News Round
Dear All,
It's a new year, and it's been nice reflecting on a 2009 that finally yielded the joy (and that's not too strong a word) of finally getting a little bit of recognition for our services to banjo / harmonium / laptop based-ambient electronic folk avant-pop music. It's a pretty small sub-sub-sub genre (probably just us in it), but being a Mercury Music Awards album of the year, and receiving all the associated kind messages of support and general loveliness from people throughout (and since) made us go a bit dewy-eyed, so thank you for that. Your contact is always read, always appreciated and answered as often as is possible.
So what's new ?
Well, we have our first headline London show coming up on Saturday the 13th of Feb, as part of HMV's 'Next Big Thing' festival. We're playing upstairs at the Garage, ably supported by the amazing Georgia Ruth (http://www.myspace.com/georgiaruthwilliams)... Get your tickets here: (and it's looking as though it is going to sell out, so not a minute to lose...)
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=364242
What else...?
Well, there's the release of Amina, a non-album, exclusive song via the mine of wonderful music that is the Arctic Circle, if anyone should want to hear some new material. Further details are available here:
http://www.jointhecircle.net/explorer.php
...and you can download it directly from iTunes (search under 'Explorer's Club')
...or from Boomkat
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=243805
Our tour with Portico Quartet was great fun; making our way around this fair isle in a Mondeo with a trailer on the back (quite a cheap way to tour, but don't try using a McDonald's drive-through... That was lesson hard-learned), and getting to watch them do their thing most nights. We'll be doing a few more dates with them in March, and we also have the honour of supporting Malian legend Rokia Traore in late April, early May, for the UK leg of her European tour. We're getting to play some beautiful venues, so there's great excitement here...we'll send you through all of the info on that very soon.
Please pay a visit to http://www.sweetbillypilgrim.com/live for upcoming live dates.
In case anyone missed Phil Hopkins' beautiful video for Kalypso, you can see that here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtRXSm4AJPc
...and his shackumentary, providing a little insight into the life of the shed-based music maker is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch5HkX9Uo68
So, that's your lot. We'll hopefully catch you at a gig somewhere in the near future... We have go now and iron our t-shirts... Keep in touch !
SBP
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