GAZ BROOKFIELD AND THE COMPANY OF THIEVES

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Gaz Brookfield + The Company of Thieves + The August List + Jake Martin

GAZ BROOKFIELD & THE COMPANY OF THIEVES

Gazs True & Fast new album tour hits his home town of Swindon!

Gaz Brookfield is normally a solo acoustic musician now based in Bristol. This show will be one of his outings with The Company of Thieves, his occasional backing band made up mainly of old friends from Swindon. The songs are still instantly accessible every-man tales of life, love and everything else in between, just bigger.

Since the start of his solo career Brookfield has had the pleasure of gigging and/or touring with Frank Turner, Newton Faulkner, The Levellers, The Ataris, Mike Herrera (MXPX), I Am Kloot, Miles Hunt, Dodgy, Dave McPherson, and many more.

In 2010 he won Acoustic Magazines Singer Songwriter of the year competition, earning him, among other prizes, a slot on the Big Top stage at the Beautiful Days Festival. This led to loads of other festival appearances over that summer, and bookings for even more in 2011 and 2012, firmly cementing him as a regular on the UK festival circuit.

In December 2011, he became the first and only unsigned solo act to sell out The Fleece, Bristol. He has done this twice more since then.

Gaz recently toured the UKs O2 Academies with The Levellers, where he broke all the venue records for numbers of albums sold by a support act every night. (Upwards of 60 albums sold per night). This secured him yet more tour dates with them in Europe in May 2013 and the UK in June, July and August 2013.

With over 900 gigs under his belt to date, he continues to tireless tour the UK, proving that the journeyman title is more than a simple metaphor.

www.gazbrookfield.com
gaz.brookfield@googlemail.com
Twitter, @gazbrookfield

Reviews:

Great songs and solid playing...A highly promising album from a talent to watch. Acoustic Magazine.

Kinda like Frank Turner via Newton Faulkner. Bugbear Promotions, London.

Theres a certain charming Billy Bragg-esque quality to these every-man tales...gem of an EP! 8/10, Greg Thomas, Rock City.

You gotta love Gaz...the boy will go far! (3 out of 5 stars) Venue Magazine.

...really has a great way with telling a story. (4 out of 5 stars). Rhythm Magazine.

Gaz has an honesty and charm about his performance which is seldom seen amongst his contemporaries. Will Walder, BBC Wilts Introducing.

You really should do yourself the favour of checking out Gazs music. Dave Franklin, Swindon Advertiser.

One of the most passionate singer/songwriters Ive ever seen. Blues Matters magazine.

THE AUGUST LIST

Hailing from Dorset and now residing in a small barn perched on a hill in Oxfordshire, The August List are a boy / girl two-piece who play backwards country / porch folk with a startling rock n roll attitude.

Acoustic guitars, kick drums, harmonicas and their voices are deployed with verve and passion on songs that take in life, love, death and making merry.

They have released two EPs, Handsome Skin (2012) and High Town Crow (2013), and an album, O Hinterland (2014), on Ubiquity Project Records.
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The Press says:

Its a rare West Country husband-and-wife duo that can pull off the knack of sounding simultaneously like a vintage Louisiana jug band and at the same time very much like themselves. � Tom Robinson

Stripped down roots-inspired music that stylistically has its core in folk and country, but its sights set a little further afield also � Americana UK

The rawness recalls the work of the White Stripes... If you like your Americana with an edge you are going to love The August List. � PennyBlackMusic

Musically they share common ground with other great married couples of country, from Carter-Cash to The Handsome Family...Lovely stuff...
~ Nightshift Magazine Demo Of The Month Feb 2013

We are absolutely loving their tunes and strongly advise you have a listen!
~ Spiral Earth

More of this and wed be really cooking. A promising and entertaining little record.
~ Americana UK

This is a distinctly arresting disc.
~ FATEA

�full of grit and soul, fire and fog.
~ Nightshift Magazine

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http://theaugustlist.bandcamp.com/
http://www.soundcloud.com/theaugustlist

JAKE MARTIN

Acoustic, folk, punk.....music!
played a lot of places, Some were great, some were better! Played with a lot of people. Some were famous, some were not. Loved every second! Still have places to go. Still have people to meet! I cant wait!

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