Tag: Left With Pictures

Left With Pictures announce new project

Never content to rest on their laurels, Left With Pictures have set themselves a mammoth task for 2010.  Their new project, In Time, will be the work of a whole year, with the boys writing, recording and releasing one song…

Live: Alessi’s Ark, Left with Pictures and Tristram aboard The Tamesis

Moonshine Jambouree started out a little under a year ago with free shows in The Slaughtered Lamb in Clerkenwell. The gigs have come a long way since then and now promoter Antony Chalmers is part way through a run of shows on the Tamesis. A split level boat docked on the south bank of the Thames.

It is in this picturesque setting that FFS finds itself watching Tristram. We first saw him live eight months ago and his delicate vocals and quiet acoustic guitar have since been transformed into assured jangly pop by his backing band of a cellist, keyboard player and percussionist. Tristram’s vocals have a lovely timbre and the cheery glock and pretty harmonies contrast with a melancholy in his voice reminiscent of Nick Drake. Although he seems almost embarrassed to be watched and applauded, Tristram is a real storyteller who had the crowd hanging on his every word.

Alessi’s Ark, Left with Pictures and Thomas Truax take to the waves

Propounders of all sounds lovely, Moonshine Jamboree, have commenced a series of musical adventures on the majestic river Thames aboard the good ship Tamesis, a converted barge which has come a long way since its birth in 1930s Holland.

Communion hosts folktastic stage at Bloom festival

Communion has announced a corker of a line-up for its first festival. The London – and now Brighton – night organised by Kev Jones of Cherbourg and Ben Lovett of Mumford and Sons, has curated a folk stage at Bloom in Bristol.

Left With Pictures, It Hugs Back and Stars of Sunday League for My Latest Novel album launch

For those Londoners going stir crazy this bank holiday weekend we’ve got a last minute gig suggestion for you. My Latest Novel are launching their second album Deaths and Entrances at Bush Hall tonight, with support from It Hugs Back, Left With Pictures and Stars of Sunday League.

Left With Pictures

Left With Pictures are a London-based trio specialising in delightfully crafted, sweet folk pop with influences including Belle & Sebastian and Sufjan Stevens. They Say: “They’ll have you nodding your head, tapping your toes and humming along contentedly until they…

Left With Pictures host free mini festival this Sunday

London folkies – and sometime Peggy Sue collaborators – Left With Pictures are hosting the fourth installment of their mini festival ‘Fleeting Fanfares’ on Sunday 29th March.
The event will be held at The Cross Kings in Kings Cross and will feature Liz Green, Esiotrot, Stars of Sunday League, SJ Esau, Frances Thorburn and Duncan Brown’s Boiling Oil. And for the talented (or shameless) among you, there will be an hour of open mic from 5pm-6pm