Wildbirds & Peacedrums

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Hey! Manchester presents Wildbirds & Peacedrums plus very special guests (tba)

Sweden’s Wildbirds & Peacedrums - singer Mariam Wallentin and percussionist Andreas Werliin - play an unclassifiable mix of dark, bluesy vocals and powerful rhythms - with some pop and jazz elements thrown in for good measure.

We caught them late at night at September’s End of the Road festival and were so impressed we’ve invited them to Manchester. Live, Mariam sounds like Feist and even Joanna Newsom to a lesser extent, and the pair’s energy and interaction frankly blew us away.

The pair met in 2004 at Gothenburg’s Academy of Music and Drama but, frustrated at the institute’s rigid format, they began making music on their own the following year (and also got married). They released two limited-edition CD-Rs on their own before recording their full debut album, Heartcore, in 2006; it was released in 2007 by the Swedish label Found You.

The Leaf Label reissued the album internationally in spring 2008, and that year, the band also toured with Lykke Li and were named Swedish Jazz Group of the Year 2008. Wildbirds & Peacedrums’ second album, The Snake, arrived on the Swedish jazz label Caprice in December 2008 and will soon be released in the UK.

This show takes place at Dulcimer, Manchester’s celebrated ‘folk bar’ in central Chorlton. Regular buses (85 and 86) run to Chorlton from the city centre, plus the 23 and 23A from Didsbury and West Didsbury and the 168 from Fallowfield. We recommend GMPTE’s JourneyPlanner to arrange your trip.

http://www.myspace.com/wildbirdsandpeacedrums

http://www.heymanchester.com/