lone pigeon - can someone inform me?

Please have a quick read of the following. It’s about a very rare live appearance by Lone Pigeon. Thanks for all the reactions – yup, a very special record. Domino noticed this and have licensed it for the rest of the world.

If any of you can get a preview in or a listing it would be massively appreciated – we know time is tight. And if you want to go just let us know….

Following an acclaimed series of events last year, (featuring PIANO MAGIC, SAVOY GRAND, APPLIANCE, ROTHKO and many others) The Great Lakes brings you HINTERLAND, a series of live music events presenting artists from different regional music scenes around the UK.

The HINTERLAND series begins on Wednesday 29th May at the Arts Cafe with:

From St. Andrews, Fife

JAMES YORKSTON

LONE PIGEON

THE ABRAHAMS

THE COLLECTIVE

(featuring KING CREOSOTE, PIP DYLAN and GUMMI BAKO)

Together these artists form what is loosely known as The Fence Collective - a micro-indie label and collective of northeast Fife bands who play each other’s songs live and on each other’s records. The Fence collective have quietly been writing and recording songs for years with little regard for the music industry, simply handing out CDs to friends or anyone listening, yet producing some of the most exciting home-grown music to grace Britain.

This wayward approach has spawned a legion of loyal followers including reputable label Domino, who have recently signed the much talked about James Yorkston, and Lone Pigeon outside of Europe.

So what do they sound like? The collective produce contemporary folk, but not of the Turin Brakes, Starsailor et al variety. The NME described James Yorkston’s debut release for Domino, ‘The Lang Toun’, as "A thousand times more haunting than anything the New Acoustic Movement ever dreamed of. Mercury Judges, are you listening?". While The Abrahams play rustic country shanties, The Collective, a mix of bluegrass, funk and Dylan-esque ditties and Lone Pigeon, the kind of acid drenched folk that the Beta Band have been crowned for inventing. In fact Lone Pigeon was the original singer/songwriter and co-founder of The Beta Band (then know as The Pigeons) and penned much of ‘The Three EPs’. Unfortunately, due to ill health and bad timing, he was forced to abandon his Beta cousins as they signed to Regal/EMI in 1996. This rare performance (his London debut) hints at a return to health and will see Lone Pigeon previewing songs from his forthcoming debut album, ‘Concubine Rice’ (Sketchbook/Fence).

The second HINTERLAND event at The Arts Cafe will be in late June. Details to follow.

The Arts Cafe, 28 Commercial Street, London E1 – Near Aldgate East

£5.00 on the night or from www.ticketweb.co.uk

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from that Magic For Your Ears website:

Enigmatic songwriter Lone Pigeon is set to be collected on new box set ‘Time Capsule’.

A founder member of The Beta Band, Gordon Anderson helped inspire their stunning initial burst of material. However mental illness intervened and when it became clear that he simply could not tour the songwriter left the group.

Retreating to his native Fife, Anderson then became part of the Fence collective. Urged on by close friends, Gordon Anderson used the name Lone Pigeon to release his startling lo-fi recordings.

Often sneaking out on limited run CD-Rs, Lone Pigeon became a cult figure. In part benefiting from the prestige afforded to The Beta Band, the recordings have a raw, ragged quality that is quite unique.

Difficult to find, Domino have now stepped in to offer the complete guide to Lone Pigeon. Due for release on April 11th, ‘Time Capsule’ gathers a total of seven complete studio albums by the Scottish songwriter.

A lavish package, ‘Time Capsule’ comes packaged in beautiful mini card LP sleeves with dizzyingly colourful artwork. An eye catching design, it sits alongside Anderson’s vivid songwriting.

Alongside this, the Lone Pigeon box set comes complete with an emotional tribute from his brother – none other than King Creosote. Admitting that he often finds the singer to be a difficult puzzle to crack, the Fence mainstay describes Lone Pigeon as “a wanderer, a pilgrim, a messianic jew, a dervish, a vandal, a prophet, but mainly a lost soul.”

Time Capsule will be available as a seven CD box set, with just one album gaining a vinyl pressing. ’28 Secret Tracks’ will be available on wax – currently the only Lone Pigeon album to be pressed onto vinyl.

Lone Pigeon is set to release Time Capsule on April 11, 2011.

The tracklisting is as follows, but please note that the album ’28 Secret Tracks’ has no tracklisting. Naturally.
MOSES
1 Time’s A White Rabbit
2 Heaventree
3 Womblight
4 Autumn Stone
5 Don’t Sell My Love
6 Sitting On A Toadstool
7 Waiting
8 Rocks
9 Fly A Plane Down To Meet You
10 Rox
11 Long Way Down
12 Light Of A Sunday
13 Palpitations
14 Sol
15 Summertyme Beeswing
16 Transformers
17 I Came On Home
18 Ants

DR VAMPRIANOS AND HIS OLD MELODIC CHEST OF DWARVES
1 The Trumptons
2 How Can I Go?
3 Incy Wincy Spider
4 Maheema Sitara
5 The Ginger Darth Vader
6 Glover Lowry
7 Wannabe
8 The Future’s Like A Paintbrush
9 Marcus’ Song
10 Sonovox 3
11 Shadow Of Pain
12 Sleeping Away
13 Telescope Engine
14 Simple Simon
15 Jack The Mouse
16 Silly Little Mousemen
17 Picketty Packetty
18 Hunk Papa Cotton
19 Kirkaldy
20 Helter
21 Winter Joseph
22 Someone Ate The Egg Roll
23 Moog Space City
24 Harpsichord Glover
25 Medicine Man
26 Wide Open Space
27 Won’t You Take Me Back?
28 Captain Barnacle
29 Xfam Radio

28 SECRET TRACKS

GLOVER AGAIN
1 Glover
2 Sdlmnm (Organs)
3 Cold Mountain
4 Sound Of A Gun
5 God In His Room
6 Yavtilern
7 Scottish Hills
8 Glover Smile
9 Wooden Shack
10 Unknown Yesterday
11 Rusty Shores
12 Guitar Space
13 Kerry’s Orange Window
14 This Beginning Of Miracles

BABY PIANO
1 Empty World (Reprise)
2 Rainbow Pain
3 Same Road
4 Won’t You Take Me By The Hand
5 Fyrebird
6 Change My Way
7 Oceanairy
8 Piano Berceuse
9 The Misanthropist
10 Thank You Lord
11 Lonelyman
12 Lady
13 Back To America
14 Oh How The Night Grows Long
15 Billy Jack (Reprise)
16 The Isle Of May
17 Autumn Rain
18 Softer Than A Flower
19 Bakwoodz
20 Seawalk
21 The Raincloud
22 Redwoods

CAKEMONTH
1 Flash Guitar
2 Lovend
3 You Were Once In Love
4 Juicy Little Flies In The Highlands
5 Nancy’s Song
6 Sits Alone On A Saturday Night
7 Waiting For You Girl
8 The Last Summer
9 Mr Yesterday
10 Alone (Again)
11 Onlee Back
12 Jiggajigg
13 Riding On The Rain
14 Memory Of America
15 Theremin Layette
16 Tomorrow
17 Spaceriver
18 The Misanthropist
19 Take Me By The Hand
20 Emily
21 Emily Norris
22 My Piano Is Dying
23 Rainclouds Lovend

HONDA HEDGE
1 Lady Harmzabellogram
2 Porcupine Wife
3 Afex Recording Studio
4 Sally Bradwell
5 Dove Returning
6 Waterfall
7 Bobbie’s Song
8 The Black Door
9 Happy
10 Lovers Canyon
11 Silver Ship
12 Tickertytum
13 Old Mr Muncherman
14 Work In Time
15 Robotman
16 Truths
17 Lonely As Shxt
18 Honest Again
19 Tomorrow
20 Cold Mountain
21 Only Waiting
22 Boats
23 Primal Stream
24 Henry
25 Pete’s Garlic Sausage