Nels Andrews – UK Tour April 2013
“Scrimshaw is a delightfully balanced, mysteriously beautiful experience that begs repeated play and yields continuous satisfaction.” NetRhythms
“Scrimshaw is full of good music, deft singing and clever, original lyrics.” The Telegraph (4 Stars)
NELS ANDREWS
APRIL 2013 UK TOUR
Accompanied by Brandon Seabrook on banjo and mandolin
25th April, Admiral Bar, 72 Waterloo St Glasgow G2 7DA
http://www.nelsandrews.com
Scrimshaw, Nels Andrews’ latest album is out now …
“Scrimshaw” The art of carving or incising intricate designs on whalebone or whale ivory.
“In the 1800s, whaling voyages would last 3 years or longer; several weeks, sometimes months, could pass between Whale sightings. This gave the whalers a great deal more free time than other sailors of the day. Manuscripts were penned, and finely crafted stories were told in thin line on bone. I imagine it was the romantics, if forced to sea, who would take to whaling, finding somewhere to occasionally oust their courage between long bouts of contemplation, and rum. They probably also liked the rum.” Nels Andrews
This is the third studio album from singer/songwriter Nels Andrews, with songs largely set in and around New York City, (his most recent roost since Albuquerque) until he found himself living in coastal California in the summer of 2011. Scrimshaw is a masterful and organic progression from his 2008 album Off Track Betting. It is as if he took the muscular strength of the songs from his first album, Sunday Shoes, and blended this with the sonic range and artful instrumentation that made Off Track Betting rise from the ranks of most singer/songwriters. Nels has kept true to his folk roots, foremost he is here to tell you a story. As always, his voice is warm and captivates you, melodies hanging in your ears long after the songs end, but in Scrimshaw we can also hear the echoes of Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks and the influence of Ziggy Stardust era David Bowie in his writing. In ‘Barroom Bards’ Nels suggests the textures of the San Jorocho music he’s been hearing on the Mexican radio airwaves floating up from Los Angeles. ‘Wisteria’ is a love story from the point of view of a flowering vine that has climbed up the front of a lower east side brownstone for a century. ‘Small Victories’ tells the story of a bohemian enclave being evicted from the apartments hidden above Carnegie Hall. ‘Three Hermits’ is a co-write with WB Yeats. ‘Tridents’, ‘Starboard’, ‘Lost Year’ and ‘Houdini’ are all tales of different sorts of love and ambition, intimate glimpses of characters orbiting a city that won’t rest.
Nels Andrews · April-May 2013 UK Tour
Accompanied by Brandon Seabrook on banjo and mandolin
April
Tuesday 16 London The Old Queen’s Head Green Note presents Songwriter’s Circle with Allison Russell & Peter Mulvey
Wednesday 17 Shrewsbury Henry Tudor House
Thursday 18 Plymouth The B-Bar
Friday 19 Launceston No. 8 Café
Saturday 20 Swansea The Chattery
Sunday 21 Basingstoke The Forge @ The Anvil
Wednesday 24 Leicester The Musician
Thursday 25 Glasgow The Admiral Bar
Friday 26 Abington Abington Masonic Hall with AJ Roach as support
Saturday 27 Edinburgh Soundhouse House Concert with AJ Roach as support
Sunday April 28 to Tuesday April 30 Scottish Highlands Mini Tour see www.nelsandrews.com/gig for further info
May
Wednesday 1 Formby, Merseyside Grateful Fred’s, Formby British Legion
Bio
Nels Andrews has spent the last decade wandering, gathering songs, and singing them all over the globe, sharing them around campfires, coffee shops, clubs, festivals, and living room floors. Modern Folk.
Critically, he’s struck a nerve, earning songwriting awards from prestigious US festivals such as Kerrville, Telluride, and Mountain Stage. BBC 2’s legendary DJ Bob Harris (The Old Grey Whistle Test) recognized his work as an album of the year. He has been in the Top 5 of the year in the Americana UK charts, as well as KRO Dutch National Radio, Alt-Country NL, Ctrl Alt Country (Belgium), and the Euro Americana Chart. Nels’ premiere album Sunday Shoes continued to find itself in Top Ten albums of the year lists, almost always as the only independent release. His second album, Off Track Betting, received similar critical acclaim, leading to headlining shows at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, and national television broadcast from the legendary Bim Huis in Amsterdam.
Nels released Scrimshaw, his third studio album in 2012. Joining up once again with acclaimed producer Todd Sickafoose (Tiny Resistors, Anais Mitchell, Ani Difranco, Andrew Bird, Yoko Ono), Scrimshaw features his touring band Jonathan Goldberger (Tiny Resistors) and Brandon Seabrook (Peter Evans, Marc Ribot, Trevor Dunn) and wildly talented friends from all over the country. The record was recorded overlooking the Naval Yards in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and tells stories culled from a time off the road, working as a chauffer in Manhattan and watching his infant son grow into a toddler in his Brooklyn apartment.
Nels has shared stages across the US and Europe with the likes of Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Dick Gaughan, Slaid Cleaves, and The Tallest Man on Earth, and twice on the main stage at Holland’s TakeRoot Festival, The Big Big Country Festival in Glasgow, Scotland, and The Orange/Vodaphone Evolution Festival in Newcastle, England.
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