Moose Factory Presents: Katherine Blake and Nick Marsh + Imprint + Bleeding Heart Narrative, April 30 @ The George Tavern (020 7790 1763)
Moose Factory brings you the best in unusual music and this time we are extremely excited about presenting Katherine Blake and Nick Marsh with support from Imprint and Bleeding Heart Narrative on April 30 at the George Tavern, 373 Commercial Road, Stepney Green (also close to Limehouse, Mile End and Whitechapel stations) for FREE! Doors at 8pm.
Katherine Blake is a legend and we are so pleased to have her perform at our night. For those of you who do not know, she was the lead vocalist of the infamous (and Moose Factory favourite) experimental goth-madrigal outfit Miranda Sex Garden and, more recently, musical director/founder of the choral group Mediaeval Baebes. She has recently completely a solo album, ‘Midnight Flower’, teaming up with Flesh for Lulu’s Nick Marsh, which, as Blake herself says, is “plucked from Miranda Sex Garden and pinned to the breast of a mediaeval baebe, has been pressed for you, as a keepsake.”
Nick Marsh, meanwhile, has also recently released a solo album which Blake produced. This marks a shift from his old school rock tradition and towards a cinematic Leonard Cohen style. On this night Blake and Marsh will be performing a combination of each others’ songs and new songs they have written together. Are we excited? Yes, we are.
Imprint is the experimental, electronic art of London based Sin D’rella, and after much struggle was finally unleashed on Myspace early in 2008. She had a successful US tour at the end of 2008 and was released by US label Shinto as a result. Peter Hook (of Joy Division/New Order) had this to say about Imprint’s version of ‘Love Will Tear Us Apaer’: "Sent shivers up my spine. Made my hairs stand on end...Haunting. Good...Very good! ". Sound on Sound magazine says "lush, gothic-tinged strings, bells and piano over a stark framework of distorted industrial loops and apocalyptic sound effects. At the centre of all this was an impassioned vocal performance.”
Opening the evening will be Bleeding Heart Narrative which is the solo project of Oliver Barrett, and comprises principally of haunting cellos, repeating piano melodies, hushed vocals and layers of otherworldly sounds. Occupying a space somewhere between a more traditional song-structure and an exploration of noise and textures, sometimes expands up to eight players, including cellos, viola, drums, guitar, bass and a more prominent use of vocals.
