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THE MAGNETIC NORTH

0	LEEDS: Brudenell Social Club
P	Sunday 18th November, 2012
N	7:00pm

Event information

“When someone comes to you in a dream and tells you to make an album about your homeland – the Orkney islands- would you disregard it? Especially when that someone is Betty Corrigall, the Orcadian girl who in the 1770's killed herself having been cast out by her village after becoming pregnant by a visiting sailor?”

Well, would you? It’s the spark that led Orcadian singer-songwriter Erland Cooper to group together his Erland & The Carnival band mate Simon Tong and singer/orchestral arranger Hannah Peel (of last year’s solo The Broken Wave album) to form a new group, The Magnetic North, with a distinct purpose: the recording of Orkney: Symphony Of The Magnetic North

'Elegiac melodies that drift like the winds buffeting the islands' - Mojo * *

'remarkable...songs as gloriously haunted as the land that spawned them' - Q * *

'Unobtrusively lovely melodies' - The Times * *

'something incredibly precious' - Clash 8/10

'Like a folk score to a forgotten Hitchcock film...quite brilliant' - Loud and Quiet 8/10

'..the magic and mysteries of one of Britain's northernmost points' - Drowned In Sound 8/10

'These are timeless songs... a treasure map to the Orkney Islands' - The Quietus

LINKS:
http://www.symphonyofthemagneticnorth.com/
http://www.facebook.com/themagneticnorth
https://twitter.com/magneticgonorth
http://www.youtube.com/user/OrkneyMagneticNorth
http://www.fulltimehobby.co.uk/home/the-magnetic-north/

Venue information

LEEDS: Brudenell Social Club

0	33 Queens Road Leeds West Yorkshire LS6 1NY
>	www.brudenellsocialclub.co.uk
!	01132752411
`	Live music will generally begin around 30 minutes after doors open.