June 11, 2005 | Delores | Link to Here
Druidic Venue Delivers!
If you were looking for a reason to build a tree fort deep in the national forests, and sleep in it for a couple of weeks, you now have one.
Scarborough Today reports that the Beautiful South's June 25th Dalby Forest gig will be recorded by a local Hull production company and repackaged as a live DVD for the holidays!
When you hear the first hushed strains of support act Hem, you'll know to put the finishing touches on your dominoman banners, drain your lager, and shimmy out of your tree fortress for a concert like no other.
The South's support act for this arborial advaneture will be Brooklyn's own Hem, back on a return engagement from their previous hushed show at the Band Room in Farndale in 2002. Rolling Stone magazine says:
"To the eight players in Brooklyn-based Hem, wonder is found in a hush. For on Eveningland, the band's second album, singer Sally Ellyson and songwriters Dan Messe and Gary Maurer stroll through sixteen elegant, old-fashioned Americana tunes that barely exceed a whisper. But in this quiet, the band finds an aching humanity, exploring insecurities, heartbreak and that strange emotional uneasiness made more uneasy at nighttime.
Acoustic guitars, pianos, pedal steel and a host of other stringed instruments weave nimbly throughout, matching the complicated moods of their characters. Still it's Ellyson's lazy soprano that carries the tunes, transforming what might otherwise be ordinary country-pop into something dreamy. On songs like the upbeat (for Hem) "Dance With Me, Now Darling" and the Johnny and June Carter Cash cover "Jackson," Ellyson, with just the slightest inflection, is able to capture a whole world of feeling. Hem's softness may indeed be readymade for sleepy time, but it's a softness containing endless pleasures."
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