Babel + support March 4, 2009

Babel are a Bristolian sextet of percussion, cello, violin, guitars and voice. Folk’n’roll amid aching melody and beat driven string arrangements, singer Danny Coughlan delivers hard learnt lessons of a hedonistic past, new age spirituality, love, lust and even a modern murder ballad. They featured on Mojo’s covermount CD - comprising covers from The Beatles’ ‘White Album’ – with their version of ‘Why Don’t We Do It In The Road?’ Now with first album proper ‘Crooked Timber’ released autumn 2008 and currently operating as a sextet of Danny (voice and guitar), Ben Bird (bass and percussion), Rick Brown (guitar), Martin Lanchester (violin and accordion), Daisy Palmer (drums) and Beth Porter (cello), their music is a spine-tingling sonic bouillabaisse containing traces of everyone from Blind Lemon Jefferson to The Mystery Jets ‘ the string laden fusion of acid folk, roots rock and blistered blues comes with a punk-like intensity’ 4*Uncut "Babel are a very splendid thing, a cross between Led Zep III, Rufus Wainwright and Midlake." - Sunday Telegraph (****).“Known for their experimental folk-rock shenanigans…expect a night of unabashed entertainment” METRO

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