Here's a Free 30 track compilation our manager Tom has just done for The Independent.. there is a track by track guide he wrote for them too, you just click the 'read about' tab under the titles.

There is a free LAU track included but the music is only available for 28 days, from today... 
Also includes exclusive new tracks from Sandy Wright, Kris Drever and Inge Thomson & Martin Green included..

hope you enjoy it

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/navigator--reveal-records-mixtape-giveaway-1819588.html

Also there is a clip just in, from the BBC when Lau were recently in Belfast..

http://bbc.co.uk/i/nd4s7/

We hope to see you on the upcoming tour which has now just extended into Spring 2010
when there will be some new lau music too I dare say..

check out the confirmed shows here:

http://www.lau-music.co.uk/gigs/

Hello,

Happy autumn to you all.

We’ve had a fantastic summer of endless festival-ing. Hope you all got out and about and had a good summer.

Some of Lau’s summer highlights included:

A festival in Asturias where they hold a pipe band festival and open-air speed chess tournament simultaneously in the town square. The chess players didn’t seem to be putting the bagpipes off, don’t know if the reverse was true though.

Four days (and nights) in Belfast for the Tall Ships, where we enjoyed unending hospitality, joined Flook onstage for their last ever performance (hope it wasn’t really) and went on the telly with the very cheery Eamonn Holmes (your mum would love him).

A storming (and stormy) weekend at Cambridge Folk Festival, where we extended our ranks to include Aoife O’Donavon (Crooked Still), Corrina Hewat and Bella Hardy on vocals, and pedal-steel guitar hero Stuart Nisbet. BBC footage from the main stage set can be seen here.

We are delighted to announce that Lau have been nominated for the Virtual Festivals Critics' Choice Award. If you would like to vote for us, you can do so here.

Next week we will lock ourselves away to rehearse for a long string of shows that will take us into the winter, we'll be in England, Belgium, Japan and then back to the UK for a handful of dates in December that include:

GLASGOW STEREO (2/12/09)
LONDON UNION CHAPEL (3/12/09)
BRISTOL COLSTON HALL (4/12/09)
EDINBURGH QUEEN’S HALL (5/12/09)

(Full details of the tour at the foot of this email)


As ever, all three Lau-ers have been beavering away with other projects:

Aidan has been writing a new piece of music to be performed at the Distil Showcase at the Tolbooth in Stirling on 23rd October. He’s been performing with Phil Bancroft’s new project Home: Small as the World and has been working on a future collaboration with flute hero Brian Finnegan of Flook. He requests no bald band jokes. Details of their first performance can be found here.


Kris has nearly finished a new album featuring Tim O'Brien, Ian Carr, Ewen Vernal, John McCusker, Roy Dodds and Andy Seward. It’s due for release at Celtic Connections in Glasgow in January, mmm Glasgow in January.
He's also been out touring with McCusker and Woomble or McDroomble (copyright M.Green) as they're known and is heading to the isle of Colonsay as we speak. He's very excited about going back to Japan next month.



Martin has been mixing The Martin Green Machine and Kirkintilloch Brass Band spectacular that took place at the Tolbooth, Stirling in April. The tracks sound great, it appears you can drown out an accordion, you just need 25 brass players. For those anywhere near the village of Pathhead, Midlothian, (the Dalkeith end of the A68) Martin will be playing at the Pathhead Village Hall Fundraising Ceilidh with the all-star Pathhead Ceilidh Band featuring, Tom Bancroft, Corrina Hewat and David Milligan (The Unusual Suspects), Mattie Foulds, Jenny Gardner (Salsa Celtica, The Poozies) Amy Geddes and Inge Thomson amongst others, followed by up-tempo swing sets from Sophie Bancroft and Gina Rae and band. It’s only 20 minutes from Edinburgh and it is as much fun as you could ever have, in Pathhead, on Sat 26th Sept, at 7.30. £8/5

This summer saw the birth of a new and important organisation, Folk Against Fascism. Earlier this week our friends at FAF launched their new website www.folkagainstfascism.com, where you can sign up and learn more about how you can get involved in protecting the folk community from BNP infiltration. They have T Shirts, stickers, posters and all you’d need to organise your own event on the resource page. Have a look.


 
We hope to see you at our upcoming tour dates which are:



Fri 2nd Oct 2009
Lincoln Knights Building,
Lincoln College,
Monks Road,Lincoln.
phone: 01522 873894

Sat 3rd Oct 2009
Lichfield Arts, Donegal House,
Bore Street,Lichfield.
phone: 01543 262223
web: www.lichfieldarts.org.uk

Sun 4th Oct 2009
Liverpool Philharmonic,
Hope Street
Liverpool.
phone: 0151 7093789
web: www.liverpoolphil.com

Thu 8th Oct 2009    
Cambridge The Junction,
Clifton Way, Cambridge,
CB1 7GX.
phone: 01223 511511
web: www.junction.co.uk



Fri 9th Oct 2009
Nottingham Playhouse,
Wellington Circus,
Nottingham,
NG1 5AF    
phone: 0115 9419419
web: www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk

Sat 10th Oct 2009    
Chipping Norton
2 Spring Street,
Chipping Norton,
Oxfordshire, OX7.    
phone: 01608 642350
web: www.chippingnortontheatre.co.uk

Sun 11th Oct 2009    
The  Forge at The Anvil.
Churchill Way,
Basingstoke,
Hampshire.
phone: 01256 844244
web: www.anvilarts.org.uk

Wed 14th Oct 2009    
Lier Liers Cultuurecentrum,
Belgium.    
LAU with Seth Lakeman
web: www.lierscultuurcentrum.be

Thu 15th Oct 2009     Roeselare
Roeselare De Spil,
Belgium.    
Lau with Seth Lakeman
web: www.despil.be

Sat 17th Oct 2009
Beveren CC Ter Vesten,
Belgium.    
Lau with Seth Lakeman
web: www.beveren.be

Wed 21st Oct 2009    
(NB. Shorter Lau set, for a full set come to Union Chapel Thu 3rd Dec)
O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire
Shepherd's Bush Green London, W12 8TT    
LAU special guests to Bellowhead
phone: 08444 77 2000
web www.ticketweb.co.uk


Mon 26th Oct 2009    
Takutaku,
Kyoto,
Japan    
phone: 075-351-1321
web: www.geisya.or.jp/~takutaku/

Tue 27th Oct 2009    
Ohkagakuen University,
Nagoya,
Japan.
Sorry Not open to public.    

Wed 28th Oct 2009    
Nagoya
Tokuzo,
Japan    
phone: 052-733-3709
web: www.tokuzo.com/

Fri 30th Oct 2009    
Duo Music Exchange,
Tokyo,
Japan.    
phone: 03-5459-8716
web: www.duomusicexchange.com/

Sat 31st Oct 2009
Duo Music Exchange,
Tokyo,
Japan.    
phone: 03-545--8716
web: www.duomusicexchange.com/

Sun 1st Nov 2009    
Musashino Swing Hall,
Tokyo,
Japan. (SOLD OUT)    


Mon 2nd Nov 2009    
Komoro Kogen Art Gallery,
Japan.    
phone: 0267-23-5723
web: www.kanko.komoro.org/midokoro/bijyutu.html





Tue 3rd Nov 2009
Kotoni Patos,
Sapporo.
Japan    
phone: 011-615-4859
web: www.concarino.or.jp/patos/


Tue 24th Nov 2009    
Brudenell Social Club,
The Club House,
33 Queens Road,
Hyde Park.Leeds.    
phone: 0113 2752411
web: http://www.brudenellsocialclub.co.uk/

Wed 25th Nov 2009
The Brewhouse Theatre,
Coal Orchard,
Taunton,
Somerset.    
Phone: 01823 283244
web: www.thebrewhouse.net

Thu 26th Nov 2009    
Bradnich Place,
Gandy Street,
Exeter.    
phone: 01392 667057
web: www.exeterphoenix.org.uk

Fri 27th Nov 2009    
The Shed,
Hovingham,
Yorkshire.    
phone: 01653 668494
web: www.theshed.co.uk



Sun 29th Nov 2009    
Theatre by the Lake,
Lakeside,
Keswick,
Cumbria.    
phone: 01768 774411
web: www.theatrebythelake.com



Mon 30th Nov 2009
Burnley Mechanics,
Manchester Road,
Burnley.
Lancs.    
phone: 01282 664400
web: www.burnleymechanics.co.uk

Wed 2nd Dec 2009
Stereo
Glasgow
Box Office TBC.
Web. www.stereocafebar.com


Thu 3rd Dec 2009    
Union Chapel,
London.UK    
Special Guests: Mawkin:Causley & Lauren McCormick
phone: 0870 264 3333
web: www.ticketweb.co.uk

Fri 4th Dec 2009    
Colston Hall,
13 Colston Street,
Bristol.
phone: 0117 9223686
web: www.colstonhall.org

Sat 5th Dec 2009    
The Queens Hall,
Clerk Street.
Edinburgh    
phone: 0131 6682019
web: www.thequeenshall.net
 

The trio Lau xxx

The BBC filmed some of Lau's mainstage set at Cambridge Folk Festival at the weekend, we were joined by Stuart Nisbett on pedal steel, Bella Hardy and Corrina Hewat on vocals, and members of Blazin Fiddles and The Trecherous Orcherstra on massed fiddles.

Here's the link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/cambridgefolkfestival/2009/artists/lau/

cheers

Lau

Martin Green / Lau on Radio 4 today

New project for Aidan O'Rourke




Aidan is to be involved in a new project which will debut at the Edinburgh Jazz Festival on 3rd August. It's the brainchild of sax-genius Phil Bancroft and is called Small as the World. Details can be found at  www.smallastheworld.com.
Aidan and Phil are long time collaborators with Phil contributing hugely on both Aidan's 'solo' albums, Sirius and An Tobar.

HOPE not hate
Celebrating modern Britain

http://action.hopenothate.org.uk/notinmyname

You can view Lau's session on Chris Evan's Radio 2 show this week:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00kmgdy

Plus some 'Fan footage' of this weeks London Borderline show on youtube here ..
Lau filmed last night at London Borderline..

The good news is new album “Arc Light” is Out Now and some people have declared a love for it’s contents.. The Independent even liked it enough to give it the full 5 star treatment this weekend!
 
Over at our website, we have some signed copies which you can get from our new online store www.lau-music.co.uk . We have just taken delivery of some beautiful glossy, gatefold double vinyl versions, which also have a copy of the cd album inside those are £15 and the signed album CD is £12 whilst stocks last.. (500 only of each).
 
 
MARTIN GREEN’s MONSTRE
This Saturday.. if you happen to be in Scotland then head over to Stirling, it is our understanding that Martin Green’s been very busy preparing some new music for you and there is a special live show of this commission called “Monstre” .. it will be him and his green machiner’s with a huge brass band (Kirkintilloch Band est 1903 I kid you not!). No one  really knows what will happen when these two worlds collide but the intimate surroundings of the Tolbooth will ring to the sound of brass that is for sure, as this wondrous Monstre is unleashed for the first time:
for more on go here: http://www.stirling.gov.uk/tolbooth/tb_event/april_09/martin_green_s_monstre.htm
www.themartingreenmachine.com
it's also Martin's Birthday today, so Happy Birthday Martin!
 
 
AIDAN O’ROURKE
Aidan’s highly acclaimed solo album “An Tobar” (****Q, ***** Maverick) continues to get acclaim and Aidan has recently launched his shiny new website http://www.aidanorourke.net/ .
There was also a new commission  which was performed last week, at Fiddles on Fire at the Sage. Here's what the programme said about it:Fresh from a 'Composer of the Year' nomination at the Scottish Traditional Music Awards and the success of his much celebrated work 'Coriolis' for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra this new work finds Scottish composer Aidan O'Rourke on a wave of originality and genre-defying acoustic experimentation. Journeys by train over the Tyne and a past life studying Civil Engineering have inspired this piece which celebrates industrial beauty and engineering acuity.
Aidan: “Wednesday 15th saw my final gig with Blazin Fiddles at the spanking new Kings Place Theatre in London. It was an emotional gig with both Marc Clement and I leaving. I'll see them over the summer at a few festivals so I'm sure there's more tunes to be had. I'm just back from a fantastic weekend in Knoydart. It was the first Knoydart music festival. The weather, the music and the crack was brilliant the whole weekend. Much recommended. Operation Knoydart 2 might make an appearance at some point! “

 
 
KRIS DREVER
has just been around the UK with Heidi Talbot as a duo and is now away around the Highland’s of Scotland with more of his pals singing and playing .
Inbetween his touring duties Kris has been preparing material for a new solo album. The long awaited follow up to “Black Water” www.krisdrever.com  is again being produced by John McCusker and some very special musical guests are expected to make an appearance before recording ends in July. There will be more dates and news of the release date on his website soon but for now he has a May Lau tour, followed by a June tour with McCusker and Woomble to look forward too
 
 
We’d love to see you on the remaining dates of our current tour, here they are:
 
Sat 9th May 2009              Ireland
Baltimore Fiddle Fair, Baltimore           
email: www.fiddlefair.com/schedule.html
 
Thu 14th May 2009             YORK
Fibbers, Stonebow House, The Stonebow, York             Lau Tour
phone: 08700 600100
web: www.fibbers.co.uk
 
Fri 15th May 2009             FAREHAM
Ashcroft Arts Centre, Osborn Road, Fareham, Hants, PO16 7DX           
phone: 01329 223100
web: www.ashcroft.org.uk
 
Sat 16th May 2009             SOUTH PETHERTON
The David Hall, Roundwell Street, South Petherton, Somerset, TA13 5AA
phone: 01460 240340
web: www.thedavidhall.org.uk
 
Wed 20th May 2009             STORNOWAY
An Lanntair, Kenneth Street, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, HS1 2DS           
phone: 01851 703307
web: www.lanntair.com
 
 
Thu 21st May 2009             THE BLACK ISLE
Cromarty Arts Trust, Ardyne, Bank Street, Cromarty, The Black Isle,
IV11 8YE phone: 01381 600354
web: http://www.cromartyartstrust.org.uk/
 
 
Fri 22nd May 2009             DUNBAR
Skate Raw Farm, By Dunbar, East Lothian,
EH42 1QR           
 
 
Sat 23rd May 2009             STIRLING
Tolbooth, Jail Wynd, Stirling, FK8 1DE           
phone: 01786 274000
web: http://www.stirling.gov.uk/tolbooth
 
 
Sun 24th May 2009             CHESTER
Chester Folk Festival, Kelsall, Nr Chester           
phone: 07005 977045
web: www.chesterfolk.org.uk
 
 
Thu 28th May 2009             LONDON
The Borderline, Orange Yard, Off Manette Street, Soho, London, W1D           
phone: 0870 1500044
web:www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=291446&REFID=BORDERLINE_WEB&interface=borderline
 
 
Fri 29th May 2009             SOUTHAMPTON
Hanger Farm Arts Centre, Off Aikman Lane, Hanger Farm, Totton, Southampton, SO40 8FT             web: www.hangerfarm.totton.uk
 
 
Sat 30th May 2009             FARNHAM
Farnham Maltings, Bridge Square, Farnham, Surrey, GU9 7QR           
phone: 01252 745 444
web: www.electricvoices.org
 
 
Fri 5th Jun 2009             NOTTS
Gate to Southwell Folk Festival, Southwell, Notts           
phone: 01636 812852
web: www.southwellfolkfestival.org.uk
 
 
Sat 6th Jun 2009             CANTERBURY
Gulbenkian Theatre, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NB           
phone: 01227 769075
web: www.gulbenkiantheatre.co.uk
 
 
Sat 27th Jun 2009             LINCOLN
Lincoln Castle Concerts, Lincoln Castle           
phone: 01522 519999 / 525555
web: www.theatreroyallincoln.com
 
 
Sun 28th Jun 2009             SCOTLAND
Outsider Festival, Main Stage, Rothiemurchas Estate, BY AVIEMORE.           
web: www.outsiderfestival.co.uk
 
 
Fri 10th Jul 2009             LOUGHBOROUGH
Loughborough Town Hall, Loughborough, Leics, LE11 2EB.           
phone: 01509 231914
web: www.loughboroughtownhall.co.uk
 
 
Sun 12th Jul 2009             SOMERSET
Priddy Folk Festival, Adjacent to The Green, Priddy, Somerset, BA5           
phone: 01749 674080
web: www.priddyfolk.org
 
Sun 26th Jul 2009             HATFIELD
Folk by the Oak, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, AL9 6NQ
phone: 01432 355416
web: www.folkbytheoak.com
 
Sat 22nd Aug 2009             DEVON
Beautiful Days Festival, Escot Park, Devon, EX11 1LU           
web: www.beautifuldays.org
 
 
 
Thanks to everyone who’s bought a ticket or album and supported Lau this year, it’s really much appreciated

Take care and hope to see you soon
 
the trio Lau
 
xxx


Lau "Arc Light" Cd. Deluxe 2LP. DL.
Navigator 20 'nothing short of miraculous, their empathic musicianship never wavers and their creativity remains at a uniformly high voltage throughout the record ' (NetRhythms.com)

BBC6 Album of The Day  **** Observer Music Monthly  **** Songlines  ***** Maverick **** The Scotsman ***** The Independent
BBC Radio 2 Folk Award (Best Group) Winners 2009-2008 

Hello folks, you can listen to 6 of the tracks from the new album on this very page now.. if you like it please pre order from www.lau-music.co.uk, lau will be touring from Feb 26th so come out and see us if we are in your area.. plenty more dates to be added, all the best Lau xxx