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'The Hills Are Alive' live at Cafe Feuerwache, Hamburg 20/06/22
Photo by https://www.instagram.com/idaorloff/
I started playing this long song again, here it is in Hamburg last week.
I’m releasing the complete concert from this night as a limited CD and full quality download for subscribers to my Patreon or Bandcamp. Please consider doing that via the links below. Each month I make a new release - new recordings, unreleased material or live recordings and this is the 25th.
'Leave Well Alone' now available
My new album ‘Leave Well Alone’ and is now available at Bandcamp as a very limited edition CD-r and full quality digital download. The full album is available to stream here:
Here’s the track list:
Sticks
First Thought Best Thought (video here)
Here Comes Your Son
Look Out Kids (video here)
This Is How You Make It What It Is Not
Bern
So Long Away From
Leave Well Alone
Canary
I Once Knew The Lowlands
June dates
I’m expecting perhaps one or two little changes but right now but my month goes something like this:
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13/06/22 El Lokal, Zürich, CH
https://www.facebook.com/events/1389451088147027/
16/06/22 Mühlstrasse 14, Leipzig, DE
https://www.facebook.com/events/966078684256721/
17/06/22 Kosmos Festival, Chemnitz, DE
https://www.facebook.com/events/5110810545666282/
18/06/22 Galerie Fango, Cottbus, DE
https://www.facebook.com/events/714477333150319/
19/06/22 Deichdiele, Hamburg, DE
https://www.facebook.com/events/1026815754890652/
20/06/22 Café Feuerwache, Hamburg, DE
https://www.facebook.com/events/539256404500116/
22/06/22 Garden Concert, Hohenweddrien, DE
23/06/22 Prinz Willy, Kiel, DE
https://www.facebook.com/events/1038704463429079/
24/06/22 Club-Debil, Dresden, DE
https://www.facebook.com/events/419134583221420
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Please email me at thegreatpark@icloud.com if you'd like to make it to any of these or if you just would like to say hello.
Thanks and see you soon,
Stephen
New album 'Leave Well Alone'
My new album is called ‘Leave Well Alone’ and is now available to subscribers through my Patreon and Bandcamp sites and on the 26th of June for everyone else. I’ll also have physical copies at all of my concerts this month so if you can make it to a show you can buy one there.
Here’s the track list, everything apart from ‘Look Out Kids’ was recorded over the last few weeks in Stuttgart or out in the Giardino house:
Sticks
First Thought Best Thought (video here)
Here Comes Your Son
Look Out Kids (video here)
This Is How You Make It What It Is Not
Bern
So Long Away From
Leave Well Alone
Canary
I Once Knew The Lowlands
The CD or digital versions are available to pre-order through Bandcamp via the link below:
Rather than struggle to write something about this album that likely won't help with anyone's understanding or enjoyment of it I thought I'd just answer any questions. Anyone have anything that they'd like to know about this one? Comments below please.
That's it, that's it. Thanks as ever,
Stephen
El Lokal, Zürich 13.06.22
Typically beautiful poster design from El Lokal for this month’s set of concerts. Very happy to be heading back there
More info here.
FIRST THOUGHT BEST THOUGHT
Here’s a new, brief song from the new album that’s releasing to subscribers next weekend and to everyone else on 26.06.22. I’m happily playing concerts throughout June so I’m sure I won’t have so much time to handle everything and I think it’s easier for me to stagger the full release until the later in the month.
The rest of the album doesn’t go like this.
Julia Laura 'It Don't Stop The Bleeding' cover
Here’s Julia Laura playing a cover of my 2019 song ‘It Don’t Stop The Bleeding’ live at our concert at the Babylon Kino in Fürth last Friday. A long day with setting up the new sound system but later on this lovely evening with many friends and heavy music. Thank you to Julia and to all who came down and stayed down to listen.
Julia has much more music on her Bandcamp here and I urge you to go listen.
I’ll have songs from my set from this night to share here or over on my Patreon in a day or two as well.
'Maastricht Morning' now available
An eleven song collection recorded in 2010 and previously unreleased is now available through my Bandcamp and Patreon subscriptions.
Jesswood
St Mary
Tom
Winter
Improvisation
St John The Gambler
Little Mice
Quarrel
Annabel
Days Without You
If You Can Hold It You Can Throw It
Seemingly recorded at the Artspace Rondeel the morning after a concert there, I have no recollection of this and just found the folder a few weeks ago. As with all of my monthly subscription releases this is available now as a full quality digital download and very limited, personalised CD-r edition. Here are the links again to my Bandcamp and Patreon subscriptions.
Listen to the rarely played ‘St Mary’ and ‘Tom’ below.
Nürnberg tonight
I’m playing a simple acoustic concert tonight in Nürnberg at the Rosenatelier Ziegelstein, Ziegelsteinstraße 130. Doors are at 19:00 and the concert should start at 19:30. Entry is free with a collection.
If you’d like to be super organised you can even save a place at post@rosenatelier-ziegelstein.de although I would stress that everyone is welcome and you just come along.
Yep.
If you need it, here’s the FB event:
Karlsruhe tonight
Back in one of my favourite places to play tonight - NUN in Karlsruhe.
It’s free with a collection and here’s a link.
Wiesbaden and Karlsruhe concerts this week
I’m very happy to be playing a couple of concerts this week, returning to two very nice little rooms.
Both of these are free entry with donations, 2G rules and everyone very welcome - links behind the buttons.
Other shows planned for later this month and then again in June, dates here.
21.04.22 WAKKER, Wiesbaden
23.04.22 NUN, Karlsruhe
Free concert in Stuttgart this Thursday 07.04
I’m playing in Stuttgart this Thursday evening - 20:00 at the Kleiner Schlossplatz behind the art gallery. Wrap up warm and byob. Entry is free and later Mo Klé is playing too. Details behind the image:
CD-r and digital download of 'The Groninger Museum' available now
The physical edition of the 23rd subscription release ‘The Groninger Museum’ is available now and throughout April. If you would like a copy of this please subscribe through my Bandcamp or Patreon site before the end of the month.
Spaces for this are limited as I make each copy myself. The discs are hand stamped and each typed sleeve personalised for you and this takes me a fair bit of time each month. Digital editions of each release are always available to subscribers but the CD-r edition is limited to about 30 copies.
Thanks to everyone who goes for these - I’m sending them out now and again at the end of the month for anyone new that signs up.
For more details about this release please click the cover image:
Concert in Aachen this Saturday
I am playing my first concert of 2022 and the first for me since last November. The longest break I've had between shows since 2008.
The event is at Überhaupt and will be organised with 3G rules, or as they write:
3G-Regel: Bitte Immunisierungsnachweis oder aktuellen Corona-Test (PCR < 48 Std., Schnelltest < 24 Std.) einschließlich Ausweis am Eingang vorzeigen.
I appreciate asking people to be in rooms with others might not be the most considerate thing to do but this date has been moved already and I can't imagine things getting much better soon. If you can make it and feel comfortable enough please join me but otherwise let's hope for more opportunities later in the year.
More details behind the links below and if you are a subscriber to my Patron or Bandcamp let me know and you get on the guest list.
Überhaupt website here
Überhaupt Facebook event here
Thanks all,
Stephen
'Giardino, January' out today for everyone
A new, little EP is out for everyone today - five songs recorded one afternoon by the fire in a little hut in the Remstal countryside near Stuttgart.
I Once Knew The Lowlands
When The Animals Follow The Gunshots
Here Comes Your Son
Work With This
This Is How You Make It What It Is Not
This includes very simple versions of three new songs, 'I Once Knew The Lowlands', 'Here Comes Your Son' and 'This Is How You Make It What It Is Not' that were originally on the 'Five New Songs' EP that was out in January.
Bandcamp Friday for Ukraine
Bandcamp Friday, a day where the platform waives it’s payment fees and 100% go to the musicians and labels is here once again. This time I’ve decided to donate any sales I get to United Help Ukraine in an effort to do something.
I feel very uncomfortable taking up space on social media to promote anything at the best of times but at least this way I feel it’s valid.
I have a lot of albums, singles, live recordings and EP’s on Bandcamp and I’m also discounting the option to buy the complete catalogue of over 80 releases by 75%.
I certainly don’t have a lot of money but I seem to have made a lot of music - please head over to my Bandcamp page and pick up something if you can.
Thanks everyone,
S
'I Was In The North Before The Fall' (Speicher, Husum 25/09/21)
Photo by Z13 Fotografie
Posting this as a request for photographer Tim who was at this concert in Husum last September.
Fair warning - lengthy introduction.
'Luck Is Cruelty On The Wind' (Cafe Feuerwache)
Live in Hamburg, last November. From the 'Cafe Feuerwache' release available tomorrow as a full quality digital download and limited handmade CD edition on Patreon or through my Bandcamp subscription.
