April 13: Cambridge: Alasdair Roberts + haeti...

for the sake of people in other parts of the usa, that is

talking of whom:

http://thequietus.com/articles/11821-alasdair-roberts-favourite-albums

The song Craigie Hill off that Dick Gaughan album is something you really need to hear btw. First heard it when June Tabor played it on a radio show she was a guest on, total lump in the throat stuff for me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP15bKvUpdw

does anyone know anything about him cancelling US tour? website does not look promising for show in chicago on MONDAY

;_;

http://www.alasdairroberts.com/content/2013/07/07/north-american-tour-cancelled/

North American Tour under threat
July 7th, 2013

The July 2013 North American tour of Alasdair Roberts & Friends is in danger of being cancelled as we do not yet have the required visas for entry to the USA. Please watch this space for further developments…

also omg he is playing in cedar rapids <3

lamesville

hey only they're allowed to call it that

Alasdair and two of his bandmates's visas have been approved. Now we are waiting on the Embassy to process and return their passports, which hopefully happens before the are meant to fly on Thursday. We are optimistic that the tour will happen. The ensemble is a three piece now. Two casualties to the process!

DC show at end of the month still tentatively on, albeit w/ Alisdair and less bandmates

oh man it's gonna be so awkward when he is on stage with two other people at a giant pavilion in downtown chicago
i was hoping there would be a full band
fingers crossed for the passports! i've been looking forward to this for months. years if you count the last time i thought he was coming and then bert jansch got sick :(

three of them made it! those poor men in the hot sun, it looked painful. they were troopers though, gave it their all. played mostly new stuff from wonder working stone, but also played http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fair_Flower_of_Northumberland
<3

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7355/9287321885_763fa82240.jpg

let's see how it goes tonight at the giant pavilion...

LL, did you happen to catch his last minute show last night at Lighthouse Tavern? saw the last minute tweet from Drag City and it was so tempting, if i hadn't been wiped out with severe head congestion.

no :(
even if i had seen it, i was in for the night
now i'm bummed

oh sorry, didn't mean to bum you out.

a person can't stay attached to every social media outlet hoping for a morsel, it's ok
still bummed i missed it though

My dad e-mailed me to say that he and my stepmom were going to see Fatoumata Diawara tonight and would be getting there early for "the Irish folk singer warm up group." I replied that Roberts is Scottish, and he joked that now they "probably won't go." I mean, I think it was a joke! But my stepmom is also really into being "Irish," so I dunno.

man
i knew that would be the case -- i was trying to explain to D how i knew that AR would go first and not be the headliner even though i hadn't looked it up to check and that proves my point. :-/

i have a request -- i'm hoping for "brother seed". figure there's a good chance since it's on the new album that both the other two guys played on.

I don't know Alasdair Roberts's music at all. But it's hard to imagine that he'd be able to top Fatoumata Diawara's energetic dance grooves, anyway.

http://www.kennedy-center.org/explorer/artists/?entity_id=95372&source_type=B

DC show video stream

Alasdair Roberts & Robin Robertson
Hirta Songs

10 track album concerning the history, landscape and people of the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda. Features guest appearances from Corrina Hewat and Robin Williamson, plus mainstays of Alasdair's live and studio ensembles Tom Crossley, Rafe Fitzpatrick and Stevie Jones.

Single CD in jewel case with 12 page booklet, limited edition 180g vinyl with insert (250 copies for the World) and download. Released November 2013.

http://www.stonetaperecordings.co.uk/str-006.html

Looks like an amazing place (St. Kilda). Going by google maps there's about five houses on the entire island..
I'm still getting my head around the Roberts & Friends album, but I say bring it on.

yeah, i'm definitely still absorbing the last one...
just found this place - http://libraryofaethers.wikispaces.com/ which might help.

topics:

Animals
Armed conflict & weapons
Birds
Body parts, functions & fluids
Drinking
Musical instruments & terms
Numbers
Points of the compass
Titles & trappings
Trees
Vegetation
Weather

i was already excited but by the time i got to "vegetation" and "weather" i was already dreaming of st kilda

must get!!

did anybody go to his Galoshins show a couple of years back? (Actually looking through this thread I see that Krakow definitely did!) On one hand I kinda wish I'd written something about it after it happened so I could remember it properly, but then I quite like the weird dreamlike place it occupies in my memory.

shit-hot guitar

finally i hear it

New album, a collab with poet Robin Robertson, is really good. Concept album, of sorts, about St Kilda, with nice guest spot by Robin Williamson (Incredible String Band) on hardanger fiddle.

http://stonetaperecordings.bandcamp.com/album/hirta-songs

Hoping to attend this, cld be an excellent setting for A.R.:

http://www.ents24.com/glasgow-events/govan-old-parish-church/a-christmas-time-concert/3669218

That sounds lovely!!

Dang, not going to be around for that unfortunately. I've seen him plenty of times, but Govan Parish Church would be quite something.

Finally got Hirta Songs yesterday. Only heard half of it on my commute but it sounded wonderful and I look forward to spending quality time with it.

these are
the wheels of
the world, my friend
you must understand
for two thousand years they’ve been
spreading destruction
all over this land

she's lain with one too near in blood

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Ooh, I want details!

i like this guy.

cover looks like an alisdair gray drawing

Ooh, going all eponymous on us

There's a live rendition/recording of "The Problem of Freedom" posted here: http://onderinvloed.com/home/2014/10/alasdair-roberts-2/

shit-hot guitar

sooooo excited for new one
pre-ordered

shit-hot bass clarinet

or what is that?

the new album has so many saaaad songs on it! really beautiful.

i LOVE Farewell Sorrow. heard it for the first time this year. What else is as good as that album?

i'm a big fan of the Amber Gatherers, but it's a little peppier than Farewell Sorrow.

Just saw this, which I like a lot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBjGZTy6KME

i dig this new song! the drums are weird and i like them a lot, his voice sounds good too
also the album is called "pangs"!

https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/alasdair-roberts-the-downward-road

shit-hot guitar

― j., Tuesday, November 25, 2014 3:43 PM (two years ago)

One thing I will bleat, as they drag my sclerotic body from this rock, is why didn't I listen to more Alasdair Roberts?

What News? is quietly glorious.

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/07/02/alasdair-roberts-the-evernew-tongue/

is that a lil shit-hot guitar playing i hear????

November 24: Cambridge: Alasdair Roberts + Rachel Watkins

Hadn't seen AR play in forever, it was a good time. Nagging feeling that I still prefer him singing traditional ballads vs original compositions.

just the opposite

I don’t care whether he’s singing originals or traditionals— he’s always engaging imo/ime!