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WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY ANNOUNCE UK SHOWS‏

July 24, 2015

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WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY
ANNOUNCE UK SHOWS

It’s been almost two years since Boston’s Willard Grant Conspiracy last toured the UK. However, the band have been touring over here ever since their formation, 20 years ago. A loose, ever revolving cast of up to thirty musicians, with the only constant being singer and songwriter Robert Fisher, their Facebook page states, “If someone tells you they play with us, they probably do”.

Although often pigeonholed as being an Americana band, The Quietus rightly pointed out that WGC in fact “has more in common with the apocalyptic landscape visions of Warren Ellis and Nick Cave, or Ghost Of David-era Damien Jurado”, also stating in a review of the band’s last London show that WGC were certainly deserving of a wider audience.
WGC’s last album, 2013’s Ghost Republic, received much critical praise, with Mojo magazine describing it as being “at times hushed and poetic, at others dizzyingly huge and squalling” and The Line Of Best Fit calling it “a haunting, remarkable record which grips you like the living dead”.
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This September, WGC will return to the UK as a trio – Robert Fisher being joined by long time collaborator and principle viola player, David Michael Curry (also of the Thalia Zedek Band) as well as cellist Jonah Sacks. Tickets for all shows are on sale now.
WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY TOUR – 2015
10 Sep – GLASGOWGlad Cafe
11 Sep – EDINBURGHWee Red Bar
12 Sep – BELFASTCrescent Arts Centre
14 Sep – LONDONSt Pancras Old Church
15 Sep – SOUTHAMPTONTalking Heads
16 Sep – EXETERPhoenix
17 Sep – BRIGHTONPrince Albert
20 Sep – TILBURGINCUBATE FESTIVAL (NL)

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