Full Version: Laura Marling
i don't know - the weather has been shitty here lately - this has really clicked with me. i refuse to believe this girl is barely 18...
Anyone manage to find this at all during the week? Can see it on Amazon.com as domestic release, maybe a mistake by AMG.
Anyone more converts; Dr. Jimmy, Elco, Elemeno, Slackmo, Useless Rocker? Or do I have to start with PM's?
Gig tomorrow night! Yay!
Anyone more converts; Dr. Jimmy, Elco, Elemeno, Slackmo, Useless Rocker? Or do I have to start with PM's?
Gig tomorrow night! Yay!
So this is growing on me. I'm not usually huge on the folky type thing, but she's got such lovely melodies working in her favour that I'm charmed despite myself. I love it when that happens.
I dl'ed this randomly, and damn, its not usually my cup of tea, but damn.
I'll screencap my last.fm come sunday to show the downright stupid number of times that i listened to it.
"Ghosts" "Failure" "Night Terror" "My Manic and I" "The Captain and the Hourglass" and "Typical" (which I got off the My Manic and I single off Ruckus after hearing the album)
damn, once more, for emphasis
I'll screencap my last.fm come sunday to show the downright stupid number of times that i listened to it.
"Ghosts" "Failure" "Night Terror" "My Manic and I" "The Captain and the Hourglass" and "Typical" (which I got off the My Manic and I single off Ruckus after hearing the album)
damn, once more, for emphasis
QUOTE(MitchellStirling @ Mar 28 2008, 07:18 PM) [snapback]618071[/snapback]
Anyone manage to find this at all during the week? Can see it on Amazon.com as domestic release, maybe a mistake by AMG.
That amazon listing is still for an import.
This is good stuff. I can't remember if I already said that earlier in this thread. Make sure you hear "New Romantic" as well ("you" refers to everyone other than MitchellStirling because I only found that song and Laura Marling in the first place from it being part of his 2007 singles list).
Good to hear, I honestly don't know anyone who has heard this and said they didn't like it or thought it wasn't very good.
As Paul says, "New Romantic" is an absolutley fantstic song and should be considered a classic.
As Paul says, "New Romantic" is an absolutley fantstic song and should be considered a classic.
QUOTE(MitchellStirling @ Mar 29 2008, 12:18 AM) [snapback]618071[/snapback]
Gig tomorrow night! Yay!
No gig tonight, she's not well. Shame as it seemed like a cool place last night, even though the band on dressed like they ran Rik Wakeman's kebab van.
Guess I'll have to wait for a couple of months!
dl'ing now.
this week has turned out really good for music.
hoping this is the cherry on top.
this week has turned out really good for music.
hoping this is the cherry on top.
From The Sunday Times
March 30, 2008
Laura Marling, 2008's true musical talent
Dan Cairns
Of all the mental images you carry away with you after seeing Laura Marling perform live, the most telling are these: of an audience leaning in as one, heads tilted, ears cocked, hanging not just on each note and word, but on every nuance; and of a singer so shy, so fixed in the moment, that her eyes are cast down, wearing a look of awkwardness last seen when Ted squirmed beneath Lord Ralph’s fumbling forays in The Fast Show. So, not a natural performer, you would think. Except that, of all the artists I saw at the South by Southwest festival in Texas earlier this month, Marling was far and away the most powerful. People floated out of her shows with expressions of rapture on their faces.
We live in instant times and expect instant results – a time when Delia Smith salivates over quick-to-cook frozen mash; when the unknown Leon Jackson spouts ready tears on The X Factor and, now apparently “known”, goes straight in at No 1 in the singles chart. Our willingness to be baffled by, to explore and work hard at understanding an art form seems to be dying. Duffy’s album, Rockferry, is No 1; Laura Marling’s debut, Alas, I Cannot Swim, is not. Only one of these is a great record. Ready answers – the instant cash prizes of forensic lyric-sifting – are not, however, Alas, I Cannot Swim’s thing. Nor do they exactly flow from the mouth of its writer in conversation.
Sitting in the shade on a 90-degree Texan day, shortly after holding another crowd spellbound with her pinpoint modern folk songs, Marling parries and mumbles, her few attempts at candid, incautious explanation preceded by a strange, shy gurgle or a wry private laugh, after which the drawbridge is again raised. The acclaim that greeted the release of her album, just days after the Berkshire-born singer’s 18th birthday in February, was dominated by a single phrase, or variants of it: the achievement was extraordinary, fans enthused, in “one so young”. Never mind that Paul Weller wrote All Mod Cons when he was just 20, or that Kate Bush came up with most of The Kick Inside as a teenager.
Certainly, Marling’s air of seriousness sets her apart – but more from other musicians than from teenagers. Some have detected in her a slightly standoffish demean-our, a complaint often made about artists who are unwilling to splurge and prefer instead to put their music out there and leave it at that. Others have described her album – which addresses scarcely well-visited pop subjects such as depression, death, religion, infidelity, selfishness and solitude – as bleak. Yet Alas, I Cannot Swim strikes me as redemptive, in that, by confronting these issues, Marling sounds empowered, not brought low. She has the confidence to realise she hasn’t worked it all out, a quality that perhaps doesmake her unusual for her age.
Ask her what she makes of descriptions such as “bleak” and “standoffish” and, after a strangled laugh, Marling says: “I wouldn’t be upset by that. Because I think, ‘Who cares? Who cares about that?’ I think having a persona as an artist is important. But you shouldn’t try to mask yourself too much, because you shouldn’t care about it too much.” She pauses, which she does a lot, often for long enough to make you conclude she has stopped talking. “On the same level, you can’t give away too much. You’ve just got to be honest. That’s all you can do; because, if you’re not, people have a reason to pick up on, you know, bad stuff.” I thinkwhat she means by this is our habit of projecting meanings onto the less forthcoming type of performer. “I’m quite tough when I need to be,” she continues. “If you’re not going to be tough, then you’re going to feel, ‘What am I doing?’ So, yes, a bit of the cold shoulder, and politeness, and all will be fine.” She laughs quietly to herself.
Later, she owns up to occasional fretting about how her album is perceived: “I have worries about what people will think of it. The obvious ones are ‘Laura Marling sells out’ [after some agonising, she signed to a major label last year] and ‘Laura Marling sounds like Kate Nash’ [she doesn’t, at all]. When I think about music, it’s about community and communication. If you’re not touching a point in someone that affects them, then I kind of think that, for my type of music, it’s pointless. I don’t write songs to try to touch people, but, because they are honest, I expect them to. If somebody said, ‘This album has absolutely no effect on me’, that would be...” – longpause – “bad.”
In any number of other artists, such bashfulness would make me want to take a blowtorch to their CD. Marling’s shyness, though, comes across not as attention-seeking, but as the outer skin of an inner being far too busy to have time for niceties or to work out a way of explaining what’s going on. During a discussion about how being articulate can lead to people assuming you’re equipped with confidence and clarity, the singer says: “People who are good with words are forever searching for the right way to express themselves, and that’s why they have no clarity.” It’s one of the best explanations I’ve heard of why so many writers are messed up behind their immaculate verbal facades/smokescreens. Marling’s facade, however, is far from immaculate. And so we turn to the songs. Which is how, of course, she would prefer it.
Alas, I Cannot Swim was recorded with a raggle-taggle of musicians she met when she moved to London, having left school at 16. These include Charlie Fink, whose band, Noah and the Whale, Marling was until recently a member of. Fink was also the producer, and the real guile of the album is that, by ornamenting the words and melodies so economically and subtly, it attunes your ear to listening in the same way. Songs such as Old Stone, Your Only Doll and Night Terror ensnare you before Marling has crept up to the microphone and sung, in her curiously noncommittal voice, lyrics whose startling imagery and honesty pin you to your seat. Weaving around these are piano, guitar, accordion, french horn, trumpet, brushed percussion and violin.
The last is played by the self-styled Tom Fiddle, of whom Marling says: “There’s something about him that makes everyone smile, I think. He’s the shyest person, but when he plays, he’s set free. He’s incredibly passionate.” Is there something unintentionally (self-)revealing about that remark?
I ask her if she is able to turn her head off, as it were. She is aware, she says, of the old writers’ trap of diarising your problems away and believing you have then dealt with them. It’s not one she intends to fall into. The strangest answer she gives comes when I inquire if she is good at detaching herself from that endless cycle of self-exploration. “I guess so,” she says, “given that I can do what I do. I guess I must be.” Though I sort of know what she means, it’s an answer that’s still resonating.
“My manic and I,” Marling sings on the song of the same name, “have no plans to move on/But birds are singing to calm us down.” This sense of restlessness, torment and constant questing thrums throughout the album. The words “belief” and “believe” keep cropping up. “I don’t have a religious family,” she says, when I ask about this (she is the youngest of three daughters), “but I’m quite susceptible to religion. I went to church by myself until I was 12, then I was a Buddhist for four years. And, for some reason, I’ve got three people in my touring band who are religious. I get panic attacks before gigs sometimes, and they’ll come and sit next to me, put their arms around me and say a prayer.”
On cue, the birds in the tree above us burst into song. Beneath them, Laura Marling looks very calm indeed.
Alas, I Cannot Swim is out now on Virgin
March 30, 2008
Laura Marling, 2008's true musical talent
Dan Cairns
Of all the mental images you carry away with you after seeing Laura Marling perform live, the most telling are these: of an audience leaning in as one, heads tilted, ears cocked, hanging not just on each note and word, but on every nuance; and of a singer so shy, so fixed in the moment, that her eyes are cast down, wearing a look of awkwardness last seen when Ted squirmed beneath Lord Ralph’s fumbling forays in The Fast Show. So, not a natural performer, you would think. Except that, of all the artists I saw at the South by Southwest festival in Texas earlier this month, Marling was far and away the most powerful. People floated out of her shows with expressions of rapture on their faces.
We live in instant times and expect instant results – a time when Delia Smith salivates over quick-to-cook frozen mash; when the unknown Leon Jackson spouts ready tears on The X Factor and, now apparently “known”, goes straight in at No 1 in the singles chart. Our willingness to be baffled by, to explore and work hard at understanding an art form seems to be dying. Duffy’s album, Rockferry, is No 1; Laura Marling’s debut, Alas, I Cannot Swim, is not. Only one of these is a great record. Ready answers – the instant cash prizes of forensic lyric-sifting – are not, however, Alas, I Cannot Swim’s thing. Nor do they exactly flow from the mouth of its writer in conversation.
Sitting in the shade on a 90-degree Texan day, shortly after holding another crowd spellbound with her pinpoint modern folk songs, Marling parries and mumbles, her few attempts at candid, incautious explanation preceded by a strange, shy gurgle or a wry private laugh, after which the drawbridge is again raised. The acclaim that greeted the release of her album, just days after the Berkshire-born singer’s 18th birthday in February, was dominated by a single phrase, or variants of it: the achievement was extraordinary, fans enthused, in “one so young”. Never mind that Paul Weller wrote All Mod Cons when he was just 20, or that Kate Bush came up with most of The Kick Inside as a teenager.
Certainly, Marling’s air of seriousness sets her apart – but more from other musicians than from teenagers. Some have detected in her a slightly standoffish demean-our, a complaint often made about artists who are unwilling to splurge and prefer instead to put their music out there and leave it at that. Others have described her album – which addresses scarcely well-visited pop subjects such as depression, death, religion, infidelity, selfishness and solitude – as bleak. Yet Alas, I Cannot Swim strikes me as redemptive, in that, by confronting these issues, Marling sounds empowered, not brought low. She has the confidence to realise she hasn’t worked it all out, a quality that perhaps doesmake her unusual for her age.
Ask her what she makes of descriptions such as “bleak” and “standoffish” and, after a strangled laugh, Marling says: “I wouldn’t be upset by that. Because I think, ‘Who cares? Who cares about that?’ I think having a persona as an artist is important. But you shouldn’t try to mask yourself too much, because you shouldn’t care about it too much.” She pauses, which she does a lot, often for long enough to make you conclude she has stopped talking. “On the same level, you can’t give away too much. You’ve just got to be honest. That’s all you can do; because, if you’re not, people have a reason to pick up on, you know, bad stuff.” I thinkwhat she means by this is our habit of projecting meanings onto the less forthcoming type of performer. “I’m quite tough when I need to be,” she continues. “If you’re not going to be tough, then you’re going to feel, ‘What am I doing?’ So, yes, a bit of the cold shoulder, and politeness, and all will be fine.” She laughs quietly to herself.
Later, she owns up to occasional fretting about how her album is perceived: “I have worries about what people will think of it. The obvious ones are ‘Laura Marling sells out’ [after some agonising, she signed to a major label last year] and ‘Laura Marling sounds like Kate Nash’ [she doesn’t, at all]. When I think about music, it’s about community and communication. If you’re not touching a point in someone that affects them, then I kind of think that, for my type of music, it’s pointless. I don’t write songs to try to touch people, but, because they are honest, I expect them to. If somebody said, ‘This album has absolutely no effect on me’, that would be...” – longpause – “bad.”
In any number of other artists, such bashfulness would make me want to take a blowtorch to their CD. Marling’s shyness, though, comes across not as attention-seeking, but as the outer skin of an inner being far too busy to have time for niceties or to work out a way of explaining what’s going on. During a discussion about how being articulate can lead to people assuming you’re equipped with confidence and clarity, the singer says: “People who are good with words are forever searching for the right way to express themselves, and that’s why they have no clarity.” It’s one of the best explanations I’ve heard of why so many writers are messed up behind their immaculate verbal facades/smokescreens. Marling’s facade, however, is far from immaculate. And so we turn to the songs. Which is how, of course, she would prefer it.
Alas, I Cannot Swim was recorded with a raggle-taggle of musicians she met when she moved to London, having left school at 16. These include Charlie Fink, whose band, Noah and the Whale, Marling was until recently a member of. Fink was also the producer, and the real guile of the album is that, by ornamenting the words and melodies so economically and subtly, it attunes your ear to listening in the same way. Songs such as Old Stone, Your Only Doll and Night Terror ensnare you before Marling has crept up to the microphone and sung, in her curiously noncommittal voice, lyrics whose startling imagery and honesty pin you to your seat. Weaving around these are piano, guitar, accordion, french horn, trumpet, brushed percussion and violin.
The last is played by the self-styled Tom Fiddle, of whom Marling says: “There’s something about him that makes everyone smile, I think. He’s the shyest person, but when he plays, he’s set free. He’s incredibly passionate.” Is there something unintentionally (self-)revealing about that remark?
I ask her if she is able to turn her head off, as it were. She is aware, she says, of the old writers’ trap of diarising your problems away and believing you have then dealt with them. It’s not one she intends to fall into. The strangest answer she gives comes when I inquire if she is good at detaching herself from that endless cycle of self-exploration. “I guess so,” she says, “given that I can do what I do. I guess I must be.” Though I sort of know what she means, it’s an answer that’s still resonating.
“My manic and I,” Marling sings on the song of the same name, “have no plans to move on/But birds are singing to calm us down.” This sense of restlessness, torment and constant questing thrums throughout the album. The words “belief” and “believe” keep cropping up. “I don’t have a religious family,” she says, when I ask about this (she is the youngest of three daughters), “but I’m quite susceptible to religion. I went to church by myself until I was 12, then I was a Buddhist for four years. And, for some reason, I’ve got three people in my touring band who are religious. I get panic attacks before gigs sometimes, and they’ll come and sit next to me, put their arms around me and say a prayer.”
On cue, the birds in the tree above us burst into song. Beneath them, Laura Marling looks very calm indeed.
Alas, I Cannot Swim is out now on Virgin
QUOTE(MitchellStirling @ Mar 28 2008, 07:18 PM) [snapback]618071[/snapback]
Anyone manage to find this at all during the week? Can see it on Amazon.com as domestic release, maybe a mistake by AMG.
Anyone more converts; Dr. Jimmy, Elco, Elemeno, Slackmo, Useless Rocker? Or do I have to start with PM's?
Gig tomorrow night! Yay!
Anyone more converts; Dr. Jimmy, Elco, Elemeno, Slackmo, Useless Rocker? Or do I have to start with PM's?
Gig tomorrow night! Yay!
Just got it. I'll report back in a week or two.
QUOTE (Elemeno P.T. @ Mar 31 2008, 04:00 PM) 
QUOTE (MitchellStirling @ Mar 28 2008, 07:18 PM)
Anyone manage to find this at all during the week? Can see it on Amazon.com as domestic release, maybe a mistake by AMG.
Anyone more converts; Dr. Jimmy, Elco, Elemeno, Slackmo, Useless Rocker? Or do I have to start with PM's?
Gig tomorrow night! Yay!
Anyone more converts; Dr. Jimmy, Elco, Elemeno, Slackmo, Useless Rocker? Or do I have to start with PM's?
Gig tomorrow night! Yay!
Just got it. I'll report back in a week or two.
Good to hear!
Here's a live version of "The Captain and The Hour Glass"
just received her album. can't wait to see her live in three weeks
Is that the Pete Doherty show?
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Is that the Pete Doherty show?
yes, april 23
Okay, this album is wonderful.
Is she famous in the UK yet? She's one clever soundtrack placement away from becoming absolutely huge.
Is she famous in the UK yet? She's one clever soundtrack placement away from becoming absolutely huge.
QUOTE(Saskadelphia @ Apr 4 2008, 10:53 AM) [snapback]622959[/snapback]
Okay, this album is wonderful.
Is she famous in the UK yet? She's one clever soundtrack placement away from becoming absolutely huge.
Is she famous in the UK yet? She's one clever soundtrack placement away from becoming absolutely huge.
Glad you like it it.
No, not really. She's been on Later... and The Culture Show and the album got to #45. 6Music and Radio 2 play but only evening Radio 1 with any regularity. The Mystery Jets single didn't do that well either (nor did the album).
I think with a lot of festival appearances coming up this summer she'll get there, I expect to see the album float just outside the top 40 every now and again.
This feels like one of those albums that's going to hang around and hang around, and ultimately find a big audience with the Dido/Sia/Starbucks crowd in a year's time. She's far too appealing and mainstream-friendly to remain an underground fave for very much longer.
Where's elcorazon? I keep hearing some subtle Patty Griffin similarities...
Where's elcorazon? I keep hearing some subtle Patty Griffin similarities...
I dunno, I think she got lost in the Adele Duffy love-in and maybe the songs are a bit dark to be enormous, I don't know. Depends where she goes with the next one, she's on Virgin and she seems to have good people around her. I hope she does well enough.
Laura has been confirmed to play Cambridge Folk Festival this Summer, as well as Bestival...so far.
The Oslo date has now been rescheduled for 6th May and she will also be supporting Adem in Liverpool, on 27th May
The Oslo date has now been rescheduled for 6th May and she will also be supporting Adem in Liverpool, on 27th May
wait
she was born in the fucking nineteen-nineties
she was born in the fucking nineteen-nineties
I know!
About a week before Mandela was released and The KLF's Chill Out was released.
About a week before Mandela was released and The KLF's Chill Out was released.
Danse avec moi, looking up for you if you are still in Paris on the Thursday.
QUOTE
Hot off the press, a new date in Paris has now been added - next Thursday 24th April, Laura and some very special friends will be playing at Le Baron. Doors open at 11pm – get there early to avoid disappointment...
And in other gig news, it’s busy-busy, as festival season approaches & the UK beckons. But first off - New York where, on May 10th, Laura will be supporting Adam Green. Then back in the UK, on the 27th, she will be supporting Adam in Liverpool.
Festival-wise, so far, LM’s on the bill for Cambridge Folk Festival, Bestival, Field Day and Quart Festival in Norway.
And in other gig news, it’s busy-busy, as festival season approaches & the UK beckons. But first off - New York where, on May 10th, Laura will be supporting Adam Green. Then back in the UK, on the 27th, she will be supporting Adam in Liverpool.
Festival-wise, so far, LM’s on the bill for Cambridge Folk Festival, Bestival, Field Day and Quart Festival in Norway.
QUOTE(MitchellStirling @ Apr 17 2008, 07:17 AM) [snapback]631830[/snapback]
Danse avec moi, looking up for you if you are still in Paris on the Thursday.
QUOTE
Hot off the press, a new date in Paris has now been added - next Thursday 24th April, Laura and some very special friends will be playing at Le Baron. Doors open at 11pm – get there early to avoid disappointment...
And in other gig news, it’s busy-busy, as festival season approaches & the UK beckons. But first off - New York where, on May 10th, Laura will be supporting Adam Green. Then back in the UK, on the 27th, she will be supporting Adam in Liverpool.
Festival-wise, so far, LM’s on the bill for Cambridge Folk Festival, Bestival, Field Day and Quart Festival in Norway.
And in other gig news, it’s busy-busy, as festival season approaches & the UK beckons. But first off - New York where, on May 10th, Laura will be supporting Adam Green. Then back in the UK, on the 27th, she will be supporting Adam in Liverpool.
Festival-wise, so far, LM’s on the bill for Cambridge Folk Festival, Bestival, Field Day and Quart Festival in Norway.
thank you so much Mitch!!! the problem is, i'm going back to london on the 24th with my train tickets and hotels booked and non-refundable:( i'm hoping for may 10th though - i might be in new york that day so fingers crossed
Ah, well good luck for NY instead then.
QUOTE(MitchellStirling @ Apr 17 2008, 09:13 AM) [snapback]631876[/snapback]
Ah, well good luck for NY instead then.
thank you! i am actually looking into changing my eurostar tickets/hotel reservations, but i'm not really hoping it would work out.
QUOTE(MitchellStirling @ Mar 29 2008, 02:05 PM) [snapback]618205[/snapback]
QUOTE(MitchellStirling @ Mar 29 2008, 12:18 AM) [snapback]618071[/snapback]
Gig tomorrow night! Yay!
No gig tonight, she's not well. Shame as it seemed like a cool place last night, even though the band on dressed like they ran Rik Wakeman's kebab van.
Guess I'll have to wait for a couple of months!
Here we are, about five weeks later and I'm back in Oslo. I've already seen Marcus getting the beers in so a cancelation this time would be most extreme!
Good fun last night, was the last date on the European tour supporting Adam Green (although this wasn't a support gig) and Laura and Marcus seemed very relaxed and full of banter.
Set list, pictures and so on later
Set list, pictures and so on later
^ Will do this when I sort out my camera
Meanwhile
Meanwhile
CODE
Demos, b-sides, live etc.
Answering Bell (Ryan Adams cover)
Anywhere With Meaning
Candle Light
Dreaming
Ghosts That Broke My Heart
Good Man Bad Habit
Heartbreaker's Handbook
I Know You!!
Lolita
London Town
Love Me Then Leave Me
Mexico
New Romantic
Only My Opinion
She's Changed
Shine
Soulless Child
Such a Shame
The Man Sings About Romance
Typically Shit
http://www.sendspace.com/file/uyf2dv
Answering Bell (Ryan Adams cover)
Anywhere With Meaning
Candle Light
Dreaming
Ghosts That Broke My Heart
Good Man Bad Habit
Heartbreaker's Handbook
I Know You!!
Lolita
London Town
Love Me Then Leave Me
Mexico
New Romantic
Only My Opinion
She's Changed
Shine
Soulless Child
Such a Shame
The Man Sings About Romance
Typically Shit
http://www.sendspace.com/file/uyf2dv
"Typical" off the "My Manic & I" EP is fucking AMAZING.
Laura Marling Blå 6/5/08
Nevermind that for some reason it was 17°C in Oslo on Tuesday I was wearing a coat to hold all the shit I carry around with me all the time. I managed to climb up the Opera House in the evening which wasn't open last time I was there end of March. It was really hot because the bloody thing is bright white. With this added overheating it was imperative I got to Blå to get the £5 beers in (I shamefully drank five over the course of the night). So a couple of Staropramen's sitting out by the canal and listening to Scott 2 over the speakers was a nice relaxant.
Inside Blå instead of standing there was a load of tables and chairs out which added to the relaxed atmosphere (Inearly said vibe then). It seemed from hearing people talking (in English) that there were a few EMI staff in attendance so I as I was wearing a Radiohead top I kept away from them.
Marcus (Laura's drummer) came on first and did a few Mumford and Sons (his band's) songs while "Laura puts her make-up on, which will take ages because she's really ugly" Marcus's songs, including one that he wrote earlier that day and needed to have the lyrics in his pocket just in case, are very sparse and simple yet you end up fixed listening to them and taken back by their emotion. Looking forward to hearing more from them in the coming year or so, I felt like I was in Greenwich Village sitting at a table watching him play on stage a few yards in front of me.
When Laura came on for "Shine" she looked the most relaxed I'd ever seen her live (third time), Marcus and her have developed a good repertoire together with plenty of banter between the two of them; bickering about what to play, him making her ill before the last show, him taking longer to tune his instruments than her, Laura not having any clothes left after three weeks in Europe and him not really liking her choice of cover (Kimya Dawson's "Five Years in The Saddle" which she wanted to play all week but supporting Adam Green made in inappropriate). All this was topped by Laura's admission that Adam had started calling her his son and after Marcus shouted from the sides "and" she said he thinks she looks like a hermaphrodite. Good call with putting the Union Chapel live version of "Alas, I Cannot Swim" on her MySpace as by the time we got to that everyone knew that to clap along hoe-down style was the thing to do, in fact most people ended up standing up to clap along.
I'm hoping to catch her again a couple of times this summer as, after a five minute chat afterwards, Marcus is with her until September before doing his own thing so she's in search of a drummer (I suggested a drum machine experiment which said would be a bit wanky) I certainly hope it's someone who she knows enough to develop the banter with as maybe it was just end of tour vibe but it was a very enjoyable evening
Set list (as far as I can remember)
Shine (solo)
Ghosts
My Manic and I
Blackberry Stone
Dora (Your Only Door)
I'm A Fly
Cross Your Fingers / Crawled Out Of The Sea
Tap At Your Window
Night Terror
Alas, I Cannot Swim
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You're No God
Five Years (Kimya Dawson cover)
Random fact: Laura is descended from William The Conqueror.
Nevermind that for some reason it was 17°C in Oslo on Tuesday I was wearing a coat to hold all the shit I carry around with me all the time. I managed to climb up the Opera House in the evening which wasn't open last time I was there end of March. It was really hot because the bloody thing is bright white. With this added overheating it was imperative I got to Blå to get the £5 beers in (I shamefully drank five over the course of the night). So a couple of Staropramen's sitting out by the canal and listening to Scott 2 over the speakers was a nice relaxant.
Inside Blå instead of standing there was a load of tables and chairs out which added to the relaxed atmosphere (Inearly said vibe then). It seemed from hearing people talking (in English) that there were a few EMI staff in attendance so I as I was wearing a Radiohead top I kept away from them.
Marcus (Laura's drummer) came on first and did a few Mumford and Sons (his band's) songs while "Laura puts her make-up on, which will take ages because she's really ugly" Marcus's songs, including one that he wrote earlier that day and needed to have the lyrics in his pocket just in case, are very sparse and simple yet you end up fixed listening to them and taken back by their emotion. Looking forward to hearing more from them in the coming year or so, I felt like I was in Greenwich Village sitting at a table watching him play on stage a few yards in front of me.
When Laura came on for "Shine" she looked the most relaxed I'd ever seen her live (third time), Marcus and her have developed a good repertoire together with plenty of banter between the two of them; bickering about what to play, him making her ill before the last show, him taking longer to tune his instruments than her, Laura not having any clothes left after three weeks in Europe and him not really liking her choice of cover (Kimya Dawson's "Five Years in The Saddle" which she wanted to play all week but supporting Adam Green made in inappropriate). All this was topped by Laura's admission that Adam had started calling her his son and after Marcus shouted from the sides "and" she said he thinks she looks like a hermaphrodite. Good call with putting the Union Chapel live version of "Alas, I Cannot Swim" on her MySpace as by the time we got to that everyone knew that to clap along hoe-down style was the thing to do, in fact most people ended up standing up to clap along.
I'm hoping to catch her again a couple of times this summer as, after a five minute chat afterwards, Marcus is with her until September before doing his own thing so she's in search of a drummer (I suggested a drum machine experiment which said would be a bit wanky) I certainly hope it's someone who she knows enough to develop the banter with as maybe it was just end of tour vibe but it was a very enjoyable evening
Set list (as far as I can remember)
Shine (solo)
Ghosts
My Manic and I
Blackberry Stone
Dora (Your Only Door)
I'm A Fly
Cross Your Fingers / Crawled Out Of The Sea
Tap At Your Window
Night Terror
Alas, I Cannot Swim
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You're No God
Five Years (Kimya Dawson cover)
Random fact: Laura is descended from William The Conqueror.
Noice.
She really likes that flannel shirt, huh? Not that I don't. Certainly better than a trampy tart top.
I'll have to check my Bayeux Tapestry, but I'm not seeing the William the Conquerer resemblence.
Downloading the demos now. Thanks, Mitchell.
She really likes that flannel shirt, huh? Not that I don't. Certainly better than a trampy tart top.
I'll have to check my Bayeux Tapestry, but I'm not seeing the William the Conquerer resemblence.
Downloading the demos now. Thanks, Mitchell.
It was practically falling off her, she said it was the only thing she had left to wear.
I randomly found the WtC factoid out while seeing what that missing song was, I'm glad I didn't know that before her as I was drunk enough to ask about it. Too drunk to remember about asking about a Chicago show, can't see it happening until after the summer looking at her schedule. Maybe in the Fall when she has a drummer.
I randomly found the WtC factoid out while seeing what that missing song was, I'm glad I didn't know that before her as I was drunk enough to ask about it. Too drunk to remember about asking about a Chicago show, can't see it happening until after the summer looking at her schedule. Maybe in the Fall when she has a drummer.
Video for new single (June 2nd) "Cross Your Fingers" ("Crawl Out Of The Sea")
http://www.sentimentalistmag.com/2008/05/1...g-and-tim-fite/
ha ha, look what she wore.
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The 18-year-old Brit Laura Marling, who just finished a European tour with Green, proved a stunning opening act. Her solo acoustic set was made up of six ghostly, melancholic songs brimming with themes of love and loss that belie her youth and fragile appearance. We’d first seen her sing with friends Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit at SXSW, and as expected, Marling’s show tonight was worth arriving early for. Her ethereal presence was the polar opposite of middle act Tim Fite,...
ha ha, look what she wore.
still bummed i missed her by a few hours in paris. new york didn't happen either. as a sidenote, her music is perfect for when you return to canada. from paris.
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Laura Marling has announced details of a tour of churches in the UK.
The singer/songwriter will begin the four-date jaunt in Glasgow on June 9 and end it at Birmingham's St. Paul's church on three days later.
Laura Marling will play:
Glasgow Gilmore Hill and Upstairs at Oran Mor (June 9)
Manchester St Phil's (10)
London St James' (11)
Birmingham St Paul's (12)
The singer/songwriter will begin the four-date jaunt in Glasgow on June 9 and end it at Birmingham's St. Paul's church on three days later.
Laura Marling will play:
Glasgow Gilmore Hill and Upstairs at Oran Mor (June 9)
Manchester St Phil's (10)
London St James' (11)
Birmingham St Paul's (12)
I will even miss Turkey Vs. Switzerland for you Laura. (We will be nailing some beers during Czech Rep Vs. Portugal before though)
From May 20th, Laura's debut album 'Alas I Cannot Swim' will be available to download from iTunes in the US. And, come August 19th, it will be available from record shops in good ol'fashioned CD format .
Two dates in New York City have also just been confirmed
Two dates in New York City have also just been confirmed
Having just tested it, I can safely say that this album is perfect for feeling alone and slightly melancholy on a Saturday night. Course, it's been perfect every other time I've listened to it... fuck, I give up. I love this cd so much.
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From May 20th, Laura's debut album 'Alas I Cannot Swim' will be available to download from iTunes in the US. And, come August 19th, it will be available from record shops in good ol'fashioned CD format .
Two dates in New York City have also just been confirmed
Two dates in New York City have also just been confirmed
Yay, rah.
As much as I'd like to see her sneak further from NYC to Chicago in that small window she seems to have next month, I suspect it will be late September or October after the album's been out for a bit before she does a proper US tour.
I heard one of her songs on my college's radio station today. I was rather shocked, but happy nonetheless.
It was some sort of country/bluegrass hour (although, they played Radiohead straight after
)
It was some sort of country/bluegrass hour (although, they played Radiohead straight after
)
London SOMB's she's playing at Union Chapel supporting Adem at Union Chapel this Sunday. It really is a great little venue. I'm trying to get someone who can't make the June 11 gig to come with me but even though I shouldn't go, I probably will.
Also the likes of Good Dr Bill, Rob Gordon and Scarymuppet should be hearing this album.
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London SOMB's she's playing at Union Chapel supporting Adem at Union Chapel this Sunday. It really is a great little venue. I'm trying to get someone who can't make the June 11 gig to come with me but even though I shouldn't go, I probably will.
One of my friends is coming with me as she's seen Adem before so I'm going on Sunday.
Another London date on 13th June.
i am hoping that one day there will be a "laura marling announces a NA tour" or "is playing London early July"...
Dublin and Belfast early July. Other than that a Norwegian festival.
You'll hear it here when it happens.
Single artwork
You'll hear it here when it happens.
Single artwork
Well, I'm really happy this thread is still going! This abum deserves so much more...
So I saw her supporting Adem on Sunday, I only got one good picture so that will be uploaded later with a mini-review.
In the mean time here are some other people that are relevant.
http://www.myspace.com/mumfordandsons (Marcus's band)
http://www.myspace.com/johnnyflynn (Toured with Laura, album A Larum came out yesterday and is tres bon)
In the mean time here are some other people that are relevant.
http://www.myspace.com/mumfordandsons (Marcus's band)
http://www.myspace.com/johnnyflynn (Toured with Laura, album A Larum came out yesterday and is tres bon)
Not the best picture I've ever taken but I was upstairs in the church so there we go.
Saw Laura Marling supporting Adem at Union Chapel on Sunday. Only about a half an hour set so I won't bother with a set list (especially as while tuning for "Cross Your Fingers" Laura broke a guitar string so that shifted it about a bit.) But she played forthcoming b-sides "I'm A Fly" and "Blackberry Stone" as well as "My Manic & I", "Ghosts" and finally "Alas, I Cannot Swim" opening the set and midway through was "Rebecca" and a one more new song which I hadn't heard before obviously so hoping to get a chance to hear again some other time.
She coped pretty well with the string breaking, not as much banter as I've seen before as it was in a chapel and she was supporting, the title track didn't get a stomp along from the crowd.
Had to get our train back after so no chance to ask about a Chicago show, seeing Marcus' band at my local next week so maybe then I'll see if he knows anything.
B-sides to "Cross Your Fingers..."
Blackberry Stone
I'm A Fly
Sorry to bump this yet again* but thought this would be the best place to treat you all to Johnny Flynn's album A Larum which if you liked Laura's album you'll probably dig as well despite different version from the earlier EP's (what's new there though)
hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/bygn4d
*not really
hxxp://www.sendspace.com/file/bygn4d
*not really
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