Band of holy Joy (UK) are supported by Lavender Drake(UK/AUSTRALIA on Saturday 3rd May 2014 at 20:00 (starts on time) at The Badehaus - BERLIN: Café Szimpla (Gärtnerstr. 15, am Boxhagener Platz, Friedrichshain).
For 30 years original Rough Trade Alumini, Band Of Holy Joy have been a main part of the rich tapestry of alternative urban folk punk groups emanating from the UK.
After a break of several years Band Of Holy Joy reformed in 2007 and will play their first Berlin show in many years to celebrate the release of their new, critically acclaimed album “Easy Listening”. - how starts 8.30 on the dot…Latecomers will be disappointed. Forever changing, consistently unique yet, always somehow the same, the Band Of Holy Joy began life in 1984 as gutter chansoniers using junk shop instruments to propagate a brute romantic madly literate form of dispossessed urban folk music.
Since then the band have scaled a few heights fallen down in one or two gutters, broken up, glued themselves together, toured the world, released a fair few albums for the likes of Rough Trade and fully explored other media by presenting two audio visual song plays: Troubled Sleep at the Shunt Theatre in London 2008 and an Invocation for William Burroughs at the Sorbonne Paris in 2009. They have set up their own label and Internet radio station Radio Joy.
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These days the junk shop instruments of old are long gone, and guitars, violins and visuals very much to the fore. But the band continues to write about the same outsider concerns with the same measure of spirit and care and man, they still put on a show.
The Band of Holy Joy - forever changing, consistently unique, always the same.
Lavender Drake:
Sarah and David have been on a collision course with each other for some time their musical journey begun at some unknown beginning, finely tuned through many different styles, a shared love for well written folk songs and a mutual appreciation for each others creative talents they have joined together to form the dark folk of Lavender Drake.
Lavender's strength lay in a mixture of Sarah's,dark, Tenor, sensual voice (Sandy Denny, Nico-esque), and David's back catalog of carefully hand picked timeless original folk songs, that he has been perfecting over the years.
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