Alasdair Roberts, Bird Radio, Buckner Building: The Goose Is Out! The Ivy House, Fri 24 Sept.

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Alasdair Roberts, Bird Radio, Buckner Building: The Goose Is Out! The Ivy House, 40 Stuart Road SE15 3BE. Fri 24 Sept, Doors open 7pm.

Here is a link to the ticket site. Please take time to read the Covid Precautions under the Event Information heading before you buy your ticket. This information is for everyone's protection! https://www.wegottickets.com/thegooseisout

Alasdair, from central Scotland and now based in Glasgow, is a highly unique and singular talent who has, since 2001, released many albums of traditional material and songs of his own. He is incredibly prolific and a keen collaborator with a thoroughly open and forward-thinking approach. His collaborative work has seen him recently team up with the Norwegian band Volvur. He has also recorded and performed as part of a trio with Amble Skuse and David McGuinness and for several years been a member of The Furrow Collective with Rachel Newton, Lucy Farrell, and Emily Portman. His songs contain dense wordplay and his voice and guitar style are completely distinctive and individual. His solo performances are spellbinding experiences!

?One of our most talented, important and relevant songwriters and song-adapters.? ? Folk Radio UK

?Quietly escalating towards Scottish national treasure status? ? Mojo

?An artist in consummate control of his art? ? Uncut

Bird Radio (AKA Mikey Kirkpatrick) is a singer, flautist, and composer based in London. He experiments with songwriting, extended flute technique, live looping and performance in different ways, collaborating with a wide range of artists and texts - recently he has worked with setting poetry by Walter de la Mare, Ted Hughes (his most recent album CROW was released in June 2019) and London?s Soho poet Jeremy Reed, and collaborated with artists such as Pig7 (electronics and field recordings), Akinori Fujimoto (Japanese Taiko), Nawroz Oramari (Kurdish Folk), Mosaic Band (traditional Sufi Music), John Bently (poet, singer, book artist and performer) and Emmanuel Lorien (experimental improv, Max MSP and granular synthesis).?

'?folk-horror of the darkest hue?his voice soaring like Scott Walker?Bird Radio fulfills his early promise as a musical storyteller of rare power.' Steve Hunt, fRoots

Buckner Building are Naomi Graham and Fritha Jenkins. They lead your ears to places not always easily located. Using violin, recorders, vocals and field recordings they make music that has been described as ?unsettling alternative folk? ? shifting between fragments of recognised traditional songs and disruptive contemporary interventions. They are drawn to the macabre, the melancholic, the outsider, tales of madness, upset, and life on the periphery.

They have performed as a duo in venues and festivals across the UK since 2010 and have performed and toured internationally in their individual careers.

https://www.alasdairroberts.com/

https://mikeykirkpatrick.wordpress.com/

Buckner Building

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Here's Alasdair from a few years ago.

 

[Sue]

Really looking forward to this!

Alasdair is brilliant and we have two excellent support acts!

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More Alasdair :)