Lauren Ruth Ward (US), Praha, Futurum, 26/3/2023. More info and tickets HERE.
[/trim]Daniel Romano’s Outfit (CA), Guest: Adrian T. Bell (UK/CZ), Support Carson McHone (US), 26.6.2022, Cross Club Open Air. More info and tickets HERE.
[/trim]After her very first and sold out 2019 show in Cafe V lese Lauren Ruth Ward is coming back to Prague. She’ll bring her new album “Vol.II” which came on 13 March this year.
Everyone remembers the first time they see Lauren Ruth Ward sing. Not many singers has that effect. The thing is, youʼve never seen someone sing from every cell in their being and well, it changes your own chemistry for a moment. You think, if she can be bigger than her body, why canʼt I? And just like that, you are empowered. Whatʼs better, you never expected it would feel
this fun.
Critics have declared Lauren Ruth Ward as a cross between Janis Joplin, Florence Welch and Courtney Barnett. debut album “Well, Hell” garnered accolades from NYLON, Noisey, Consequence of Sound, the Los Angeles Times, Indie Shuffle and more. Viral clips spread quickly of this new phenomʼs visceral live performance. Singing in the faces of fans, songs like “Blue Collar Sex Kitten”, “Make Love to Myself” and the soul crushing “Did I Offend You”. In no time, LRW was playing to sold out crowds in the US and overseas, sharing stages with artists as diverse as LP, the Yeah Yeah Yeahʼs, Shirley
Manson, Eddie Vedder, Shakey Graves, Liz Phair and even Keith Urban; with a growing reputation for stealing the show.
Rock nʼ Roll in 2020 really needs something. Thank the fucking Goddesses above and below for sending us Lauren Ruth Ward.
Website | Instagram |Facebook | FB event
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One of New York CIty’s most beloved and talked-about bands, VickiKristinaBarcelona transforms the songs of Tom Waits, showing them in a new light, a genre unto themselves, while maintaining the original humor and pathos. Their repertoire explores the vast landscape of Waits’ styles, by turns danceable and philosophical, humorous, unsettling and heart-warming.
The beautiful song melodies are unearthed by breathtakingly gorgeous and inventive three-part harmonies and often surprising arrangements, via an array of instruments including accordion, guitar, percussion, harmonium, banjo, bottles and bells.
Rachelle Garniez, Amanda Homi and Terry Radigan are each seasoned singer-songwriters with distinctive differences. Rachelle’s genre-fluid Cabaret, Amanda’s Global rhythms and forms, and Terry’s traditional Americana Roots all combine to form a sound greater than the sum of its’ parts. While most of the songs are built around the signature ensemble vocals, each member of the band is also featured individually, organically choosing a Waits song that best fits their personality.
The name of the band is an adaptation of a Woody Allen movie title. As the film centers on the story of three strong women and their complicated dance around a male character, it is a reflection of the group’s dynamic and mission. There is a playfulness to the reference, a sly wink and a reclaiming of female power.
Their first album, “Pawn Shop Radio” came out on 29 May 2020.
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After the sold out show last year in Cafe V lese Lauren Ruth Ward is coming back to Prague. She’ll bring her new album “Vol.II” which came on 13 March this year.
Everyone remembers the first time they see Lauren Ruth Ward sing. Not many singers has that effect. The thing is, youʼve never seen someone sing from every cell in their being and well, it changes your own chemistry for a moment. You think, if she can be bigger than her body, why canʼt I? And just like that, you are empowered. Whatʼs better, you never expected it would feel
this fun.
Critics have declared Lauren Ruth Ward as a cross between Janis Joplin, Florence Welch and Courtney Barnett. debut album “Well, Hell” garnered accolades from NYLON, Noisey, Consequence of Sound, the Los Angeles Times, Indie Shuffle and more. Viral clips spread quickly of this new phenomʼs visceral live performance. Singing in the faces of fans, songs like “Blue Collar Sex Kitten”, “Make Love to Myself” and the soul crushing “Did I Offend You”. In no time, LRW was playing to sold out crowds in the US and overseas, sharing stages with artists as diverse as LP, the Yeah Yeah Yeahʼs, Shirley
Manson, Eddie Vedder, Shakey Graves, Liz Phair and even Keith Urban; with a growing reputation for stealing the show.
Rock nʼ Roll in 2020 really needs something. Thank the fucking Goddesses above and below for sending us Lauren Ruth Ward.
Website | Instagram |Facebook | FB event
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A delicate singer-songwriter with the soul of a rocker and a gentle rocker in a role of a singer-songwriter. A romantic, poet and melancholic in one package with songs about searching for what we’re all looking for. David Pomahač has started a solo career with his first solo album “Do tmy je daleko” (Indies Scope label, January 2020) followed by the live recording of this album release party which happened just the day before the first corona virus lockdown in the Czechia started – “Live 11/3/2020”.
David Pomahač founded the project Bez peří, spent nine years in legendary Czech group Houpací koně, and enjoyed the party of the supporting band for Xavier Baumaxa. The year 2010 gave rise to the urban folk duo Kieslowski. The intimate testimonies based on the sound of a guitar, piano, two vocals and David’s lyrics gained a large fan base and full concerts both at home and abroad. Kieslowski released three full albums, several EPs, and got nominated for the Czech music Apollo Award.
“Kieslowksi era is over but the songs remain present at my shows. I like them and they are part of my story. My new album is intense, playful, entertaining, loud, I expect from myself to play the best gigs with it. I keep trying to do things better, perhaps even differently and more intensively than before,” adds David.
PRESS IN ENGLISH
James Thornhill, God Is In The TV – Do tmy je daleko (album review)
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During their visit in Poland last weekend (at Cieszanów Rock Festival) Dubioza kolektiv received the Złoty Bączek Award for the best performance of international artist at legendary Pol’and’Rock festival 2018 (previously Przystanek Woodstock). Congratulations!!!
[/trim]With their original, hot mix of alternative rock, psychedelic, electronica and country the Nylon Jail were shining supernova of Czech music scene between 2012-2014 and like supernova with explosion disappeared in 2015. Luckily for all of us the core of the band has survived and now is back with new videos which announce a new album in the spring 2018 + beginning of live concert activity.
We are proud Nylon Jail to be a new member of our artist family and open booking for 2018.
New videos:
Website: www.nylonjail.org
[/trim]The Wanton Bishops, though a band by every definition of the word, is actually the vision of one very eclectic man – Nader Mansour. A cultural anomaly, considering the fact that he was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, Nader as lead singer is the very epitome of a howling blues man, but as Muddy Waters once sang, “the blues had a baby and they named it rock ‘n’ roll.” Well, when that birth happens in Beirut, the baby comes out wailing a kind of rock the world has never heard. The Wanton Bishops’ successful debut album “Sleep With The Lights On” won the Beirut band accolades and opportunities, including opening for The Who, Guns N’ Roses, and Lana Del Rey, and paved the way to many major 2016 festival performances including Glastonbury, Solidays, and Nova Rock.
Their new EP Nowhere Everywhere is a creative musical leap forward, taking The Wanton Bishops’ blues induced rock and roll down an ethnic electronic highway. To quote Nader, “we’re finally getting to the core of the music we want to create, a scarily confused but oh so enticing musical concoction that is much like our own identity as Lebanese people living in Beirut, the cultural crossroad of the world.” Find a way to see them as the band takes their new sound and brazen attitude on the road in 2017. It’s an experience like no other.
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INFO
THE WANTON BISHOPS /LBN
9.4. 2017 20:00
Café V lese, Krymská 12, Praha 10
www.thewantonbishops.com
https://www.facebook.com/thewantonbishops
https://www.facebook.com/events/1872423926375434/
Video
https://youtu.be/KwV5LfxFMxU
https://youtu.be/EO7AvrV0ju8
https://youtu.be/HJInuJyFn04
Nive Nielsen and the Deer Children play original hummable folk melodies with a streak of vocal jazz or cowboy ballads with an elfin side. Nive is a Greenlandic artist who travels the world playing shows everywhere from Europe to Asia, and the Americas.
If you got a team of the greatest children’s book writers in the world together, they couldn’t invent Greenlandic folk pop singer Nive Nielsen. In her case at least, band bios are simply stranger than fiction. A few facts about her: The first concert she ever played was for the queen of Denmark on national television; she acted in the Hollywood movie The New World starring Colin Farrell; and she actually is Inuit — well, Inuk — an indigenous Greenlander. Also, it’s daylight all summer where she lives.
A few more facts: She plays a little red ukulele in her band called the Deer Children. She writes songs about love and reindeer and forgetting to make coffee. She won an IMA – Independent Music Award in the US, worked with Howe Gelb and John Parish and friends from such indie royalty outfits as The Black Keys and Wolf Parade. Really, I’m not making it up.
What’s even more surprising is that her fanciful back story is matched by her own ability to tell stories or sometimes just hint at them with her warm, reedy voice. Sometimes she sings out with and old-timey quaver; sometimes she sings in a soft, childlike murmur. The songs themselves are straight out of a storybook that never was. They could be from anywhere, and they are hard to place in time. They are hummable folk tunes on indie steroids with her international, very interesting group of musicians, to say the least. Her songs have a way of sticking in your mind — and not just because they were written by the only Greenlandic Inuit indie Band you can think of. Snow Songs? Inuit Indie? What ever it is, you have to check them out!
Nive and The Deer Children are:
Nive Nielsen – writes the songs, sings, plays guitar and ukulele,
Jan de Vroede – produces the songs and plays whatever lies around mostly things with keys and strings,
Charlie – guitar, banjo, saw and twang,
Jeppe Skovbakke – bass and low end,
Andrew Collberg – drums and such,
Salik Parbst + Nicolaj Brandt – horns and jangl’n things…
PRESS
“Nieve Nielsen makes folk interesting with a hint of rock and grunge” Fresh Beats 365
“These songs are shape-shifting beasts that twist as soon as you think you’ve got them pinned down” Folk Radio UK
Penny Black Music – interview 04/2016
Folk Radio UK – interview 02/2016
Glitterhouse Rec. – “Feet First” album press release, 11/2015
Glitterhouse Rec. – “Nive Sings!” album press release, 05/2012
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