Oh Little Star

The Porch Song Anthology

The Late Mournings EP
released May 9, 2011
1. The Late Mournings
2. I Knew You Would Break My Heart
3. Oh Little Star

Based in Glasgow, Scotland, The Porch Song Anthology are a half-Irish, half-Scottish folk-country four-piece lightly coated in pop and rock influences. 

Formed in 2005 by three former members of 1990s post-rockers TELSTAR PONIES, Rachel Devine, Gavin Laird and Raymond Prior - JC Devine joined the line-up in 2006 - the Porch Song Anthology released their critically acclaimed debut album The Spell of the Trembling Earth in 2006.

After a three-year hiatus to concentrate on other projects, the various members returned to the fold in 2010 to work on new material. A return to the studio and to the live stage, most recently at the Glasgow Americana Festival with Atlanta-based folk-pop outfit GIRLYMAN, signalled a new chapter for the band. The introduction of a violin player and the absence of a drummer on this new material marked a move towards a more stripped back, harmony driven sound evidenced by forthcoming EP The Late Mournings, a three-song snapshot of heartbreak and longing. 

The band's second album is scheduled for release in autumn of 2011.


 
Praise for the Porch Song Anthology

The Scottish-Irish quartet's lovely mix of gentle folk and twanging country
sounds is earthy, rootsy and thoughtful" The Sunday Mail 

"the song drips with dark, dank atmosphere" Crooked Rain

"A glorious Glaswegian take on Americana" The Herald Magazine

 "wistful, understated brilliance" The List

"great stuff - mean, menacing and strangely catching"
-Maverick

2011 Tour dates


April 17th - Electroacoustic Club, Slaughtered Lamb, London, supporting Michael Weston King 

April 18th - Fuel Bar, Withington, Manchester

May 12 - Late Mournings EP launch, Bar Bloc, Glasgow with Changing Horses

May 14 - Market Bar, Inverness



The Porch-Song Anthology