Preview: Liverpool Acoustic Live – Friday 25th September 2015

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Silent Sleep to headline September’s Liverpool Acoustic Live

Liverpool Acoustic is proud to announce Silent Sleep will be headlining the next Liverpool Acoustic Live event on Friday 25th September at Mathew Street’s intimate View Two Gallery.

The music project of multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Christopher McIntosh, Silent Sleep burst onto the scene when the song On The Steps Of The Bombed Out Church was picked up and championed by BBC Radio Merseyside’s legendary presenter Billy Butler. Since then Silent Sleep has issued two albums and eight EPs to popular and critical acclaim. His new single ‘Everything I Own’ is released on 12th October on Sad Kite Records.

Support on the night is provided by LIPA student and winner of the Liverpool Acoustic Songwriting Challenge 2012, Vanessa Murray, and local singer, songwriter and music event organiser Charlie McKeon.

  • Event: Liverpool Acoustic Live presents Silent Sleep, Vanessa Murray, Charlie McKeon
  • Date: Friday 25th September 2015
  • Times: Doors 7.45pm, start 8.15pm, finish 10.45pm
  • Venue: View Two Gallery, 23 Mathew Street, Liverpool
  • Tickets £5.00 advance (+50p booking) or £6 on the door
    Buy tickets at wegottickets.com/liverpoolacoustic
  • The facebook event can be found here
  • Details of all Liverpool Acoustic music events can be found at  liverpoolacoustic.co.uk/live
  • Press enquiries & guestlist email contact@liverpoolacoustic.co.uk

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1. Silent Sleep – Everything I Own
silentsleepband.com
Everything I Own is release on 12th October 2015

2. Vanessa Murray – Worlds Apart
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Vanessa is launching her debut EP It’s About Time on Friday 6th November at Studio 2, Parr Street, with support from Katy Alex, Dominic Dunn, and Shannen Bamford.
Full details from vanessamurraymusic.com/its-about-time-ep-launch

3. Charlie McKeon – Was It What You Thought It Would Be?
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BONUS TRACKS

4. Richard Batty – Good Weather
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Taken from the EP Loaded Gun available to buy from his website.
Read the Liverpool Acoustic review here.

5. Elijah James – Nighttime
elijahjamesmusic.co.uk
Taken from the album Nobody Important, available from Bandcamp

6. Maria Silker – The Only Words
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Taken from the album Little Did I Know, due out late 2015

Theme: King of the Faeries by Andrew Ellis from his CD Midnight On The Water

 

ARTIST INFORMATION

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SILENT SLEEP
silentsleepband.com

Here at Sad Kite Records are over the moon to deliver you the gorgeous, brand new single from Liverpool’s Silent Sleep (a.k.a Christopher McIntosh).  It’s called Everything I Own and it will be released digitally on October 12th 2015 and we reckon it will appeal to people who are into bands like Beirut, The National, Sufjan Stevens, Great Lake Swimmers, Arcade Fire or John Grant, but that’s just us.

 

Everything I Own is a song about being absolutely appalling with money, something I’m sure quite a few of us can relate to. It’s about spending money you haven’t got on things you don’t need. It’s about getting paid on a Saturday night only to have it spent by Sunday morning. It’s about burying your head and pretending your problems don’t exist until, literally, they come knocking on your door. It’s got one of the best choruses we’ve ever heard and it builds and builds to a climax that crushes your heart into a million squiggly little pieces. Its quite breath-taking.

 

Chris is widely acknowledged amongst Liverpool’s musical elite as one of the city’s finest songsmiths, having spent 8 years perfecting his craft with scuzzy pop act 28 Costumes and then a further 3 years with electro-pop outfit Hallo…I Love You!, whilst living in Berlin.
Silent Sleep’s debut album, Walk Me To The Sea, was released in 2013 and since then Chris has played shows across the globe including two consecutive appearances at The Sundance Film Festival, shows in Melbourne and Sydney, tours of Germany and also shows in Brazil during the World Cup in 2014, a tour organised by Ladytron’s Daniel Hunt and including an all star cast of Dan Croll and Dave McCabe (The Zutons/Ramifications).

 

Previous singles have garnered much acclaim from the like of The Guardian, God Is In The TV, Louder Than War, The Devil Has The Best Tuna and Get Into This to name a few and radio plays have come from the great folk at Amazing Radio (Simon Raymonde, Bethan Elfyn, Gary Crowley, Gill Mills), Dave Monks (BBC Introducing Merseyside and Steve Lamacq (6 Music).
Over the last two years, the prolific McIntosh has slowly but surely been charming the pants off audiences up and down the country with his rich, melancholic anti-ballads, full of sweeping melodies and packed with raw emotion, sometimes travelling alone and sometimes travelling with a veritable mini-orchestra, but always delivering a memorable and honest performance regardless.

 

Silent Sleep is one of the finest song-writers around and we’d love you to come on the journey with us and get behind him. Let’s start by linking you up…

 

Twitter: @silentsleepband
instagram: silentsleepband

Vanessa Murray

VANESSA MURRAY
vanessamurraymusic.com

A singer/songwriter from Liverpool, Vanessa Murray has been described as ‘a small girl with a big voice’. Her sophisticated and emotive songs have helped her win nationwide competitions, awards and have captured the attention of many including Sandie Shaw who praised Vanessa’s musicality as ‘Astonishing’, Paul Carrack who described Vanessa as a ‘Great New Artist’ and Jo Dipple CEO of UK Music who described Vanessa’s songwriting ability as ‘Incredible’.

Vanessa is no stranger to the View Two Gallery having won the Judges’ Award at the Liverpool Acoustic Songwriting Challenge 2012.

Vanessa has been a long standing plus on the Liverpool circuit and will be releasing her debut EP on 7th November 2015.

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CHARLIE MCKEON

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Charlie McKeon is a Singer-Songwriter from Liverpool who takes influence from Nick Drake and Paul Simon and lives in a narrowboat.

 

If you get the chance, please support your local artists by joining their mailing lists, liking their facebook pages, following them on twitter, leaving them comments, going to their gigs, and buying their music direct from them where possible. The Liverpool Acoustic Spotlight is produced and presented by Graham Holland and Stuart Todd on behalf of the Liverpool Acoustic website, and is a proud member of the Association of Music Podcasting. The theme music alternates between King of the Faeries by Andrew Ellis from his CD Midnight On The Water, and Solid Ground by Neil Campbell.

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Preview: Liverpool Acoustic Live – Friday 25th September 2015

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