poster by dana krusche
A show at West Hill Hall to celebrate NEW VINYL!
Starting early (7.30pm doors) with two performances, firstly Golden Disko Ship then Lianne Hall, folllowed by a DJ (TBA) and hanging out.
As ever please feel welcome to bring your own beverages.
We’ll be suggesting a token donation of £3 or so to cover costs.
Lianne and the disko ship are also playing at the Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon, London on June 10th…
GOLDEN DISKó SHIP
golden diskó ship is a one girl band.
A mix of an original and personable guitar style, found objects, toy
instruments, computer beats & sounds and layered vocals with selfmade
video projections, drawing you into a unique, beautiful and immersive
world of music and song.
Also celebrating a lovely new record!!
check out www.goldendiskoship.com
LIANNE HALL ‘CROSSING WIRES’
Described by John Peel as “one of the great English voices”, DIY heroine Lianne Hall releases her first album in four years, Crossing Wires, on 31st May 2010. Available on solid(white) vinyl and ethereal download, Crossing Wires is DIY in the truest sense; she played and recorded most of it herself, and it’s coming out on her own label, Malinki.
“The name partly comes from being overwhelmed by the number of wires I was using to record it” she says, while the track Telephone in a Foreign City speaks of the ethics of squatting: “crossing wires is not stealing/ find the nearest empty building.”
She did have a little help with the recording and mixing from her friend Simon Janes, the man behind Mary Hampton’s critically acclaimed debut My Mother’s Children. A number of musicians made contributions, including Mark Bassey’s irresistible trombone part on Fire on Tyre Beach. The album’s deeply-hued artwork is by Dana Krusche, the Berlin-based graphic artist who has created most of the images for Ladyfest Europe.
Lianne started writing songs as a teenager, and joined her first band, Witchknot, when she became involved with the riot grrrl movement in ’93. She lived in a bus for five years, making acoustic folk pop with Bela Emerson under the name Hiphuggers and electronica as Pico with bedroom producer Andy Wills. Whilst living there she met her hero John Peel when he was filming his channel 4 programme Sounds of the Suburbs, and since that meeting she recorded five Peel sessions with a variety of line-ups. In 2000 she left her bus and moved Pico to Brighton, where she formed The Broken Heart Club with Matt Eaton, Alice Eldridge and Susanne Lambert. Local Kid Records put out Abandon Ship, Lianne’s first full length album in ‘06, and around this time she met Paul Hartnoll and co-wrote a song on his solo album, The Ideal Condition. They went on tour together and have been collaborating ever since. Lianne has also been working with Newcastle’s d_rradio on Making Spaces, a CD album out now on Sentence Records.
www.liannehall.com