Laura Marling is a London-based singer-songwriter, originally from Eversley, Hampshire. She has released two albums ‘Alas I Cannot Swim’ and ‘I Speak Because I Can’, and her third record ‘A Creature I Don’t Know’ will be released on 12 September 2011.
Laura Marling HQ released yet another video from a song on her third album “A Creature I Don’t Know”, titled “All My Rage”. This quirky clip contains hundreds of dolls in an old house which all come alive by the end of the track, where Laura and the band also play. Whether we should...
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Our pompous old playlist-making owl Brian is back. With some bombastic pose, dubious claims about his whereabouts in the past year and a playlist of 2011's gems. How we've missed the silly thing.
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With the space on stage no bigger than the size of your average dining table, surrounded by no less than nine (!) Christmas trees taking up what little room there was; one lonely microphone awaited the arrival of what had brought the small but select and eager crowd of no more than 100 people to...
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Laura Marling is to head out for a second major UK tour in support of her third album A Creature I Don’t Know with a string of dates lined up for March 2012. Where her October tour was a series of intimate shows at cathedrals around the country, Marling will next year play her...
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We know all about Laura Marling’s love for Ryan Adams from her early, more candid songwriting days, so we can imagine how excited she must’ve been to record this version of his song Oh My Sweet Carolina. Ryan says when he first heard Laura Marling’s record I Speak Because I Can – sent to...
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Having just finished her sell-out Cathedral tour across the UK celebrating the third (and most recent) album: ‘A Creature I Don’t Know’, Laura Marling has announced she will be supporting Florence Welch (+ The Machine) on the 4th December, as part of the 93XRT Big Holiday Concert in Chicago. LM will be playing a...
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Hello readers! We have a whole bundle of singles to rattle through. To begin at the beginning, Dent May is a very cheerful sort of person. A bit manically happy, but if you like ‘Fun’ and weddings (or fun weddings?) he might be your man. Ben Howard is also perky, with ‘Keep Your Head...
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Earlier this week, Laura Marling and her band were invited to BBC Radio 2 to perform a concert at Maida Vale Studios. The band played 15 songs. Most were from new record A Creature I Don’t Know, but the set also included old favourites like ‘Ghosts’, ‘Rambling Man’ and ‘Alas I Cannot Swim’. The...
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If Alas I Cannot Swim was Marling vs Fink and I Speak Because I Can was Marling vs Mumford, on A Creature I Don’t Know Laura strikes out on her own. This album doesn’t look to its contemporaries for influence – we hear flickers of Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen, but mostly...
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Laura Marling’s hotly-anticipated 3rd album is out on 12th September, and it’s live on the Guardian website to listen to in full. Titled A Creature I Don’t Know, it’s Laura’s first album with her own band – the Mumford boys provided the backing on the last one and Charlie Fink of Noah & the...
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