Elba Sessions

Martin John Henry

Our podcast for November is now live. Listen to the excellent Martin John Henry here.

Martin joined us at Elba to discuss going solo, upcoming releases (including creating the packaging for his quarterly (‘In Three’s’ project)) and how it is writting on his own.

Martin performs two tracks of his own work (‘The Other Half Of Everything’ & ‘Woodilee Song’) and an acoustic version of ‘Pest’ taken from De Rosa’s 2009 album ‘Prevention’.

‘Prevention’ is a big favourite with all at Elba and worth tracking down for anyone that is yet to pick it up. Also, still available 2006′s debut album ’Mend’.

Martin is currently working on his first solo album, keep updated on release dates and project updates on his myspace.

All northern loons and quines can catch Martin at The Lemon Tree in Aberdeen on the 20th of November as part of an evening with Chemikal Underground records. Also on the bill are the mind blowing Phantom Band, Emma Pollock and Aidan Moffat and The Best Of’s. Sounds like a great night!

I’m very excited about the new EP from the fantastic Thirty Pounds of Bone. It’s a collection of sea shanties and is out on a limited run through Woodland Recordings now. You can hear a couple of tracks on his myspace page and if you happen to be around Berlin or Hamburg this week, he is playing a couple of shows with the equally fab The Great Park.

There is an ever reliable review from Is This Music? here…

Hopefully we’ll be seeing Thirty Pounds Of Bone up north sometime soon!