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4th october, willard grant conspiracy are playing at teatre xesc forteza (palma de mallorca)
We are posting the shows that we have for Sept and Oct for the WGC tour today. There are a few more to come so please come back to see if your town is one of them!
here are the dates;
August 25th-26th Cheltenham, England Greenbelt Festival
Sept 12 Newcastle, UK The Cluny
Sept 13 York, England Fibbers
Sept 14 Dorset, The End of The Road Festival
Sept 15 Exeter, Voodoo Lounge
Sept 17 Eeklo, BE N9
Sept 18 Deventer, NL Burgerweeshuis
Sept 19 Tilburg, NL 013
Sept 20 Utrecht, NL Ekko
Sept 21 Venlo, NL Van Bommel Van Dam Museum
Sept 22 Hamburg, DE-Haus 73
Sept 23 Norderstedt, DE-Music Star
Sept 24 Berlin-Roter, DE Salon
Sept 25 Münster, DE-Luna Bar
Sept 26 Erfurt, DE-Museumskeller
Sept 27 Dresden, DE-Scheune tbc
Sept 28 Hozminden/Tonenburg Clubmuzik
Sept 29 Munich, DE- SÜDSTADT
Sept 30 Vienna, A-Chelsea
Oct 1 Innsbruck, A-PMK
Oct 2 Zurich, A- t.b.a.
Oct 4 Teatre xesc forteza (palma de mallorca)
Oct 6 Groningen, NL – Take Root @ Oosterport
Oct 7 NL – t.b.a.
Oct 9 London, UK – Luminaire
Watch Trials of Harrison Hayes Live at Paradiso on this site. To save the video, click ‘download for video i-pod/sony psp’
The WGC Webshop is online now!
Watch the video for ‘Distant Shore’ now! (Broadband only)
(Alternative streaming options: Realplayer / Windows Media) the video is now available thru Youtube. Video by Bob Dofflemyer.
Visit us at my space: www.myspace.com/willardgrantconspiracy
Some things people have said about Let it Roll;
“ WGC couches the disquieting angst of Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen in the baroque-like elegance of Belle & Sebastian at their most melancholic.” BROWARD NEW TIMES
“prairie-spun symphonies that evoke heartache and despair” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
“like Wille Nelson singing Nick Cave murder ballads” BOSTON GLOBE
“ an epic examination of mankind that swirls from dreamy strings and horns to gnashing guitars” Boston Herald
As film festivals go, this one (Let It Roll)is epic heavy, at times even art house challenging, with majestic imagery and slow builds leading to powerful third–act scenes amidst the layers of strings, keys, mandolin, trumpet and seemingly anything else within reach.No Depression
Sounding like Jim Morrison fronting the Waterboys, Fisher unleashes a previously unsuspected feral energy on several tracks, his snarling baritone set against a filigree of mournful fiddle, muted trumpet and chugging electric guitar.” PASTE
“The Willard Grant Conspiracy violates one of the fundamental guidelines of music: that bands which employ any non-traditional collective designation like ‘conspiracy’ or ‘project’ are only doing so to make their underwhelming presence seem far more meaningful. Instead, this now twelve-year-old conspiracy succeeds in overwhelming listeners with the breadth and depth of its sound, and continues to draw more and more talented musicians into its Byzantine orbit.” POP MATTERS
“There is a reckless abandon to so much of the Conspiracy’s attack, that at times it feels like they’re getting ready to skid from the road right off the side of the mountain. It’s the feeling of freedom that very few groups can still attain, but Fisher’s songs — along with one co-written with Steve Wynn — have individualistic beauty that many other artists have mostly run away from.” Studio City Sun
“ Let It Roll provides another magnificent showcase for the group’s expansive gothic sweep, a beautiful but fearful mélange capable of sending shivers down the spine.”Amplifier
“(Let It Roll)…roars like rolling thunder, sometimes with intense immediacy, other times with distant fury.” BOSTON PHOENIX
“ Bandleader Robert Fisher doesn’t just write about the corners of the soul where death, revenge, transcendence, and spiritual crisis confuse human will. On the Willard Grant Conspiracy’s brilliant sixth album, Fisher conjures them in grand sonic chiaroscuro…”Amazon
“ Fisher and his cohorts succeed impressively in balancing the darkness and light, melancholy and hope, noise and quiet, and create something quite grand.”All Music Guide
“Powerful, intense and provocative…yes, it’s certainly WGC – once again.”American Songwriter
“…gothic majesty matching the Bad Seeds at their glorious heights.” Bucketfull of Brains
“Fisher has a voice that has all the gravity of a Cash, a Cohen or a Cale” Uncut
“the sound is epic, florid, grandiose; the mood dark; the achievement great” Time Out
“WGC are reminiscent of The Band in all their gothic pomp” Mojo
” This is music we Yanks take for granted—which is as much our loss as Fisher’s.”HARP
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New!!
Willard Grant Conspiracy’s LIR is out now in Australia on UXB records!
Updates
22 July
New dates added for WGC European tour and For Jackie Leven, Robert Fisher and Michael Weszton King. More dates TBA.
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