Magic Teapot presents...
The Handsome Family
Sunday 26th May
Sunday 26th May
£12adv
plus
Snowapple
The Handsome Family is a 20-year songwriting
collaboration between husband and wife, Brett (music) and Rennie Sparks
(words). Their lyrics and music are very intense, highly descriptive and full
of meticulously-researched narrative and exhilerating musical re-imaginings of
everything from Appalacian holler, psychedelic rock, Tin Pan Alley and medieval
ballad. Of course you don’t have to be a music historian to love these songs.
They are full of romantic longing for nature’s mysterious beauty and the tiny
wonders of everyday life. They pair sweet melody with sad harmony, love poetry
with dark beats. This is music that makes you shiver and cry, but also makes
you happy to be alive.
"Words
that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing...
Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice" - Greil Marcus
"This is music that moves forward by turning the clock back - haunting, primal and strangely heroic" - The London Times
"This is music that moves forward by turning the clock back - haunting, primal and strangely heroic" - The London Times
Remember;
always check with the venue before travelling:
All
remaining dates:
17 –
MANCHESTER, Ruby Lounge
18 –
GLASGOW, The Arches
19 –
GATESHEAD, Old Town Hall
21 –
SHEFFIELD, Greystones (sold out)
22 – LEEDS,
Brudenell Social Club
24 –
KIRBYMOORSIDE, The Band Room (sold out)
25 – HEBDEN
BRIDGE, The Trades Club
26 –
LEICESTER, The Musician
28 –
NORWICH, Arts Centre
29 –
LONDON, Islington Assembly Hall
30 –
BRISTOL, The Fleece
31 –
OXFORD, The Bullingdon
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