the world, and huge support dates including several US tours with Coldplay and The Killers.
A break from Howling Bells around the arrival of her first child saw the first shoots of her solo work start to emerge, and now we find ourselves here. America, an unpredictable place, forever bound up in a uniquely widescreen hope and romance.
Her debut solo album 'America' was produced by Gus Seyffert (Beck, Ryan Adams) in Los Angeles, and after recent tours with Michael Kiwanuka and Richard Hawley, Stein followed a North American tour in May with UK dates over the summer including with Tom Petty in Hyde Park and at Cambridge Folk Festival.
An evocative and beautiful record, Stein’s honeyed voice weaves stories of heartbreak and optimism, from the unmistakably Western-influenced Dark Horse to the moody love song, I'll Cry. Florence is inspired by a real-life photograph by Dorothea Langue, taken during the Great Depression, of the eponymous Florence Owens Thompson, a tale of a struggle for themselves and
their children that’s as relevant to women of the world today as it ever was.
The songs on the LP tell tales of characters real and imagined, Stein’s own experiences woven amongst them.
Says Stein of the album:
"This record is an ode to the dark heart of America. Of times gone and times to come. Dusty trails, a whimsical 50s suburbia and the haze of the 1960s. I've forever idealised American life - growing up in Australia we were fed the American dream through film and television. The dichotomy between what was real and a dream is forever intriguing to me. The music of Roy Orbison, Dusty Springfield, Lee and Nancy and Patsy Cline all informed my musical sensibilities. They opened up this wide screen universe for me.”
Now see Juanita Stein in a very intimate setting on her very first Manchester solo show!
LAURA JAMES:
https://soundcloud.com/laurajamesmusic
Laura James is a Cumbrian-born singer-songwriter, based in North London.
After two heart-felt teenage folk/pop DIY album releases at the age of 15 & 17, Laura finally released her debut EP ‘The Bed of The Brook’ in 2011 with with her band The Lyres.
Laura spent the next few years based in Liverpool, playing all around the north-west of England.
Laura James & The Lyres appeared at local & national Festivals including Liverpool Sound City, Great Escape Festival, Radio 1’s Big Weekend (Carlisle), Kendal Calling, A Carefully Planned Festival, Solfest and Ireby as well as international festivals such as DBMC in Delaware.
Laura's first single ‘The Water’ had extensive radio play including by Bob Harris on BBC Radio 2, and was also picked up by BBC 6 Music’s Tom Robinson.
Laura was awarded the MBF (now Help Musicians) Songwriting Development prize, and her third release 'Every Little Amber' was the result of this. Described by Sheffield's Backseat Mafia as 'Musical Perfection', we are very proud that Laura has chosen to return to Manchester to grace the stage for us once again.
WE WERE STRANGERS:
https://soundcloud.com/wewerestrangers-2
From beneath the moody and rain burdened Manchester sky comes "We Were Strangers" - a musical offering fronted by Stefan Melbourne and Chloe Leavers.
Having previously performed solo, Melbourne's recent endeavour is a more fluid affair with various musicians accompanying the salient troubadour as he takes up the lead.
The band have previously released an EP by the name of "Before" which was welcomed and applauded by bloggers and listeners alike, paving the way for their album "Beneath a Broken Sky" - a moving and fluent anthology of heartbreak and nostalgia, with a gritty sense of sorrow and a prevalent and fierce hope running throughout.
Steeped in the rich heritage of the North and somehow possessed by the insistent, rain-soaked Manchester streets WWS won't disappoint.
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