Idle Fret presents Friday Night at The London Palladium with Tom Paley and Martin Creed

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STOP PRESS - THE FOLK LEGEND THAT IS TOM PALEY NOW ADDED TO THE LINE UP!

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Tom Paley
Martin Creed
Listing Ships
Gary Daines (Howling Bells) - DJ Set
Laurel Collective DJs

Friday September 21st 2012
7:00pm - 12:00am

£12 / £10 advance
Tickets available from www.wegottickets.com/idlefret

All drinks are at pub prices

The Val Parnell Room at The London Palladium
Argyll Street
London
W1F 7TF

The 2nd night of our festival of five Fridays, running from 14th September - 12th October, featuring some of our favourite bands and DJs, old and new, in the Val Parnell Room at the legendary London Palladium.


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Unfortunately The History Of Apple Pie have had to pull out of tonights show. The bands official statement is below:

"We deeply regret that due to unforeseen circumstances we have to pull out of the show.
We have been informed that our last mixing session for our debut record can only be Friday. We initially anticipated that we would have an extra week, but due to our engineer flying out to New York next week we have no choice but to commit to our last session with him instead of playing this show.
We are deeply apologetic and understand this is likely to cause great inconvenience, but we have had to weigh up the options today and cannot justify jeopardising the album being finished for the show.
We hope the promoters understand and appreciate that we never cancel shows, but this is out of our hands".

Idle Fret hope that the mixing session goes really well and we can't wait to hear the debut album.

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▲ Tom Paley

Tom Paley was there at the beginning, finger picking his old Martin in Washington Square Park, Greenwich Village, and taking the gospel of old-time country guitar and banjo around the States with the New Lost City Ramblers.
Dave Van Ronk, subject of an upcoming Coen Brothers film, wrote in The Mayor of MacDougal Street - A Memoir (Da Capo, 2005): "...I happened to be walking across Washington Square Park of a Sunday afternoon, and I noticed this guy playing an old New York Martin, a very small, very sweet guitar. It immediately grabbed my attention, because he was doing the whole thing by himself...That was Tom Paley...I rushed home to my guitar and went to work...Paley had provided the key, but mastering the technique took time."
With typical modesty Tom remembers Bob Dylan "...listened to the New Lost City Ramblers quite a bit." For Bob, coming across Paley was a more significant moment. He recounts in Chronicles (Simon & Schuster, 2004) how "Everything about them appealed to me - their style, their singing, their sound. I liked the way they looked, the way they dressed and I especially liked their name. Their songs ran the gamut in styles, everything from mountain ballads to fiddle tunes and railroad Blues. All their songs vibrated with some dizzy, portentous truth...For me, they had originality in spades, were men of mystery on all counts. I couldn't listen to them enough."
Tom tells of his impact on two other icons of American music in equally self-effacing style: "I was playing out at the Ash Grove in Los Angeles and...this young fellow came along and said he'd like to have some lessons in playing the blues, and although I wasn't really a specialist in the blues...anyway, it was Ry Cooder, so I gave him a few lessons."
Ry introduced Tom to another young and up and coming folky: "One time he brought Jerry Garcia along and he wanted some lessons on the banjo...". Ry later admitted that the banjo chords he'd watched Tom teaching Jerry formed the basis of his open tuning guitar playing.

"Tom Paley remains a classic musician to this day" - Max Reinhardt, Late Junction
"This dude is really old-school Americana" - Huey Morgan, BBC 6 Music
"Paley shows he can still strut his stuff" - Daily Telegraph
"Paley's time is coming at last" - The Times
"One of the grand old men of folk music" - The Guardian
"They don't come more authentic than Paley" - The Sunday Times
"This is old-time music at its best" - London Evening Standard

▲ Martin Creed

Martin Creed is perhaps best known for his submission for the 2001 Turner Prize show at the Tate Gallery, Work No. 227, the lights going on and off, which won that year's prize.
Martin Creed and his band were picked by The Cribs as the 'Hottest Band In The World Right Now' on NME.com and they invited him to support them on their recent UK tour. Martin Creed is also much loved by Franz Ferdinand - regular attendees at his gigs and co-producers on his album - as well as Moshi Moshi label-mates Slow Club.
For Creed there is no difference between making music and making art. Like his Work No. 850, in which runners ran through the Tate Gallery, his music is disarmingly simple but makes an immediate impact. Work No. 1197 "All the bells in the country rung as quickly and as loudly as possible for three minutes" was commissioned to herald the start of the London Olympics, at 8.12am on 27 July 2012.

▲ Listing Ships

Listing Ships are a nautically-themed, instrumental rock band who skilfully blend their ferocious wall of sound guitar histrionics with Holy Fuck influenced electronica and jazz rhythms.

The four-piece cite inspirations from classic krautrock like Can, Harmonia and Neu!, sample-heavy intricate electronica like Boards Of Canada, Amon Tobic, plus expansive, exploratory guitar music like Tarentel, The Alps and Collections Of Colonies Of Bees.

Since forming, they have supported the likes of Health, Fujiya & Miyagi, The Big Pink and Jamie Woon and this year saw them complete their first full UK tour.

New record 'The Hayling Island Sessions' is due out on Idle Fret on October 23rd.

www.martincreedmusic.com
www.hornbeamrecordings.com
www.facebook.com/pages/Tom-Paley/107933489227114
www.listingships.bandcamp.com
www.howlingbellsmusic.com
www.laurelcollective.com
www.idlefret.com
www.reallyuseful.com/theatres/london-palladium