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Slice Of Life (featuring Steve Ignorant from Crass) announce UK dates‏

March 8, 2015

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SLICE OF LIFE ANNOUNCE GIGS IN THE UK

‘LOVE AND A LAMP-POST’ ALBUM OUT NOW ON OVERGROUND RECORDS

View the story of the album: www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6SCCxLPYE0

On the way home from the Australian & New Zealand Last Supper Tour in 2011; Carol, Pete and Steve Ignorant found themselves stranded due to the Chile ash cloud. During the long night gazing at the lights of Sydney reflecting on life while drinking beers, Slice Of Life was born. They performed their first gig in The Horseshoe Inn at Wellingborough on the 25th October 2013 and never looked back.

Slice Of Life is an opportunity for Steve to explore the more contemplative side to his songwriting.  A far cry from the aggression of Crass maybe, with the songs in an acoustic setting of: piano, acoustic guitar and upright bass, but nonetheless compelling as Steve opens both heart and soul when reflecting on life and then reminds us just why we should never give up on this world or on each other with his poems and songs that make us think about the world around us and reminds us just why we should still care.

Impossible to categorise, Slice Of Life’s first album is up-front and soul-baringly personal. It’s a mixture of songs and spoken word that draws you in and stays with you long after the final note has been played.
Steve: ‘Years ago I read a book called Brighton Rock, for days the atmosphere of that story stayed with me and I’ve always wanted to create an album that would have that same effect on people.’

Steve Ignorant is a singer/songwriter and co-founded the anarcho-punk band Crass with Penny Rimbaud in 1977. Apart from doing spoken word performances as a solo artist, he also performed with Conflict, Schwartzenegger and Stratford Mercenaries. In 2007 he performed Crass’s entire Feeding of the 5000 album live at the Shepherds Bush Empire and throughout 2010-2011 presented The Last Supper, touring/celebrating the songs of Crass around the globe, ending with a farewell gig at Shepherds Bush Empire in November 2011.

In 2013 Steve and Paranoid Visions decided to record an album. The result ‘When …?’, a hybrid of styles, all with a nod to early 80s anarcho-punk. They now perform live on special occasions.

In 2014 Slice of Life released their debut album Love and a Lamp-post on Newcastle’s Overground Records. Well received by critics and fans alike, one review on Louder Than War seemed to perfectly encapulate the essence of the album:

“Full of true stories, poetry and top notch yet understated music from a minimalist group of totally class musicians (acoustic bass, acoustic guitar and keyboards), a million miles from the anger and noise of Crass, yet with no less authenticity and integrity, but tempered with maturity and unafraid to speak from his roots, truly songs of experience. ‘Eleven Chimneys’, with its nods to Burt Bacharach and Amy Winehouse, has to be one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard. Yeah, forget all the ‘er why isn’t it Crass, why isn’t it pay no more than 58p’ – go and buy it and listen without prejudice…”

Catch the band live at the following dates:

13th March    Nottingham      The Maze
17th April      York                 Fulford Arms
2nd May        Newcastle        Cluny 2
3rd May         Stockton          Green Room
23rd May       Oxford             Jericho Tavern
11th July        Wirral Fort        Rock Perch

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