One For Sorrow on the BBC 6Music Playlist
We only went and bloody won the Rebel Playlist! Thank you to everyone who voted. YOU did this! Listen up to BBC 6Music to hear ‘One For Sorrow’ being played all week.
This week has been a surreal one…
On Monday, Simple Minds revealed a secret that I’ve been keeping very close to my chest for a few months now…I’ll be joining them on tour throughout 2015! How this all came about is something of a distant echo of the duet I co-wrote for The Dark Flowers album a few year’s back which also featured Jim Kerr… You never know where things might lead! I’m looking forward to seeing some bookshops and art galleries around Europe. Pitstop suggestions welcome…
Yesterday I also found out that “One For Sorrow” (from the forthcoming EP) is up for the BBC 6Music Rebel Playlist. This is voted for by YOU, the music-loving public. If you could spare a moment between now and midnight this Sunday evening (and maybe ask your friends, ex-lovers and your sister’s dogs to vote too…) if we win the vote it means that the song gets played on all the 6Music daytime shows for a whole week! It takes five seconds to vote here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0072lb2
I’d be very grateful indeed if you did : )
If you haven’t already pre-ordered the EP, all the details are here: www.iamtheanchoress.com/music. There’s still a few limited editions remaining.
Catherine xox
p.s. Here’s the new Simple Minds video:
In The Quietus…
“I call him the lizard man…” The Quietus have just published the essay I penned about working with Paul Draper and how the album came together…
http://thequietus.com/articles/16327-the-anchoress-long-year-catherine-ad-paul-draper-essay
“Davies is making music like nobody else at the moment…” - NME
“The Anchoress spins complex, emotionally gripping sagas” - Clash
“As unique and insidious a pop song as I’ve heard in eons!” - Adam Walton, BBC Wales
“ A slow-burning, slinky, sophisticated helping of brooding pop noir, highlighting a fabulously narcotic vocal which prowls and curls itself around a song that is sinister, seductive and hypnotic.” - Von Pip
NME premieres Long Year…
It’s been an exciting few days. NME have premiered my song ‘Long Year’ - a first taste of the forthcoming One For Sorrow EP.
Huge thanks also to Steve Lamacq for the first radio play on his 6Music show!
http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/listen-the-anchoress-returns-with-the-haunting-long-year
The One For Sorrow EP will be released on November 3rd via Hiraeth/PIAS.The EP will be available as a 12” vinyl from all good record stores, digital download (with an iTunes exclusive remix from Ghosting Season), and a limited edition signed CD/romance novel edition, exclusively from Bandcamp, now available to preorder:
Ltd Signed CD/Book Bundle: PREORDER HERE
iTunes exclusive 5 track EP: BUY HERE
12” Vinyl:
PRESS: gillian@hallornothing.com
ONLINE/RADIO: matthew@enganche.co.uk
GENERAL: iamtheanchoress@gmail.com
In great company here with Perrier’s pick of the five hottest acts. Thanks guys! http://sperrier.com/1o5F1Y0
Double playlist action for the single!
The Anchoress is Artist of the Week on BBC Radio Wales. Listen back to Catherine’s interview with Eleri Sion.
It’s finally here! After the year from hell and the week from Hades, it’s release day. I’m certainly due some good karma… ‘What Goes Around’ is out today. Get it from iTunes here - http://georiot.co/47Ov
“A great, dark classic pop song” - STEVE LAMACQ, BBC 6MUSIC
“Imperious vocals… oddball & accessible.” - 20 tracks you have to hear this week - NME
“What happened to Mansun’s Paul Draper? Well, he’s producing The Anchoress and the results are quite something” - CLASH
'What Goes Around’ is one hell of an introduction, mixing epic Broadway strings with military drums, a sprinkling of Disney pianos, menacing slithers of riffs, and lyrics that make you fear ever messing with womankind.“ - DROWNED IN SOUND
“Shimmering pop heart and infectious hooks” - GoldFlake Paint
“A powerful opening gambit from The Anchoress” - Louder Than War
“Bites like Aimee Mann and will leave you chomping for more” - Societe Perrier ‘5 hottest acts’
The single has been added to the XFM playlist!!!
Footage from the cutting of the vinyl of the single.
My first draft of the lyric sheet for ‘What Goes Around’. The musicians among you may notice how I changed the key (which always infuriates the producer…). This seems to happen with every single song I write.
*Update* Thanks to everyone who bought the vinyl - we sold out the entire run on preorder in the first 24 hours!
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You can now preorder the 7inch clear vinyl of the debut single from the following stores. There is only a limited edition of 500, so be quick!
Jumbo - Leeds - SOLD OUT
Spillers - Cardiff - SOLD OUT
Rough Trade - London SOLD OUT
Resident - Brighton SOLD OUT
Drift - Totnes - SOLD OUT
Piccadilly - Manchester - SOLD OUT
The artwork for the debut single. Out May 5th via Too Pure. Concept by Catherine Anne Davies. Photography by Isabella Charlesworth. Design by Michael Speed.
“A great, dark classic pop song” - STEVE LAMACQ, BBC 6MUSIC
“Imperious vocals… oddball & accessible.” - 20 tracks you have to hear this week, NME
“What happened to Mansun’s Paul Draper? Well, he’s producing The Anchoress and the results are quite something” - CLASH
‘What Goes Around’ is one hell of an introduction, mixing epic Broadway strings with military drums, a sprinkling of Disney pianos, menacing slithers of riffs, and lyrics that make you fear ever messing with womankind.“ - DROWNED IN SOUND
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‘What Goes Around’ will be released on May 5th 2014 via TOO PURE
Stream the debut single and hear what NME had to say about it in this week’s issue http://www.nme.com/reviews/various-artists/15039?recache928335815715
Photo by Isabella Charlesworth
Headdress by Jodie Cartman of Fumbalinas
Thanks to Steve Lamacq for premiering the debut single today on 6music. You can listen back on the iPlayer (from 1h30) here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03prfz6