From: Sarah Allen / FLOOK [sarah_at_flook_dot_co_dot_uk]  
 
Sent: 24 April 2006 12:54  
 
Subject: FLOOK NEWS  
 
  
 
FLOOK NEWS  
 
  
 
Welcome to Flook News. We have been touring almost constantly since mid February and therefore finding time to write and send out Flook News has proved difficult. So this is a very abridged newsletter, mostly just to tell you about 2 UK dates we have coming up this weekend.
  
 
Friday 28th April  
 
UK  
 
  Hebden Bridge  
 
  Picture House  
 
 www.hebdenbridge-picturehouse.co.uk 
 
 
  01422 842807  
 
  
 
Saturday 29th April  
 
UK  
 
  Whitchurch, North Shropshire  
 
  Leisure Centre  
 
 www.northshropshirefolk.com 
 
 
  01948 840408  
 
  
 
There's plenty more gigs over the coming months, in places as far flung as Mexico, Sardinia and Canada.
All details are here:
 www.flook.co.uk/tourdates.html 
 
 
  
 
One more thing - we have a page on MySpace now, if you're into that sort of thing. If you are, then please pay us a visit at:
 www.myspace.com/2flutes 
 
 
  
 
More news in a couple of weeks  
 
  
 
See you along the way,  
 
  
 
Sarah, Brian, Ed and John Joe  
 
  
 
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MAIL ORDER  
 
  
 
Haven (CD) 2005  
 
In the pantheon of Irish/English folk groups they don’t come much more revered than Flook.
Irish Post, November 2005  
 
  
 
Haven swings with a blazing intensity that captures their kinetic live performances.
The Observer, November 2005  
 
  
 
The flute/guitar/bodhran combo keep racking up the superlatives.
Breathtaking tunes with the unmistakable Flook feelgood signature.
BBC, November 2005  
 
  
 
BUY NOW: 
 www.baka.co.uk/shop/pages/albums/haven.htm 
 
 
  
 
  
 
Rubai (CD)
 (www.flook.co.uk/rubai.html) 
 2002 Rubai was nominated as Best Album in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2003
  
 
an extraordinarily good record  
 
fRoots  
 
  
 
head and shoulders above the rest... Magnificent.  
 
The Irish Times  
 
  
 
one of the essential albums of 2002  
 
Songlines  
 
  
 
BUY NOW: 
 www.baka.co.uk/shop/pages/albums/rubai.htm 
 
 
OR FROM USA OR CANADA: 
 www.worldvillagemusic.com/468015.htm 
  
 
  
 
Flatfish (CD)  1999  
 
Flatfish is, quite simply, one of the most stunning contemporary
  Celtic albums you'll hear this or any other year.  
 
Songlines  
 
  
 
No frills, no studio gloss, just simple unadorned pleasure from start
  to finish  
 
The Rough Guide to Irish Music  
 
  
 
  a cornucopia of sublime musicianship. Rating: * * * * * The Scotsman
  
 
  BUY NOW:
 www.baka.co.uk/shop/pages/albums/flatfish.htm 
  
 
  
 
Flook! Live! (CD)   1997  
 
There is a certain instinctive magic about the interaction between the flutes that has nothing
  to do with studied technique or painstaking arrangements”  
 
Folk Roots, March 1997  
 
  
 
  “The tunes are mostly new, the pace effortless, the standard of playing quite brilliant...the ultimate modern flute album.”
The Irish Times, May 1997  
 
  
 
  a sound of marvellous vitality and quicksilver loveliness The Scotsman, January 1997
  
 
  BUY NOW:
 www.baka.co.uk/shop/system/index.html 
 
 
  (We have located a few copies of this CD, and this link will become active in the next few days)
  
 
Also available (by post only):  
 
Brian Finnegan Mad for Trad Tin Whistle Tutorial (CD-ROM) - £28
  
 
If you can pay by sterling cheque, and would rather order any of these
  titles, or albums from previous bands we have played in, by post,
  then you can print out an order form from this link:  
 
 www.flook.co.uk/ordercd.htm 
 
 
  
 
And don't forget, you can now download Flook MP3s, either individual tracks or complete albums, from
Tradtunes     
 www.tradtunes.com 
 
 
Haven, Rubai, Flatfish and Flook! Live! all available.  
 
  
 
All Flook albums are now available from iTunes UK  
 
  
 
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