Sheelanagig - New Album and Tour Dates

Subject: Sheelanagig - New Album and Tour Dates
From: GUEST,Dorian
Date: 15 May 07 - 09:37 AM

Sheelanagig release their second album 'Baba Yaga's Ball' tomorrow, and are on tour for the next month. Recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studio, the album features 10 tracks of our best celtic-gypsy-prog-ska-folk business.

Daily Planet banjo player Leon Hunt joins the band on two numbers, 'The Canny Man' and the bhangra-meets-hot-club stomp 'Soup With a Fork'. A former student of Bela Fleck, he has been described by fRoots as "the Jeff Beck of the banjo".

You can hear two tracks from the album here:

http://www.myspace.com/sheelanagigUK

These are the latest UK and Irish tour dates:

May
Wed 16th       The Bell - Bath
Thu 17th       Seven Stars - Totnes
Fri 18th       Ludlow Assembly Rooms - Shropshire
Sat 19th       Wheaton Aston Festival - Staffordshire
Sun 20th       Shepley Spring Festival - Yorkshire
Tue 22nd       Square & Compass - Worth Matravers, Dorset
Wed 23rd       Talking Heads - Southampton
Thu 24th       Album Launch @ Trinity - Bristol
Fri 25th       Performance Room, Liverpool
Sat 26th       Trades Club - Hebden Bridge
Mon 28th       The Railway, Saddleworth
Wed 30th       The Blues Bar - Harrogate
Thu 31st       Sleepers - Huddersfield
        
June         
Sat 2-Mon 4th   Dublin Docklands Festival
Thu 7th         Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
Sat 23-Sun 24th Glastonbury Festival

Hope nobody minds the gig-spam - any comments from discerning mudcatters would be most welcome!

Dorian

Subject: RE: Sheelanagig - New Album and Tour Dates
From: greg stephens
Date: 15 May 07 - 09:49 AM

Well, I may or may not be a discerning mudcatter, but let me say that Sheelanagig are a thoroughly excellent band and anyone with an ounce* of commonsense should go and see them forthwith.
(* ounce: obsolete measure, now probably illegal)

Subject: RE: Sheelanagig - New Album and Tour Dates
From: Michael
Date: 15 May 07 - 05:42 PM

Ounce reprived by EU this week, Greg

Mike

Subject: RE: Sheelanagig - New Album and Tour Dates
From: greg stephens
Date: 15 May 07 - 05:51 PM

Oh, dear, one less thing to be grumpy about.

Subject: RE: Sheelanagig - New Album and Tour Dates
From: Alio
Date: 15 May 07 - 06:07 PM

The Railway have just given me their demo CD, which I thought is excellent - I've never heard them before! I'll be playing one of the tracks on Sounds of Folk next Monday.
Ali

Subject: RE: Sheelanagig - New Album and Tour Dates
From: GUEST,Dorian
Date: 16 May 07 - 05:50 AM

Thanks for the compliments guys! Alio, if you drop us an email with your address on it I'll send you a copy of the new album.

Greg - I haven't seen you for far too long. The last time we met you advised me to not become a professional musician unless I had no other career option whatsoever - oops!