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James Grant/Love And Money Update
Sorry I haven’t provided any information for some time..been very, very busy with The Devil’s Debt. We are just mixing the album at the moment.
What can I say?
It sounds rather momentus.
It will be featured heavily at the three Love And Money concerts in May.
Thank you to all of you who pointed out the problems with my website: my site had indeed been hacked and trashed by nasty people, but is now ready to receive you all with open arms again, with a clean bill of health and a Google certificate..
I’ve put an updated list of shows below for your perusal, the booking details are on www.jamesgrantsongbook.com
I should mention a couple of shows in particular that have been added to the list since last time;
The Burns And A’ That gig will be me, my guitar and some of my friends, Skin, Chris Thomson, Monica Queen and Fraser Spiers. Along with my own unique brew of numinous miserablism, we’ll be doing some Hipsway tunes, some Friends Again tunes, some covers and generally enjoying ourselves.
If theres anything you would especially like to hear, please email me at info@james-grant.com. If I like your suggestion, I might consider playing it.
The show at The Georgian Theatre is me and Fraser revisiting one of my favourite gigs…
The West End Festival show(don’t think this is on sale yet) is an acoustic show at Oran Mor with myself, harmonica deity Fraser Spiers, harmonium genius Donald Shaw and the divine Ms Monica Queen.
There will undoubtedly be more events as the year unfolds, I’ll try and keep you posted.
And incidentally, thank you all for your support, now and over the years.
Let us continue to ROCK
April
19 Catstrand Galloway
20 Glee Club Nottingham
21 The Met Bury
26 Music Hub Penicuik
27 Eden Court Inverness
28 Tolbooth Stirling
May
4 (with Love And Money) Rothes Hall Glenrothes
5 (with Love And Money) King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut Glasgow
6 (with Love And Money) Darvel Music Festival
11 Queens Hall Edinburgh
12 Woodend Barn Banchory
13 Lemon Tree Aberdeen
18 Borderline London
19 The Mill Banbury
June
3 Burns An A’ That Festival Ayr Town Hall
8 The Georgian Theatre Stockton On Tees
16 The West End Festival Glasgow
Confusion
Some confusion has been stoked, perhaps by me and my senior moments these days..I’ve upped my Cod Liver Oil tablets, hopefully they’ll kick in soon.
If you bought tickets to the King Tut’s show – you are also invited to the aftershow – all tickets.
If you bought one of the first 150 tickets to the Rothes Halls show, you are invited to an aftershow.
..I don’t know how you can tell if you are one of the first 150, you’d have to phone the venue..
You’ll be able to hang out with all the guys, Dasher, Bambi, What’s His Name the drummer..
We can all discuss how tawdry and slipshod my performance was, it’s gonna be fun, fun, fun.
Hope this helps.
There’ll be another free download over the holiday period, so check in every so often..
James Grant/Love And Money dates 2012
The Devil’s Debt
LOVE AND MONEY
The Devil’s Debt
Love and Money would like to invite our longstanding fans to an intimate show at King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut on Saturday May 5th 2012.
The band will be performing new album The Devil’s Debt in it’s entirety and will then play some old favourites.. Everyone will then be invited to an aftershow party with the band downstairs in the venue until 1am.
We will be available for photos, the signing of albums, anorak guitar questions, snake charming, tattoos etc.
This is a heartfelt thank you to our most loyal fans who have supported the band for aeons. There are only 300 tickets, procurable from 9am on Saturday 10th December to those of you on the mailing list, James Grant Facebook page and those who log in to jamesgrantsongbook.com. until Monday 12th December.
If you would like to join us, you can secure a ticket by logging on to
http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/360047899AC58FD3?did=ukdfc1ps
Tickets are £25(plus whatever ticket agency charges as booking fee..)
LET US ROCK
4th December
Love And Money will be onstage at approximately 7.45 on Sunday night.
There is no support. There will be two sets.
LET US ROCK
November
Busy month.
Next Thursday 17th November, I will be performing at the Spirit Aid 10th birthday party at Oran Mor in Glasgow http://www.spiritaid.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=102&Itemid=64
My long time friend, colloborator and God of harmonica Fraser Spiers, will be assisting me in my ministrations.
There will be other dudes performing like Roddy Hart, The Bluebells, Ricky Ross,The Ted McKenna Band.. indeed, many of the artistes who featured in STV’s ‘Scotland’s Greatest Album’ televisual show will be there in person.
On Friday 18th November Love And Money will be performing at BBC Radio Scotland’s Children In Need show in the foyer of BBC Scotland at 40 Pacific Quay and runs live to air with a small invited audience from 6.10pm-7.20pm. Think it’s already fully booked.
So why am I telling you? Dunno, still thought you might be interested.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/shows/shows/cin_radio_scotland2011
I will be a guest on BBC Radio Scotland’s Off The Ball programme on 26th November.
Love And Money will be live in session on Billy Sloan’s radio show on Radio Clyde Sunday 27th November.
For those of you who haven’t already done so – please go to verticalrecords.co.uk for your free Love And Money track…yes, I know, it was on Sawdust In My Veins – but this was the egg to that chicken, as it were. Or should that be turkey?
And there’s more where that came from…The Devil’s Debt will be available for release next year..more free downloads/gigs and other stuff to be announced soon.
And of course, now then, now then, now then..LET US ROCK on the 4th of December, we are very much looking forward to this particular event.
Thank You From Love And Money
LOVE and MONEY would like to thank all of you who have come to see us on our recent tour. We’ve loved playing to you and are looking forward to The Clyde Auditorium concert in Glasgow on the 4th of December. If you haven’t already got tickets, please book now to avoid disappointment..
To get a free download of This Is The Last Time from the new album The Devil’s Debt, go to ;
verticalrecords.co.uk
The Devil’s Debt will be released in 2012.
Mugdock gig
I am playing the Mugdock Music Festival accompanied by the effervescent Mr. Fraser Spiers on Thursday 10th of November.
You can book online here http://www.mugdock-country-park.org.uk/makeabooking.html
Or phone 0141 956 6100
Tickets are extremely limited, it’s a very small venue, so please get in quick if you want to come.
This Is The Last Time
Janice Forsythe will be playing This Is The Last Time on her radio show on Saturday.
Before I recorded it for Sawdust In My Veins it was a Love And Money song.
There is one more song from this period; Sin Of Pity, that trainspotters may recognise from other projects, the rest of the songs on the new record have never been released in any format, or played live.
The album will be called The Devil’s Debt.
Top 10s
Blah.. blah we’ve been really busy with the new old/record of late, so busy in fact that we have time to indulge in that most adolescent of pass times, the making of lists..
Heres what some of the guys in the L&M camp are listening to right now..
Next week; biscuits…The Wagonwheel already has a strong lead.
Douglas;
1. John Tejada – Unstable Condition
2. Graham Central Station – Earthquake
3. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Bubbles
4. Jim O’ Rourke – Woman of the World Unite
5. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band – The Faith Healer
6. Aphex Twin – Windowlicker
7. Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
8. Tyondai Braxton – Platinum Rows
9. Sheila B. Devotion – Spacer
10. Andrea True Connection – More, More, More
Fraser;
1. Ain’t No Love In The Heart Of The City Bobby “Blue” Bland
2. In My Life The Beatles
3. All I Need Is You David Sanborn
4. Atlantic Avenue Average White Band
5. Okie Dokie Stomp Cornell Dupree
6. Standin’ On Shaky Ground Junior Wells
7. It Don’t Mean A Thing Dr. John
8. Harlem Nocturne Earl Bostic
9. Gee, Baby Ain’t I Good To You Geoff Muldaur
10. What’s Going On Donny Hathaway
Monica;
1. Like a Hurricane- Neil young (stars’n'bars version)
2. Please Stay – the Crying Shames
3. When i Go Deaf – Low
4. I Dream a Highway – Gillian Welch
5 Wrecking ball – Emmy Lou Harris
6. Blue Moon – Evis Pressley
7. K.D.Lang + Siss Boom Bang – I confess
8. Gorecki – Sorrowful Symphony
9. Roberta Flack – First Time
10. Belle and Sebastian – We Rule the School
James;
1. Good Times Bad Times – Led Zeppelin
2. The Human Abstract – David Axelrod
3. I Love You More Than Words Can Say – Karen Dalton
4. I Am The Mercury – Jimmie Spheeris
5. The Water Is Wide – Fred Neil
6. You Make It Easy – Air
7. Death By Diamonds And Pearls – Band Of Skulls
8. Jet – Wings
9. I Saw The Light – Todd Rundgren
10. The Best Of My Love – The Emotions