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See You Soon

The Fox & the Sparrow

Empty

Taken from our brand new self-titled EP released on Friday 8th September 2017. Pre-order now: https://fanlink.to/CattleAndCaneEP

Acoustic tour dates:

12th September - Old Cinema Launderette - Durham
13th September - Old Cinema Launderette - Durham - SOLD OUT
14th September - Secret Show - Scotland
15th September - King Tut’s - Glasgow * 
16th September - Reference Library (matinee) - Middlesbrough - SOLD OUT
16th September - Reference Library - Middlesbrough - SOLD OUT
17th September - Night & Day - Manchester * 
18th September - Thekla - Bristol * 
19th September - Folklore Sessions - Brighton 
20th September - Islington Assembly Hall - London * 
22nd September - Snails Deli - Cardiff
23rd September - Yorfest - York ^

* with Jake Isaac
^ with The Shires & Badly Drawn Boy
Tickets: www.cattleandcane.co.uk/#tourDates

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Produced by Joe Hammill. Mixed by Patrick Jordan. 
Engineered by Joe Hammill and Tom Chapman.

Seven Hours (Alternative Version)

// A tune about leaving your lover behind //

Strathcona

Overseas

I'm beyond excited to share my new single ISLAND with you!  

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LYRICS

When I feel lonely
Next to a thousand souls
The crowd seems to own me
All playing their roles

I wish I could feel you
You’re healin’ me when I’m torn
And I’m longing for calm to hide 
From the storm

Then I think of you

You’re like an island
A moment of silence
In a hidden bay
I am out on the ocean
And when I need guidance
You show me the way

We’re breathing the air 
That we were made for 
All the worries behind us
Somewhere in the past

We're watching the sunset 
A breeze strokes your hair
We slow down the world 
To make this last

Then I think of you

You’re like an island
A moment of silence
In a hidden bay
I am out on the ocean
And when I need guidance
You show me the way

You, you’re like an island
A moment of silence
In a hidden bay

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A huge Thank you to Sascha Bercik, Will Church & Giovanna Castronari

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Island

Carry On

Taken from the Album Salt catch Michael Baker on tour
March 19th The Brunswick Brighton
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March 29th The Duke Whitstable
free admission
March 30th The Finsbury London 
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April 5th The Loft (Above The Kings) Portsmouth

BIOGRAPHY, by NME’s Andrew Trendell
“I lived in my van for two and a half years to pay for the making of my first record,” casually laughs singer-songwriter Michael Baker. “I moved into the van after a typical period of heartache. I had nowhere to go, but it was pretty good actually!” 

From this, you can gather a lot about the Anglo-French troubadour. Mainly, he takes nothing for granted and lives for his music.  

Spending his childhood near Brighton (where he went to the same school as Rag N’ Bone Man), Michael got his first guitar aged eight after seeing Oasis live and needing to learn ‘Wonderwall’. In his teens, the songs soon started to flow. It wasn’t long before the purity of his voice, the direct rawness of his writing and the sheer scope of his sound found him regular gigs and a devoted fanbase – one that only grew bigger and more in love with the release of his magnificent debut album Dust & Bone. 

A soaring collection of heart-wrenching indie-folk and cinematic sounds, Dust & Bone was recorded with Massive Attack collaborator Dan Brown, and was a staggering first showcase of Baker’s ambition and soulful style. “I’m really proud of the songwriting on that record,” he admits. “I was in such a bad place in my life when I made it, but it got such a great response from the people who heard it.”

Early sessions for Salt started when Baker hit the studio with Dan Brown and Oliver Baldwin, who had recently finished making Aldous Harding’s acclaimed album Party with PJ Harvey collaborator John Parish. While promising Michael says ‘’It felt like I needed more time to experiment than we had scheduled in.” So Baker headed back to record and produce the album with long-time friend Ed Martin. 

After discovering that his childhood home would be empty for a few weeks while his parents were in the process of moving away. He went in and stripped everything away, begged and borrowed all the equipment he needed, crammed the band in, drank a lot of wine, got a little stoned and naturally just flowed through the album – playing all day and all night. The recordings were so impressive, that Baldwin agreed to mix the record at Real World Studios and gave the songs a whole new dimension (as well as inviting Jack White’s pedal steel player Maggie Björklund to play on the album too). 
“I absolutely love artists like Cat Stevens and Bon Iver,” says Baker. Salt is a record that maps Baker’s journey through darkness and vulnerability to something a lot more hopeful. 
Among the key tracks that show Baker’s road to recovery, ‘Baby Books’ was inspired by being in close proximity to someone taking their own life – and totally changing the way he saw the world. Single ‘They Look Just Like They Know’ also deals with how “the mind can be a deadly place” and “feeling trapped in the prison of your own vision”. He’s looking for the sunrise on the horizon, too. Baker’s personal favourite ‘Claire’ celebrates the “the beauty of space in a relationship” and the escapist ecstasy of ‘One Good Damn’ has won over scores of new fans with its feel-good magnetism. 

Salt is a towering accomplishment that will win hearts with its adept handling of love, loss and hope, and there’s more to come. For now though, you’re about to get to know the real Michael Baker. “I feel like I have too much of a personal relationship with anyone who says they like my music,” concludes Baker. “I’ve been getting letters and messages from people saying that my songs have got them through a very hard time, and I don’t know how to reply to them other than as if I’d known them my whole life. That’s the way that I would do it. I hope that my music gives them as much as it’s given me.”

One God Damn

Resistance (acoustic) from Old Sea Brigade's debut album, Ode to a Friend.

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Resistance - (Acoustic)

Listen to Arbour Season's new single 'Arcadian', released February 21, 2020

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📝 Lyrics:

I saw you today when I wasn’t looking
There was a sway in the trees about that told
Told me you were near
And I heard your voice when I wasn’t listening
There was a sweet noise I’d never heard before
Singing in the breeze

Oh the pain, oh the needless pain we bear
Oh this world so full with all its cares
But you make me innocent again

And I thought I found you but you found me
Oh I thought I found you but you found me

Well I tasted sweetness when I was thirsty
The warm summer rain on my window pain is life
Falling from the sky
And I felt your hand when I couldn’t feel a thing
It was the touch of my baby boy
He loves me and doesn’t yet know why

Oh the pain, oh the needless pain we bear
Oh this world so full with all its cares
But you make me innocent again

And I thought I found you but you found me
Oh I thought I found you but you found me

Even the darkness cannot hide your face
And in the shadows I’ll rest in your grace
Oh even the darkness cannot hide your face
And in the shadows I’ll rest in your grace

Oh the pain, oh the needless pain we bear
Oh this world so full with all its cares
But you make me innocent again

And I thought I found you but you found me
Oh I thought I found you but you found me
Oh I thought I found you but you found me Lord,
I thought I found you but you found me

Resistance - (Acoustic)

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