portions for foxes presents: Jeffrey Lewis and Peter Stampfel @ The Cluny, Byker Newcastle June 3rd

 GET JEFFREY LEWIS AND PETER STAMPFEL CLUNY TICKETS HERE

www.thejeffreylewissite.com

 

 An awesome one off show from the man Jarvis Cocker describes as the finest song-writer of his generation, and a beatnik legend from the generation previous.

 

The Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band hits the UK in May 2013, with a new album in tow!  Songwriter and visual artist Jeffrey Lewis is renowned for his six albums of twisted garage-indie-folk on Rough Trade, while Grammy winner Peter Stampfel now celebrates 50(!) years of making totally off-the-wall folk music, most famously with the Holy Modal Rounders and the Fugs (in addition to being featured on the Easy Rider soundtrack, and more notable albums and collaborations than you'd care to count).  Although forty years apart in age, these two New Yorkers share an obsession with both comic books and songs, as well as a collaborative history that has spawned some of the most unexpected and delightful music of recent years! A tour from this pair (and their full 5-piece band, w/ guest-star Franic of the Wave Pictures on mandolin) is an event not to be missed. 

 

 "…it's a gig of equals. [...] they are quite a duo, this mismatched but perfectly compatible pair of New Yorkers." - **** - The Guardian 

 

"Jeffrey Lewis continues to amaze in 10,000 ways... Peter Stampfel is a name that should drop some jaws if you’re into important figures in psych-folk history. Stampfel even contributed to the liner notes for Harry Smith’s Anthology of Folk Music, for Pete’s sake!."  Tiny Mix Tapes

portions for foxes presents: GHOSTPOET @ Cluny, Byker Newcastle May 23rd (2013)

GET GHOSTPOET CLUNY TICKETS HERE

www.ghostpoet.co.uk

We can't wait to welcome back an artist that played one of our absolute favourite gigs last year!

Ghostpoet’s debut album, Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam, marked him out as one of the most distinct, uncategorisable and forward-thinking voices to emerge in British music this decade, and it was rewarded with a surprise Mercury Prize nomination in 2011. It was a sudden rise for a man who for whom news of a record deal came in the same week that he was made redundant from his office job in insurance.

Ghostpoet’s creativity has blossomed even more on his second album, Some Say I So I Say Light, pushed even further in all directions than on Peanut Butter Blues. Whereas Peanut Butter Blues was entirely self-produced on a computer in Ghostpoet’s bedroom, Some Say I So I Say Light is a studio-based work co-produced with the talented Richard Formby (Wild Beasts, Darkstar, Egyptian Hip-Hop) largely on analogue equipment.

The result is an incredibly eclectic mix of industrial beats, sonorous piano lines and hyper-detailed ornamentation.  The sound of the album is generally moodier, written on piano in a claustrophobic Dalson flat, with Ghostpoet choosing to confront darker feelings he would usually ignore when creating music. The tunes take on a huge range of new sounds and influence; cinematic horns, string-led chamber music, afrobeat, two-tone and moody, abstract soundscapes. All of this is tied together by Ghostpoet’s unique voice; stamping an album that marks a step upward with his one-of-a-kind identity.

Last gig sold out quick so get tickets!

P4f Presents: Lucero @ Newcastle Cluny, November 26th

Portions For Foxes Presents:
LUCERO + support

@ Newcastle Cluny, November 26th 

Tickets £9.50 advance- available:
Here via the cluny

We're so pleased to have Lucero back. With a deserved reputation as the best americana/punk band touring today and with absolute die hard fans that know it, Lucero have always come off as an amalgam of every great heartland rock or rock and roll band that ever inspired the same in their fans; Springsteen, Social Distortion, Uncle Tupelo and The Replacements are especially good reference points for their rawkus blue-collar punk-narratives.

On their recent album, 'Women and Work', Lucero have stopped flirting with their latent country and old-school rock and roll influences, and dived headlong into creating a record that owes as much to Joe Cocker as it does Joe Strummer.

 In amongst the old-school rock'n'roll shufflers and country soul ballads are blasts of horn section, twinkling pedal steel and full on gospel choral music, full of heart and gutsy production by Gaslight Anthem producer Ted Hutt (and hey-didn't these guys lay down the blueprint GA later refined?).

Lucero's recent move to ATO Recods, home of Drive By Truckers and My Morning Jacket, truly cements their name as one long-lived and ever brilliant band sharing a stable with those cut from the same booze-drenched, plaid patterned cloth.

Video:
Watch the video for the new Lucero single

Press?
for hi-res images / band blurbs etc.
e-mail portions for foxes 'at' gmail dot com 

The Heartbreaks @ Head Of Steam, Newcastle May 14th

Portions For Foxes Presents:

THE HEARTBREAKS
+ Brilliant Mind + Retriever
@ Head Of Steam
Monday May 14th

Tickets £6 advance:
get em here: Heartbreaks Newcastle Head of Steam Tickets
or at RPM Records

Since the release of their last single ‘Jealous, Don’t You Know’, The Heartbreaks have
packed a great deal into a short space of time. They've supported both Morrissey and Hurts across Europe. ‘Funtimes’, their debut album. is a 10 track collection of bright, witty and youthful anthems. It combines ferocious, rattling drums and chiming guitars with Motown hooks that come together
with the knowing swagger and melodic lushness of all great life affirming pop. With a shimmer that displays a love of Northern Soul 45s and the girl-group soul of The Ronettes and the Shangri-Las, The Heartbreaks' sound is as classic as the ideas and musical influences behind it.

The album was produced by Tristan Ivemy (Babyshambles, Frank Turner, The
Holloways) with additional production from Joe Cross (Hurts, Sound of Arrows) and the
track ‘Remorseful’ by Edwyn Collins and Sebastian Lewsley.

The foursome, from Morecambe, formed in May 2009 after growing up together bonding
over shared passions; Motown, bittersweet romance and the English seaside. Still in
their early 20s, it quickly became apparent that they harboured the same dream: to
create a band that really meant something to people. And here it begins; with ‘Funtimes’.

PRESS:
“They’ve got the tunes in spades and their jangle-pop reeks with the sorrow
of a Mr Whippy dropped in gravelly sand. And it’s delicious. ” NME

"They are the next great benchmark in British rock ‘n’ roll mythology." i-D

“Their lovelorn, nostalgia-tinged pop is right on the money” The Fly

“Irresistible. The Heartbreaks are going to be huge.” Notion

PHOTOS:
for Hi-Res photos of The Heartbreaks, please contact:
beth@purplepr.com/0207 434 7095