Shhh - All Day Celebration of Quiet Music

Tickets here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/66196
STAGE TIMES:
9.30pm – Jon Hopkins (Main Hall)
9.00pm – Arch Garrison (Trefusis Hall)
8.30pm – David Thomas Broughton (Main Hall)
8.00pm – Sam Amidon (Trefusis Hall)
7.30pm – Grasscut (Main Hall)
7.00pm – Coming Soon (Trefusis Hall)
6.30pm – Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards (Main Hall)
6.00pm – Sam n Plants (Trefusis Hall)
5.30pm – Felix (Main Hall)
5.00pm – Oh Ruin (Trefusis Hall)
4.30pm – Dry The River (Main Hall)
4.00pm – Revere (Trefusis Hall)
3.30pm – Andreya Triana (Main Hall)
3.00pm – Spencer McLean (Trefusis Hall)
2.30pm – Emit Bloch (Trefusis Hall)
2.30pm – Tim n Sam (Main Hall)
2.00pm – Andrew Vincent (Trefusis Hall)
1.00pm – DOORS

Details here: http://www.localism.org.uk/index.php?id=431

STFU why don't you, and listen to the bands...
Shh! is now into it's fourth year. Starting at The Spitz back in who knows when, we have presented all manner of the quiet stuff in sympathetic surrounds, and the good news is: everyone listens.

Of course the bands are not ALWAYS super quiet, but the audience is. We'll be bringing in our ShhUshers for the event, and you can be guaranteed a perfect listening environment for some of the finest artists around. And some surprises too.

This time we have partnered with the awesome The Line of Best Fit, to bring you some really exciting quiet stuff, in the plush surrounds of Cecil Sharp House.

Jon Hopkins
http://www.myspace.com/jonhopkins
Jon Hopkins is a musical shapeshifter: a composer, pianist and a self-taught studio wizard. He makes affecting, bold electronic music using walls of synths, lustrous melodies and amorphous bass rumbles. As such his two albums have seen him labelled by the likes of ambient patriarch Brian Eno as an electronic innovator while an impressive sweep of artists from Herbie Hancock and David Holmes to King Creosote and Coldplay, have called upon his handiwork as a producer and composer.

In fact, Coldplay were so taken with Light Through the Veins - the first single from Hopkins’ new album Insides - that they used a reworked version to bookend last year's bestselling Viva La Vida and persuaded the 28-year-old Londoner to spend the last six months of 2008 opening their live shows across the USA, Europe and Japan.

David Thomas Broughton
http://www.myspace.com/davidthomasbroughton
"...tortured, soulful voice, his hypnotic loops and his zany humour...barely controlled rage and sadness in his songs that even the silliest stage acts become aggressive, intimidating and uncomfortable. Utterly magnificent..."

"My jaw actually dropped" - Sandman Magazine, Leeds, w/ Castanets and Jana Hunter

Sam Amidon
http://www.myspace.com/samamidon
"Young Sam has a talent for reinterpreting traditional folk standards, and in the hands of the ever-empathetic Valgeir Sigurdsson and his bedroom community, he's produced a work bordering on the timeless."
-David Sylvian

"Nothing less than a goose-bump-manufacturing sonic piéce de résistance."
-CMJ New Music Monthly

"Amidon makes mistakes, lots of them..."
Grapevine (Reykjavik)

Dan Michaelson and the Coastguards
http://www.myspace.com/danmichaelsonandthecoastguards
"your ears naturally tune into Michaelson's skill at putting words to the parts of relationships that usually stay silent. The cruel asymmetry of romance is addressed exquisitely, recalling the resigned grandeur of the Go-Betweens' Robert Forster " **** The Times
"impressive - comes on like Smog fronting the songs of Ed Harcourt" Uncut
"an intensely felt and sparsely drawn study of the beginnings and ends of relationships" **** Time Out
Spellbinding, genuinely heartbreaking songs.. The Quietus
"a set of frighteningly good songs **** The Stool Pigeon
"a voice deeper and darker than most extended overdrafts - Michaelson is on endearingly poetic form" NME

Revere
http://www.myspace.com/reverelondon
REVERE incorporate violin, cello, keys, trumpet and harp into a guitar-led sound, touching on numerous musical reference points, combining elements of gypsy marches, klezmer, post rock, film scores and gospel into a truly unique sound.

Live, REVERE play with an unparalleled intensity, working songs from music-box soft openings into relentless walls of sound shot through with a show-stopping falsetto.

"The most underrated band in Britain at the moment, everything they produce is of the highest quality" The Beat Surrender

Sam and the Plants
http://www.myspace.com/samandtheplants
it seems like only yesterday when we were brought to our knees by the incredible debut vinyl offering from Sam and the Plants, a precociously talented Northern chap with a penchant for perfectly formed short songs. Well, it wasn’t long ago actually, but now we’ve got a second one - 12 songs long and all managing to fit on a bijou 7”, how does he do it? One minute we’re hearing delicately homespun guitar strums,, and the next we’ve got distorted MBV style guitar and tweaked electronics. It is a record which I can safely say is impossible to predict, and thankfully in all it’s madness it never once feels knowingly oddball, it’s nigh on impossible not to get hauled head first into Sam’s technicolour dream world. If you’ve had your eardrums tempted with the foresty-folk of Fonal records this year, or with the library-styled delicate Schizophrenia of Position Normal - maybe it’s time you looked for something with an entirely more British perspective on the whole thing – I’ll have a cup of camomile tea please! Limited and really very lovely.
- boomkat

Felix
http://www.myspace.com/mybeautifulfelix
Nottingham duo Felix make their Kranky debut with this fine and idiosyncratic collection of songs. Highly recommended. Boomkat
"it really is like sharing some quiet, micro world order" DiS 9/10

Oh Ruin
http://www.myspace.com/ohruin

Grasscut
http://www.myspace.com/grasscutmusic
.. .. "ghostly, weird and enveloping electronica" Sunday Times

“one of that select band of artists who are making genuinely daring music that still remains an accessible and enjoyable listen” Tom Robinson BBC 6music

"pastoral psychedelia... wonderful stuff" Stuart Maconie BBC 6 Music

grasscut is Andrew Phillips and Marcus O'Dair. Phillips is an award-winning film and television composer with over 100 screen credits (to be viewed at unitedagents.co.uk/film/andrew-phillips/). His soundtrack album, Home, is out now on Burning Shed and he has recently contributed tracks to Lo Recordings. O'Dair contributes double bass, keyboards and miscellaneous noise.

Andreya Triana
http://www.myspace.com/andreyatriana
Andreya likes to sing, eat, laugh, dance about, dream, strum her guitar and write songs using good quality stationary...

Her debut album is dropping soon, its produced by superproducer supremo extraordinaire Bonobo with some song writes courtesy of the singer / songwriter with the crazy skills and talents Fink. More details on its release to be announced...

Emit Bloch
http://www.myspace.com/emitblochcountry
Born on a cattle ranch in Utah and transplanted to Berkeley, California, ground zero for all things beatnik, Emit Bloch has a rich history to draw on when creating his distinct brand of avant-country music.

With a unique guitar picking style and surreal electronic harmonica Emit Bloch fuses pioneer spirit , Woody Allen wit and California transendentalism to create modern bluegrass and country music that still manages to retains the old time values of innovators like Jimmy Rodgers and Hank Williams.

Fanni Risberg
http://www.myspace.com/fannirisberg

Dry the River
http://www.myspace.com/drytherivermusic

Tim and Sam
http://www.myspace.com/timandsamstimandthesambandwithtimandsam
Clash Music: "Wonderfully Gonzales styled Balearic instrumental pop. Curious, longing, elegant, romantic, a Working For A Nuclear Free City sans the techno elements, Join The Dots is an emotive, resonant track that wouldn’t feel out of place on the first Café Del Mar album."

Arch Garrison
http://www.myspace.com/archgarrison
From the makers of North Sea Radio Orchestra comes ARCH GARRISON.
There is a house by a river by a village by the South Wiltshire Downs in which NSRO's Craig and Sharron Fortnam live. All manner of flora and fauna were the backdrop to the creation of 'King of the Down'; written, recorded and performed by Craig with additional vocals by Sharron, and features songs about the Mighty Thames, Roman roads, ditches and mounds, vapour trails and mental un-health.

Spencer McLean
http://www.myspace.com/spencermclean

Andrew Vincent
http://www.myspace.com/andrewvincentsongs
"Like good old-fashioned Canadian handicraft---handmade, heartfelt and even naive---Andrew Vincent's songs are pure heart-on-sleeve nuggets that always manage to nestle their way into the cozy corners of our minds."
From kelprecords.com.