David Lance Callahan, Sairie and Ben Phillipson

0	LONDON: The Betsey Trotwood
P	Tuesday 12th April, 2022
N	8:00pm

LONDON: The Betsey Trotwood

Tuesday 12th April, 2022

8:00pm

Event information

Clerkenville East-West hosts a very special evening with the belated live launch of David Lance Callahan's acclaimed album 'English Primitive I', the London debut of Brighton folk band Sairie and Ben Phillipson presents his fab debut solo album 'Moonrider'.

BEN PHILLIPSON first came to prominence as a founder member of late-lamented acid-folkies The Eighteenth Day Of May. He went on to form Trimdon Grange Explosion, continuing to mine the contrasts between traditional music and contemporary song forms and sound. He has also appeared frequently as an accompanying guitarist with legendary ‘Morning Dew’ songsmith Bonnie Dobson, as well as being a member of Comet Gain.
https://borleyrectory.bandcamp.com/album/moonrider

SAIRIE caught our ear on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone with their wonderful Scarlet & Blue EP. They are Emma Morton (vocals, autoharp), Jon Griffin (vocals, guitar) and Andy Thomas (bass). Jon and Emma started playing music together in Brighton folk band Lutine and now bring their shared love of folklore, dark tales, mystery, nature and landscape to life in the music of Sairie.
‘Bring a 21st sensibility to tender ballads in the mould of legends Shirley Collins and June Tabor’ Shindig Magazine
‘Their haunting style retains the English folk tradition nurtured by Anne Briggs and Shirley Collins’ The Wire
‘Sairie continue to sound both effortlessly minimal and somehow whole. Their sound is utterly spellbinding and beautiful. ’ Folk Radio
https://sairie.bandcamp.com/

DAVID LANCE CALLAHAN, mastermind behind C86 wonders The Wolfhounds and more experimental post rockers Moonshake, presents songs from his solo debut English Primitive I - a concoction of apocalyptic British folk, Eastern psychedelia and stunning lyricism - plus songs from upcoming follow-up EP II.
"Stepping out from The Wolfhounds David Callahan has created something truly special – a drone masterpiece that joins the dots between old English folk, dark psychedelia, desert rock and John Cale at his dissonant viola best to detail the terror of modern life…I beg and implore you to wallow in its genius – this is no normal release but almost the culmination of a lifetime on the creative fringes poetically observing the madness." - John Robb, Louder Than War
"The year’s stand-out album for me was English Primitive by David Lance Callahan, where the Wolfhounds’ frontman gave his usually acerbic social commentaries a kind of visionary mythic quality, weaving them into extended cyclical mantras of folk-blues guitar to create a magic realist state of the nation musical address." Stewart Lee, My Cultural Year 2021
https://thewolfhounds.bandcamp.com/.../english-primitive-i-2