Alasdair Roberts

HAPPY HOGMANAY people, all people, however you spend it. Love

And more news to come… Celtic Connections in January, Australia in March, et cetera.

Playing two solo sets at AURORA, 15th November, Norwich; screening of film by Luke Fowler.

Eat Your Own Ears presents
JAMES YORKSTON & EAT YOUR OWN EARS PRESENT ‘FOLK SONGS’
WITH
JAMES YORKSTON & THE BIG EYES FAMILY PLAYERS
ALASDAIR ROBERTS
MARRY WATERSON & OLIVER KNIGHT
MARY HAMPTON
DAVID A JAYCOCK

WITH DOMINO RECORDS DJS

Saturday 7 November 2009
Doors 7pm

The Tabernacle Powis Square, London, W11 2AY 0207 520 9305 0207 520 9305

Tickets £16.50 advance from:

www.ticketweb.co.uk 08444771000
www.seetickets.com 0870 264 3333 0870 264 3333

http://www.myspace.com/jamesyorkston
http://www.myspace.com/alasdairrobertsofficial

10th October: The Vortex, Dalston, Wire Magazine Festival (with Gordon Ferries)
30th October: The Goose is Out!, East Dulwich (solo)
7th November: Tabernacle, with James Yorkston

All these shows will be very different from one another in terms of material aired, fellow players and collaborators!

Also, appearing at Ceol ’s Craic at CCA in Glasgow on Hallowe’en/Samhain, probably with Alastair Caplin and Stevie Jones and in collaboration with Mairi Morrison.

A couple of band gigs coming up.
1st October Music Like a Vitamin charity event at The Fruitmarket, Glasgow.

AR with Lord Fiddleford (Alastair Caplin), Sound Boy (Stevie Jones), King of the Waning Year’s Shanist Successor (Shane Connolly) and Token Sassenach (Emily Portman)

5th October Perth Red Rooms

As above minus Emily P.

Apart from that, traditional ballads album is mixed. New songcraft is slowly, slowly being wrought.

GIVE ME THE KELTIC POUND

Sic a blast wis had at Porthcawl and likewise at End of the Road. Thanks to people who listened, and to: Stevie Jones, Alastair Caplin, John Langan, Sarah Scutt among others.

Roberts will be displaying solo at Purcell Room on 19th September, unveiling some new song-craft and treading some old ground too.

Then there is a band gig on 1st October at Glasgow’s Fruitmarket. It’s a Mental Health Awareness concert and other acts include the wonderful likes of Karine Polwart, Emma Pollock and James Yorkston.

Alasdair Roberts is delighted to announce that he’ll be taking part in The Caledonia Sessions’ “Triplepipes, Lust and Spilt Blood” event at The HUB, Edinburgh EH1 on 20th August, 2130. Organised by Concerto Caledonia’s David McGuinness (who played on and wrote viol arrangements for Alasdair’s Spoils LP), the concert features Concerto Caledonia and Barnaby Brown with other guests Martin Carthy and Patsy Seddon.

Acclaimed Glasgow artist Luke Fowler is making a film to accompany the Spoils track ‘Under No Enchantment (But my Own)’.

Thanks to anybody who enjoyed all the minstrelsy and bardism on offer at the Barbican’s Joe Boyd-curated ‘Very Cellular Songs - a Tribute to the Music of the Incredible String Band’ concert on Sunday 19th. It was a great honour to be involved in the event.

To everybody who helped and with whose paths we crossed on the recent tour.