Emily Jones

The final night of Arch Garrison and Emily Jones's winter tour sees them return to their home town for a rare Salisbury gig, with special guest headliner Ian A. Anderson, High Llamas guitarist Pete Aves, and possibly some other surprises on the night. Ian A. Anderson no, not that one! began his solo musical career in the mid 1960s, heavily influenced by old country blues players, before taking a left-swerve in the early '70s into what nowadays gets called 'psych folk', with a trio of songwriter/ guitarist albums for Bristol's pioneering and now highly collectable independent label Village Thing. He eventually settled into a personal and notably English style, drawing from traditional folk, blues, old-time and world roots musics, making some dozen albums by the end of the 1980s with groups Hot Vultures (with Maggie Holland), the English Country Blues Band and Tiger Moth. Then after a break from live performances in the 1990s he returned to stages and recording this century with the trio Blue Blokes 3 (with PiL's Lu Edmonds and 3 Mustaphas 3's Ben Mandelson), the duo The False Beards (again with Mandelson), and a successful re-union tour by Hot Vultures in 2016. Over the years he's appeared in multiple guises at most of the UK's important folk/roots venues and festivals (from the very first Glastonbury to Cambridge, Sidmouth, Shrewsbury, Womad and many more). Since early 2017, he's been enjoying performing and recording solo again, with repertoire and anecdotes drawn from across those 50+ years of experience. Most recently he's forged an unlikely but very effective double-header partnership with Northumbrian traditional music master Alistair Anderson as Not The Anderson Twins. www.ianaanderson.com ghostsfromthebasement.bandcamp.com Arch Garrison: Having garnered much critical acclaim for his larger scale compositions and songs with his 'alternative chamber group' North Sea Radio Orchestra, Craig Fortnam also performs in singer-songwriter mode under the name Arch Garrison. Intricate guitar playing underpins songs about England's ancient landscapes, Roman roads, ditches and mounds, Thames Fluvius......With five NSRO and two Arch Garrison albums under his belt, Fortnam's output remains uniquely beautiful, original, both ancient and modern. Utterly bewitching. "I Will Be A Pilgrim' is another example of English folk music's ability to update endlessly, folding fleet modernity into a timeless, ever-rejuvenating continuum" The Wire ".....sounds completely natural and unforced, a music quietly ecstatic and transportative, and another minor masterpiece in the Fortnam body of work" Underground Heroes Of Happiness 'An exquisite and understated delight' Folk Radio "Arch Garrison prove that less can be more, and that our limitations are often the very things that set us free." The Quietus http://www.archgarrison.co.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/Arch-Garrison-436363986400726/ Emily Jones: Emily Jones plays surreal, melodic songs, always aiming at beauty, no matter how awkwardly. Expect to hear about a marsh spirit falling out of love with the enchanter who conjured her, an ice cream seller with terrible personal hygiene, and an inventor who fashions deadly, glittering robot birds. Most of her songs are about dust and bees though. "Particularly lovely romantic folk narratives with a dark-woods chill of pastoral melancholy." - Andrew Male, MOJO (reviewing the album The Book of the Lost) "Her roots go through that line of literary Englishness...lost and lovely psych, with Jones's marvelous voice a wraith-like presence that is both childlike and ageless." - Dave Thompson, Goldmine Magazine (reviewing the album Autumn Eye) http://www.owltextures.bandcamp.com http://www.facebook.com/Owltextures Pete Aves: 'Compelling, transcendent'(Record Collector), 'Impossibly catchy tunes' (Q), 'Extraordinary' (Uncut.) https://peteaves.co.uk/ https://peteaves.bandcamp.com/