CATTLE & CANE – New Video for ‘Sold My Soul’ + UK Tour starts today
WATCH NEW VIDEO FOR ‘SOLD MY SOUL’ BELOW
UK TOUR STARTS TODAY
‘HOME’ THE DEBUT ALBUM – OUT NOW
Consisting of siblings Joe, Helen, Fran and Vin Hammill, with Tom Chapman on percussion, the album features twelve tracks that perfectly showcase the timeless quality of the band’s music; shifting even the hardest of hearts with their perfect, soaring harmonies.
Heavily championed by the BBC Introducing team, Cattle & Cane performed at T In The Park and BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park before they’d even released debut single ‘I Will Rise’, which has been featured by Spotify on one of their most popular curated playlists on the front page of the service. Thanks to this and their popular live sessions in the beautiful surroundings of Wynyard Hall, the band have now received well over a million streams online. With a loyal and passionate following, the ‘Home’ album launch will take place on Friday 18th September at the 1000 capacity Teesside University in Middlesbrough – the perfect setting for Cattle & Cane’s mesmerising live show.
‘SOLD MY SOUL’
Lead singer and chief songwriter Joseph Hammill has spent much of his life kicking against convention, so it is little surprise that he refuses to build an alternative history for how the band took five years from feted performances in their home-town and 2010’s T In The Park via BBC Radio support to produce their début album, ‘Home’.
‘I didn’t feel my songs were ready’, he offers, matter of factly. ‘I was just about to start Uni and Helen hadn’t even got her GCSE results yet. T In The Park was a great experience, but looking back, it was probably a bit too much too soon.’
Yet, in this case, patience is most definitely a virtue as ‘Home’ delivers an album characterized by the quintet’s ability to meld soaring choruses and delicate melodies to everyman lyrics that swerve cliché to create a sense of community and shared experience. Sharing vocal duties with sister Helen, this family concern (four fifths of the band are siblings) create a music that revels in its intent to make big gestures and engage with people at root; as Joe would have it ‘..to connect with people and have the crowd signing the songs back at us, that’s the ultimate compliment as far as I am concerned.’
The result is an album that flows from the intricate drive of opener ‘Skies’, blending War on Drugs licks to a rousing dual vocal chorus, through the tribal rhythms of ‘Belle’ to the sumptuous balladry of ‘Red’ and the gossamer camp fire flicker of ‘We Were Children’ via those big communal moments where the choruses of ‘Sold My Soul’ or lead single ‘Come Home’ conjure images of festival crowds jumping in unison.
With a massive hometown show at the 1000 capacity Teesside University in September already close to sell out it would appear that Cattle & Cane’s moment is upon us.
Cattle & Cane release their début album, ‘Home’ on September 14th via Quiet Crown Recordings. To download ‘Come Home’ for free go to http://po.st/sjVAf3. To see the video click below.
WATCH ‘COME HOME’ HERE
WATCH ‘SKIES’ HERE –
UK TOUR
October 2015
16.10.15 NEWCASTLE, HEAD OF STEAM (SOLD OUT!)
17.10.15 AYTON, HEMELVAART BIER CAFÉ
18.10.15 GLASGOW, KING TUTS
19.10.15 LEEDS, BRUDENELL GAMES ROOM
20.10.15 SHEFFIELD, LEADMILL
21.10.15 MANCHESTER, CASTLE
22.10.15 BIRMINGHAM, THE RAINBOW
23.10.15 SOUTHAMPTON, JOINERS
26.10.15 EXETER, PHOENIX
27.10.15 LONDON, THE ISLINGTON (SOLD OUT!)
28.10.15 OXFORD, BULLINGDON ARMS
29.10.15 BRISTOL, LOUISIANA
30.10.15 CARDIFF, BUFFALO BAR
31.10.15 BEDALE, CHANTRY HALL
More Information:
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www.soundcloud.com/cattleandcanemusic
Or contact: James@sonicpr.co.uk
Listen to Cattle & Cane:
Dancing (Live): www.youtube.com/watch?v=R55K-ZNGEzg
Birdsong (Official): www.youtube.com/watch?v=D07vXg3Jo9o
As heard on: BBC 6 Music (Tom Robinson, Edith Bowman, Steve Lamacq, Chris Hawkins), Channel 4 (Sunday Brunch) and BBC Radio 2 (Dermot O’Leary, Janice Long, Bob Harris). As seen at: T In The Park, BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park, Deershed and Liverpool Sound City. As featured on: ‘The Saturday Sessions From the Dermot O’Leary Show’ CD.