Songs of Love and Horror - Will Oldham Book Launch
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Thu 18 October 2018 // 20:00
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Tickets: Early birds on sale now at £7/ £10 thereafter/ £12 on the night
To celebrate the music of Will Oldham and launch the new book 'Songs of Love and Horror' we're hosting a special evening of music and concert from affiliated musicians and some local heroes
The night will feature a set from an exciting one off tour band Three Queens In Morning featuring Alasdair Roberts (Drag City), Alex Nilsen of Tremblings Bells and Jill O'sullivan singing songs from the Bonnie Prince Billy back catalog and beyond. Plus delicacies from The Horse Loom and Cath and Phil Tyler
Early birds on sale now at £7/ £10 thereafter/ £12 on the night
Concessions are available and the event is free to those seeking asylum
The book will be available to purchase. Read more about it here.. https://www.wwnorton.co.uk/books/9780393651201-songs-of-love-and-horror
https://pitchfork.com/news/will-oldhams-lyrics-collected-in-new-book
''As a performer, songwriter and actor, Will Oldham has carved a singular path through the worlds of indie folk and cinema. Now the critically acclaimed, enigmatic artist presents his life's work: the lyrics to more than two hundred songs spanning the 1980s to the present, each with annotations that impart new meaning to his music. Oldham's aphoristic meditations-on death, patience and turning carelessness into a virtue-are, like his lyrics, profound, earthy and often funny. They reveal flashes of Oldham's philosophy, the sources and circumstances that inspired his lyrics and the literary ambition of his songwriting. Separated from their aural form, Oldham's lyrics become a new kind of poetry-candid, awkward and wise-with influences as diverse as Rabindranath Tagore and The Mekons. A book that will delight his longtime fans and inspire young songwriters, Songs of Love and Horror reveals an artist who has captured extraordinary poetry in music despite being "a stranger among my own language".