HarleyLive Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 We are delighted to announce that the awesome Cate Le Bon will be playing at The Harley in April in support of her brand-new album. CATE LE BON http://catelebon.com/ A highly successful 2010 was spent touring her debut LP Me Oh My described by Word magazine “As cymbals clash and keyboards whirl, imagine P J Harvey’s rawness tangling with Super Furry Animals’ prog and a vocalist who forgoes folk soft asides for delicious black humor”. Cate then ended the year contemplating and conjuring up her sophomore release. Cate entered the studio with the nucleus of a record existing in her head, lyrical ideas swam in ether as did fully formed arrangements, but it wasn’t until she began recording that these disparate ideas were drawn together and her circus tent of a record rose from the gravel ground. Drawing on her experiences from that heady 12 months, Cate created a collection of pop nuggets that sounded like they'd fallen off the back of a broken carousel, imbued with the playfulness of Faust, Syd Barrett and the tropical melodies of Os Mutantes and stitched together with a foreboding silken lyrical thread. Existential word play abounds and fuzz fused guitar lines tear through like an angry bee in a CAN as Cate muses on matters of the heart and the magnetic pull of the ocean. How would you describe the album, CYRK? Cut a remote island in two and place one half to your ear *What’s a song on your new album, CYRK, you really want people to hear, and why? “The Man I Wanted” because I have finally put down a wooden recorder track that I have not been ridiculed for… as of yet. Also, if you’re listening to it, you’re well into side 2 of the album which means there’s hope you’ll make it to the end. What’s a lyric you’re particularly proud of on the album? “On the worst day of his life, he’d still love more things than I like” has been misconstrued as being a melancholic lyric about how miserable I am when actually it was written as a testament to how wonderful and positive the ‘he’ in the song is (its not God, for the record). Tickets: £5.50 Harley Live members, £6.00 non-members, MOTD From The Harley, The Wick, Record Collector, HMV Fargate, HMV Meadowhall, The Old Sweet Shop, Kuji, Rocky Horrors and the Arena Ticket Shop http://www.harleylive.co.uk/ticket-shop/ http://www.gigantic.com/harleylive/event_gce_33620a.html http://www.seetickets.com/Tour/CATE-LE-BON Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyLive Posted March 19, 2012 Author Share Posted March 19, 2012 Ace news: H Hawkline (*http://hhawkline.bandcamp.com/*)*will be tour support for this show. Bloody delightful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarleyLive Posted April 23, 2012 Author Share Posted April 23, 2012 This is on Thursday. Seriously can't wait. Here's a lovely Cate Le Bon video for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteM01 Posted April 27, 2012 Share Posted April 27, 2012 We are delighted to announce that the awesome Cate Le Bon will be playing at The Harley in April in support of her brand-new album. And very good it was... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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