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SAT JUNE 21ST - LANCASTER - THEE, STRANDED HORSE (FRA) + LAURA GIBSON (USA) + SUPPORT

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Saturday 21st June 2008
The Yorkshire House, 2 Parliament Street, Lancaster, LA1 1DB.
Doors 8pm, Entry £5

LAWM presents an amazing double headline bill to end the first half of the year...!

THEE, STRANDED HORSE (FRANCE)

"dark songs demanding, and getting, hushed respect"
The Guardian

We have been after booking Thee, Stranded Horse ever since catching him live last summer at The Green

Man Festival. Thee, Stranded Horse is the work of Yann Encre, a native of Normandy whose previous

recorded output was under the name of Encre. More of a group project, Encre used acoustic instruments

and samplers and quickened pulses in France with their first two albums. Thee, Stranded Horse is at the

same time more stripped-down, more simple, yet also more complex, more subtle, beguiling and shaded, in

the way that only the most potent traditional folk music can be. Playing kora (African harp!) and

nylon-strung acoustic guitar - sometimes simultaneously - Thee, Stranded Horse is a loom on which Yann

weaves together the modes of French chanson, African polyrhythms, Delta blues, pastoral psychedelia and

traditional folk song shapes. You will not have heard anything like this before.

LAURA GIBSON (USA)

"..a short, quiet, tantalizing debut" The New York Times

With themes related to the pacific northwest, Laura Gibson writes songs on a nylon-stringed guitar. In

November 2004, she self-released an EP, “Amends”, produced and engineered by Drew Grow, on a laptop, in

a house in Newberg, Oregon. Following this initial release, Laura released her debut full-length in

November, 2006 titled “If You Come to Greet Me” on Hush Records. Engineered by Adam Selzer (Norfolk and

Western, M Ward, Decemberists) and recorded completely on analog tape, songs on “If You Come to Greet

Me” vary from pieces composed with bare-bones guitar and voice, to an orchestra of trumpets, piano,

vibraphone, saw, violin, cello, banjo and found sounds. Songs have been described as, “haunting

portraits of nostalgia and intimacy, of loneliness and wide-eyed hope”. She has just been touring the

States with Colin Meloy of The Decemberists. Catch her before she’s huge.

STUART ANTHONY (LANCASTER)
Stuart Anthony writes and performs amazing songs that lead you into his honest perceptions & emotions

and of love and life. His debut album "The Colourful Truth" is a tour de force of orignal songwriting,

emotional vocal delivery and beautiful guitars. Stuart recently headlined a tribute to Tim Buckley in

London, and is a regular performer at the annual Nick Drake gatherings at Tanworth in Arden.

"Really fine album. Heart-touching songs, sensitively sung; emotional lyrics, presented melodically,

without bombast; an overall feeling that reminds me of some of Nick Drake’s moods, or early Neil

Young....It’s a pleasure" Lee Underwood, lead guitarist with Tim Buckley

HARVEY LORD (LANCASTER)
Kicking off the night is Harvey Lord who has recently been gigging around the North West adding to his

reputation with intricate guitar playing and raw vocals. Harvey is also a guitarist for one of the best

local bands - Electric Free Time Machine.
http://www.myspace.com/harveylord