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Last Updated: 11/28/2009

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Country: UK
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Saturday, November 28, 2009 

Current mood:  awake
Category: Music
Live performance of Angels & Devils from the album by Stuart Anthony "House Of Sun". Featuring Oscar Armer on bass, Greg Maddox on percussion and Stuart Anthony on vocals and acoustic guitar. Recorded at The Yorkshire House, Lancaster, UK Friday 13th November 2009
5:29 PM 
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Friday, November 27, 2009 

Category: Music
A special live performance of the title track of the album by Stuart Anthony "House Of Sun". Recorded at The Yorkshire House, Lancaster Friday 13th November 2009. Mikey Kenney on fiddle, Peter French on keyboards, Oscar Armer on bass, Greg Maddox on percussion, Harvey Lord on 2nd Acoustic Guitar, & Stuart Anthony on vocals and acoustic guitar.
Re-upload with improved video audio sync.
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Friday, November 27, 2009 
Another installment from the House Of Sun gig. :)
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Thursday, November 26, 2009 

Current mood:  adventurous
Category: Music
Easy Sky from House Of Sun performed live at Lancasters Yorkshire House at the album gig Friday 13th November 2009. Peter French on keyboards, Oscar Armer on bass, Greg Maddox on percussion, Harvey Lord on slide, Stuart Anthony on acoustic guitar & vocals. Footage filmed by Richard Twine & Matthew Burrows and Stuart.
9:16 AM 
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Saturday, November 21, 2009 
Another video from the House Of Sun gig :)

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Friday, November 20, 2009 

Current mood:  awake

Stuart Anthony and Friends

Posted on November 19, 2009 by thelunecyreview
Naybors here with semi-vacuous right-up on recent Stu Anthony and friends via Yorkshire House, Lancaster Friday 13th November 2009.
Since this place is increasingly resembling an add roll for (some) organisations who can afford to advertise elsewhere (!that’s right!)
Naybors felt duty bound to shat out a brief interjectum …
Stu Anthony is becoming increasing known the country over for both his passionate acoustica and scholastic championing of long dead guitar spindler Nick Drake.
I heard his first album in a squat best side of Skerton. No lie.
A friend of mine was laid up from being robbed and beat on in the street. We sat together for a long time one morning trying to think of ways we could wheedle emergency funds from the Jobcentreplus. At some point or other my head musta been facing the floor. Amongst the chance junk and ameneities that tend to litter a makeshift living room, I found myself gazing down at a miniature Stuart Anthony, looking resplendant in black and white. The Colourful Truth – for those who mighta missed out, came complete with jewel CD case portraits of the man himself looking handsome and tussled. Kinda like a Jim Morrison what lived, and probably didn’t eat so much hog.
The truth itself is probably quite colourful. Never having looked for it I wouldn’t be the one to ask. I didn’t go looking for Stuart either, but I I caught a coupla of his performances around that time. From the outset I figured him a solid performer, experienced. One time I heard him give this wild eyed kid some advice about inviting the audience in. You gotta convince them (the audience), he tells him, that they wouldn’t want to be any where else in the world than with you at that moment. It worked wonders on me. Figured this guy must be the REAL DEAL. Eye on a bigger prize than mine (‘Best Kisser’ – Blackburn & Darwen Council 1999). Nice too to see him offering tutelage to up and coming performers. Whether they took it on board is anyone’s guess. Fool them if they didn’t. Stuart seemed to be making a stone go of walking his own talk.
Anyone with any misgivings about an artist declaring himself ‘the one you have been waiting for’ could do worse than to visit Stuart’s webspace http://www.myspace.com/stuartanthony. One glance gives you a fair introduction to his declared interests, influences; half a dozen of his songs and also to a range of coverage in the printed press. Acoustic, for example recently featured a revealing portrait of the man as writer/performer (www.acousticmagazine.com). There’s also the Drake propaganda, which any seasoned reader can’t avoid, and I guess shouldn’t if they’re looking to meet Stuart in his own sphere of reference?
Not long after the first self release, Stuart began work with producer and Pale Fragments auteur Paul Walmsley (www.myspace.com/thebiglouisrecordingcompany). Together they cooked up a follow up to The Colourful Truth, House of Sun – which is what we’re here to see tonight: performed from Start to Finish, instrumental interludes abound, with full band accompaniment; supporting slots from the venerable Harvey Lord and Mikey Kenny respectively and the Low Countries/Exisetence of Harvey Lord art-bod, events organiser and general banjo twanging multi-talent that is Wes Martin on compere.
Since I promised to live fast and expire on the page, let’s not linger …
Stuart and company gave a remarkable performance of his record.
Warm, soothing tones and more tentative, endearing stage banter than you’re likely to get at an average Stuart Anthony concert (I’m just clowning, be assured).
There’s plenty of guitars on stage tonight, and more tunings (think more than Homemade Lemonade but less than Sonic Youth) than I reckoned on. Oscar Harmer (bass) provides seamless upright punctuation, there’s sparse, snappy percussion (but maybies not enough low end for this guy?) and fleshy key tinkering. Mikey brings an unmistakable fiddle to the album’s title track and the rugged, much love’d Harvey Lord gleams in a coupla slide pieces. It’s a leg stretch rolling trip and I could get wholly on it. Easing down the big road with Stuart Anthony. Seems I wasn’t alone neither – with a respectful audience thrown in and diamond sound from Kev Baxter, the ambiance combined was pretty right on.
Across the ten tracks performed tonight, themes traverse longing and desire but not without some running sense of resolve? I don’t know where Stuart’s been, but much of House of Sun seemed to offer me a private, reflective and kinda assured place to step into. Reviewing the record earlier this year, Kev McVeigh suggested – maybe fairly, that Stuart wears his influences on sleeve, but when he leans in to open the first song of the night, ‘Legacy’, the man seems to be carving out a space of his own.
Full on props then to Stuart for going out on a limb and risking himself for the extended play. No easy feat when you weigh it in. I coulda shoulda figured it premature – an artist performing their newest latest wares complete and unabridged. Guess it coulda been inflated, pompous? Instead it felt kinda gracious, endearing. A quaint success (quote requests to www.everybody-needs-good-naybors-dot-org.org)

Thanks for inviting me in Stuart.
Currently listening:
The Good Son
By Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Release date: 1993-12-31
4:17 PM 
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 

Current mood:  awake
First of the House Of Sun Live Performance Videos :) This is "Tree OF Life".

This is the live perfromance of "Tree Of Life" on Friday 13th November 2009 at Lancaster's Yorkshire House, UK. The night was a full performance of my album "House Of Sun". This clip with Peter French on keyboards, Oscar Armer on bass, Greg Maddox on percussion, and Harvey Lord on 2nd acoustic guitar, and my self on 12 string acoustic guitar. More to follow.
Currently listening:
Live at the Troubadour 1969
By Tim Buckley
Release date: 2001-04-23
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Sunday, November 15, 2009 

Current mood:  accomplished
Category: Music
Hi everyone,

Just want to thank everyone who came to and/or helped out with the performance of House Of Sun :) It was a great turnout, a great gig and a  beautiful night despite the bad weather outside.
We did the album justice and it all just felt right :)

Photo by Adrian Wharton
I'm monkeying with the video and audio taken at at the gig and maybe something witll emerge soon :)

Other news.: Trebuchet Records First write up including Seige Tower Album Review!
http://rivertorch.com

Nice :)

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Songs of Love and Hate
By Leonard Cohen
Release date: 2007-04-23
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Monday, November 09, 2009 

Current mood:  bouncy
Category: Music
Hi Everyone,

Just a reminder about this Friday's House Of Sun gig at the Yorkshire House. As advertised I am to get things started at 9:00pm so that the album performance starts at 10:00pm to avoid the "post 10:30 alcohol jaw loosening factor" as much as possible. Mikey Kenny will be on at as close to 9:00 as possible so if you want to catch all the music on the night keep that in mind.
Also the entrance Fee is £2. On the door you'll be offered a copy of the album on a printed CDR if you fancy it or haven't already got it, for an extra £2. So, if you like, you get the live gig and the album "House Of Sun" to take away all for £4 !!
There will be flash photography on the night and I am going to attempt a live recording too. I am filming what I can on my mobile phone and digital camera and I want to encourage everyone else to do the same. If you can get the footage to me sometime after the gig we'll attempt to make video for youtube comprising some of the footage taken with the live audio recording. So bring your phones and camera charged and film away!

Right then. See ya Friday!
 

Currently listening:
The Beatles Box Set - Remastered in Stereo
By The Beatles
Release date: 2009-09-09
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 

Category: Music
Trebuchet Records is a new alternative folk label launching in 2010, looking to release music from some of the most unique and talented artists in the UK underground folk scene. Started by small team of enthusiasts following ten years worth of frustration with major labels, the idea is provide a digital outlet for underground acts whilst building the labels’ own roster of artists.
With long term ambition akin to indie labels such as Drag City and Bella Union, it’s an exciting time for all associated with Trebuchet.
 
The labels first release is the digital compilation Siege Tower Volume One: Love Letters from the Underground.
 
Artists featured include the strange and wonderful Elijah Wolfenheart, the highly acclaimed Stuart Anthony, ten piece northern psyche-folk group The Existence of Harvey Lord, the invocative Nya Shelley and Tim Ellis's Ghost Trains. 
 
Siege Tower Volume One – Love Letters from the Underground is available to download from all major online retailers from 4th January 2010.
 
http://trebuchetrecords.net
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Bryter Layter
By Nick Drake
Release date: 2000-06-26
9:55 PM 
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