Daylight Music – Special 200th Edition – 26 September: feat. Ex-Easter Island Head, French for Rabbits and Louis Barabbas
Daylight Music 200th Edition!
26 September: feat. Ex-Easter Island Head, French for Rabbits and Louis Barabbas
at The Union Chapel, Compton Terrace, London N1 2UN
Free Entry (suggested £5.00 donation)
A lazy afternoon with music, tea and cake. An event for all ages. Produced by Arctic Circle. Midday – till 2.00pm
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An extra special event to celebrate the 200th Daylight Music, featuring some of the most popular acts from the last six years. First there is Louis Barabbas – expect caustic love songs that will leave you pumped up and breathless. New Zealand’s French for Rabbits music contains winsome guitar lines and eerie instrumentation. Plus Ex-Easter Island Head, creating a sensation whenever they play. If you’ve never seen musicians hitting electric guitars with mallets then cancel all other plans for the day and head down to the Union Chapel.
In between the bands, there will be atmospheric instrumental music provided by songwriter Adrian Crowley.
To celebrate the fantastic photography taken throughout the lifespan of Daylight Music by a very talented bunch of volunteer photographers, there will be a lo-fi photo exhibition consisting of 200 postcards on the pews of the chapel for people to take away, plus there will be a limited numbers of a brochures to buy featuring all of the photographs.
The event will raise money for Daylight Music and Arctic Circle events and activities in 2016.
To date, Daylight Music has provided 643 performances by 530 different acts over these 200 Daylight Music events. As well as serving 15,254 cups of tea or coffee, 9, 863 slices of cake and 5,003 pieces of quiche.
Ex-Easter Island Head
Ex-Easter Island Head (2009-) are a Liverpool based musical collective composing and performing music for solid-body electric guitar, percussion and other instruments. They have performed their original compositions solo, as a duo, trio, quartet and as a large ensemble across a wide variety of events from site specific installation works to live film scores.
In 2015 they have collaborated with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and toured extensively, playing material from their forthcoming album Twenty Two Strings, to be released early 2016.
http:// lowpoint.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=_y1v4dZAZ0Q
https://soundcloud.com/ ex-easter-island-head/ 3rd-movement
French for Rabbits
French for Rabbits hail from the remote natural setting of Waikuku Beach, in New Zealand’s South Island. Vocalist Brooke Singer expresses intimate narratives against the cast of the damp colonial cold; her voice delicately steeled against winsome guitar lines, and the eerie instrumentation of their bandmates. It’s a weather-beaten dreamscape, nostalgic for warmth and hopefully lilting towards sunnier climes.
Their debut LP ‘Spirits’ was released on the 27th of October 2014 on Lefse Records, and on the 31 October on diligent kiwi label Home Alone Music. The release coincided with an extensive tour in October – November 2014, where the opened for Danish chanteuse Agnes Obel in some of the most beautiful concert halls through Europe.
www.frenchforrabbits.com | www.facebook.com/ frenchforrabbits
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=mifr_fvHhSA
Louis Barabbas
Louis Barabbas is a writer, performer and label director, best known for caustic love songs and energetic stage shows. Over the years he has performed all over the world, from Mexico and the USA to mainland Europe and Australia, sharing stages with such disparate acts as Motorhead, Supergrass, Sun Ra’s Arkestra and The Blockheads. He is also a committee member at the Musicians’ Union, on the advisory board for Un-Convention, presenter on Fab Radio International, moderator for Tom Robinson’s Fresh On The Net, occasional spoons player, one-time beard model, co-founder of Debt Records and Captain of Dirt-Swing band The Bedlam Six.
BBC 6 Music once described Louis’ music as “excellent in every way” (but there’s probably still room for improvement).
www.louisbarabbas.com
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Y_BYsDMkDys
https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=rshiHrqmd-c
More About Daylight Music
The Union Chapel, Compton Terrace, Islington, London N1 2UN
Saturday afternoons from 12-2pm
Daylight Music is for everyone, from babies through to grandparents. It’s very family friendly, which makes it a great place to introduce kids to live music; there’s even a drawing area for everyone – regardless of age – to enjoy expressing themselves.
Experience Daylight Music now:
WATCH: short film about the unique Daylight Music experience by Geoff Wilson
https://youtu.be/fcHWdae1OLQ
Forthcoming for Autumn/Winter Season:
September 19: Open House Special (STARTS AT 10AM): Sean O’Hagan, Ellie Lovegrove, Pip Mountjoy + Elephant
September 26: 200th Edition: Ex-Easter Island Head, French for Rabbits + Louis Barabbas
October 3: Mary Hampton, Nadine Khouri + Daudi Matsiko
October 10: Applewood Road, Holly Macve + Arborist
October 17: Triple Bill of Bills: William D. Drake, Bill Pritchard + Bill Botting
October 24: Iskra String Quartet with Minotaur Shock + Isobel Waller-Bridge
November 7: A Girl and a Gun: James Bond Special
November 14: Haiku Salut, Camden Voices + Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch
November 21: Lo Records: Grasscut, Astronauts + Lilith Ai
November 28: Soviet sounds and Cold War Cabaret: The Real Tuesday Weld, Dmitry Evgrafov + tbc
December 5: Christmas Show: James McVinnie, Mara Carlyle, Liam Byrne and HART
December 12: Christmas Show: The Pictish Trail + artist from Lost Maps Records
FURTHER LINKS:
Daylight Music:
http://www.facebook.com/daylightmusiclondon
http://twitter.com/Daylight_Music
https://youtu.be/fcHWdae1OLQ
Union Chapel:
http://www.unionchapel.org.uk/pages/events-daylight_music-364.html