The Lake Poets new live EP / UK tour update – track available now
THE LAKE POETS
LIVE AT THE SAGE
NEW EP OUT 29.12.17
UK TOUR APRIL & MAY 2018
BUY / LISTEN HERE : radi.al/LiveAtTheSage
The Lake Poets, the solo vehicle for left-field folk artist Marty Longstaff, will release a new EP on
29th December consisting of live recordings made at the Sage in Gateshead during a show at that
venue shortly before Xmas 2016. Featuring the string section of the Young Musicians Programme
(a Sage backed initiative), it includes a version of the single ‘Your Face’, which has racked up over
7 million plays on Spotify, plus four more songs from his self-titled 2015 debut album.
stream ‘Your Face’ – live at The Sage here : bit.ly/2zbCqG9
The full EP running order is :
1 Your Face
2 To The Lighthouse
3 Black And Blue
4 See You Tonight
5 Vane Tempest
“The Sage is one of my favourite venues in the UK and the place that every young musician based
in the North East dreams of playing, let alone selling out. It was such a special night and I’m so
happy to have had the evening recorded. The opportunity to perform with the YMP Strings was too
good an offer to miss, and with their help me and my band were able to get these songs to sound
how they appeared in my head when I first composed them.” Marty Longstaff
Another song from ’The Lake Poets’ entitled ‘1996’ is included on a brand new Spotify playlist,
‘Folksy Christmas’
Currently completing the recording of a new album, Longstaff has announced a tour of intimate
venues for April and May 2018. The schedule comprises :
17.04.18 NEWTON ABBOT Kingkerswell Parish Church bit.ly/2DeV9DX
18.04.18 SOUTHAMPTON Talking Heads bit.ly/2CKl0CQ
19.04.18 BRIGHTON Hope and Ruin bit.ly/2Bn1ct0
21.04.18 MANCHESTER Three Minute Theatre (3MT) bit.ly/2kuKDk7
23.04.18 CAMBRIDGE Junction 2 bit.ly/2CMzmCG
24.04.18 BIRMINGHAM Kitchen Garden Cafe bit.ly/2CNHFy0
26.04.18 EDINBURGH Sneaky Pete’s bit.ly/2z4Ea47
27.04.18 GLASGOW Hug & Pint bit.ly/2oXWL1Y
28.04.18 ST BOSWELL’S St Boswell’s Live! bit.ly/2B8bhpx
30.04.18 NEWCASTLE Wylam Brewery bit.ly/2kTh6QO
01.05.18 SHEFFIELD Greystones bit.ly/2ks2kRB
02.05.18 MILTON KEYNES Stables bit.ly/2BE3SPN
03.05.18 LONDON St Pancras Old Church bit.ly/2BoOM3T
05.15.18 BRISTOL Folk House bit.ly/2z4GxE3
“Album two is coming very, very soon. I can’t wait to get back out and about playing shows around
the UK debuting new material, as well as seeing old friends and meeting new faces along the way.” Marty Longstaff
Recorded in Nashville’s famed Blackbird Studio and produced by Dave Stewart (Eurythmics, etc),
The Lake Poets 2015 debut album saw Longstaff’s shimmering, pure voice sit atop intimate,
sparsely beautiful arrangements of his songs. Autobiographical lyrical content that was rich in
painting the big picture about love and mortality by way of a keen eye for life’s small details also
incorporated a heavy dose of social realism, such as in ‘Vane Tempest’ and its story of how the
Miners Strike affected his father.
“Somewhere between Bright Eyes and John Martyn. Something Special” MOJO
“Stunning Debut from Sunderland Troubadour. Quietly Brilliant” UNCUT