Ship of Fools: Andrew King + Naevus July 12, 2009

Ship of Fools Club
ANDREW KING + NAEVUS

Sunday 12 July
Bar & Co, Temple Pier
Victoria Embankment, WC2R
closest tube: Temple

Info line: 07870 832505
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Andrew King
Andrew King's initial creative work was in the visual arts, studying at Caerleon and Lampeter, he subsequently exhibited both nationally and internationally. After many years of experimentation, he began his mature work with the first of his Emblematic paintings in 1991. In 1994 he started making documentary recordings of vernacular and traditional songs, music, and customs. He moved to London in 1995 to further this work and the illustrative compositions that he was doing for a number of the Post-Industrial/Neofolk bands of the time (L'Orchestre Noir, Current 93, Ernte, Sol Invictus, etc), and to complement this made his first attempts at his own mangled versions of traditional song the following year. Since then he has created a number of sporadically issued albums and carefully chosen compilation appearances..

www.myspace.com/AndrewStewartKing

Naevus
Naevus was formed in London in 1998 by Lloyd James and Joanne Owen. With their first two albums (Truffles of Love in 1999 and Soil in 2001), Naevus found themselves welcomed into the heart of the burgeoning post-industrial scene, while their third album, Behaviour (2002), marked a turning point in the band's sound and paved the way for the classic albums which followed it (2004's Perfection is a Process and 2007's Silent Life). The group's most recent album, Relatively Close to the Sea, was released by Hau Ruck! In 2008. The group's sound has been described as 'the Wire of the dark folk scene' and 'what Swans would sound like if they were English', but there is much more to the group than this; their distinctive lyrics and modernist approach set Naevus clearly apart from their contemporaries.

www.myspace.com/naevus

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