Quiet Loner + Mark Wynn + Huw Costin + Will Barstow @ Shakespeares 30.11.12

[Amsterdamned]

On Friday November 30th, WagonWheel Presents… heads to Shakespeares for our last show of 2012. To help round off the year we’re bringing you 33% extra free when we’re joined by not three but four fine acts for you listening pleasure. Touring their respective new albums we have Quiet Loner, Mark Wynn and Huw Costin plus William Barstow opens the show. Advance tickets priced at £4 are available from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/189096. Entry on the night will be £5. Doors open 8pm.

 

 

***QUIET LONER***

 

 

Quiet Loner is the pen-name of songwriter Matt Hill.

 

As Quiet Loner he sings songs about love, loss, infidelity, suicide, murder, capital punishment, the database state, terrorism, religion, war, fallen angels, the secret rulers of the world and the redemptive power of country music. Hill is an accomplished raconteur and powerful live performer delivering a show that is emotional, often funny, usually political, occasionally angry, sometimes satirical but nearly always gentle and human.

 

Inspired by the storytelling traditions of American folk and country music, Hill’s songs also have a distinctly British lyrical bite. His recording and live work as Quiet Loner has won him many accolades, including an Americana UK Album of the Year 2004, Americana-chart topping albums, 4-star reviews from the likes of Uncut and The Daily Mirror and radio play from BBC6 Music. His live credentials include support slots for Lambchop, Joe Pernice, Neko Case and Chris Mills.

 

New album ‘GreedyMagicians’ will be released on November 19th 2012. Recorded live in a Salford church over a single evening in May, ‘Greedy Magicians’ is a collection of contemporary protest songs seething with disgust and shot through with melancholy at the state of our coalition-led nation. It’s an album which responds both personally and politically, reflecting on recent events and rewriting them as the latest chapters in a long and historic struggle of the many against the few.

 

“The wordplay is pure Costello. Delicate songwriting, with hints of folk and Americana. Bleakly beautiful” Uncut

 

“An outstanding record. Uplifting and inspiring” Maverick Magazine

 

“It’s not an overstatement to say it’s up there with Ryan Adams’ “Heartbreaker”. Believe me, you need to hear this album.” Whisperinandhollerin

 

“dissecting heartbreak with surgical precision. Highly recommended” Americana UK

 

http://quietloneruk.wordpress.com/

 

 

 

***MARK WYNN***

 

 

Mark Wynn is a 25 year old talking, singer, songwriter/mumbler man boy from York… Occasionally he has been referred to as being a poet, this is something that does not sit too well with him. Anyway, so far this year he has written and released four albums, two collections of poems (oh the irony) and has done more gigs than he cares to mention…

Recently he has been described as a cross between John Cooper Clarke, Lou Reed and Big Bill Broonzy: make of that what you will…

The subject matter for his songs covers a number of subjects.. here are a few: car boot sales, tooth decay, love, comparing girls to television, booze, rubbish nightclubs, dish washing, bus journeys, Henry Miller, the weather, his grandmother and working in an industry where most people are money hungry creeps…

This November, after three years of gigging around anywhere and everywhere, Mark is heading out on his first UK headline tour…

 

“Like the early John Cooper Clarke or Mark E Smith, Mark Wynn has the potential for national treasure status twenty years down the line. And that’s not something you’ll hear me say often or lightly.” Tom Robinson BBC 6 Music

 

“Raggedy, warts and all, off the cuff, intentionally half-baked, and charming: utterly self-effacing and unpretentious, it’s the antithesis of, well, pretty much everything, although it is, arguably, tantamount to creative and commercial suicide” Whisperinandhollerin

 

http://www.facebook.com/markwynnmusic

 

 

***HUW COSTIN***

 

 

Inspired by Buckley, Cash, Drake, Cope and Kilmister, Costin writes songs for the mystified and heartbroken…

 

Huw Costin is a British singer-songwriter known for his emotional vocal style, melancholic lyrics, and a penchant for writing nifty pop songs when the mood takes him. He’s worked with both Brian Eno and Mark Lanegan, but mostly, his musical journey has been a ramble around the more obscure reaches of the indie world. Known for his output with leftfield disco artists Smith & Mudd as well as rock bands Manatee, The Kull, and Earth The Californian Love Dream, Costin is currently recording and performing with his band Torn Sail, as well as putting the final touches to his second solo album.

 

As influenced by the folk, country, and rock of the 60’s and 70’s as the Nottingham ambient scene of the early nineties, Costin has been compared to the likes of Big Star, Ian Brown, Elbow, and Jeff Buckley.

 

His debut solo album – Regrets – found it’s way into the NME Yearbook as a top 10 album despite being unfinished and unreleased.

 

“It’s like the third Big Star album mixed with the Stone Roses… It’ll make you cry.” NME

 

“an emotive recollection of a love gone wrong” UNCUT

 

http://huwcostin.tumblr.com

 

 

***WILLIAM BARSTOW***

 

 

William Barstow has been recording and playing live throughout the country for the past 5 years with The Dead Delta and now with The Ruby Jacks. Throughout this period he has complied a selection of songs that don’t fit into the framework of a hardened rock band but require a more intimate and spacious setting. His bluesy/folk solo material has been compared to the likes of Jeff Buckley and Neil Young.

 

http://www.facebook.com/WilliamBarstowOfficial

 

 

Facebook Event page:

 

http://www.facebook.com/events/280712328712234

 

Last.fm Event page:

 

http://www.last.fm/event/3414078

[Amsterdamned]

This is on Friday night. Quiet Loner's brand new album Greedy Magicians came out last Monday to great reviews including a 10/10 one here: http://www.americana-uk.com/reviews-cd-live/latest-cd-reviews/item/quiet-loner-greedy-magicians?category_id=175

 

---------- Post added 30-11-2012 at 16:17 ----------

 

This is tonight. Show starts 8pm.

 

---------- Post added 30-11-2012 at 16:17 ----------

 

This is tonight. Show starts 8pm.