FAUSTUS – Broken Down Gentlemen
\n11th March \u2013 Navigator Records <\/p>\n
The award winning SUPER-GROUP cement their return with
\nBRAND NEW album and tour \u2013 \u2018BROKEN DOWN GENTLEMEN\u2019
\nAn inspired collection of some of the earthiest songs in the folk cannon<\/p>\n
\u2018Frill-free folk music, superbly and tastefully performed . . . a folk essential\u2019
\n**** Sunday Times <\/p>\n
\u2018A considered album of exceptional class\u2019
\n***** Daily Telegraph<\/p>\n
Album tour \u2013 11th-27th April 2013 \u2013 including The Green Note, London<\/p>\n
Nominated in the 2009 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, the Faustus triumvirate are three of the leading lights of English folk music of their generation: Saul Rose (Waterson:Carthy, Whapweasel), Benji Kirkpatrick (Seth Lakeman Band, Bellowhead) and Paul Sartin (Bellowhead, Belshazzar\u2019s Feast). <\/p>\n
Specialising in powerful delivery, faultless harmonies, inspired arrangements and a sprinkling of some of the earthiest songs in the folk cannon, they are men on a mission to banish all that is anodyne and fey in the delivery of folk music. Their plethora of experience is brought together in a virtuosic display of musicianship and testosterone. <\/p>\n
Faustus came together in 2006 as an evolution of the award-winning band Dr. Faustus. They made an eponymous debut album in 2008, produced by Stu Hanna (also of Megson) and released by Navigator Records, which saw them nominated as the Best Group in the 2009 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Subsequent touring saw them headlining at festivals, as well as playing sell-out concerts at arts centres and clubs. Rooted deeply in the English tradition, in 2007 they received a 75th Anniversary Award from the English Folk Dance and Song Society.<\/p>\n
The band members: <\/p>\n
Benji: Scion of a noted folk dynasty, and very firmly rooted in the tradition, Benji Kirkpatrick is a key member of folk big band and BBC Award winners Bellowhead. Member of the Seth Lakeman Band who shot to fame when ’Kitty Jay’, featuring Benji, nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2005, Benji has also performed with numerous other noted artists including Oysterband, John Jones and Maddy Prior (Steeleye Span), and has found time to release three acclaimed solo albums. <\/p>\n
Saul: Saul Rose was a long time member of Waterson:Carthy, winning two BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards with the album ’Broken Ground’ and forming a duo with Eliza Carthy. The double album ’Red Rice’, of which Saul was an integral part of the ’Rice’ half, was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 1998. More recently Saul has joined Whapweasel, played in Ruth Notman’s and Jim Moray\u2019s bands, and re-launched his own duo with hammered dulcimer player, Maclaine Colston. In demand not only as a touring band member, but also an incredibly popular session musician, he has played on numerous albums, including Jackie Oates’s album ’Hyperboreans’, Norma Waterson and Eliza Carthy’s album ’The Gift’ and the soundtrack for the film ’Morris- A Life With Bells On’. He was nominated for the Musician of The Year award in the 2010 BBC Folk Awards and in 2011 took the part of Songman in the West End play War Horse.<\/p>\n
Paul: Paul Sartin is also a member of Bellowhead, as well as BBC Folk Award-nominated duo Belshazzar\u2019s Feast and is a BASC nominated composer. He is Director of the Andover Museum Loft Singers, consultant for the charity Live Music Now and is a composer of note with recent works including \u2018The Hartlepool Monkey\u2019 for Streetwise Opera, \u2018Anthony and Cleopatra\u2019 for the Central School of Speech and Drama, and \u2018Changing Landscapes\u2019 for Broadstairs Folk Week. <\/p>\n
In autumn 2012 Faustus returned to touring after a two year break to enthusiastic reviews while simultaneously putting the finishing touches to a brand new album, working once again with producer Stu Hanna. March 2013 will see the release of the album \u2018Broken Down Gentlemen\u2019 on Navigator Records followed by an album tour in April.<\/p>\n
\u2018exceptional class… Daily Telegraph
\n\u2018Dynamically fascinating to watch, entertaining and intriguing. Their ability to switch from song to tune, from instrument to voice, from traditional tune to modern arrangements made seeing them again a necessity\u2019 Folk and Roots
\n\u2018Superb playing; lovely arrangements; great material\u2019 Living Tradition
\nFaustus \u2013 The Broken Down Gentlemen Tour \u2013 April 2013<\/p>\n
Thurs 11th April The Cumberland Arms, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
\nwww.wegottickets.com
\nDoors: 7.30pm \/ On stage: 8.00pm<\/p>\n
Fri 12th April The Greystones, Sheffield
\nwww.wegottickets.com \/ www.mygreystones.co.uk
\nDoors: 7.30pm \/ On stage: 8.00pm<\/p>\n
Sat 13th April Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot
\nTel: 01235 515 144 \/ www.cornerstone-arts.org
\nDoors: 7.30pm \/ On stage: 8.00pm<\/p>\n
Sun 14th April Gill Nethercott Centre, Whitchurch, Hants
\n www.wegottickets.com
\n Doors: 7.30pm \/ On stage: 8.00pm<\/p>\n
Mon 15th April The Green Note, Camden, London
\nTel: 020 7485 9899 \/ www.folkonmonday.co.uk
\nDoors: 7.00pm \/ On stage: 9.00pm<\/p>\n
Tues 16th April South Street Arts Centre, Reading
\nTel: 0118 960 6060 \/ www.readingarts.com
\nDoors: 7.00pm \/ On stage: 8.00pm<\/p>\n
Fri 19th April Nailsea Folk Club, Nailsea nr. Bristol
\nTel: 01275 790 915 \/ www.nailseafolkclub.co.uk
\nDoors: 7.30pm \/ On stage 8.30pm<\/p>\n
Sat 20th April The Arts Centre, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk
\nTel: 01695 584 480 \/ www.edgehill.ac.uk\/artscentre
\nDoors: 7.30pm \/ On stage: 8.00pm<\/p>\n
Weds 24th April Stamford Arts Centre
\nTel: 01780 763 203 \/ www.stamfordartscentre.com
\nDoors: 7.30pm \/ On stage: 8.00pm<\/p>\n
Fri 26th April 2013 The Guildhall, Leicester
\nTel: 0116 253 2569
\nDoors 7.15pm \/ On stage: 8.00pm<\/p>\n
Sat 27th April 2013 Ropery Hall, Barton-on-Humber
\nTel: 01652 660 380 \/ www.the-ropewalk.co.uk\/roperyhall
\nDoors: 7.30pm \/ On stage: 8.00pm<\/p>\n
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