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Caroline Martin - 28 August Cardiff
CAROLINE MARTIN
+ ROSE KEMP
Sunday 28th August
£4
7.00pm
Caroline Martin was catapulted to fame when John Peel gave her the number 3 slot in his Festive 50 for her song, ‘The Singer’
Elusive and secretive, Caroline's stark, dark and frankly disturbing songs captured the attention of one John Peel, for whom she recorded a live session before she ever played live: to date Caroline has recorded 5 live sessions for Radio 1 (four for John Peel and one for Rob da Bank). One of the most compelling artists currently recording and performing in the UK, her listeners are exorably drawn into and absorbed by the world documented in her songs. This world can be a dark and unsettling place, the threat of violence never far from the surface. However it is a world of light and shade, suffused with bone dry, self deprecating wit, heartbreakingly desolate, world weary and exhausted but permeated by a twisted optimism. Caroline Martin keeps her audience on tenterhooks, waiting for the next exquisitely delivered line. It could be a jackhammer or a stiletto to the heart, a lamentation of keenly felt loss, or a seemingly throwaway line of careless simplicity, whatever it will always hit the mark. Her debut album, I had a hundred more reasons to stay by the fire, was released in 2005 on her own Small Dog label and is available through Cargo.
"as if PJ Harvey has inhabited the body of Gillian Welch" Q Magazine;
"wickedly seductive and loaded with emotive sexuality, simply expressed by the occasional, witty, ‘oh’" Gigwise; "full bodied and deeply affecting" Decode Magazine www.small-dog.co.uk
FOR A GIG REVIEW LINK CLICK HERE
Website: http://www.small-dog.co.uk
ROSE KEMP
"Three years ago, when she was 17, Rose Kemp dipped her toe into performance by joining famous Mum Maddy prior on tour. Yet nothing about those acoustic shows prepared audiences for the impact of Kemp’s solo work.
More mad than Maddy, she appropriates dark and mercurial rock’ n’ roll in an attempt to shatter the cosy values of folk music. The nearest comparisons are PJ Harvey, Patti Smith or even Carina Round.
Clearly growing up in a musical household (her father, Rick Kemp, is a highly regarded folk-rock bassist), has given Rose a strong sense of purpose, as she rejects her ‘hey-nonny-nonny’ legacy. Her Attitude is audacious and unapologetic: Rose follows her own path and her own desires, and delights in confounding expectations.”
Mike Bulter, Metro.
http://www.rosekemp.co.uk/
+ ROSE KEMP
Sunday 28th August
£4
7.00pm
Caroline Martin was catapulted to fame when John Peel gave her the number 3 slot in his Festive 50 for her song, ‘The Singer’
Elusive and secretive, Caroline's stark, dark and frankly disturbing songs captured the attention of one John Peel, for whom she recorded a live session before she ever played live: to date Caroline has recorded 5 live sessions for Radio 1 (four for John Peel and one for Rob da Bank). One of the most compelling artists currently recording and performing in the UK, her listeners are exorably drawn into and absorbed by the world documented in her songs. This world can be a dark and unsettling place, the threat of violence never far from the surface. However it is a world of light and shade, suffused with bone dry, self deprecating wit, heartbreakingly desolate, world weary and exhausted but permeated by a twisted optimism. Caroline Martin keeps her audience on tenterhooks, waiting for the next exquisitely delivered line. It could be a jackhammer or a stiletto to the heart, a lamentation of keenly felt loss, or a seemingly throwaway line of careless simplicity, whatever it will always hit the mark. Her debut album, I had a hundred more reasons to stay by the fire, was released in 2005 on her own Small Dog label and is available through Cargo.
"as if PJ Harvey has inhabited the body of Gillian Welch" Q Magazine;
"wickedly seductive and loaded with emotive sexuality, simply expressed by the occasional, witty, ‘oh’" Gigwise; "full bodied and deeply affecting" Decode Magazine www.small-dog.co.uk
FOR A GIG REVIEW LINK CLICK HERE
Website: http://www.small-dog.co.uk
ROSE KEMP
"Three years ago, when she was 17, Rose Kemp dipped her toe into performance by joining famous Mum Maddy prior on tour. Yet nothing about those acoustic shows prepared audiences for the impact of Kemp’s solo work.
More mad than Maddy, she appropriates dark and mercurial rock’ n’ roll in an attempt to shatter the cosy values of folk music. The nearest comparisons are PJ Harvey, Patti Smith or even Carina Round.
Clearly growing up in a musical household (her father, Rick Kemp, is a highly regarded folk-rock bassist), has given Rose a strong sense of purpose, as she rejects her ‘hey-nonny-nonny’ legacy. Her Attitude is audacious and unapologetic: Rose follows her own path and her own desires, and delights in confounding expectations.”
Mike Bulter, Metro.
http://www.rosekemp.co.uk/