Felice Brothers

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Nashville Babylon Presents.....

The Felice Brothers + support

At The 100 Club

Thursday 29th May

The Felice Brothers

Simone, Ian and James Felice are the three eldest boys from a family of seven, born carpenter's sons in the wilds of New York's Catskill Mountains. Less than a year ago, the Brothers adopted a runaway 19 year old dice-thrower and chancer called Christmas. They convinced him to quit his job and the motley quartet forsook all else but song and moved their Sunday BBQ sing-alongs from their dad's upstate house out onto the streets and subways of NYC.

After months of toil, living in a beat-up old short bus, with arrests and genuine panhandler fun - a freelance music writer named Gabe Soria (Vice NYC) stumbled upon the boys singing and barking their wares at a
farmers market in Brooklyn and one thing led to another.

In the spring of 2007 The Felice Brothers released their debut album “Tonight at the Arizona” on Loose Music in Europe where subsequent gigs and festival appearances confirmed their growing reputation as a live force to be reckoned with. After making their way across the USA this summer for their first tour, the band hooked up with Bright Eyes for a string of rousing dates on the East Coast that culminated in a performance on the venerated stage at NYC's Radio City Music Hall. Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes promptly signed the band to his own Team Love label in the USA. Their amazing year ended with a triumphant show in Woodstock with Levon Helm at the former Band-man's classic Midnight Ramble.

The Felice Brothers have gone from busking on the NYC subway to the stages of Europe and beyond in double quick time. Along the way their distinct brand of songwriting and the lawless sound they've forged has earned them comparisons to Woody Guthrie, The Pogues, The Band and a young Springsteen. In 2008 the boys are all set to travel the world performing homegrown and gritty Americana as if they were hosting a sing-along on their own front porch surrounded by family and friends. The sound that emerges from their instruments is seeped with an instinctive authenticity that's rooted in tradition but is also entirely their own.

"Barnstorming and brilliant"- The Guardian

“The Felice Brothers capture lightning and spin it into harvest gold” -Vice Magazine

“Scruffy and scratched Americana that recalls Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark and early Springsteen."-
Time Out

"Evoking The Band and Dylan holed up at Big Pink - this is a gripping intro for these shores"
-Uncut

The Felice Brothers debut album, “Tonight at The Arizona” is out now on Loose Records.

Web: www.myspace.com/thefelicebrothers

Nashville Babylon

Nashville Babylon is a co-promotion between Loose Music and Not The Same Old Blues Crap. Nashville Babylon stretches the country genre to breaking point while celebrating its traditional themes- namely pathos, humour, women, whiskey, murder, death, disease and destitution.

Loose: www.loosemusic.com & www.myspace.com/looserecords
NTSOBC: www.punkrockblues.co.uk & www.myspace.com/notthesameoldbluescrap