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PostPosted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 12:56 am 
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On Friday November 30th, WagonWheel Presents… heads to Shakespeares for our last show of 2012. To help round off the year we’re bringing you 33% extra free when we’re joined by not three but four fine acts for you listening pleasure. Touring their respective new albums we have Quiet Loner, Mark Wynn and Huw Costin plus William Barstow opens the show. Advance tickets priced at £4 are available from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/189096. Entry on the night will be £5. Doors open 8pm.


***QUIET LONER***

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Quiet Loner is the pen-name of songwriter Matt Hill.

As Quiet Loner he sings songs about love, loss, infidelity, suicide, murder, capital punishment, the database state, terrorism, religion, war, fallen angels, the secret rulers of the world and the redemptive power of country music. Hill is an accomplished raconteur and powerful live performer delivering a show that is emotional, often funny, usually political, occasionally angry, sometimes satirical but nearly always gentle and human.

Inspired by the storytelling traditions of American folk and country music, Hill’s songs also have a distinctly British lyrical bite. His recording and live work as Quiet Loner has won him many accolades, including an Americana UK Album of the Year 2004, Americana-chart topping albums, 4-star reviews from the likes of Uncut and The Daily Mirror and radio play from BBC6 Music. His live credentials include support slots for Lambchop, Joe Pernice, Neko Case and Chris Mills.

New album ‘GreedyMagicians’ will be released on November 19th 2012. Recorded live in a Salford church over a single evening in May, ‘Greedy Magicians’ is a collection of contemporary protest songs seething with disgust and shot through with melancholy at the state of our coalition-led nation. It’s an album which responds both personally and politically, reflecting on recent events and rewriting them as the latest chapters in a long and historic struggle of the many against the few.

The wordplay is pure Costello. Delicate songwriting, with hints of folk and Americana. Bleakly beautifulUncut

An outstanding record. Uplifting and inspiringMaverick Magazine

It’s not an overstatement to say it’s up there with Ryan Adams’ “Heartbreaker”. Believe me, you need to hear this album.Whisperinandhollerin

dissecting heartbreak with surgical precision. Highly recommendedAmericana UK

http://quietloneruk.wordpress.com/



***MARK WYNN***

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Mark Wynn is a 25 year old talking, singer, songwriter/mumbler man boy from York… Occasionally he has been referred to as being a poet, this is something that does not sit too well with him. Anyway, so far this year he has written and released four albums, two collections of poems (oh the irony) and has done more gigs than he cares to mention…
Recently he has been described as a cross between John Cooper Clarke, Lou Reed and Big Bill Broonzy: make of that what you will…
The subject matter for his songs covers a number of subjects.. here are a few: car boot sales, tooth decay, love, comparing girls to television, booze, rubbish nightclubs, dish washing, bus journeys, Henry Miller, the weather, his grandmother and working in an industry where most people are money hungry creeps…
This November, after three years of gigging around anywhere and everywhere, Mark is heading out on his first UK headline tour…

Like the early John Cooper Clarke or Mark E Smith, Mark Wynn has the potential for national treasure status twenty years down the line. And that’s not something you’ll hear me say often or lightly.Tom Robinson BBC 6 Music

Raggedy, warts and all, off the cuff, intentionally half-baked, and charming: utterly self-effacing and unpretentious, it’s the antithesis of, well, pretty much everything, although it is, arguably, tantamount to creative and commercial suicideWhisperinandhollerin

http://www.facebook.com/markwynnmusic


***HUW COSTIN***

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Inspired by Buckley, Cash, Drake, Cope and Kilmister, Costin writes songs for the mystified and heartbroken…

Huw Costin is a British singer-songwriter known for his emotional vocal style, melancholic lyrics, and a penchant for writing nifty pop songs when the mood takes him. He’s worked with both Brian Eno and Mark Lanegan, but mostly, his musical journey has been a ramble around the more obscure reaches of the indie world. Known for his output with leftfield disco artists Smith & Mudd as well as rock bands Manatee, The Kull, and Earth The Californian Love Dream, Costin is currently recording and performing with his band Torn Sail, as well as putting the final touches to his second solo album.

As influenced by the folk, country, and rock of the 60’s and 70’s as the Nottingham ambient scene of the early nineties, Costin has been compared to the likes of Big Star, Ian Brown, Elbow, and Jeff Buckley.

His debut solo album – Regrets – found it’s way into the NME Yearbook as a top 10 album despite being unfinished and unreleased.

It’s like the third Big Star album mixed with the Stone Roses… It’ll make you cry.NME

an emotive recollection of a love gone wrongUNCUT

http://huwcostin.tumblr.com


***WILLIAM BARSTOW***

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William Barstow has been recording and playing live throughout the country for the past 5 years with The Dead Delta and now with The Ruby Jacks. Throughout this period he has complied a selection of songs that don’t fit into the framework of a hardened rock band but require a more intimate and spacious setting. His bluesy/folk solo material has been compared to the likes of Jeff Buckley and Neil Young.

http://www.facebook.com/WilliamBarstowOfficial


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Last.fm Event page:

http://www.last.fm/event/3414078

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 12:52 pm 
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If anyone within travelling distance of that one misses it for anything apart from a flood or a plague of frogs you really do want your bumps felt.

Having seen Quiet Loner several times, and having been privileged enough to be at the recording session of his live album, double the cover price would be acceptable if it was only him on the bill.

I've heard stuff by Mark Wynn, you could do worse than check out a collaboration he did with GT Turbo.

And if you like ethereal, edgy stuff then Huw Costin is yer man.

I have no knowledge of William Barstow but judging by the pedigree of the rest of the bill this will be a cracking night, 'something for everyone' to use a hackneyed phrase.

For a fiver!!!!!!!

A frigging FIVER!!!!!!


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 21, 2012 12:04 pm 
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And that there brand new album Greedy Magicians from Quiet Loner is out now. 10/10 review from Americana UK for his live protest record of which they said:

More than anything the album captures an important moment in time in British history, soaked with topical references about the Hadron collider, shooting Brazilians on CCTV, Hillsborough – and which without shoehorning anyone into a particular ideology, into labelling this party as “right” and that as “wrong,” manages to involve the listener in a way which makes them keep coming back. You learn to love the empathy and the power of the record. It should be required listening for Cameron and co. As he asks with complete honesty right at the beginning: “What’s the price of your soul?”

Full review can be found here: http://www.americana-uk.com/reviews-cd- ... -magicians

And a week on Friday you still get Mark Wynn, Huw Costin and Will Barstow to boot. I think it's a fiver?

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 11:16 am 
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The making of Greedy Magicians:



This is tonight, Sheffield. Shows starts 8pm.

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