Ian King Tickets Feb 13 2010 7:00 pm iCal
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HMV Live & MAMA Festivals present NEXT BIG THING featuring Ian King, Matthew P, Pamela Wyn Shannon and Andrew Morris.
Ian King has star-quality and a commanding stage-presence. This is English folk music for the 21st century and big news for 2010. Ian King was already the subject of a Folk Roots magazine cover story some eight months before the appearance of his imminent debut album‘Panic Grass’ and‘Fever Few’, Ian King now finds himself on the verge of ubiquity. Born in Yorkshire, a dry-stone waller by trade and a punk by nature, King is “a big fan of folk music from around the globe, what they call world music”. He maintains: “I might not be from the traditional English school of folk but I sincerely believe that all traditional music shares a common ground. My objective is to create a sound with broad appeal beyond just folk”. On ‘Panic Grass’ and ‘Fever Few’ – incidentally the title comes from a phrase in John Hersey’s war retrospective Hiroshima where the author refers to the green shoots of herbs that swiftly emerged from the ashes of that catastrophic event (King thought it juxtaposed rather nicely with the gentler folk sensibilities of parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme) – King has done much more than that: he’s created a musical landscape uniquely suited to the multi-cultured ether that surrounds us.
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Matthew P is a 27-year-old songwriter. In a beach hut offering welcome respite from the chill wind, this is where you'll find the songwriter and his makeshift recording studio. He’s been there, on and off, since he picked up his dad's £40 guitar, aged 11, and began strumming. He did spend a few years in Oxford at one point, but it wasn’t too long before he found himself drawn back to his hometown. Every day he sings, surfs, swims or goes for a long walk. The day job, fencing in a local nature reserve, has taken a back seat in recent months as he put the finishing touches to the five songs of the ‘Swimming’ EP, the first fruits of the beach hut recordings and Matthew’s debut release following his signing to Fiction Records in October 2009.
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