Name: My Sweetheart Honeysuckle by The Gildings in Piejotter
Duration: 3 min 29 s
Description: Sweet yet strong. Serene yet steadfast. She strives toward the light and all is revealed.

Piejotter

Ben Watt (vocals, guitar) accompanied by Bernard Butler (guitar). A live session of three brand new songs for the Gideon Coe show on BBC6Music. The songs are part of Ben's new solo album, currently being recorded and due for release next spring. Hear Ben and Bernard live in November. Tickets and info at http://www.benwatt.com/dates

Ben Watt / Bricks And Wood (Live On 6Music, 31.10.13)

Artist: Dutch Uncles 
Album: O Shudder

Tracklisting:

Babymaking
Upsilon
Drips
Decided Knowledge
I Should Have Read
In n Out
Given Thing
Don't Sit Back (Frankie Said)
Accelerate
Tidal Weight
Be Right Back


Dutch Uncles - Decided Knowledge

Sweet yet strong. Serene yet steadfast. She strives toward the light and all is revealed.

My Sweetheart Honeysuckle

Lenteavond een uur na flinke regenbuien in Bos en Lommer. Op de achtergrond is de ring A10 rond Amsterdam goed te horen. De merel zingt zijn lied en er wordt wat gerommeld in keukens met openstaande deuren. Opgenomen op de 3e verdieping vanaf het balkon. 
Spaced Omni opstelling met DPA4060's en een Marantz PMD661. Geen filters of editing.

Een Merel zingt zijn lied in de binnentuin

Preview track for our forthcoming single as part of the WIAIWYA label’s 7″ singles club, coming out on 7 April 2013.  Just 77 copies of each single is available individually, but subscribers will get all seven 7 inch singles; 14 exclusive tracks by 7 bands, one on each day of the week, and always on the 7th of the month, in hand cut 7 sleeves and in limited editions of 777.

Terre Des Hommes 1967

Anglesey is tentatively fastened to Britain by two bridges; yet the Dark Isle is unwilling to surrender its secrets. The mainland’s attempt to extend two iron fingers to the edge of the island could be described as cautious, and such nervous contact with the territory translates to an unwillingness to control what cannot be understood. Long associated with Druids and megalithic monuments, standing stones anchor the island in the Irish Sea. It was in this place of savage beauty and spiritual alertness that Edmund Cottam, aka The Gildings, retreated into periods of self exile and convalescence. Suffering from a thyroid condition known as Graves’ Disease, Cottam endured tremors, fatigue and severe anxiety in a cottage opposite an ivy choked ruin. The onset of the illness had already followed an artistically barren period and somewhat of a crisis in confidence in all facets of his life. This was represented by a brooding hilltop beyond the ruin, at times a protective entity surveying the valley and at others an impossible obstacle willing the illness on. 

The ever changing weather battered the isle with gales one day, and calmed the seas with exceptionally bright winter sunshine the next. In moments of extreme exhaustion, he experienced a spiritual connection with the poets Keats, who suffered with consumption, and Christina Rosetti, who like Cottam had Graves Disease. The poetry of Plath and Ted Hughes also filled the hauntingly, empty, hours. As winter passed Cottam wrote. Reflecting on themes of Romanticism, mortality, and the beauty and brutality of nature, he worked while the hill observed. Two months passed and Cottam’s routine was punctuated by songs, guitars, relapses, an upright piano and radioactive iodine treatment. As winter surrendered to the spring the spiritual and artistic awakening was realized and demos were recorded for what was to become The Gildings’ debut album. Before he left the mystical isle, he climbed the hill, his protector and tormentor, to make peace with the past and conquer his illness.

Upon a return to the city Cottam set about recording his album in equal parts on the top floor of an office block opposite Manchester library and in a room overlooking his parent’s garden; recreating the extremes of his convalescence. Teaming up with producer Martin Colclough (formerly of The Answering Machine and currently Label Manager at Heist or Hit Records) and mastered by Ed Woods (Manic Street Preachers, Idlewild, The Futrureheads, Tom McRae) The Twisting Vine is a record that lurches between the delicate and the darkness. Mixing classical and folk traditions with contemporary influences and his unique baritone and poetic lyricism, Cottam has made an album of significance. 
Simultaneous to the recording process, Cottam assembled a group to realize the record in a live capacity. During its first year in existence The Gildings played festivals such as Tramlines and Carefully Planned, headlined shows ranging from Manchester Scenewipe to The Bluecoat Art Gallery, supported acts such as Bird and Kontiki Suite and were hailed as ‘ones to watch’ by the Manchester Evening News

FFO: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Drake, Antony and the Johnsons, Richard Hawley, Rufus Wainwright, Scott Walker, Anna Calvi, Smoke Fairies.


Photo credit: Tom Langfield 

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My Sweetheart Honeysuckle

The Gildings

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