North East East Africa Famine Benefit CD

Hi All,

In case you've missed it, we've been involved in curating a CD of North East bands (oh and Willy Mason) to sell to benefit the DEC East Africa Famine Appeal.

click to read more and buy:
North East East Africa Famine Charity CD

You can download tracks individually for £1 each, or buy the full CD with it's wonderful art by our resident poster designer Kerry Hyndman.

The CD features:
Futureheads, Willy Mason, Field Music, Shields, Age of Consent, Knuckle Dragger, The Lake Poets, Vinyl Jacket, Lanterns On the Lake, Maximo Park's Paul Smith, Here Comes Good Sailing, Young Liar, Symphonic Pictures, Warm Digits, We Are Knuckle Dragger, Let's Buy Happiness, Mammal Club and Waskerley Way.

Pretty much a who's who of sweet bands around here. Oh and one of my favourite songwriter's ever Willy Mason.

Don't screw up by ignoring it.

Spectrals @ The Cumberland Arms, Newcastle, October 14th

Portions For Foxes & Splash One are proud to present...

SPECTRALS (Leeds - Wichita Records)
+CULT IMAGE+FANTASY RAINBOW

THE CUMBERLAND ARMS

FRIDAY OCTOBER 14th

BUY TICKETS FOR SPECTRALS AT THE CUMBERLAND ARMS, NEWCASTLE

"Spectrals, aka 21 year old Louis Jones, has signed to Wichita for the release of his debut album.

'Bad Penny' is due for release on 17th October, featuring eleven new songs - none of which have appeared on previous releases."

Bringing their brand of dozy surf pop to Newcastle for the first time, we can't wait to welcome Spectrals to the Cumberland Arms in October

HI RES PHOTOS:
visit Spectral's website

Jeffrey Lewis + support @ The Cluny, Newcastle October 24th

portions for foxes presents:

JEFFREY LEWIS
+ very special guests
@ The Cluny, Byker
Monday October 24th

Tickets £10 advance;
BUY TICKETS FOR JEFFREY LEWIS AT THE CLUNY, NEWCASTLE


We are so stoked to have Jeff and his band back for the first time since our show in 2007.

If you haven't seen him before you may appreciably wonder why Jeff is practically a household name among indie rock fans of every stripe; his band's live show with Modern Lovers style rawk, strummy anti folk and illustrated storytelling are totally unique, inspiring and characterful and this tour for the new record A Turn In The Dream Songs is the best chance in the universe to check it out.

the initiated can sweat out the excitement for new Fuff and incredibly literate and witty new tunes, from someone who's been caught up touring lectures on Watchmen and writing songwriting guides for The New York Times.


PRESS:

"Weird? Very... but also downright inspiring" **** - Rolling Stone

“[Jeffrey Lewis is] The best lyricist working in the US today.” - Jarvis Cocker (Pulp)

“The Big Apple’s best-kept secret.... Genius-gone-ignored… mind-blowing." - NME

"Bizarre but brilliant" - Uncut

"Hands down my favorite contemporary songwriter" - Ben Gibbard (Death Cab For Cutie)

“All my favorite songwriters are American – Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Jeffrey Lewis.” - Eddie Argos (Art Brut), Time Out New York

"At his best, [Lewis is] a vulnerable master of the humorously ineffable" - Robert Christgau

"Dazzling" - Mojo


HI RES PHOTOS:
email portions for foxes promo 'at' gmail dot com for photos

JEFFREY WEBSITE (WITH BIO)
Jeffrey Lewis' Website