EYOE / Eat Your Own Ears

VENUE / HOXTON BAR AND KITCHEN 2- 4 HOXTON SQUARE LONDON N1 6NU

TIME / 8PM
TUBE / LIVERPOOL ST / OLD ST
TEL / 020 7613 0709
TICKET INFO / £8.50
URL / WWW.MYSPACE.COM/CARNIVAL, WWW.MYSPACE.COM/ALOSTLEFT

RADIO 2: Radcliffe & Maconie – live session 12th Jan

6MUSIC: Playlisted ‘Trouble In Mind’ / Marc Riley session ran 1st Dec ’09

UNCUT ‘Debut album of the month’ 4/5 out now

MOJO – Page feature ‘Tip For 2010’ & 4/5 Album review

The Times – ‘Tip For 2010’

Q 4/5 album review ‘Stunning debut from Simon Tong’s nu folk trio’

BBC Scotland playlist.. Listening figures over 1 million http://www.bbc.co.uk/radioscotland/playlist/

BBC Scotland presenter Jim Gellatly's 10 bands for 2010: http://www.jimgellatly.blogspot.com/
Rough Trade ‘Albums Of The Month’

ERLAND AND THE CARNIVAL were formed by singer/guitarist and Orkney islander Erland Cooper with ex-The Verve/The Good, The Bad & The Queen guitarist Simon Tong and drummer David Nock. Together, they produce a sound described by Tong as “Pentangle meets Ennio Morricone meets Love meets 13th Floor Elevators meets Joe Meek.” In other words: folk-tinged, psyched up, fuzzed-out brilliance.

Some history: Erland grew up on the Orkney Islands, where passing musicians and troubadors were a common sight. In his early teens, The Verve and Bert Jansch inspired him to swap the fiddle for the guitar. Later, having moved to London, Erland sang at Tong’s What The Folk club night in Portobello Road, where he was introduced to the former Verve man by the producer Youth. “It wasn’t a regular folk night where people are quiet and stroke their chin,” says Tong. “It was a more raucous affair where the acts – as many as 15 a night – had to quieten a noisy baying audience by being good. Erland definitely got people to shut up and listen.”

Resolving to form a band, Nock, Tong and Cooper took their name from Jackson C Frank’s My Name Is Carnival, a cover of which appears on the album. The band’s progression since has been fairly unorthodox: they’ve played gigs at miniature railway stations and their debut EP was individually re-recorded for each of its limited run, meaning no two copies are the same. All the while, they’ve been developing that bewitching sound.

Going form strength to strength, Erland and the Carnival have just released their debut self-titled album, which has been met with great applause, the BBC describing it as a ‘collection of engaging, swirling tracks and stories that sound like the soundtrack to a creepy, dreamy funfair.’

PRESS QUOTES:
“They can all certainly sing and play as if they were raised on the Mississippi Delta, plucking sounds from the ether atop a dusty porch.” Artrocker September 2009

“wonderful Mountain Song sounds stirring... to know more about them we’ll just have to make them famous enough to do interviews” Dave Simpson, The Guardian September 2009

“freewheelin’ Americana” Seven Songs: The Daily Growl, September 2009

“Stunning” Tim chester NME.com, August 2009

“Beautiful, beautiful harmonies” Steve’s Stringers on Steve Lamacq’s last Radio 1 show
–Radio 1 August 2009 http://anikainlondon.wordpress.com

"Treetop Flyers combine multi-part sun-drenched harmonies and folky Dylanesque melodies, even veering into western hoe-down territory on occasion. With the dawn just breaking on 09, expect them to have made their mark on the year by the time the dusk sets."
- The Fly live review @ Equiitruck 2009, Oxford

“Their songs are lovely, lovely!”
Brain Bulletin blog: http://brainbulletin.blogspot.com/2009/06/treetop-flyers.html

LOST LEFT are an exciting new London-based band, reminiscent, perhaps, of a UK Grizzly bear or Yo La Tengo. They bring their fragile, poetic songs to Hoxton Bar & Kitchen.

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