Loft and Lost has written a lovely post about Lucy Jane, using such descriptions as "smokey, lovelorn grandeur.". aawww.
Read here for the full effect:
The tape machine at Dropout studios broke. After 3 weeks of hopes of the machine being fixed dashed, on a week by week basis, I decided to try to take some control back on a remarkably horrible situation.
We had all the tracks on the album finished (almost - I'd have liked to just adapted a couple of things but though we could do this in about an hour on the mixing day)
And then I got a call saying that the machine was playing back with a warble. Hence lots of tapes, with all our lovely music on them, un-mixed and unplayable from the tapes.
Last Wednesday night Fiona Talkington played a track from last year’s album I Live To Help Others. on Radio 3’s Late Junction. iplayer. It’s 29 minutes in: Lamborghini.
LIVING up to their name, Manc promoters Blowout have built a reputation on their epic rock ’n’ roll eruptions; yet they’re just as adept at making more soothing musical noises too.
Alongside their regular slot at Chorlton Irish Centre, the Blowout team have been promoting acoustic night Hemp, at the Abode venue every Thursday.
However, don’t be put off by the acoustic banner – Hemp wins special brownie points for avoiding the usual songwriter treadmill and diverting their musical sat-nav toward the more idiosyncratic corners of the Manc songwriter world.