We had a great day playing at the Moseley Folk Festival last weekend. It was our 4th appearance at the festival but the first time as a full band and the friendly atmosphere and crowd inside the Bohemian Jukebox tent really made the day. We also played pretty well too, which is always a bonus.
We recorded the set, so if you missed it and want to hear how it sounded, or were there and would like to hear it again, Read the rest
Categories: Birmingham,Live
Tagged: Birmingham, Folk, Moseley, Moseley Folk Festival, Music
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- September 7, 2010 – 8:42 pm
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Commercially Inviable artists Richard Burke, World of Fox and Friends of the Stars will be sharing the bill in Bristol on Friday 5th Febuary at the Grain Barge.
FRIDAY 5TH FEBRUARY // GRAIN BARGE – HOLD BAR // 8PM // £3
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COMMERCIALLY INVIABLE RECORDS SHOWCASE featuring:
?FRIENDS OF THE STARS
?WORLD OF FOX
?RICHARD BURKE
Prepare for a full evening of music from the innovative label that is so commercially inviable! See below for a summary of what each act tends to get up to… Check out the music online and see you
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Categories: Collaboration,Live
Tagged: Bristol, The Grain Barge
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- January 18, 2010 – 7:59 am
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Friends of the Stars are late additions to the bill at the 2010 Meadowlands Festival in Lewes (which we believe is in Sussex), and takes place over the May Bank Holiday weekend of 29th and 30th. We’re not sure at the moment whether we will play on Saturday or Sunday, or indeed where on the bill, but we’ll post more details as and when we have them. In the meantime, here’s the festival poster.
Categories: Live,Music
Tagged: Meadowlands Festival
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- January 9, 2010 – 1:29 pm
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Just a gentle reminder that tomorrow, 6th November, Friends of the Stars will be treading the boards once again, playing as a full band for the first time in a wee while in support of rising folk star Beth Jeans Houghton.
Details…
Beth Jeans Houghton with support from Friends of the Stars and Banksa
Friday 6th November
The Hare And Hounds
106 High Street
Kings Heath
Birmingham
B14 7JZ
Doors Open 8pm
Admission £5.00
Here’s… Read the rest
Categories: Birmingham,Live,Promotion
Tagged: Banksa, Beth Jeans Houghton, Birmingham, Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath, Live, Moseley Folk Festival, Music, The Lunar Society
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- November 5, 2009 – 7:48 am
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Teach your Children with Shortwave Number Stations and Ghosts… then check out Robert Popper’s blog
Categories: Apropos of Nowt,Live,podcast,The 2nd Album
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- October 13, 2009 – 9:37 pm
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- By Campbell
Friends of the Stars will be supporting rising folk star Beth Jeans Houghton at the Hare & Hounds, Birmingham on Friday November 6th. The line-up is completed by Banksa, and doors open at 8pm.
See you there.
From the Lunar Society site….
Come November we’re back once again at The Hare And Hounds after our brief diversion in October.
This month once again we bring you 3 fine acts. Beth Jeans Haughton, Friends of The Stars and Banksa.
Beth Jeans Houghton was born in Transylvania to a pack of albino wolves who raised her on chewing tobacco… Read the rest
Categories: Birmingham,Live,Music,Promotion
Tagged: Beth Jeans Houghton, Birmingham, Hare & Hounds, Live, Lunar Society
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- September 17, 2009 – 2:13 pm
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In the late 1990s in California Dorian Wood decided to track down his worldwide namesakes using the interweb and eventually got in touch with Birmingham-based Dorian Wood. Finding someone who shares your slightly out-of-the-ordinary name on the other side of the globe would be one thing, but to find out that you are both involved in the creation of strange and beautiful music is something quite altogether different.
On Friday 8th May 2009 we are bringing together these two unique talents to play on the same bill for the second time… It’s the Million Dollar Rematch.
Here’s what happened last March, when we did this… Read the rest
Categories: Birmingham,Collaboration,Live,Music,Promotion
Tagged: Birmingham, Boxing, Dorian Wood, Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath, Live Music
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- May 6, 2009 – 10:54 am
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It’s almost the end of 2008 and End-of-Year lists will be popping up all over the interweb, so here’s me adding mine to the growing online pile
Mine is a random mixture, shown in no particular order, of some of the cool/weird things that happened to me in 2008. It also has some of the things the band got up to, some of the music I happened to like and also just a little bit about some of the interweb doohickeys that caught my eye.
Here goes…..
1: THE RISE OF FLEET FOXES
This time last year no-one had heard of them, then back in March Campbell played me… Read the rest
Categories: Apropos of Nowt,Birmingham,Collaboration,Images,Internet Doohickeys,Live,Music,podcast
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- December 29, 2008 – 12:12 pm
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- By Craig
Me and the missus saw Public Enemy last night in Brum. It was the only UK show of their current tour during which they are playing the whole of “It Takes A Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back“. It was pretty awesome as it goes. They even told the crowd when we were entering Side 2, but I think most folk there knew the record well enough to know that. It was a joy to hear those tunes played live again.
Chuck and… Read the rest
Categories: Apropos of Nowt,Birmingham,Live,Music
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- December 4, 2008 – 3:24 pm
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- By Craig
This is me performing a version of Rio by Duran Duran from the recent Songwriters Cafe event at Birmingham’s Orange Studio. The event was a reunion show for a much-missed former fixture of the Birmingham music landscape….
In 1997, when Buick 6 was but a mere twinkle in my eye, I was a regular performer at Paul Murphy’s “Songwriter’s Cafe” – a bi-weekly Sunday afternoon music event held in Birmingham city centre bar that saw performances from local artists and singers as well as visits from some more well known folks such as Read the rest
Categories: Birmingham,Collaboration,Live,Music
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- November 16, 2008 – 1:48 pm
- Author:
- By Craig