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Band of Holy Joy to Play Manchester – Saturday September 27th‏

September 16, 2014
Inga Tillere

Inga Tillere

Band of Holy Joy
A Place Called Home
Radio Joy
25 August 2014

Band of Hoy Joy bring their unique energy, stunning visuals and incredible music to Manchester, playing the Tiger Lounge, Cooper Street on Saturday 27th September.  Tickets are available from Skiddle – £7 including booking fee: http://skdl.it/Xw7Owv

Following their release of Irvine Welsh’s “favourite album of the year so far” the stunning ‘Easy Listening’, an album that earned the band glowing reviews in The Daily Mirror, Mojo and The Wire amongst others, Band of Holy Joy return with this beautiful fifties-esque ballad examining the contemporary concept of home in the inner city.  A big city pop song of tradition and place lost in the shiny new urban world of market forces, rising rents and social cleansing.

Forever changing, consistently unique yet, always somehow the same, the Band Of Holy Joy began life as gutter chansoniers using junk shop instruments to propagate a brute romantic madly literate form of dispossessed urban folk music.

Since then the band have scaled a few heights fallen down in one or two gutters, broken up, glued themselves together, toured the world, released a fair few albums for the likes of Rough Trade and fully explored other media by presenting two audio visual song plays: Troubled Sleep at the Shunt Theatre in London 2008 and an Invocation for William Burroughs at the Sorbonne Paris in 2009. They have also set up their own label and Internet radio station Radio Joy.

These days the junk shop instruments of old are long gone, and guitars, violins and visuals very much to the fore. But the band continues to write about the same outsider concerns with the same measure of spirit and care and man, they still put on a show!

The Band of Holy Joy – forever changing, consistently unique, yet always somehow the same.  Join them for their Manchester show in a very long time as they play tracks from their latest album, choosing others from their  huge back catalogue.

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