From: jason robbins
[tofutastic_at_hotmail_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 01 November 2008 18:35
Subject: NEXT SATURDAY, THE OWL SERVICE, ORANGE
STREET MUSIC CLUB, CANTERBURY.
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THE TWISTING FOLK PRESENT…
THE OWL SERVICE
(PLUS
SUPPORT)
LIVE AT ORANGE STREET MUSIC CLUB
CANTERBURY NOVEMBER
8TH
8PM £5 admission
Special double ticket available for £7.50, gains you entry to
THE OWL SERVICE, and the ROBB JOHNSON gig on Friday 30th January
2009
Tel: 01227 760801
"...a tentative sitar drone and
plucked minimalism pick their respective paths across a yawning chasm of
O'Malleyesque fug" PlanB magazine
"...combines the best parts of the British
folk-rock boom with a sense of occult psychedelia that's never overbearing"
Uncut magazine
"Icy female vocals and crystalline electric guitars thread
through sinister traditional tunes, recalling Trees' 1970 classic 'On the Shore'
and Fairport Convention's 'Liege & Lief'" Stewart Lee, Sunday
Times
"British spooky/avant folksters whose muse is slightly more medieval
than post-modern, but recalls Black Mountain and Lightning Dust as well as
Vashti Bunyan and Steeleye Span" Time Out
"...we highly recommend checking
out the finest “traditional folk” album we’ve heard all year" Foxy
Digitalis
"...the result sounds like a lost album of '70s UK folk ...female
singers who have that quality to provoke a world of a cultivated sensitivity
...all tracks flow beautifully from one perfect mood to the next" Psyche
Homestead
"...pure genius" DJ Magazine
"A deeply intoxicating and alluring
listening spectacle." Losing Today
"A quiet, contemplative work of art
that'll warm the cockles of any cold, cold heart" Foxy
Digitalis
"...wonderful and inventive but by no means contrived, ...an EP
that is full of surprises and beautiful moments. As with many EPs, "Wake the
Vaulted Echo" ends a little too quickly and I found myself wanting to hear more"
Progressive Ears
"This is one elusive butterfly of a record: a CD you'll want
to play all the way through again and again, ond pause only to wish it were
longer" Terrascope Online
The Owl Service was formed by Steven
Collins in 2006 as a vehicle to explore his love of British films and television
of the 1960s and 70s, the great outdoors and the sound of the English folk
revival. The band fuse traditional British folk ballads with elements of
psychedelic rock and recall the great acid-folk bands of the late '60s/early
'70s but never once sound contrived or overtly retro. Nobody has approached
traditional folk quite like this for over 30 years. They signed to Southern
Records at the end of 2007 and their debut album A Garland of Song, an eclectic
selection of traditional material interspersed with mostly instrumental
originals, was released on June 30th 2008. An EP recorded with Alison O'Donnell
(formerly Alison Williams of legendary Irish '70s prog/folk band Mellow Candle)
entitled The Fabric of Folk will be released by Static Caravan in September
2008. The follow up to Garland... is underway with the working title The Pattern
Beneath the Plough and is set for a Summer 2009 release
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