September 1, 2010
LM wandered off in the direction of the BBC Radio 1 studios last night to have a chat with & play a few songs for Grimmy. Missed it? Listen again here – forward to 31m10s to jump right in.
LM chats about festivals, writing songs etc etc and chooses Nina Nastasia & Jim White’s ‘Odd Said The Doe’ (from the album ‘You Follow Me‘) for Grimmy’s ‘1000 Albums Everyone Says You Should Listen To But We’ve Only Got Time To Play One Track So Here It Is…’ feature. She also plays the 2 newbies (or new enough to have missed out on being on ‘I Speak Because I Can’) – ‘Don’t Ask Me Why’ and ‘Rest In The Bed’.
LM HQ x
August 24, 2010
Watch the 28 minutes of footage HERE (click on ‘Laura Marling live op Lowlands 2010′).
Pete piano – Ruth cello – Laura – Grazzle double bass – Matt drums
Setlist:
1. My Manic & I (full band)
2. Blackberry Stone (full band)
3. Don’t Ask Me Why (solo)
4. Rest In The Bed (solo)
5. Night Terror (solo)
6. Alpha Shallows (full band)
7. Alas I Cannot I Swim (full band)
8. I Speak Because I Can (full band)
LM HQ x
August 20, 2010
There’s been a number of these coming in recently (a by-product of LM’s Canada/US Mini tour last month) so hope we’re not overloading you? Just thought it might be nice to keep a little archive of sessions on here, so you can check in and listen up whenever your ears are bored and in want of some sound…
This is a particularly nice one featuring a chatty LM, a rustic sounding guitar, a bit more on that No Encores rule and – the part that we ‘HQ still, always find fascinating – more about those songs and just where they come from. Kudos to Kara Manning for a lovely interview.
LISTEN HERE.
LM HQ
x
August 19, 2010
A new live date for you in Brighton, courtesy of The Willkommen Collective and The Melting Vinyl…
12th September @ Stanmer House,
Brighton – 2pm – 10pm
Tickets are now on sale via Seetickets & Wegotickets
* All ages welcome – under 16s accompanied by an adult *
View the full details at www.willkommenrecords.co.uk
LM HQ x
August 18, 2010
UK folks: did you miss the iTunes Festival collaborative show LM played with Mumford & Sons and Dharohar Project last month?
Or are you just suffering a touch from the August-induced malady of boredom (hang in there friends, it’ll be ok)?
Well this may help, just a little…
For the next 6 days or so you can watch the live footage of the entire Roundhouse show – Dharohar Project, LM, Mumford & Sons, the joint performance and all – on Myspace here…
Make sure you watch the collaborative performances at the end – they’re quite somethin’ else.
Stay well,
LM HQ x
August 9, 2010
Live session tracklisting:
‘Made By Maid’
‘Rambling Man’
‘Goodbye England’
‘Blues Run the Game’
LM also has a chat with host David Dye, in which she discusses working with Ethan Johns, the pagan story which inspired album track ‘Made By Maid’ and songwriting/meanings in general… listen again here.
Ps. ‘Darkness Descends’ – the third track to be released from ‘I Speak Because I Can’ – is officially released today. No b-side or artwork this time round, just bringing it to you plain and simple. You can get the track now at iTunes.
July 30, 2010
So here’s the listen again link for LM’s live session on Morning Becomes Eclectic yesterday. You might also be able to watch footage from the session via that link too (although we’re not having much luck with that particular feat the mo).
LM plays lots of tracks from ‘I Speak Because I Can‘, a couple from ‘Alas I Cannot Swim‘ and one of the latest additions to the LM songbook ‘Don’t Ask Me Why’. There’s a little chat time with presenter Jason Bentley too… and can we get some kudos for the live-on-air guitar tuning?
Enjoy.
Lotsa love,
LM HQ x
Update: ‘Rambling Man’ live in the studio on YouTube.
July 28, 2010
Heads’up USA: LM’s due to be rolling by the KCRW studios tomorrow (Thursday 29th) for a little bit of a live track-or-two on Morning Becomes Eclectic. 11.15am PST is the time.
As for us folks in the rest of the world: we suspect you’ll be able to listen again online after…
Stay well,
LM HQ x
July 20, 2010
We here at LM HQ are very pleased to bring you the news that ‘I Speak Because I Can’ has been nominated for this year’s Mercury Music Prize. Ironically rendering LM herself a little bit speechless. Thank you to each and everyone of you who have taken the album in as your own and left all of your very kind comments on the various LM pages.
Yiikes!
Not a bad number of days, for this reason, Latitude (and the great crowd there) and various other reasons….
Lotsa love and stay well,
LM HQ x
July 14, 2010
Well, well. What a fine lot of musical insight and fun that was. Thank you Dharohar Project and Mumford & Sons!
If you couldn’t be at either of the recent gigs then there’s a few things you can do to fill the void, number 1 being: checking out the 4 track collaborative EP (see more deets by scrolling down below). Next, it looks like an EP of the live recordings from the London show will be available to download from iTunes UK, come 5th August. And video-wise, there’s an interview with LM and Winston M&S, also recorded in London, which you can watch by clicking the pic below (although fans watching from outside the UK: it may be subject to those pesky rights complications. Eshk, hope not)…
Finally, there are some photos from the show up on the iTunes UK Facebook page too.
The next stop for LM and her band is Latitude Festival on Friday , then on to Canada, California and Australia. On the rooaad again…
LM HQ x
