The Swalesian Bugle
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Hi Folks,
Yes, it's all finally happening! The Legacy CD is finished and the accompanying DVD will be a full swag of interestingness for you all, I hope. As well as 15 of my best political songs from over the years on CD, the DVD has an 8-minute music video of "Black Carrie", live footage from Woodford Folk Festival and the Harp in Sydney, a slideshow of weird and wonderful pictures I took on my travels around the world, and some beautifully inspirational videos from international environment groups.
You can see the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyI5hAvkIug
For the title track, I've re-written my 1992 song "Legacy" to bring it up to date with current global events and concerns, and included a new song "Black Snake Range" about my lovely mountains here. In addition, I've re-recorded "So Lucky" finally to my satisfaction and also "No Way In, No Way Out" as the original version from 1991 was a too poor-quality a recording to put next to the other material. It's OK on Archive Vol.2, because they're all of a piece, but right next to the spanky recordings I made later, it sounded a bit tatty. But the new version I'm very happy with. Huge thanks to Mal Webb and Peter Haydon for all their help in recording
The songlist is a follows:
Legacy 2010
Black Carrie
Mother Song
Lionhearts
Our
Apartheid
Black Snake
Range
Car
No Way In, No
Way Out
Safe
Home
Guenevere and
the Fire
The Old Man in
the Rock
Aunty Betty
Madness, Mines
and Mortgages
Steel-Hearted
Annie
So Lucky
Some of these songs have been unavailable for years, as the albums there were on have been out of print, so I'm very happy to be able to make them available again.
Gigs....
Totally Gourgeous Euro-UK tour
Friday July 8, at Wolkenhof,
Murrhardt, Germany
Sunday July 10,
at Felldballe, Denmark
Wednesday July 13,
at Dukes
Arms, Presteigne, Wales, UK
Thursday July 14, at Beehive,
Swindon, England, UK
Tuesday July 19,
and a bunch of other Aussies at
The Half Moon,
Putney, England, UK (TBC)
Thursday July 21,
at Inspiral
Cafe, Camden, England, UK (TBC)
Friday July 22, 5:30pm,
, City
of London Festival,
12:00 at Paternoster Square and 5:30pm at Liverpool Street Station,
Main Exit, England, UK
Saturday July 23,
at Old
Road Tavern, Chippenham, England, UK
Sunday July 24 at RhythmTree
Festival, Isle of Wight, England, UK
Monday July 25
and Spalien
Acecraft at Latest
Musicbar, Brighton, England, UK
http://www.spalienacecraft.co.uk
Tuesday July 26
at Square
and Compass, Swanage, England, UK
Monday July 27
at The
Bell, Bath, England, UK
Tuesday July 28 at Canteen,
Bristol, England, UK
Anyone interested in booking Penelope penelope@penelopeswales.com
If you're looking for some other great acoustic/roots
artists playing in your area, have a squiz at
www.tradmusic.com a great gig guide
with gigs all
over the world, run by really nice people.