About this Event

Widowspeak

Big Sixes//Second Head//Second Hand Poet

The Boileroom

13 Stoke Fields

Guildford

GU1 4LS

01483 440022

www.theboileroom.net

Doors: 7pm

Age Restriction: 14+

Ticket Price: £9

Tickets Available From: wegottickets.com, seetickets.com, The Boileroom.





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WIDOWSPEAK



Widowspeak is an American band comprised of Molly Hamilton and Robert Earl Thomas, known for its dreamy, western-tinged take on rock and roll. The outfit formed in 2010 and released two singles in 2011 (Harsh Realm, Gun Shy) followed by a debut album (self-titled) in the summer of that year, all on Brooklyn label Captured Tracks. Widowspeak was praised for its reverential spaciousness, Hamilton’s haunting voice, and Thomas’s spindly, Morricone-esque guitar lines; both drawing on 1950′s pop ballads and 1970′s psych, creating languid call-and-response melodies. The band then toured extensively, wearing in their warm, nostalgic sound.



Widowspeak began to write what would become their second record, Almanac, at the start of 2012, as popular fears of the apocalypse became imminently close to realization. Though not totally convinced of catastrophic disaster coinciding with the year’s conclusion, Hamilton nevertheless began writing lyrics seeped in doomsday imagery, darkness and dread, inspired by the idea of such a universal experience of the end. The two started making demos in their practice space. Thomas shaped the ideas into songs, experimenting with denser arrangements and grander gestures. Black and white became Kodachrome, subdued became saturated.



Almanac will be released by Captured Tracks on January 22, 2013. If Widowspeak’s first record serves as a collection of postcards, sent from destinations traveled to in that first transformative year, then their second is the guidebook written after they’d found their sonic home and inhabited it fully.



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Big Sixes

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Second Head



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"Combining spoken word with angelic voices, they reference The Velvet Underground and Pixies but still sound fresh." Hanna Hanra- G-MAG 2012-



Second Hand Poet



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