Mark Andrew Hamilton has the notion in Thumbtacks and Glue that what characterises one’s life is a myriad of little things, rather than one or two great experiences, influences or tragedies. He has mentioned the parallel of Gulliver in Lilliput, held down by a web of little strings. And so what finally emerges is...
Woodpigeon are to release their new album, Thumbtacks And Glue, in February. The Mark Hamilton-led project from Canada will unveil their fifth full-length release on February 25, with a one-off UK show to follow at London’s St Pancras Old Church to follow on March 4. The album was recorded in Alberta and is preceded...
Below is our attempt at a comprehensive directory of folk artists currently on Twitter – of course, we aren’t Twitter deities and as such will almost certainly have missed out on certain artists. Let us know if you can think of any tweeting folk musicians in the comments below. Akron/Family Angus and Julia Stone...
Some artists spend their entire careers clinging to a single sound, stretching it taut until the bones begin to protrude and reveal the fragile artistic elasticity that held the music together. Mark Andrew Hamiltons’ Woodpigeon barely manage a song without giving in to their artistic flexibility. When combined with the sheer quality of the...
This Sunday's free Bandstand Busk will be a particularly special one, so far as FFS are concerned, featuring as it will two of our very favourite bands. Troubador and -esses Peggy Sue, and bigger-than-a-football team Sons of Noel and Adrian will be appearing at Northampton Square Bandstand from 3pm on Sunday, 6th September.
This Friday (29th May), Woodpigeon will bid a fond farewell to the UK and migrate back home for the summer (or a bit of it, at least). The final gig of their tour will take place at the Art Workers Guild in Bloomsbury, as part of a 'Chamber concert' hosted by the fabulous...
Woodpigeon's evening for Phrased and Confused at the Cross Kings, Kings Cross (try saying that really fast 10 times), was not your ordinary gig. For starters, there weren't any other bands on. Only performance poets. But they weren't just performance poets, they were performance poets who make friends with musicians and...
This Sunday the Phrased and Confused tour hits London, with a gig at the Cross Kings which might well hit all your cultural buttons simultaneously. If you can handle that much pleasure, that is. Folk darlings Woodpigeon are on the bill for the tour, which they say is "focused on lyric-writing and...
Noah and the Whale, Peggy Sue and Sky Larkin have been added to the bill for Brighton festival The Great Escape.
They say: THE EDMONTON JOURNAL: woodpigeon, led by Calgary musician/journalist Mark Hamilton, creates lush, romantic music that combines bright, delicious pop with gorgeous echoey harmonies and oddball orchestrations including some lovely guitar, banjo, shambling drums, a glockenspiel, piano, melodica and horns. But, it’s not nearly as unbearablly twee as you might imagine. Comparisons with...
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