Sadie’s debut album, ‘The Blacksmith’s Girl’, will be released on Wildflower Records, in the Autumn of 2010.
EPK directed, filmed, and edited by Dan Ruttley.
Filmed in the basement of Metropolis Studios, London.
Graphics by Oded Shein
Sound recorded, mixed & mastered by Mazen Murad.
A Metropolis Production.
Produced by Steve Lee, mixed and co-produced in LA by David Bianco (Teenage Fanclub/Del Amitri/Tom Petty) and mastered in London by Kevin Metcalfe (Queen/David Bowie/Kinks/Oasis), her album, The Blacksmith’s Girl is the distillation of Sadie’s astonishing life story. Mostly written over the last year, the magical, eloquently confessional songs are all about coming to terms with her extraordinary and often traumatic past. Many of them delve deep into her own sub-conscious. Yet like the best songs of Joni Mitchell, at the same time they’re far more than pages torn from a private diary.
The album is set to appear in autumn on Wildflower, the label run by American folk legend Judy Collins. ”I opened for Judy at a show at London’s Jazz café last year,” Sadie recalls. ”She appeared when I was sound checking, which was a bit intimidating because I’ve always regarded her as an inspiration. But she seemed to like what she heard and afterwards invited me to her dressing room, wanting to know all about me and the songs.”
At the time Sadie assumed that Wildflower was purely a vehicle for Collins’ own releases. When she discovered that the label was signing other acts, she got back in touch. Collins had not forgotten the singer and the songs that had so impressed her that night at the Jazz Café, and a deal followed.
By this time, The Blacksmith’s Girl was already intact as an album. But in the meantime, of course, Sadie had been writing new songs, among them the wonderful ”Up On The Heath”, which has now been added to the album. Produced by Ed Harcourt, the track will be the first single.
”I was introduced to Ed and played him the song and he loved and said he wanted to be part of it,” says Sadie. ”He plays on it and produced it and he got Cass Browne from Gorillaz in on percussion. We did it in a day and I sat back and let him do it. He knew exactly what to do with the song.”
“The songs are a journey of healing and coming to terms with everything that has happened to me,” she says. “I wasn’t able to launch a career until now because I had to sort my life out – and I did that through the process of writing and playing. It’s a very personal and cathartic album. It’s saying this is where I came from, this is where I am”. But it sometimes feels as if it isn’t me really who wrote the songs. Somehow they were channeled through me and I think everyone can relate to what I’m singing about because the emotions are universal.”
Special solo acoustic show at 8:30 PM prompt. – No cover / Tip Jar
Googies Lounge at The Living Room
154 Ludlow Street
New York, NY
Opened in 2006 and located above the Living Room, Googies Lounge at THE LIVING ROOM NYC offers young and up and coming artists a unique venue, to perform, perfect and practice their craft. Featuring a Yamaha Grand Piano, new songs can be worked through and new voices can be found every night of the week.
12 Bar Club
Denmark Street, London, United Kingdom
On stage at 9PM
Price: £6
…Sadie works out a little before her NYC showcase at The Living Room Googies Lounge on Sept 21st!
CLARENCE BUCARO
Clarence Bucaro has been described by Boston Phoenix as “the roots offspring of Jackson Brown and Rickie Lee Jones. BBC Radio London’s Robert Elms declared Clarence’s new album “mature, melodic and edgy music. I absolutely loved it”.
Londoners had an opportunity to catch Clarence playingd three shows here in May supporting Anais Mitchell to coincide with the UK release of his latest album “‘Til Spring”
This is a record The New York Times described as containing “songs that hark back to late 1960s Van Morrison”, and these impeccable credentials are on show once again at the 12 Bar before he heads to the Marlow FM Festival on September 11th on a bill alongside Nick Heyward.
Ben de la Cour started out playing in metal bands at the age of eleven in Brooklyn. At twenty-five years old he has been a boxer in Cuba, a busker in Paris, a janitor in a mental institution, a farm worker and the frontman for London based doom-lunatics Dead Man’s Root with whom he released two albums.
In early 2009 he began recording and gigging on his own and has since played all over the country as well as touring the UK, Ireland, France and Switzerland.
Like his heroes Townes Van Zandt, Tom Waits and Hank Williams, he echoes the timeless voices of the past while creating something contemporary, haunting and unique.
Michael’s solo career continues to gleam brightly,
with a wealth of beautifully crafted and performed songs on albums that consistently gather serious praise.
He has well outgrown the ‘alt. country’ label that he successfully helped to invent in the UK with his band The Good Sons.
He has toured and recorded with his good friends Townes Van Zandt and Chris Hillman.
Michael was the ‘Englishman’ in a ‘supergroup’ partnership with Andy White and Jackie Leven / Rab Noakes
during their ‘An Englishman, An Irishman And A Scotsman’ shows.
Continually touring in the UK, Europe, USA and far further afield, his live shows are poignant, thoughtful and joyous occasions.
Michael Weston King’s new album, features a pick of the best protest songs, written by the best songwriters
and some originals that fit perfectly into that theme.
The set promises to be out of the ordinary.
‘As fine a singer songwriter as Gram Parsons’: Chris Hillman
‘A musician who’s risen above pigeonholing genres’: NetRhythms 5/5 *****
Sadie Jemmett
Sadie took up the guitar at 12 years old and has made her way through the world of music ever since, on a distinctly unconventional journey around Europe with a variety of bands and theatre companies.
Sadie’s songs, eloquent and entrancing lyrics coupled with a subtle acoustic beauty, are a distillation of her astonishing life story and coming to terms with extraordinary, sometimes dark events,
With a new album coming out this month on Judy Collins’ Wildflower record label, and fresh from dates supporting her label owner, Sadie’s music is getting the exposure it deserves. A showcase not to be missed!
Will Mussett
The opening slot goes to a fine young Brighton player who is rapidly gathering excellent reviews for his live performances.
Developing an intensity and passion in his songwriting and playing,
Will has already been earmarked by Brighton Calling as on their ‘Ones To Watch’ list.
Lou Reed apparently once said “give me a title and I’ll write you a song.”
Such was the begining of this song.
I came up with the title first, actually, originally walking to Soho Square, but discovered that I found many more interesting things to write about whilst walking through Camden Town.
Having worked at the market there and lived just off Camden Square in two rooms with my baby girl when I first moved to London, Camden Town holds a special place in my heart.
Everything is written from observation in the song apart from the meeting at the end, that is an amalgamation of many memories.
Judy Collins, Kenny White, Will Kevans, Sadie Jemmett
Wildflower Records is a grassroots artist-driven record label.
Based in New York and launched in 1999 by Judy Collins – Owner, Founder and CEO of the company.
The label’s mission is to find and nurture artists, giving back support as Judy Collins received by the music industry in her early recording years.
Wildflower Records boasts an eclectic and ever-growing roster and this showcase features exciting young talent as well as seasoned musicians featuring a very special performance from Judy Collins herself.
Wildflower Records is distributed by ADA Global and Warner Digital
Sadie Jemmett live at Fairfield Halls, Croydon: 29 June: supporting Judy Collins A wonderful evening with the legendary Judy Collins with new Wildflower Records signing Sadie Jemmett supporting. Fairfield Halls, Park Lane Croydon, Surrey CR9 1DG [map] Tickets: £21.50 http://www.fairfield.co.uk/showchoosearea.php?showid=15054
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I sing and play guitar and write songs. I have done this since i was 16. I sometimes make money from it which is always surprising and nice. I am at last making a debut album due for release soon. I also write music for theatre, mainly with Irina Brook in Paris and the US. I have recently gone off boys in a romantic way and am instead concentrating on learning difficult augmented minor seventh chords to intimidate them. I like writing, singing, playing, recording, performing, going to the swings, drinking, naughty outside smoking, putting off paying parking fines, falling in love, writing music for theatre, reading bedtime stories, resolving tantrums, watching movies, driving down to sussex, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Prince, Thomas Dybdahl, Toots And The Maytals, Ray Lamontagne, June Tabor, Joan Armatrading, Pixies, Bert Jansch, Johnny Cash, Truly Madly Deeply, Withnail And I, Wings Of Desire, Bagdad Café, The Big Lebowski, It's A Wonderful Life, and The Railway Chilldren.
