Hurray For The Riff Raff

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House of Cards are delighted to present a return to Manchester by Hurray For The Riff Raff on Saturday 18th May 2013, as part of their UK tour.

Hurray For The Riff Raff

Hurray for the Riff Raff is Alynda lee Segarra, a 25 year old Puerto Rican from the Bronx. After leaving home at an early age to travel the country, she eventually settled in New Orleans where she began to perform and record with a revolving cast of musicians. She released two records (2008's It Don't Mean I Don't Love You and 2010's Young Blood Blues) mostly consisting of delicate folk and country songs. In 2011, the UK record label Loose Music (Felice Brothers, Dawes, Deer Tick), released Hurray for the Riff Raff, an album that collected the best songs from those records. The Times of London named Hurray for the Riff Raff one of the Top Ten Albums of 2011. Phil Alexander, the Editor-in-Chief of Mojo Magazine, raved that they "have immense potential and seductive power" and named them second best band at SXSW 2011.

Back in the States, Alynda and her longtime gunslinger on fiddle, Yosi Perlstein, met up with a young honky-tonk band called the Tumbleweeds, just as she began to expand her musical palette to include rock n roll, pop, and soul. In the tradition of Bob Dylan with Band and Neil Young with Crazy Horse, Alynda and Yosi recruited the Tumbleweeds to be their touring band, drastically altering the sound of Hurray for the Riff Raff.

Look Out Mama is the result of almost two years of Alynda and the Tumbleweeds criss-crossing the USA, playing over 100 shows in small bars and clubs. Recorded in Nashville by Andrija Tokic (Alabama Shakes), Look Out Mama is an exploration of classic American music as interpreted by Alynda lee Segarra. From the Swamp Pop of "Little Black Star" to the Classic Country of "Look Out Mama", to the Psychedelia of "Ode to John and Yoko" and even the Surf-Rock of "Lake of Fire", Look Out Mama covers a wide array of musical ground, with every song unified by Alynda's soulful vocals and expert songwriting.

http://hurrayfortheriffraff.com/

Walton Hesse

Burst into being from the sunny imagination of songwriter Matt Grayson, Walton Hesse are a lapsed congregation of optimistic outcasts standing on the shoulders of Big Star and Wilco, peering into the shaft of a 13th Floor Elevator. Frontier-facing and burdened by a twisted nostalgia this alt-country psych creation blend the melodious harmonies of Matt and Nicola Crosby haunted by the ghostly union of Gram and Emmylou to bring Arizona desert plains to the streets of Manchester.


http://www.facebook.com/waltonhesse

James M Carson

Though I've been writing guitar arrangements and instrumentals since my late teens, it wasn't till my mid-twenties that I put pen to paper and started to write songs with lyrics - and only in the last two years that I've started see myself as a songwriter of any relevance.
Influenced by alt-country, grunge and folk, the songs are a mixture of serene melodies and hard edge guitar work. But for live performances they are stripped down to a minimalist guitar and vocal arrangement, often compared to the style of James Taylor, Elliot Smith or Neil Young. Fear, loss, failure and love inspire my lyrics and I pay tribute to the people who have waltzed in and out of my life - for better or for worse. In short, it's sometimes dark, often melodic but always honest.

https://www.facebook.com/jamesmcarsonmusic