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Clive Gregson ‘Bittersweet’- Out May 23rd

Clive Gregson ‘Bittersweet’- Out May 23rd

May 17th, 2011

Folk rock singer and composer Clive Gregson is to release his new album Bittersweet on May 23rd through Fulfill Records. The record is Gregson’s 17th album of original material and features 14 brand-new songs, from folk and rock to country and ballads, all written and produced by Clive. An extensive UK tour in May, including dates with Jools Holland, has been announced in support of the album, while Clive will return to UK stages again in November. Despite having earned a reputation as a pathfinder in British folk-rock for more than two decades Bittersweet defies easy categorisation, other than it is a collection of beautifully crafted songs. Very much a solo project, the album was written and produced by Clive. It features Clive on guitars, vocals and keyboards, with Mark ‘Griff’ Griffiths on bass (Plainsong, Matthews Southern Comfort, The Shadows) and Martin Hughes (Any Trouble) on drums. Other contributors include drummer Simon Whitbread and vocalists Denice Franke and singer/songwriter Patsy Matheson. UK Live Dates: 2 May The Green Note London 14 May Playhouse 2 Greater Manchester 4 May Jazz at Future Inns Bristol 17 May Dartford Folk Club Dartford 5 May White Rock Theatre* Hastings 18 May Banbury Folk Club Banbury 6 May Henshaws Arts & Crafts Ctre N.Yorkshire 19 May The Town Hall* Middlesbrough 7 May The Ropewalk Lincolnshire 20 May The Ram Club Thames Ditton 11 May Warwick Arts Centre* Coventry 21 May Acoustic Routes, Cambridge 12 May Otterton Mill, Devon 26 May Clydesdale Folk Clb South Lankashire 13 May The Rock at Maltby, Yorkshire 28 May Rondo Theatre Bath, Somerset * Opening for Jools Holland Vocalist / songwriter / guitarist Clive Gregson has written over 250 songs, many recorded by other artists, including Nanci Griffith, Fairport Convention, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kim Carnes and Claire Martin. He began his career as the founder of Any Trouble, the Manchester quartet who signed to Stiff Records in 1980 and subsequently to EMI America. They made five highly regarded albums before splitting at the end of 1984. Around that time, Clive heard Christine Collister in a folk club and, impressed, offered to work with her on future projects. Clive was already working with Richard Thompson, and suggested using Christine as well.

While touring with Richard, Clive made a solo album, Strange Persuasions, with Christine singing backup. The two began performing as a duo on the club circuit, and created Home and Away, a mostly-live album that went on to sell over 75,000 copies. It contains several of Clive’s songs that are regarded as classics: Home Is Where The Heart Is, (covered by Fairport Convention, Touch And Go (covered by Kim Carnes), and Northern Soul. Home And Away was followed by Mischief, A Change in the Weather and Love is a Strange Hotel, an album of cover versions. Constant touring took its toll on them, and they decided to go their separate ways after one final album, The Last Word. Since then, Clive has featured on countless albums and played as a session musician in the UK and America, while releasing a string of varied and much-loved solo albums. Over this time he has become as well known for his musical collaborations as for his solo work, working with artists as diverse as Eddi Reader, Richard Thompson, Boo Hewerdine and Nanci Griffith. Bittersweet follows a well-received Best Of Clive Gregson album in 2009 and a career retrospective Best of Clive Gregson & Christine Collister in 2006, plus the Stiff Records reissues of Gregon’s first band Any Trouble and their reunion album.

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Thea Gilmore ‘John Wesley Harding’ Album-Out May 23rd

Thea Gilmore ‘John Wesley Harding’ Album-Out May 23rd

May 17th, 2011

In celebration of Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday, Thea Gilmore will release a new album, a recording of Dylan’s acclaimed John Wesley Harding, on May 23rd through Fulfill Records. The album’s release will be supported with a headline show at London’s Union Chapel on Tuesday, May 23rd, the day of Dylan’s birthday. Says Thea… I’ve always thought that, whilst clearly other Dylan albums may have more ‘famous’ and ‘iconic’ songs, and more of those moments that are alleged to have changed music forever, JWH is his most sustained, satisfying record. It runs beautifully from start to finish, songs bounce off each other, characters seemed unfathomably but implicitly linked, and the sense of earthiness and economy in Bob’s lyrics is startling. As a singer I also find it chock full of melodies I love to wrap my voice around, and stories I enjoy passing on. Now Bob and I seem to have approached recording this album similarly.

We both recorded “I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine” first. But one key difference is that Bob then left it around an hour, I gather, before moving onto the next track (”Drifter’s Escape” I think), whereas I left it 9 years. See, in 2002 I had been invited to contribute a track to a CD of Dylan covers featured on a national music magazine. I had intended to record “What Was It You Wanted”, but late the night before the session my producer and I were still sifting through albums and we suddenly changed our minds. A quick call the next morning confirmed that no-one else had bagged “St Augustine”, so away we went. With the mighty Robbie McIntosh (of Pretenders, Paul McCartney fame) on guitar using a tape echo which was on the edge of breakdown throughout the whole day, Paul Beavis on drums and Nigel Stonier on bass, we recorded “St Augustine” live in a Cheshire studio in about five hours. Longer than Bob took but I blame technology for this sort of thing. And it could have all stopped there. In fact things did sort of stop there… except that track somehow never left me. The magazine concerned received it gratefully and were kind enough to praise it; once it was out in the world my audiences kept telling me they loved it and requesting it – unluckily I was mostly doing acoustic shows that year and so the band was never there to play it. So the crowds seldom got their requests answered. But over the months, then the years, e-mails continued to come in from all over the world about the track. One journalist in the US told me he had spent 30 years collecting thousands of Dylan covers and it was in his top five. And when in 2008 I met Bruce Springsteen, who most graciously had been in print as a fan of my work for some years, he told me – in around the third sentence he uttered to me – “Man, that St Augustine, it’s one of the great Dylan covers”. I may have blushed, I can’t remember… The message seemed clear… that day in Cheadle Hulme we had got something right. In fact we all felt with the benefit of hindsight that some magic had been in the room. Around 2009 I started playing “I Pity The Poor Immigrant” in my live shows, and heard at least one version of “As I Went Out One Morning:” that made me want to cover the song. And when I was invited to take part in a 70th birthday tribute to Bob at Celtic Connections in Glasgow this January, and realized that the honoured three-score-year-and-ten moment was due to fall this coming May, I decided I had to do something. Can one -should one – attempt to re-record, re-interpret, a 40 year old, somewhat legendary piece of work, a piece of work which could be argued to be inseparable from its author? Probably not. So… Nigel called Paul Beavis and Robbie McIntosh – neither of whom we had worked with for some six years – in the first week of 2011.

Both were mad keen to work on the project. And miraculously, both were free at the only point – early February – where we could realistically record. The Chapel in Lincolnshire is one of my favourite studios – I’ve recorded four albums there, it’s one of the ultimate get-it-together-in-the-country places. Anyway the merry band convened on February 7th, and by the early hours of February 15th we had recorded and mixed eleven tracks. Needless to say – to anyone that knows us – there were no rehearsals: on at least two of the tracks you can hear, I think, that none of us had any idea how we were going to finish the song in question, but somehow the vibe from back in 2002 still felt present right away. Nigel had keys and loose arrangements… albeit mostly in his head. Paul immediately slipped into top gear and reminded me he is without exception the most empathetic, singer-friendly drummer I know. And Robbie began to produce magic phrases, here a snarling choppy rhythm, there a lyrical high ripple. Every day Nigel drove the session till around three in the morning. My four year old son slipped in and out of the control room to keep us updated with his opinions; our great mate Tracy Browne drove all the way over from Manchester, initially just to support and cook wonderful food for us every day, though eventually she was thrown into the fray herself to contribute some beautiful backing vocals. Do I want, at this point, to elaborate on how I find the myths, the dramatis personae of these songs, the hovering whispers of Old Testament morals, the howls of despair and elation from outcast souls so affecting? No I do not. In February 2011 we took seven days out of our lives and recorded “John Wesley Harding”. There really seemed nothing else we could do. The Album will be released on May 23rd 2011.

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Thea on Wogan!

Thea on Wogan!

November 3rd, 2010

After ‘Teach me to be Bad’ was added to the Radio 2 Playlist, Thea will be performing two songs from Murphy’s Heart on the Wogan show this Sunday

After the show, you will be able to download her new single Teach Me To be Bad from the following link:

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/preorder/teach-me-to-be-bad/id397538464

The download also includes brand new tracks!!

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Thea Gilmore #2 in Amazon album charts!

Thea Gilmore #2 in Amazon album charts!

August 26th, 2010

Fullfill are excited to announce that Thea Gilmore’s ‘Murphy’s Heart’ has reached #2 on the  Amazon album chart!

‘You’re the Radio’ has also been A-listed on Radio 2.

Thank you for your continued support!

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Murphy’s Heart

Murphy’s Heart

July 20th, 2010

Thea Gilmore’s 10th album, Murphy’s Heart will be released on August 30th.  We are really excited  and honoured to be releasing this incredible album.

Murphy’s Heart is smart and honest and confident enough to concentrate on life’s most important themes: love and sex. She considers both the damage that love does, the violence that it can invoke, the guilt that comes with parental love, but also the maddening truth that one means precisely nothing without the other. Gilmore is wise enough to write a song like God’s Got Nothing On You which casually nails an habitual self-regarder (already speculation has it that one Tony Blair was the inspiration) who abandons “all those friends you outgrew with Bombay gin and a rose tattoo…”, while being uncynical and open enough to write something as beautiful as Due South where a young man heads off, “feet on the dash of a rented car” only to soon find himself alone and lost, “looking for hope in stiletto heels…”

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Kittow’s Moor

Kittow’s Moor

July 12th, 2010

Kittow’s Moor is an album full of warmth, pastoral beauty and raw passion, played with effortless skill by a band of consummate musicians, so obviously attuned to Louis’s artistic vision – among them a dairy farmer and a tin whistler who runs a fairground waltzer ride – that the glorious sound they make feels like the most natural thing in the world.

Think Hardy-esque harvest hoe-down on a Saturday night with the moon shining bright and the cider flowing; think of love lost and won with the briny taste of the sea on your lips; think of the adrenalin rush of a fairground ride and you’re there… in fact, wherever he takes you, Louis captures the essence of a scenario in a heartbeat with lyrics that evoke wistful nostalgia for good times past:

To the broken tune of an ice-cream van, I wrote a song for you on the back of my hand, if you follow me we can jump the lights of a seaside town on a Saturday night…

the unyielding forces of nature:

Feel the waves rising up to drag you under, see the clouds rolling with the sound of thunder, light a beacon and let it burn…

and pure elation at being alive:

The giddy rush of the jump and ride, when your heart was in the air, but that’s got nothing on the way it made me feel when I saw her at the fair…

You can hang around at the water’s edge but if you want to fly you’ve got to jump from the ledge…

Musically, Kittow’s Moor pulses with energy and warmth. The Embers glow red hot and threaten to burn the barn roof off, sounding like an itinerant gang of field hands, fishermen, vagabonds and the ghost of Eddie Cochran wandering west along a country road, in search of the spirit of Albion punk and determined to have a damned good time whilst they’re about it. Accordions, banjos, tin whistles and mandolins cook up a joyous rural clamour to lift your heart and send you out into the night with a smile on your face.

Louis Eliot & the Embers, timeless and magical, as English as the landscape, as fresh as a spring afternoon… …Brit-Pop indeed.

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Louis Eliot & The Embers

Louis Eliot & The Embers

July 12th, 2010

“Louis Eliot’s sharp lyricism and easy song writing serves him well.” NME

“True pop genius.” The Times

“Winning blend of rustic charm and urban cool…a savvy pop brain with the lyrical articulacy of a Costello or a Weller.” Uncut

“Louis Eliot has welded the sound of barn-bound folk to that of pure pop and emerged with an album that boasts ultra friendly, individually shaped songs guaranteed to warm both hands and feet.” Mojo

“My new discovery… really great stuff… ” Bob Harris, Radio 2

With the crackle of fireworks and the thrill of the fairground, Louis Eliot is back with a new incarnation – Louis Eliot & the Embers. The former frontman of Kinky Machine and Rialto – who scored three top 40 singles in the late 90s – has delivered a most evocative and accessible collection of songs with his first new album in half a decade, Kittow’s Moor.

Kittow’s Moor is the follow up to The Long Way Round – Louis Eliot’s critically acclaimed solo debut that was released by IRL in 2004. Marking Louis’s transition from metropolitan songsmith to country troubadour as he headed for home, it was declared album of the week by The Sunday Times and attracted high praise across the board.

Throughout his career, Louis has been at the hub of British songwriting talent, most recently contributing two co-writes to Adventure Man by current Ivor Novello Songwriter of the Year, Eg White – yet another addition to the proven CV of an artist who can deliver a heart-stopping hit with easy charm.

And Kittow’s Moor is no exception, demonstrating more than ever Louis’s extraordinary talent for wry observation and a rip-roaring, roller-coaster ride of a tune, but this time in the context of the countryside.

Having lived the dream of 90s London Brit-Pop hedonism, Louis Eliot snatched his Gretsch Country Gentleman guitar and headed west, swapping the fetid Thames fug for the fresh air of Cornwall. Away from the shrill whir of the capital, surrounded by timeless rolling landscapes and wild beaches, he started over.

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New Louis Eliot Single Release ‘Runaway Night’

New Louis Eliot Single Release ‘Runaway Night’

July 12th, 2010

Fullfill are happy to announce the new Louis Eliot track ‘Runaway Night’ from his upcoming album ‘Kittow’s Moor’ coming out on August 30th.

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New Album Release ‘Murphy’s Heart’ from Thea Gilmore

New Album Release ‘Murphy’s Heart’ from Thea Gilmore

July 12th, 2010

On August 30th, Fullfill will be releasing Thea Gilmore’s 10th album titled ‘Murphy’s Heart’. We are very proud of this album and look forward to her success.

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New Thea Gilmore Single ‘You’re The Radio’

New Thea Gilmore Single ‘You’re The Radio’

July 12th, 2010

We are very excited to be releasing the latest single from Thea Gilmore. The single is out on August 16th and already gaining air play on Radio 2.

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Thea Gilmore 'John Wesley Harding' Album-Out May 23rd In celebration of Bob Dylan's 70th birthday, Thea Gilmore will release a new album, a recording of Dylan's acclaimed John Wesley Harding, on May 23rd through Fulfill Records...
Thea Gilmore #2 in Amazon album charts! Fullfill are excited to announce that Thea Gilmore's 'Murphy's Heart' has reached #2 on the  Amazon album chart! 'You're the Radio' has also been A-listed on Radio 2...
New Louis Eliot Single Release 'Runaway Night' Fullfill are happy to announce the new Louis Eliot track 'Runaway Night' from his upcoming album 'Kittow's Moor' coming out on August 30th.
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