Oboe/Bassoon player wanted if interested please contact me on jr462@hotmail.com
 

Sons of Noel and Adrian feature on a new Willkommen Records Compilation available to buy from this site for the bargain price of £5 including postage.  Willkommen Records is our spiritual home, with side projects of many of our members (see Shoreline, Laish Quartet, Kopek, Redwood Red, Hamilton Yarns, The Leisure Society, Rowan Coupland).  It is a marvellous collection and a great stocking filler.

Also...

Sons of Noel and Adrian headline the Komedia this Saturday with Kristin McClement and The Great Park. 8pm, entry by donation. Get on it!

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We'll be touring the UK in April after a few dates in Germany in support of our new EP (more information on that to come soon).

Please email booking@willkommenrecords.co.uk if you can help with a date.

Cheers!

We've recently started a label to release music by our collective, starting with the Shoreline album 'Time Well Spent'.

Three of our bands will be performing a special FREE afternoon show at Notting Hill Arts Club in association with Rough Trade / RoTA, including Sons, Shoreline and The Leisure Society.

The Leisure Society have an album due on Willkommen Records early next year and the Shoreline album is out now. Entry's free and the drinks are cheap and we should be bringing some nice surprises.

There will be more information at the Willkommen site, launching soon at www.willkommenrecords.co.uk

Tomorrow we're playing at Resident Records (Brighton) at 6pm, it's totally free. We'd love to see some familiar faces.

Also thanks to Medi and everyone that watched us, said hello or bought a CD from us at our show with Red Sparowes last night or with *shels the night before. Both of the shows were fantastic.

DrownedInSound.com have given our debut a glowing review, calling it 'something truly inspirational'.

Read the full thing here.

Our debut, self-titled album is out today on Shelsmusic. You can hear it in full over at last.fm for a very limited time here.

You can buy it directly from us at shows, from your local independent record store or from the following places:

Direct from the Shelsmusic shop (cheapest price)
Amazon
HMV
Play.com
Zavvi
Tesco
WH Smith

We met Isan a while back at a gig in Bournemouth. They are seasoned producers of minimalist electronica and we are an acoustic band with lots of instruments so a remix exchange naturally seemed like a good idea. Let the worlds collide and see what happens. We are putting the tracks up for people to listen to, so let us know what you think. It’s been an interesting project taking us back to our more experimental roots, creating music that is more landscape and image, rather than song.

quotes and such Greetings! This is some stuff some good people said about us.

'If I was out to impress people with my leftfield music tastes... I've just started getting really into these people I befriended on MySpace - they're based in Brighton and they're called The Sons of Noel and Adrian. They make really interesting music. It's not the kind of music you'd expect to come out of Brighton. To me they sound like they should be part of that American Nu-Folk movement - a bit out-there, may be from California somewhere - but they're not, they're from Brighton. They've got really beautiful strings on their music and their lead singer's got a really unusual voice. It's just a really odd interplay of sounds.' Lou Rhodes – The Scotsman

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'Think southern america gothic, like Jim White, Handsome Family but mixed in with a bit of Nick Drake and early Badly Drawn Boy Straight outta Brighton and Burton-Upon-Trent'  - Tom Broadbent - Bizarre magazine

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'sumptuous folk -from Brighton- by wise hippies, who could give lessons to Beirut or Sufjan Stevens' -   Les Inrockuptibles - a very (the most) important music review in france...

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'Epic, multi-timbral, cascading, orchestrally royal folk collective' Woodland Recordings
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At the tiny Café, the Red Roaster, the scene was set for a highlight of the week. The Sons of Noel and Adrian, born from an offshoot of Brighton's Shoreline collective, played to a packed house and filled the intimate ambiance with a set of songs that sound like they have always existed, after only just being discovered in a dusty book somewhere in a crumbling Victorian house. Imagine Beirut without the melodrama, Bonnie Prince Billy actually being able to sing and sailors setting off to new lands leaving their sweethearts on the shore and it would be somewhere near. Through the husk of the singing and swells of backing double bass, accordion, strings, trumpet, piano and Spanish guitars, lyrics of beautiful honesty and precision shone out. If one band seen this week is to have a series of cult albums, this would be the one. The night shifted mood schizophrenically to Noiseless Blackboard Eraser's combination of stand up spoken word, ambient abstract soundscapes and camera phone visuals and then back to wheezing Americana with Lisa Lindley Jones and thoughts of prairies and crickets landing on your face.

We featured in Rock Sound magazine's top 75 hot tips for 2008.  We like to think we're not your average rock band.  Is Jacob about to ditch the acoustic for electric, shave his head and get and snake tatooed down his face? Come to a gig and find out.

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