Way to Blue: Songs of Nick Drake

As Ale wrote in a comment on bibbly-o-tek, Green Gartside will be performing songs in a Nick Drake (Wikipedia) tribute series.

4 dates are announced:

20 Jan in Glasgow
21st Jan in Brighton
22nd Jan at London Barbican
23rd Jan at Warwick Uni Arts Centre

Way to Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake
Featuring Danny Thompson, Vashti Bunyan, Green Gartside, Lisa Hannigan, Scott Matthews, Teddy Thompson, Krystle Warren, Robyn Hitchcock & more
22 January 2010 / 19:30
Barbican Hall

Tickets: £15-25

Undoubtedly one of the most influential English singer-songwriters of the last 50 years, Nick Drake found little mainstream success during his lifetime; however, since his untimely death at the age of 26, his fragile acoustic, autumnal music has touched the hearts of millions of people.

This very special evening, curated by his producer Joe Boyd, features original orchestrations arranged by Robert Kirby, who passed away very recently. Also featured is Danny Thompson, the legendary bassist who played on many of Drake’s recordings, who anchors the house band along with special guest artists including Vashti Bunyan, Green Gartside, Lisa Hannigan, Scott Matthews, Teddy Thompson, Krystle Warren & Robyn Hitchcock who will celebrate the music through modern reinterpretations of his timeless songs.

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Published:: 11.30.09 / 11pm

Category:: Gigs, Scritti Politti

Author:: Ellen

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ale 12.14.09 / 1am

This is the first new on the roughtraderecords website…Me and another fan have wrote a comment here today….please add your comment too!!!

Bruno Van Loo 12.17.09 / 10pm

O.K. Ale. I’m just finisch to add a comment on the roughtraderecords website. And thanks a lot for all the nice fans that bring some news about Scritti Politti on this fantastic site!

ale 12.18.09 / 5pm

You’re right,Bruno….making good music takes time!!!….and after all these covers i want to advice all the fans that from yesterday there’s on youtube a guy with a xmas hat called acousticsongaday that made a cover of dr.abernathy……a very good performance!!!

Jason 12.22.09 / 2pm

Speaking of covers, seen a video of a great version of The Word Girl performed live by Sondre Lerche (I think) recently. Don’t know if it’s the same chords played differently or a complete reworking, but certainly gives the song a different dimension. Really worth listening to.

sheena 01.21.10 / 2am

i was at the glasgow gig !
in all honesty i only went because green was playing , i thought the tracks green was given or picked to play were a bit depressing but hey i still got a chance to see green again :o) i also got some video footage but i havent put it on my pc yet so i dont know if its watchable

Sonic Chronicler 01.21.10 / 6pm

The Glasgow gig was brilliant. I guess Sheena isn’t familiar with the works of Nick Drake, hopeful she got something out of the gig.

You can hear a couple of tracks at Audioboo: http://audioboo.fm/profile/Sonic_chronicler

I have also found a BBC video of Green singing Nick Drake’s “Fruit Tree” with Danny
Thompson Neill MacColl & Kate St. John.

Don’t think people outside the UK can get it, but here is the link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/music/celticconnections/2010/artists/way_to_blue/

JD 01.22.10 / 12am

For those unaware, Green was interviewed on Tom Crowley’s BBC 6Music show this afternoon – follow this link and fast forward to about 1h13m into the playback: http://tinyurl.com/y8hfrag

As you’ll hear, as always he’s in denial about life’s timescales, but vaguely promises a completed new album come the summer.

I personally won’t be holding my breath :)

ale 01.22.10 / 1am

Wow!!!thanks for the link,JD…and thanks to Sonic Chronicler that give us the links in the yahoo groups to listen to some gems covered by Green last night…..

JD 01.22.10 / 1am

This is a nice thing, too, though I’d imagine most people may have seen it on the grapevine – so apologies for repitition:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/music/celticconnections/2010/artists/way_to_blue/?emp1=2#emp1

TheMikeN 01.23.10 / 11pm

Hi! Thanks to those above for the links to brand new audio and video. Green sounds great on the Nick Drake songs and as unhurried as ever (about finishing recording anything) in the BBC Radio interview. Just one small change though: the link above to the interview jumps to the Friday show not the Thursday one that Green was interviewed on. This link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00q2ndh/Nemone_21_01_2010/
gets to the Thursday show and the interview is indeed about 1 hr 13 minutes into the show. The show will only be available on the iPlayert for a few more days though.

ale 01.28.10 / 10pm

You can find a lot of performance of these events on youtube…my favourites are Free Ride covered by Green and Robyn Hitchcock and the wonderful Fruit Tree by Green in Barbican,21-01-10…..

mik 02.05.10 / 12am

ale
annie lennox……………………………………..
i love youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
there are photos about annie and green

Nicked Drake 02.18.10 / 10pm

new Nick Drake tribute, planning to tour this year… http://www.myspace.com/nickeddrake

Neil 04.17.10 / 12pm

The Nick Drake tribute show is currently being shown on BBC4, it was filmed at the Barbican in London earlier this year. Check schedule for details!

brenda lynton-escreet 10.19.10 / 8am

went to the final gig at the bridgewater hall manchester. just amazing, it was a delight to be there. when I grow up can I be krystal please?.the sound was brilliant, front of house person, thank you too. the general feeling of “gosh, we are so lucky to be on this tour” washed over into the audience who sat hardly breathing during some of the numbers.never posted before but this concert was sublime.

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