News and gigs update

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Please note the Wrotham Arms gig (15th March) has been moved to the summer.

GIGS... GIGS... GIGS..

A few dates coming up.

July 13th / 14th / 15th Lounge On The Farm Festival. Arabesque Tent (Friday) http://www.loungeonthefarm.co.uk

August 24th - Horsebridge Arts Centre, Whitstable, Kent. Plus support from the magnificent Patrick McKernan (Brighton based singer/songwriter). £8 / £5 cons. Doors open 8pm.

August 25th Folkestone amphitheatre. So far this is the provisional date for the amphitheatre gig. A Folkestone afternoon mini-festival with five bands.

Sept 1st / 2nd Faversham Hop Festival. Saturday afternoon at the Swan & Harliquin stage and Sunday afternoon at the Preston Street stage.

Sept 20th Orange's Music Bar, Ashford, Kent. (01233) 621004. A very friendly bar famed for good music and good hospitality.

Dec 7th The Neptune, Whitstable, Kent. Yes, the pub on the beach.... (01227)272262

Dec 14th The Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury, Kent. Support for Maddy Prior band.

Dec 19th Orange Street Music Club, Canterbury, Kent. (01227) 760801. Possibly the world's funkiest cool music club. Need we say more? www.orangestreetmusicclub.com

2008

Jan 15th The Bear, Faversham, Kent. (01795) 532668

Feb 8th The Ship, Herne Bay, Kent.

June 14th Horsebrige Arts Centre, Whitstable. (with the Back Room Boys)

June 29th Leith on Sea folk festival, Essex.

July 2nd Man of Kent, Rochester, Kent.

July 12th Priddy Folk Festival, Somerset.

 

If you are travelling any distance to a concert, it is always worth giving the venue a quick ring, as changes do happen from time to time.

December 14th sees the band at the Gulbenkian Theatre in Canterbury supporting the Maddy Prior band. All being well, we will have pics to up load from this gig (but only after the event, if you know what I mean!!)

THE DARK SIDE E.P.

The big news of the moment for us at Oran Towers is that the six-track limited edition EP ‘Tracks From The Dark Side’ is done and available. Check out our Merchandise page.

£5.99p

Tracks From The Dark Side.

1. Farewell to Chatham / Emily.
2. Ye Mariners All.
3. Urra Moor / Morning Star / Boy in the Gap / Willafjord.
4. Home By Bearna.
5. Billy Boy.
6. The Red Cow / Ryan’s / Egan’s.

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We have a new sound man ... Hooray. All at Relig Oran Towers welcome Iain Spink as our new sound engineer for live shows as from the Relig's tea Party 21/01/07. Tall, handsome and, well, a nice guy.

URRA MOOR.

Those of you who have had a chance to see the band will know that last year Andy wrote a haunting little tune – Urra Moor (that will soon appear as a download btw). When Andy was young (!) he would spend a lot of time walking on the moors and many a day was spent high on the purple heather. Urra Moor has many memories – hence the tune. Where's all this going, we hear you asking ...? In January this year Andy was up in the North Yorkshire Moors and so happened to drop by Urra, and for those of you interested here are some pics. It's well worth a visit and a walk (although Urra itself is two farms and a church – but what a church). Take the long moors road up from Helmsley, past the beautiful Norman abbey of Rievaulx, and keep going!

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.The beautifully bleak church of Urra

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Urra Moor from the moors road............................Urra and Urra Moor

Web design & maintenance by Andy Renshaw. Thanks to the following for their help. Neil Acres for the many services rendered. Dylan Woolf for the photos & Simon Marchant.