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PURSON – Sonic Special On BBC

03 Tuesday Dec 2013

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Astra, BBC, Blood Ceremony, Cathedral, George Hudson, I Will Be Good, Jack Hobbs, Justin Smith, Leaning On A Bear, Lee Dorrian, Maida Vale studios, Marc Riley, Mr. Howard, Orchid, Purson, Rise Above Records, Rosalie Cunningham, Samuel Shove, Spiderwood Farm, The Circle And The Blue Door, The Contract, The Garage London, Tragic Catastrophe

British hottest Newby for all you Fuzzoholics PURSON have played a live session from the legendary Maida Vale studios on Monday, December 2nd 2013 for Marc Riley’s BBC 6 music show. During their performance, the band played some new songs ‘Mr. Howard’ and ‘I Will Be Good’ and ending with ‘Tragic Catastrophe’ – ffor all those who missed to tune in on time can listen to it on BBC iplayer here!

BBCIPURSON live on BBC 6 Radio

BBCIIPURSON will start a UK tour this friday and will include the following dates:

December 06: Exchange Bristol, UK
December 07: Lennons Southampton, UK
December 08: Rescue Rooms Nottingham, UK
December 09: Broadcast Glasgow, UK
December 10: Belgrave Music Hall Leeds, UK
December 11: The Roadhouse Manchester, UK
December 12: The Lexington London, UK

Furthermore the band led by their charming chanteuse & guitarrista Rosalie Cunningham will also be appearing on the Rise Above Records 25th Anniversary party, taking place on December 27 to 28 2013 at The Garage London. PURSON will play alongside BLOOD CEREMONY, TROUBLED HORSE and more on the Saturday show. Don’t miss the chance to see PURSON perform songs of their critically acclaimed full-length debut “Circle & The Blue Door”, out since released 29th April 2013 on Rise Above Records.

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SPIRITUAL BEGGARS & PURSON – Eye Candy From Roermond

09 Saturday Nov 2013

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Astra, Blood Ceremony, Carcass, Cathedral, Earth Blues, George Hudson, Graveyard, I Will Be Good, Jack Hobbs, Justin Smith, Kadavar, Leaning On A Bear, Lee Dorrian, Michael Amott, Monsterpics, Napalm Death, Orchid, Purson, Rise Above Records, Roermond, Rosalie Cunningham, Samuel Shove, Spiderwood Farm, Spiritual Beggars, The Circle And The Blue Door, The Contract, Tragic Catastrophe

Without further ado – enjoy!

PURSON_IPURSON_IIPURSON_IIIBEGGARS_IBEGGARS_IIMike Amott + MonsterpicsAll pictures Courtesy of Monsterpics!

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PURSON – Baroque ‘n’ Roll

03 Sunday Nov 2013

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Astra, Blood Ceremony, Café Central, Carcass, Cathedral, Earth Blues, George Hudson, Graveyard, I Will Be Good, Jack Hobbs, Justin Smith, Kadavar, Leaning On A Bear, Lee Dorrian, Michael Amott, Napalm Death, Orchid, Purson, Rise Above Records, Rosalie Cunningham, Samuel Shove, Spiderwood Farm, Spiritual Beggars, The Circle And The Blue Door, The Contract, Tragic Catastrophe, Weinheim

After misfortune first struck for British Psychedelic Rock outlet PURSON, forcing them to cancel all continental dates on the tour with ASTRA earlier this year, now things are finally looking up again: The swinging quartette announced to be joining in on SPIRITUAL BEGGARS’ “Earth Blues Tour 2013” and thus finally be heading over from the United Kingdom. A more appropriate package almost seems out of the question, as both bands are hard to label. PURSON with their deal at Lee Dorrian’s very own Rise ABove record, on the one hand might be having a hard to time, fully pleasing expectations of the rather (Stoner) Rock and (Doom) Metal oriented group of costumers that do not disapprove the price and publication policy of the former NAPALM DEATH vokiller and CATHEDRAL mastermind. SPIRITUAL BEGGARS on the other hand have been into all of what has become a mere hype within the past few years, with names such as ORCHID, GRAVEYARD, KADAVAR and others being overwhelmingly praised for a particular direction, while the Swedes have been sounding like this, ever since they first got started in 1993! Twenty years later they are still far away from being signed by a major label – but be it as it may…

Purson_IOrganist Samuel Shove & Frontlady Rosalie Cunningham outshining it all

My main reason to take on what turned out to be a three and a half hour ride throughout major parts of the southern part of Germany I live in, is to watch PURSON play live – first and foremost. For sure catching up with former CARCASS member Michael Amott got its charms on me, but let’s just not get lost on this. To state the obvious again, female musicians do attract me in very intense way and one Rosalie Cunningham being in her early twenties and stunningly beautiful get attributes combined that never failed to amaze me. Besides their unique blend of colorful 60s vibe, Psychedelic infused Rock and an almost scary sense of coolness, hard to got on many a Metalhead. Strictly on time at 9pm, the current lineup featuring new members Jack Hobbs (drums) and Justin Smith (bass) along with leading lady Rosalie, George Hudson (guitars&backing vocals) and Samuel Shove (Organ, Mellotron, Wurlitzer) enter the stage of Café Central, Weinheim. The audience, hardly to my surprise, acts quite reserved and rather confused by those young Brits diving in the scanty used light, which underlines and displays their qualities even more so.

Purson_IIIPURSON: When sound & sight become alike

The approximately 45 minutes setlist contains well-known songs from PURSONs debut record “Circle And The Blue Door” such as ‘The Contract’, ‘Spiderwood Farm’, ‘Tragic Catastrophe’ and ‘Leaning On A Bear’ – as seen in the live video above. Additionally the band fears not the present some new material like ‘I Will Be Good’. A track that gets to me right away, almost as if I heard it before. An acoustic way of coming home, if you may. And my celebratory “Wooohooo” popping out with the announcement of the new song, even puts a soft smile on Rosalie’s face. All too soon this lovely trip to a much more swining’n’grooving sphere of time and space is over again. The scarcely used interaction with the audience clearly does not stand in the way of enchanting a few newly won fans tonight and to put it this way: Great art might be well explained but the true magic each and all of us have to find within our selves through pure conception, understanding and love. Speaking for myself: I can’t wait for them to return, if I won’t catch up with them in their native England that is!

Furthermore, just two days after seeing PURSON, the nightmare continues for them, as stated as follows: “It is with great regret that we have been forced to drop off the rest of the tour with Spiritual Beggars. After our van broke down yesterday in Belgium, we found ourselves in some very awkward circumstances, being taken to a dodgy garage where they tried to force us to spend €5,000 on a whole new engine. After we refused they locked us in the compound with no food or water. 11 hours later we were rescued by the AA and made it safely back to England this morning. We would like to apologise to our fans in Holland, France and Belgium for not now being able to play for you! We really are gutted. We would also like to thank Spiritual Beggars and their crew for an awesome run of shows, and all those other new friends we have made along the way. And especially thanks to our driver Dave, for getting us safely out of a very nasty situation. Again, we are so gutted we can’t finish the tour.”

Pictures Courtesy of P. Lienert

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HAMMER OF DOOM VI – DOOMSDAY

30 Sunday Oct 2011

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Alia O'Brien, Andrew Haust, Black Sabbath, Blood Ceremony, Capricorn, Carter Kennedy, Cathedral, Devil, Dio, Forsaken, Hammer Of Doom, Keith Nickel, Lee Dorrian, Living With The Ancient, Lucas Gadke, Mark Thomas Baker, Nomad Son, Orchid, Ozzy Osbourne, Sean Kennedy, The 11th Hour, The Devil's Blood, Theo Mindel, Through The Devil's Doorway, Yet So Far

After the mandatory starting problems, the second day of this years’ Hammer Of Doom Festival on October 29th seems to be much of a promising event. The only downer for today has been CATHEDRAL‘s cancellation for their headline show, due to the fact that the band refuses to share stages with THE DEVIL’S BLOOD (who are known for using pig blood purchased at a local butcher…). Considering the fact that Lee Dorrian is a convinced vegetarian, one might be able to understand his decision. Still, with the band doing a farewell tour this does not make their absence any better…but here we go anyway.

Cathedral shirt backprint

At our arrival at about two in the afternoon DEVIL are in the midst of their set and the venue is crowed allready at this rather early time. The Posthalle in Wuerzburg appears quite dark and stuffed with records sellers, whose high prices at the end of the month make me wonder how they make profit at all. On the other hand it’s a nice opportunity to do something while waiting for “your” band to play and to stay awake despite the lack of light and oxygen.

Orchid’s charming singer Theo

Sometime between NOMAD SON and THE 11TH HOUR me and my pals leave the location and enjoy the autumn sun and finally some real food. At 5pm the first highlight of the day enters the stage: ORCHID have not only travelled all the way from the US to southern Germany, but it seems that they also travelled through time with their hippie like cloths, hooped cables and vocalist Theo Mindell acting like a very young OZZY OSBOURE. I am just delighted and the audience all around clearly agrees. Mark Thomas Baker (Guitar), Keith Nickel (Bass) and Carter Kennedy (Drums) keep up to Theo easily and their passion for occult 70’s Rock and Metal fill the entire place. The foursome presents a mixture of their current outputs (“Through The Devil’s Doorway” and “Carpicorn”) and also new material to be released on the upcoming album which is scheduled for April 2012. After just fourty minutes the show is over and I guess I’m not the only one who can’t wait for these guys to return to Europe!

Following is Malta’s FORSAKEN with a frontman being some sort of DIO version with a BLACK SABBATH shirt…THAT was weird! Unfortunatly his taste of music does not make the band sound good to my ears. But this being a matter of taste, contrary opinios appear to be plenty and we take another chance to get some fresh air.

Blood Ceremony favour ears and eyes

Finally the second highlight of the days enters the stage: BLOOD CEREMONY finish their European tour on this very evening. After seeing them in April, expectations are high and this show turns out to be overwhelming as well. Canada’s hottest Rock export truly enchants the international audience with retro sounds and their very talented female fronter Alia O’Brien. It’s a real pleasure to see how she and Sean Kennedy (Guitars), Lucas Gadke (Bass) and Andrew Haust (Drums) play together as a union. Especially the songs from their latest album “Living With The Ancient” are well recieved but also the Self Tiled debut certainly has it’s place in countless record collections. As sure as anyone watching, the band has a great time tonight. “I’ve never had an audience with so many people making out while we played“, bassplayer Lucas points out after the show. 45 minutes pass way to soon and the next act YET SO FAR with a special German Show can hardly keep my interest.

Another hour runs before tonights’ headliner THE DEVIL’S BLOOD fills the stage with musicians, equipment and backdrops. The highly awaited Pre-Release Show ends up as a stiff set with way too many new songs and everlasting red lights, that make it very hard to get good pictures if your camera does not cost a fortune. Especially after seeing this band in much smaller places and at the beginning of the hype they caused, I can say that I’ve seen much better performances than the one tonight. Disappointed visitors are leaving while the rest is totally into the ritual. I am somewhere between those views, but glad to be on the way back before the show ends…

Altogether a great day with some real peaks and just a few weak points!

 

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