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Behind the name The Tallest Man On Earth is Kristian Matsson of Dalarna, Sweden. He plays guitar and banjo and has released a full length album entitled ‘Shallow Grave’ and a self-titled 5-track EP on the Swedish label Gravitation.
"Matsson has mined the American south for inspiration, and his frantic strumming and front-porch poetry recall everyone from the Carter Family to Lead Belly to, most noticeably, country bluesman Mississippi John Hurt....Ultimately, Shallow Grave transcends comparison -- which is saying an awful lot, given the popularity of its prototype -- and Matsson is a natural-born folksinger, earnest, clever, and comforting" – Pitchfork 8.3
www.myspace.com/thetallestmanonearth
www.birdonthewire.net

The Time to Change concert is a night of live music to raise money for the mental health charities Mind and Rethink and to also raise awareness of the Time to Change campaign, which sets out to end mental health discrimination. The evening will be full of fantastic live music from James Carrington (www.myspace.com/jamescarrington), Christina Novelli (www.myspace.com/christinanovellimusic) and Roxanne Emery (www.myspace.com/roxanneemery), and just added The Ryan O'Reilly Band (www.myspace.com/ryanoreilly with more artists to be confirmed.

The new Album Leaf album A Chorus of Storytellers, marks the first decade for the group led by Jimmy LaValle. In those 10 years, LaValle has gone from initial improvised home recordings to now five complete studio albums, from opening slots to leading an incredible world-touring band to the stage at Red Rocks, headlining the Metamorphose festival in Japan and performing at the Hollywood Bowl with the Incredible String Band. LaValle’s well-earned reputation as a crafter of impeccable sonic imagery even led to a critically-acclaimed show at the Seattle International Film Festival where The Album Leaf performed a live score for the 1927 silent film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.
www.myspace.com/thealbumleaf

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Polish hip hop gig, dubstep breaks and ragga jungle
www.myspace.com/pezet81
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAJQLtgfxoQ

The School are a female-fronted indiepop band from Cardiff, Wales, UK.
The band signed to legendary Spanish label Elefant Records after playing only 4 shows, and have since been recording tracks for their debut album with Ian Catt (Saint Etienne/Stars/The Field Mice/Shampoo) which will be released in Jan/Feb 2010.
"a swaying, winsome tune with some of the Phil Spector lushness of Lucky Soul, the Belle & Sebastian-style modesty of Camera Obscura, and the airy, girl-group vocals of both" – Pitchfork
www.myspace.com/theschoolband

The Steepwater Band formed in Chicago in 1998 ignited by a passion for the city's electric blues. The power trio who quickly progressed from covering Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker to writing compelling originals has crafted a rock n' roll sound best described as heavy Americana. For a decade the band has gigged relentlessly, performing nearly 125 shows per year and bringing their songbook of gritty Delta blues, soulful boogie, and backwoods psychedelia to audiences across the States and abroad.
www.steepwater.com/

Taking inspiration from Pop, Jazz, Reggae and Funk, twenty year old Steve Appleton has an ear for a tune and an eye for an incredible live show and wrote and produced his entire album.
When The Sun Comes Up is an album about all sorts of life experiences and Steve sings about everything from funky venues to one night stands and ruling the world. The albums title track is the celebratory sound that perfectly encapsulates the big nights out of which young life is made; if it were a TV show, it would most definitely have to be Skins. When The Sun Comes Up is an album truly about being and feeling young.
www.myspace.com/steveappleton

Dublin based Lithuanian star band play an all too rare London show and thereby promote their new 'Nematomi' LP.
www.myspace.com/nojus

Wooden Shjips (that’s not a typo) is a vital and refreshingly inspired quartet from San Francisco playing loud rock ‘n’ roll in a style heavily influenced by the experimentalism of psychedelia, classical minimalism and garage rock excess.
www.myspace.com/woodenshjips

Grant-Lee Phillips is best known as the voice and vision of the critically acclaimed group Grant Lee Buffalo. His recent material carries the same depth and insight as his previous work but with added vibrancy and a new experimental edge. A bonus to Phillips solo engagements has been the exposure of a deeply human side, a unique, off beat sense of humor and love of spontaneity that might have been lost in the echo of mammoth venues.
Implying a beguiling blend of paradox and wonder – a circumference of over two thousand miles appearing fingernail thin from Earth – the title Little Moon handily encapsulates the tiny triumph that is Grant-Lee Phillips’s new album. Uncluttered but undeniably powerful, briskly recorded but a lifetime in the making, Little Moon finds Phillips letting go of his inhibitions and his ego just as he approaches the pinnacle of his abilities as a songwriter, vocalist, and bandleader. "Because I so often find myself alone with a guitar, be it at home, on stage, in a hotel," he reflects, "I’ve become more and more comfortable stripping away a lot of the artifice that comes with making a record. My albums are becoming more stark, more unguarded, and more vulnerable. This is the most unselfconscious record I have made – ever." www.myspace.com/grantleephillips

The International SEXY CIRCUS SIDESHOW descends on the historic Bush Hall in a 1 night Extravaganza for the history books! Chaz Royal has hand picked a cast of Carnival Hootchy Kootchie Vixens, the rarist oddities of Nouveau Circus Sideshow and rounded it all out with the Sexiest Circus Stunts around!!!
www.LONDONBURLESQUEWEEK.com

EVELYN EVELYN are the world's only living conjoined twin singer-songwriter duo. The sisters were discovered by AMANDA PALMER (the Dresden Dolls) and JASON WEBLEY who are touring and performing with the twins on their first world tour. After solo performances by both Palmer and Webley, and a rare performance by their multi-talented manager SXIP SHIREY, the Evelyn twins will take the stage perform songs from their much-anticipated debut album.
www.myspace.com/evelynevelyn

EVELYN EVELYN are the world's only living conjoined twin singer-songwriter duo. The sisters were discovered by AMANDA PALMER (the Dresden Dolls) and JASON WEBLEY who are touring and performing with the twins on their first world tour. After solo performances by both Palmer and Webley, and a rare performance by their multi-talented manager SXIP SHIREY, the Evelyn twins will take the stage perform songs from their much-anticipated debut album.
www.myspace.com/evelynevelyn

EVELYN EVELYN are the world's only living conjoined twin singer-songwriter duo. The sisters were discovered by AMANDA PALMER (the Dresden Dolls) and JASON WEBLEY who are touring and performing with the twins on their first world tour. After solo performances by both Palmer and Webley, and a rare performance by their multi-talented manager SXIP SHIREY, the Evelyn twins will take the stage perform songs from their much-anticipated debut album.
www.myspace.com/evelynevelyn

Jace Everett combines the depth of traditional country song writing with a fusion of powerful rock. Born in Evansville, Ind. and growing up in Texas, he paid his dues playing bass for other artists. To keep the bills paid, he also worked as a ditch digger, truck washer, dump truck driver, and fork/bobcat operator. Everett cites Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings as his greatest influences and has written songs for some of today’s top country artists.
www.myspace.com/jaceeverett

A Californian resident in Manchester, Hoop comes hotly tipped, helped by a CV that includes a spell as Tom Waits's childminder. Waits's description of her music as "like going swimming in a lake at night" proves apt for her crystal vocals and the shimmering, booming backings on, say, Whispering Light, or of more spartan, psych-folk pieces like Murder of Birds. Hoop's a shape-shifter, though, comfortable with blues flavours or a murder ballad ("Tulips"), while her melodies and nature-inspired imagery have the relentless, angular quality of Kate Bush or Bjork.
www.myspace.com/jescahoop

With Ed Byrne / Richard Herring & Special Guests TBA
www.bushhallpresents.co.uk

Trembling Bells are a Glasgow based band who seek to reanimate the mythic landscapes of Great Britain via a love for Traditional Folk, Early music and canonical Rock. Founded in early 2008 by renowned UK drummer, Alex Neilson, Trembling Bells have enjoyed two successful British tours and rave reviews for their debut album, Carbeth.
Trembling Bells have just finished recording their second album, Abandoned Love, for Honest Jon’s records. They feel it is their most successful attempt to synthesise traditional folk forms with the bathetic romanticism of Country music, the deceptive complexity of Medieval music and the swagger of Classic Rock.
www.myspace.com/tremblingbells

After sell out performances in London and the South East, and appearances internationally, Volupte present, Ivy Paige in her sensational new live music show. Not content with being the darling of the London Cabaret and Burlesque scene, Ivy Paige proves she’s an artist in her own right with the launch of her debut album, "Inside the Music Box" which sees her performing her own original music co created with the acclaimed pianist Pete Saunders (Dexys Midnight Runners) Pete Saunders played the Hammond Organ for Dexy's Midnight Runners on their first album and worked with various bands from the Damned to Carmel during the 80s. Joining them both onstage will be a cast of some of the country finest musicians for a show not to be missed!
Supporting Ivy Paige will be a stellar line up of Volupte’s resident Cabaret and burlesque artistes to tantalise, titillate and tease you!
www.myspace.com/ivy.paige

Taken from Labrador Records website:
A band called The Radio Dept. was formed by Elin Almered and Johan Duncanson when they were in the school together in the late 90's. The name was taken from a gas station/radio repairer in Lund (Sweden) which had a large sign with the name »Radioavdelningen« (The Radio Department in Swedish) hanging outside their shop. Just like today Elin and Johan hung out with people who, if they didn't play music, were into photo, film, art and the likes. The Radio Deptartment was a suiting name as it became a department of its own among their friends' activities.
The Radio Dept.’s debut album Lesser Matters, released in the spring of 2003, was an underground success internationally and Labrador's first entrance in the sales charts in Sweden. The buzz that slowly grew to give the band worldwide recognition came with a little help from XL Recordings who released the album in large parts of the world, and the release of Sofia Coppola's film Marie Antoinette, which featured Keen on Boys (from Lesser matters), Pulling Our Weight (from the EP with the same name, 2004), and "I Don't Like It Like This” (from the EP This past week, 2005).
The second album, Pet grief, was released in the spring of 2006 and showed a slightly more dreamy, less noisy, side of the band. The album reached #11 in the Swedish charts and continued to give The Radio Dept. new listeners all over the world.
In the beginning of 2007 people started talking about new material from The Radio Dept. There was even a rumour going round that they were working on two albums simultaneously and that both would be released in May the same year. In other words; two albums merely one year after the release of the previous album Pet Grief. Those who had followed the band for a few years and knew how they work probably suspected this would not happen. Obviously, it didn't happen. But what actually did happen that October night 2007 when they were supposed to master their finished album the day after, we'll probably never know.
The single "Freddie and the Trojan Horse" was released in May 2008 and was planned as a first taste of their upcoming album Clinging to a scheme. The new songs were said to be influenced by minimalistic post- punk, krautrock, repetitive "motorik" beat and ambient noise. We did actually get to hear some of these almost mythical songs. But, the album was not finished in 2008.
Clinging to a Scheme is now ready after four long years. The band has combined the most unequalled components from their previous albums “Lesser matters” and Pet grief with soul guitars, P-funk, glittering, distorted synthesizers, cut/paste-beats, 70’s futuristic orchestra sounds and sounds you don't know what they are. Things you've never heard before. Clinging to a scheme is way beyond pleasing - it's absolutely breathtaking.
www.myspace.com/officialradiodept

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The UK's Soul Queen is back to her first passion: music. 2009 saw the British star releasing her first original studio album in ten years. She also embarked on a nationwide tour meeting fans old and new and reminding her millions of TV fans what first put her in the public eye twenty-two years ago..
www.myspace.com/micaparisofficial

Two years after the release of the critically acclaimed Ten Stones, Wovenhand and Glitterhouse Records have decided to join forces again. The first result will be the new album, The Threshingfloor by Wovenhand, due for release by mid-May simultaneously throuout all of Europe by Glitterhouse Records and its European partners.
Wovenhand continues to be one of the most unique and exquisitely intense bands, both in live performance as well as recorded material. Free of any boundaries and crossing into new territories, David Eugene Edwards delivers The Threshingfloor Wovenhands' 6th album and masterpiece, in which he unleashes a maelstrom of fierce conviction that is as captivating as it is deeply spiritual.

Starting out life as a musical venture between old friends Crippled Black Phoenix have now become a solid and active live band, whilst keeping their feet firmly planted in the studio experimenting with modern and antique sounds. Comprising of a bunch of musical outsiders from such bands as Iron Monkey, Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine, Mogwai, Gonga, North Sea Navigator, Pantheist and Electric Wizard, they have come up with a sound that is hard to call, some are hearing prog-folk, some hear the mournful balladry, but whatever their take on it, it has certainly had the public and critics scrabbling for words, and Crippled Black Phoenix are happily oblivious to it all.
www.myspace.com/wovenhand www.myspace.com/crippledblackphoenix

Hamid Man Tu and Tim Whelan ( TU, UK), Jim Moray (UK), Yanka Rupkina (Trio Bugarka, Bulgaria), Balkan Fanatik (Hungary), The Perunika Trio (UK/Bulgaria), Martin Furey (Ireland), Valravn (Denmark), Village Kollectiv (Poland), Recycler (France)
www.myspace.com/unitegatheringofstrangers

With Stewart Lee / Kevin Eldon / Shappi Khorsadi / MC Andrew Maxwell
www.bushhallpresents.co.uk

Funky W6 is a club night for, and run by, people with learning disabilities - and takes place three or four times a year in Hammersmith and Shepherds Bush at a REAL club venue. Funky Club was started in 2002 by Teresa McGinn of Hammersmith and Fulham Mencap with money from Social Services, along with self advocacy group Safety Net People First, and club promoters/DJ trainers Frank and Louise of Luminous Frenzy.
/www.myspace.com/funkyw6club

With Stewart Lee / Josie Long / Edward Aczel, MC Richard Herring
www.bushhallpresents.co.uk

"And you thought you didn't like folk music" states musician and comedian Adrian Edmondson after the crowd have lapped up several of his and his bands interpretations of punk classics filtered through the medium of folk ...at the top of the show you're wondering just how The Bad Shepherds are going to pull this off - the answer is beautifully. - Manchester Evening News
www.thebadshepherds.com

New Progressives UK Tour 2009 Guitar virtuoso and original It Bites front man, Francis Dunnery, takes to the road with his New Progressives UK tour. Francis will front the newly-formed "Francis Dunnery's Brand New It Bites", performing a mix of original It Bites classics and some new tracks. The New Progressives UK tour includes support and will also feature special guests, yet to be announced.
www.francisdunnery.com