Resistance 77 - Cheltenham - Slideshow - No Escape 2016
Photo slideshow from the gig at The Frog & Fiddle in Cheltenham Saturday 24th September 2016 - sound track No Escape
Benefit gig for our friend Sue Barnett
Big thank you... to all the bands Resistance 77 - Mick O Toole - Red Light Rebels - Ambition Demolition.
Resistance 77 line up Oddy on vocals - Kieron on Bass & vocals - Jonny on guitar - Magzi on guitar - Sam on drums
Cordelia's Dad- Granite Mills LIVE
Cordelia's Dad at the Iron Horse, Northampton, MA 4.29.2007
20th Anniversary show
Of Mice & Men – Would you still be there, 1.10.16, Manchester Apollo
Holding Absence - Saint Cecilia (Live @ The Key Club)
04/03/2018
The Key Club (Leeds)
Holding Absence + Loathe, Parting Gift, God Complex | Leeds
Genre: Post-Hardcore
Based: Cardiff, United Kingdom
Members:
Lead Vocals - Lucas Woodland
Guitar - Feisal El-Khazragi
Bass - James Joseph
Drums - Ashley Green
Guests:
Guitar - Olly Meager
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All footage recorded is property of Robert Hill.
The Sounds of Hampshire County (for viola duo) by Scott Slapin
An auditory tour of Hampshire County, Massachusetts. The tour begins in downtown Northampton, complete with the beeping crosswalk signal unique to the city, as well as blaring car horns. Next we are in the bleak, snow-covered farmland of Hadley on Route 47. There is a brief cameo appearance of Stamell Strings in Amherst, where for four measures you can hear string players warming up on scales and Bach in various rooms simultaneously. Next is some Klezmer-ish music from the National Yiddish Book Center, the largest repository of Yiddish books in the world and located in South Amherst. Finally, we end in the composer's hometown of South Hadley at Mount Holyoke College amid the stately architecture of one of the most beautiful campuses in the United States.
(A part of Scott Slapin's opera Violacentrism for two violas)
8th Annual MA Walking Tour - Blackstone Valley 6/24/17
The Eighth Annual Massachusetts Walking Tour,
founded by songwriting duo Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards, will be coming this year to the Blackstone Valley – performing 11 free community concerts while traversing the state on foot. Since 2010, Mandeville and Richards have organized now over 100 coffeehouse style concerts which showcase local musicians and artists across the state – creating a quality evening program for all ages and an opportunity for talent young and old to be enjoyed by a listening audience. Venues chosen for these community concerts include public libraries, town parks, and historical properties – and this year all events have been funded through local cultural council grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council program.
Carrying approximately 40-50 lbs of gear and instruments, the Massachusetts Walking Troupe, including veteran members Mark Kilianski (guitar, banjo) and Amy Alvey (fiddle), will be hiking from concert to concert using the Blackstone Valley’s many recreational trails – Southern New England Trunkline Trail (SNETT), Charles River Bikeway, and trails within DCR’s Riverbend Farm to name a few. In addition to evening concerts, the troupe will also be organizing a series of short group hikes wherein the community will be invited to meet up with the Massachusetts Walking Tour as they travel between towns. These public hikes will highlight some of the Blackstone Valley’s recreational hiking trails, routes which appear in local author Marjorie Turner Hollman’s book Easy Walks In Massachusetts. All daily routes and Easy Walks are available to view and download at masswalkingtour.org.
The Eighth Annual Massachusetts Walking Tour will take place between June 15 and June 24, starting in Webster and ending in Blackstone. All concerts will be from 6-8pm and here is a complete listing of events:
June 15 – Memorial Beach – Webster MA
June 16 – EN Jenckes General Store – Douglas MA
June 17 – River Bend Farm – Uxbridge MA
June 18 – Kiwanis Beach – Upton MA
June 19 – Hopedale Unitarian Parish – Hopedale MA
June 20 – Milford Senior Center – Milford MA
June 21 – Medway Public Library – Medway MA
June 22 – Bellingham Public Library – Bellingham MA
June 23 – Franklin Public Library – Franklin MA
June 24 – Blackstone Boys and Girls Club – Blackstone MA
For more information on these events or for videos of previous year’s Massachusetts Walking Tours, please visit:
masswalkingtour.org
All The Buildings - Joy Kills Sorrow - Tour Info below
TOUR INFO
Apr 23 8:00P The Calvin Theatre - opening for the Wailin Jennys, Northampton, Massachusetts
Apr 24 7:30P Lebanon Opera House - opening for the Wailin Jennys! Lebanon, New Hampshire
May 8 8:00P Blackstone River Theatre Cumberland, Rhode Island
May 14 8:00P St. James Hall, Rogue Folk Club Vancouver, British Columbia
May 15 8:00P Mt. Angel Performing Arts Center Mt. Angel, Oregon
May 16 10:00P Sam Bonds Garage Eugene, Oregon
May 18 9:00P The Woods Portland, Oregon
May 19 8:00P Green Frog Cafe Acoustic Tavern (The Happiest Place on Earth)
Bellingham, Washington
May 21 7:30P The Village Theatre Qualicum Beach, British Columbia
May 23 8:00P Tractor Tavern Seattle, Washington
May 27 6:30P Strawberry Music Festival - Sonora, California
May 28 2:00P Strawberry Music Festival - workshop
Joy Kills Sorrow includes:
Matt Arcara - guitar
Emma Beaton - vocals
Wes Corbett - banjo - Jacob Jolliff - mandolin - Bridget Kearney - bass
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Joy Kills Sorrow - Tour Info below
DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL 2017 - PART 2 // HOLDING ABSENCE / ISSUES / FOUR YEARS STRONG
VLOG 2 of Download festival 2017 wtched the sets of HOLDING ABSENCE, ISSUES and FOUR YEARS STRONG then went to the WWE NXT tent to watch the show.
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Holding Absence - Dream Of Me (Lyrics/Sub Español)
Artist: Holding Absence
Song: Dream Of Me
Album: Single (2017)
Hometown: Cardiff, United Kingdom
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The Garage, Glasgow 25.03.19
Holding Absence - Perish @ Paris, La Maroquinerie 25/04/2019
Holding Absence, Perish
Live / Concert à Paris
La Maroquinerie
25 Avril 2019
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Tim Eriksen sings Friendship in a Czech Castle
Friendship is a great old song first published in Northampton, MA ca. 1787 if I have my dates right.
The castle is in Namest nad Oslavou, and my set was followed by a little celebration in which champagne was dumped on a copy of a new live CD released by the Czech label Indies Scope, recorded in Namest last year. It's not currently available in the USA, but it will be available at my shows and possibly at some point on my website.
The beginning of this video features bits of a miniature artistic rendering of a ship/theater launched on the Vltava river by a theater company from Prague. The last shot is the Baroque castle in Namest where both the 2008 and 2009 concerts took place as part of the Folkove Prazdniny festival.
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For what it's worth, the American Musical Miscellany version of Friendship is 1798, not 1787. I got it confused for a very convoluted reason and am inclined not to correct things too much in my writing in this context. Not that it's at all significant in this case, but I'm uncomfortable with how easy it is to fix things after the fact on the internet. Maybe it's because of the confusion of the historical trace- makes it look like people are responding to things that happened later etc. or maybe I'm just attached to ephemera that bears some relatively stable evidence of a moment rather than ephemera that's genuinely ephemeral.
HOLDING ABSENCE - The Key Club - Leeds - 23/03/19.
Frontman Lucas Woodland introduces the band: “We speak about who we are, who we want to be, and what we stand for. We speak about those things in great depth very often, and it’s refreshing to know that there’s not much of a limit to what we can do, and what we WANT to do. As music fans, we love listening to everything from Radiohead, to Thy Art Is Murder – so there’s a large rage of inspiration there – But I believe the real goal for us is to always write something sincere and honest, that will hopefully make people feel something. The day we stop writing true music, regardless of genre, is the day Holding Absence dies. We’re so fortunate to have found a label that believes in us as people, as well as musicians, and we’re very excited to do them proud and make something beautiful for them.”
wilt- holding absence (live in cardiff 2019)
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Tim Eriksen sings Friendship at the Summit House
This old march tune first showed up with these words in The American Musical Miscellany, 1798, printed by Andrew and Daniel Wright, who had a shop just about behind the tree (on Bridge St. in Northampton, if memory serves). I think it probably originated in a no longer extant play mounted by Ezra Stiles down in New Haven that predates Royall Tyler's The Contrast, but I may be the only one who thinks that, and I can't remember why I do. It shows up in a number of 19th c. shape note and oblong hymn books, sometimes with the word friendship replaced with Jesus. The only people I know who sing it now are some Christian Harmony singers in North Carolina and Alabama/Mississippi. It's one of my favorite songs, and I recorded it for the CD Every Sound Below, the liner notes to which contain a bunch more about it, including a surreal experience I had stumbling upon two little punk girls playing it on a piano in Camdem, ME in 1997.
The first asparagus was in on Sunday, and it's as good as always. A friend introduced me to the term phenology, or noticing first appearances of things through the seasons. In music I'm often more interested in vestigial or liminal presences than in what's the latest, but in the natural world I guess I do love seeing things as they come in. Of course the seasons are old songs too.
I'm standing down the hill from the Summit House, which is supposedly where Jenny Lind had her honeymoon. By the time I finished playing there was a little crowd of people, including somebody I've known through gigs for probably 15 years. Not the worst turn out I've had.