We are back in our respective homes after a whirlwind tour around the UK. We played in some amazing venues from Stornoway to Devon, and every single show was a blast.
We managed to get some good video recordings from our show in the charming Burnett’s Hill Chapel in Wales. Here’s the first one we’ve edited together – Chop It Up, featuring Amadou Diagne.
A few more to come soon. Thanks to everyone who came along to the gigs!
We are really looking forward to playing a bunch of shows all around Scotland in the next couple of weeks.
The full schedule:
April 26: Edinburgh House Concert (email douglas@soundhouse.org.uk to reserve seats/info)
April 28: Isle of Rum Village Hall
April 30: Medicine Show at Argyll Hotel, Ullapool (7pm)
May 1: Drouthy’s, Dundee (8pm, £8)
May 3: An Lanntair Arts Centre, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis (8pm, £10)
May 4: Brew at the Bog Festival, Bogbain Farm, Inverness (£30 festival tickets)
We’ll be joined at the shows by percussionists Pete Vilk (for the first two) and Amadou Diagne (for the others). Hope to see you there! Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions about any of the shows.
The tour is made possible thanks to support from Creative Scotland.
The first in a very occasional series of posts about the songs on our new album Jagged Land. First up – An Audience That Cares
An Audience That Cares was written quite a long time ago now, several years before we even recorded it for Jagged Land. I can pinpoint the date exactly, because it was while I was working as a musician in a panto at the Dundee Rep Theatre in 2007.
If you are not British the term “panto” may mean nothing to you – I certainly had no idea what I was getting into when I took the job. They occur all over the UK each winter, generally starting at the beginning of December, and are rollicking and somewhat bawdy versions of children’s stories, often featuring washed-up soap opera stars or stand-up comedians. Aimed primarily at the 4-12 year old crowd and their parents, they will invariably feature a man dressed as a woman, sometimes a woman dressed as a man, and a ‘baddie’. The crowd is encouraged to shout at the performers, including the classic “He’s behind you!” and there will often be a fair amount of improv and general chaos. To a foreigner like me it all seems fascinatingly medieval.
In any case, I was hired to play guitar, piano, trumpet, and bass in Jack and the Beanstalk. I should point out that as one of the best theatres in the country this production did not have all of hallmarks of a traditional panto (no washed-up stars, sadly), but was an extremely good gig – particularly for a broke musician desperate for work. I was so desperate, in fact, that I took this job despite knowing that it would prevent me from heading back to Maryland for Christmas for the first time, and would instead send me to Dundee every day for 60 odd shows, often two a day.
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Hello folks!
We are very pleased to launch the brand new Seznec Bros website, Facebook page, and most of all our new album Jagged Land.
You can buy the album in a number of different ways, on Bandcamp, CD Baby, iTunes and Amazon Digital. For details please see our Music page, where you can also listen to both Jagged Land and our older album Sediment.
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Cheers!