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May
Hull - This
was a rather unusual performance which involved us performing in
the Colourdome, a space which is entirely inflated and made up of
chambers and tubes which lead to a big see through dome where we
performed our Horses Brawl repertoire and some electro-acoustic
improvisations with Lawrence Casserly (computer & electronics
and Simon Deshorger flutes, shakahatchu and panpipes. We are performing
at Colourscape again in Barnstaple (June 1st) and Clapham Common
(September 13th), I highly recommend you check it out, it's a wild
sensory experience!
Bury Festival - Yesterday we performed a lunchtime concert
as part of the Bury Festival, it was in the Trinity Methodist Church
which has amazing acoustics, a fabulous space to perform in. Great
Festival too.
March & April
City of London Festival - We performed at St Anne and St
Agnes Church to a full and appreciative audience,
Norwich Arts Centre - All our lovely Norwich friends came
to this, again a full house.
Aust, Gloucestershire - This was an adventure from Norwich
to Bristol and sorry if it's getting boring but this church is fantastic
too, it has huge iron candleabras (?) which are suspended all the
way along the church and it's on a hill near the old severn bridge.
The Cut, Suffolk- We had a fab sound and lighting man who
made the whole concert extra special. Some familiar faces were there
and we plane to return next year with Philip.
February
We're fresh back from The Village Stage Tour, and very
pleased to say it was a sell out three nights in a row!
The hospitality of the promoters was excellent and we were supplied
with much cake, cromer crab sandwiches and spicy soup.
Hooray for rural touring. One of the best things is the intimacy
you get with the audience and they can be very relaxed on their
home ground, with a small amount of heckling and lots of good humour.
January
Two concerts this year so far, very different ones too!
A double bill with The Portico Quartet on Jan 9th and 19th at Loughton
Methodist Church - Music Club style concert - superb acoustics,
it was a full evening concert in the relatively newly built church
with pine roof from Sweden.
December
The past two months have been really busy with performances
in Brighton, London, Cambridgeshire and ending up in Norwich. We
did a concert at Norwich Puppet Theatre joined by special guest
Philip Thorby and also members of Norwich Fiddle School:
Sarah Cannell
Iklooshar Malara
Ferdia Stone-Davis
Helen Otter
Elly Wright
Now we're looking forward to doing some more composing
and getting ready for our concerts in the new year, but not without
the final gig of the year which is at Norwich Arts Centre on December
22nd, the Christmas Howlback Hum, where we will be joined on teatray
by Henry Walker (aka Ben Grizzly), Nicholas Melia - voice (Roberte,
Navigator) & Andre Bosman - fiddle (aka Hoofus).
Plans are also afoot to work with a select group of composers on
new works plus the making of a film to go with a track of 'Dindirin'.
So all very exciting... Merry Christmas.
xx
Sept
News 2007
Horses
Brawl are giving a workshop at The Royal Academy of Music as part
of the Brighton Early Music Festival. We will be working with groups
who have auditioned and been selected to perform at the festival
including two groups, 'Treblemakers' and
a lute and voice duo who will also be performing at Horses
Brawl's gig at Brighton Komedia on October 24th.
June 28th 2007
Thank you to everyone who came to our launch on Friday
22nd at Norwich Arts Centre, it was a sell out!
It was a great night, there will be pictures in the gallery soon.
Huge thanks to Gerry for the sound, my family for setting up a brilliant
stall and Nathalie & Geoff for their amazing nightingale sculpture
and nest, couldn't have done it without you all.
Unfortunately Folk on the Water this weekend has
been cancelled due to flooding, it has been rescheduled for July
2008.
May 7th 2007
We finished the new album! It will be available in June. It is called
'Dindirin'.and we are very excited!!!
April
13th 2007
We
have finished writing al the new tracks and are rehearsing the for
the album recording at the end of the month.
Plus we can reveal our guest musician on the CD is Philip Thorby
- Recorder & Viol Musica
Antiqua of London & one of the UKs leading performers and
teachers baroque and renaissance music!
March
30th
We're working hard getting ready for the new album
and we have a launch date it is:
Friday 22nd June 2007 at Norwich Arts Centre
19th January
New feature on the
BBC Norfolk Website
12th November 2006
THANKYOU to everyone who came and supported us at our King
of Hearts concert last night, and SORRY to the people who were turned
away because it completely sold out!
Also, another thankyou to our guest musicians Tabitha Tuckett -
baroque cello (Concentus VII) and Carolyn Gibley - harpsichord (The
Brook Street Band).
Autumn News
The Brawl Autumn Tour is underway. We have already performed
at:
The
National Theatre
The Windsor Festival
Norwich Arts Centre
Norwich Fringe Festival
The Whitechapel Gallery
and also getting new material together for our 2nd album, to be
released in spring 2007, watch the dates page for live performance
details.
AUGUST
NEWS
New dates being added to the tour, join our mailing
list for up to date news
NEW LINE-UP FOR HORSES BRAWL
Due to other committments Jon has decided not to continue
playing with Horses Brawl. We wish him well in his future projects.
Laura & Adrian are currently working on new material and will
be performing throughout the summer as a duo. There are some exciting
new projects in the pipe-line so watch this space for future developments...
May 14th 2006
A big thanks to everyone who came to our concert at 'Folk
on the Pier' yesterday. It co-incided with the great review we received
in Songlines Magazine. It will be posted soon on the reviews page.
April
review in fROOTs....available now, but it is rather 'unsettling'!
Tuesday 28 February 2006
Stampanasa from the album was the opening track on BBC
Radio 3's Late Junction presented by Fiona Talkington.
February 25 2006
Horses Brawl in the National Papers:
The Guardian
The Guide Magazine
Music section on Saturday 25 February in a preview for IF:06 taking
place between Feb 26 - April 9.
The Independent
The Information
The essential guide to going out and staying in.....
Horses Brawl are on p.3, in a preview for IF:06
8th February 2006
BBC Radio 3 - Late Junction
11.16pm
Stampanasa from the new album was played by Verity Sharp on Late
Junction
February 16 2006
Top Ten Playlistin fROOTS
March edition
Horses Brawl make it into the Top Ten of the fRoots playlist
fROOTS Radio
Also for March 'Mofo' from the Brawl's debut album is on
fROOTS Radio presented by Ian Anderson follow this
link to Radio
we are on about 26 minutes in!
26th January 2006
Hobo from the album was on the COOL AS FOLK official playlist
16th January 2006
We have new pictures in the Gallery, courtesy of the lovely
Martin Barber from BBC Norfolk. He also helped us with our backdrop
for the recent gig at the Arts Centre. It was a brilliant night!
with music from Rory McVicar and Steve Holmes & friends, and
a full house. We couldn't have asked for more, people even hopped
to the 14th century hopping dances and it was a seated gig...thankyou!
We're
writing new tunes so watch this space.....
14th December 2005
On saturday 10th December we were invited to perform
in the University of East Anglia's concert of Carl Orff's Carmina
Burana at St Andrew's Hall in Norwich.
We performed medieval song settings alongside the
UEA Symphony Orchestra and choir, with soloists, conducted by Howard
Williams.
1st December 2005
We just had 4 gigs: huddersfield, London, Halesworth
and Norwich..... thanks to everyone who came to see us. Especially
at The New Cut Arts Centre, in the snow and rain. It was a small
but perfectly formed audience and great fun. It was also Alex's
third big gig with us, doing an amazing job on our sound as usual.
The London one on tuesday was where we were performing at the press
launch of 'Canteen', a really cool new restaurant in Spitalfields.
They gave us cocktails and oysters and there were a few celebrities
for us to stare at. I recommend it!
24th October 2005
Thanks to everyone who came and supported us at our launch on saturday.
It was a brilliant evening, we met lots of really cool people and
shared our hooge cake.
Lots of you lovely people also bought our new CD and we had really
positive responses from the reviewers! Thanks again to everyone
who helped and to Alex for doing a mighty fine job on our sound
and Martin Barber from BBC Norfolk for being our MC.
The new Horses Brawl album is now available from our shop.
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Collaborations
& Projects
'Writing on the wall'composed by Anna
Meredith
for IF:06 Festival of new music
Performed at The Spitz, London March 2nd 2006
n0media - Distributed Improvisation
Webcast and Gallery Performances at:
The Norwich Gallery
Norwich School of Art and Design
University of East Anglia
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