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album launch party

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

robin grey image

On Friday 12th March 2010, Robin Grey and The Looking Glass Band present an evening of music featuring the talents of

Barbara Bartz on violin
Iain Macleod on banjo
Amy Bowles on bass
Joe Allen on percussion
Ben Oliver on keys

with support from Theo Bard

…think candles, cake and acoustic music.

Tea by Pukka and Yogi Chai, Banana Cake by Whole Foods and Vegan Truffles by Booja Booja

Facebook page is here.

Unit C, 25 Belfast Road, Stoke Newington, N16 6UN – from 8pm

Tree design by Caitlin Hinshelwood

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r.i.p. sparklehorse’s mark linkous

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

It is with sadness that I learnt of the death of Mark Linkous today – some of the music he recorded as ‘Sparklehorse’ provided much inspiration for me.

Below is a cover of one of his songs ‘Happy Man’ I recorded a few years ago with Iain Macleod on banjo. Aplogise for the slight american twang in my delivery, it was a few years back when I was still finding my voice!

http://pitchfork.com/news/38114-rip-sparklehorses-mark-linkous/

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song on ‘organic nation’ videocast

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

organic nation have my music on their latest videocast. happy days.

What Is Biodynamic Farming? from OrganicNation on Vimeo.

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golden hour poster

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

…so apparently we are the ‘robin grey band’ now… hmmmmm… better think of a rhythm section name quick sharp …any suggestions?

more gig info here – http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=283985541395

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a few more reviews…

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Fense Post

…a hidden treasure of the European underground … (Strangers With Shoes is) a thing of complete and utter beauty.

full review here

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Catching The Waves

…in case I haven’t made myself clear, Robin Grey has talent coming out of his ears.

full review here

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Unpeeled

I can’t help but just be thankful to be alive …I’ll probably keep (Strangers With Shoes) on repeat for about three weeks.

full review here

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Music Liberation

Strangers With Shoes is about to enjoy an extended residency on my ipod play list this year …(Robin’s) every day commentary of normal life inject a refreshing shot of energy into a genre which can sometimes get bogged down with too much heavy emotion and feelings.

full review here

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band on the beach etc

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Barbara has just posted a lovely little photo story board of our Devon trip on her blog… have a peek at it here –

http://basiabartz.blogspot.com/2010/01/lest-weekend.html

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new album on spotify

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Those of you who have fallen in love with spotify will be glad to know that my new album ’strangers with shoes’ is now up on the player for your listening pleasure.

I am down to my last two invites …if you ask really nicely I might let you have one of them!

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call it folk’s ‘indie honors wall’

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

callitfolk

a kind gentleman from just outside of Philadelphia has just written some very nice things about my music on his blog ‘call it folk‘…

‘a brilliant singer-songwriter ready for a much larger audience’

i also have the honor of making it onto his indie honors wall which is causing quite a spike of traffic to my site it must be said!

you can read the full review here – http://callitfolk.blogspot.com/2010/01/robin-grey.html

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german radio, lemonjohn and song by toad

Monday, January 11th, 2010

Edinburgh’s own ‘Song by Toad’ just reviewed my new album here… http://songbytoad.com/2010/01/robin-grey-strangers-with-shoes/

…and I just had my first spin on a german radiostation here… http://trackback.fritz.de/2009/12/26/trb-160-mixtapes/

…and lemonjohn reviewed ‘Strangers With Shoes’ here – http://lemonjohn.blogspot.com/2009/12/robin-grey-strangers-with-shoes.html

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New album launched

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

parkSM21

Well perhaps more ‘uploaded’ than ‘launched’ but what the hey… you can now hear and download it. I have just had an almond slice to celebrate.

The cd will be available in the new year, in the meantime you can order it from bandcamp and get an immediate download of the album included in the price.

It features the talents of Barbara Bartz, Iain Macleod, Joe Allen, Lawrence Williams, Ben Oliver, Beth Dariti, Madelaine Hart, Victoria Couper, Tom Pie and me. Full credits on bandcamp.

1. Younger Looking Skin 05:31
2. Till Dawn 04:21
3. I Love Leonard Cohen 04:00
4. The Suitors Ballyhoo 04:56
5. Montreal 04:38
6. Shakes & Shudders 04:59
7. Ninety Days 03:36
8. Roses From Africa 05:15

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