Willard Grant Conspiracy Solo.

April 29, Cork, Irelan- Crane Lane Theatre
May 1, Dublin, Ireland- Whelans (upstairs)

On the recent Anna Kashfi recording "Survival" (Little Red Rabbit) Sian Webley and Robert Fisher  duet on the song "Devil's Bridge". The record has received a very fine review from Uncut magazine; "The highlight is...a devastating duet that is one of the best of its kind since the Nick Cave/Polly Jean Harvey collaborations".

We think Anna Kashfi is a great musical partnership between sometimes WGC and LAst Harbour member James Youngjohns and Sian Webley and would like to encourage you to pick up the latest recording either by download from any of the reputable sources or at your favorite independent record store. You can hear more of the record at:

myspace.com/annakashfi

Regard The End included In Uncut's Top 150 records of the Decade

Uncut magazine has included WGC's Regard the End in the recent list of top 150 albums of the decade published in their magazine!

I Tunes Download for new Record

Paper Covers Stone is available through ITunes and other similar download sites in North America, South America and Japan.


WGC on Bandwidth-Guerilla Video
While playing in Belfast, between soundcheck and a session on Ralph Mclean's excellent show on BBC-Radio Ulster, Robert ducked out back to the alley behind the club and made a hasty video for the kind Bandwidth project featuring some local kids and the song "Vespers". The slightly out of tune results can be seen here: http://www.bandwidthfilms.com/sessions/willard-grant-conspiracy/ . We blame the tuning on operator error.

Robert guests with Anna Kashfi

While on tour with James Youngohns (Anna Kashfi/Last Harbour/WGC) playing as a member of the band, Robert was asked to contribute a vocal to the new Anna Kashfi record on the song " Devil's Bridge". Recorded in a hotel room outside of Dundalk, IR, the song is available to listen to at:

www.myspace.com/annakashfi

We hope you all enjoy it!

Byte.FM and Willard Grant Conspiracy

The excellent web radio station Byte.FM (www.byte.fm) has become a partner in sponsoring our upcoming tour. We've added a link so that you can listen to their live stream. It is great radio.

We have posted three tracks from the new album "Paper Covers Stone" on our My Space page. The recording was completed in March and includes old and new songs reworked and reconfigured in new and different arrangements. The album will be out in September on Loose records in the UK/Ireland and France and Glitterhouse Records for the rest of Europe. It will also be available thru Itunes and other download sites thru out all territories.

In the next few days we will be releasing tour dates to coincide with the release.

We hope you enjoy the early preview and visit us on My Space!

www.myspace.com/willardgrantconspiracy

In the last two weeks, we recorded a record to be called Paper Covers Stone that will be released in early September. The record features original members of WGC; Robert Fisher    , Sean O'Brien, David Michael Curry (Thalia Zedek, Empty House Cooperative) were joined by Steve Wynn (Steve Wynn and the Miracle Three) and engineer/producer/musician Pete Weiss on a two day marathon that yielded a bucket full of songs. Played in a changing format of solo/duo/trio and quartet arrangements, the recordings reflect the living room feel of the band's early recordings. Provisionaly entitled "Paper Covers Stone", from the game Jen Ken Po (also known as Roshambo), the recording will be released in the fall.

WGC is currently booking a tour that will start in Sept in the UK and visit most of Europe and are looking to organize a visit to Australia and NEw Zealand for early 2010.

For booking inquiries and show ideas, just ask us! Or, if you prefer speaking with our agent, contact Jon at CNL Touring

BEAR WITNESS
DVD + Bonus CD
This DVD contains the complete gig of the Rockpalast Crossroads show in Bonn, plus outtakes and an interview with Robert Fisher    . Add some footage from the Orange Blossom Special #9 (2005), a 12-page booklet and a Radio Bremen radio-session (on CD) and you have a lot to watch and hear.
(Pal.4.3 Region Free, 111 minutes) 


Order in The WGC webshop

2 Meter Session
 
During the last Crossing Border Festival in Den Haag, NL we
participated in a recording session for the remarkable 2 Meter
Sessions at the festival. They have edited the footage together along
with performances by Joshua Tillman (Fleet Foxes), Kristin Hersh and
Cesare Basile. You can view this program by clicking on this link:
 
http://player.omroep.nl/?..aflID=8867827
 
We'd like to thank the folks at the 2 Meter Sessions and Jan Douwe
Kroeske for providing us with this link and for making the session
available to all who wish to see it.

The excellent folks at They Shoot Music Don't They have put up two video clips that were improvised in Vienna during the Pilgrim Orchestra tour. Solo performances of Ghost of the Girl in the Well in a Car Wash and Drunkard's Prayer in an elderly ladies porch with her German Shepard can be found at:
http://theyshootmusic.at/posts/Willard_Grant_Conspiracy
Make sure you search around the site for some other inspired on location music video!

On Tour with Clarabelle and The Pilgrim Orchestra

I thought you might enjoy this booklet that our bandmate John Songdahl worked on while we were on the Pilgrim Orchestra Tour in May. John mixed the record and came along to play trombone. He was looking for a way to produce something from the tour experience that he could show family back home and came up with a unique idea. Just as we were mixing the record his niece Lilly was born so he thought he'd take one of her favorite stuffed dolls with him and photograph her "adventures" on the road. The result is the book "Clarabelle's European Adventure" and it can be downloaded here in a PDF form. It is a lovely and humorous glimpse into life on the road in the form of a book written for a child.
John has been kind enough to let us offer this for free so if you'd like to email him your thoughts and impressions, you can do so at jsongdahl@mac.com.

Download the fotobook of the WGC May tour introduced by John & Clarabelle! (PDF 21,8 mb)

Enjoy!

-Robert, John, Clarabelle and all of the Pilgrim Orchestra

"Sombre, imperious, awash with lush orchestration, gospel choirs, and poignant songs of yearning and redemption - Pilgrim Road sounds like a magisterial career high for Robert Fisher's ever mutating collective." - Uncut Magazine

LECARGO

Three Solo Clips from Robert's Session on www.lecargo.org
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