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A Hawk & A Hacksaw (Elephant6) in Mcr. 5th July
Pop Art vs. Industry presents:
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW + FORMER BULLIES + THE ABRAHAMS
Tuesday 5th July @ The Bowling Green, Grafton St, Manchester
£5 adv
Best known as a member of the Elephant 6 psychedelic pioneers Neutral Milk Hotel, a group whose two albums of distorted pop and homegrown orchestral balladry from 1995 and 1997 have had an immeasurable influence on the music scene of today, Jeremy Barnes is the main man behind A Hawk & A Hacksaw. Influenced by everything from Eastern European folk music to Pierre Schaeffer to Spike Jones & his City Slickers, there’s a healthy disregard for boundaries at play. A Hawk And A Hacksaw is a soundtrack for PT Barnum deceits and backwoods carnivals, top hats and curly moustaches, but maybe gone a little more screwy. A Hawk And A Hacksaw's unmissable live show displays the virtuosity of multi-instrumentalist Jeremy on accordion, vocals and percussion (simultaneously!) accompanied by Heather Trost on violin, glockenspiel and melodica in a musical journey across the most varied of terrain, dipping in and out of modern composition and American and Eastern European folk traditions. Existing somewhere in the previously uncharted hinterland between Spaghetti Westerns and Asa-Chang and Junray, A Hawk & A Hacksaw's 2 albums for the quite marvllous Leaf Label (Bill Wells, Boom Bip, Manitoba) have produced a quite extraordinary fusion of just about every domestic, folk based scene that exists.
Support from Manchester's finest lo-fi 2-piece, Former Bullies, and Fence Collective associates The Abrahams.
More info at:
www.brokenheartfoundation.org.uk/hawk
www.formerbullies.com
www.popartrecords.co.uk
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW + FORMER BULLIES + THE ABRAHAMS
Tuesday 5th July @ The Bowling Green, Grafton St, Manchester
£5 adv
Best known as a member of the Elephant 6 psychedelic pioneers Neutral Milk Hotel, a group whose two albums of distorted pop and homegrown orchestral balladry from 1995 and 1997 have had an immeasurable influence on the music scene of today, Jeremy Barnes is the main man behind A Hawk & A Hacksaw. Influenced by everything from Eastern European folk music to Pierre Schaeffer to Spike Jones & his City Slickers, there’s a healthy disregard for boundaries at play. A Hawk And A Hacksaw is a soundtrack for PT Barnum deceits and backwoods carnivals, top hats and curly moustaches, but maybe gone a little more screwy. A Hawk And A Hacksaw's unmissable live show displays the virtuosity of multi-instrumentalist Jeremy on accordion, vocals and percussion (simultaneously!) accompanied by Heather Trost on violin, glockenspiel and melodica in a musical journey across the most varied of terrain, dipping in and out of modern composition and American and Eastern European folk traditions. Existing somewhere in the previously uncharted hinterland between Spaghetti Westerns and Asa-Chang and Junray, A Hawk & A Hacksaw's 2 albums for the quite marvllous Leaf Label (Bill Wells, Boom Bip, Manitoba) have produced a quite extraordinary fusion of just about every domestic, folk based scene that exists.
Support from Manchester's finest lo-fi 2-piece, Former Bullies, and Fence Collective associates The Abrahams.
More info at:
www.brokenheartfoundation.org.uk/hawk
www.formerbullies.com
www.popartrecords.co.uk