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Advanced Ticket Credit Card Line: 0117 929 9008
The Fleece
12 St. Thomas Street
Bristol
BS1 6JJ
0117 945 0996
The Fleece is an 18+ venue.
LAURA VEIRS
Thurs 16th Feb
SOLO TOUR – FEBRUARY 2006
‘Only such rarefied talents as Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush and Björk have conveyed female emotions with the lyrical elegance and musicality of Veirs.’ Independent
‘A unique American folk singer-songwriter.’ Q
‘Veirs’ new record marks the moment she ceases to be covert knowledge and becomes hot gossip. Sounds like a collection of songs poised to steal the heart of anyone with a bruised soul. Solitude has a new soundtrack.’ NME
Laura Veirs will tour Europe in February following the release of her critically acclaimed album Year Of Meteors. Laura Veirs will play six dates in the UK, beginning on February 13 in Edinburgh and ending in Birmingham on February 19. To coincide with the tour, ‘Secret Someones’ will be released as a single on February 20.
Live dates – February:
Mon 13Edinburgh, Cabaret Voltaire£8 (0870 903 3444)
Tue 14Liverpool, Academy 2£8 (0151 256 5555)
Wed 15Bedford, The Shed£8 (01234 269 519)
Thu 16Bristol, Fleece£10 (0870 444 4400)
Sat 18Leicester, The Charlotte£8 (0115 912 9000)
Sun 19Birmingham, Glee Club£8 (0870 241 5093)
Tickets are also available from www.ticketweb.co.uk (Edinburgh), www.liverpoolacademy.co.uk (Liverpool), www.eastwestpromotions.co.uk (Bedford), www.thecharlotte.co.uk (Leicester), and www.glee.co.uk (Birmingham).
With her band The Tortured Souls, singer/songwriter/guitarist Laura Veirs recorded Year Of Meteors in Seattle in February 2005. She calls the album “A road record,” drawing inspiration from being in constant motion for much of 2004, touring in support of the critically acclaimed album Carbon Glacier (2004). Produced by Tortured Soul band member, Tucker Martine, Year Of Meteors’ lyrics include dream-like images of sky and sea, punctuated by guitar bursts, handclaps and melodic keyboards and strings. In addition to Martine’s percussion and “beats” the album features Steve Moore (piano, organs), Karl Blau (bass, guitar, vocals), and Eyvind Kang (viola). Year Of Meteors was included in the Sunday Times’ list of ‘Records of the Year’ and was proclaimed by MOJO as ‘Veirs’ most musically vertiginous outing to date,’ while Q described it as ‘Excellent’. ‘Her most inventive and expansive work to date,’ wrote Uncut. ‘A modern, fuller hybrid. This puts Veirs a cut above most interchangeable coffee-table troubadours,’ echoed the Observer Music Monthly.
A Seattle resident by way of Colorado, Veirs’ background in geology and kinship with the rugged landscape meld together with her punk performing roots to form an unusual musical outlook. Her recordings have elicited overwhelming praise in the UK, where the Independent called Carbon Glacier ‘The most enthralling album I have encountered this year… a benchmark by which future Americana releases will be judged’, and MOJO said, ‘Laura Veirs might be the bridge between the alt-country ghetto and the Sheryl Crow-revering mainstream.’
Doors: 8pm-11pm
Tickets: £10adv