Reeves Gabrels & His Imaginary Friends UK Tour – October 2015
Power trio celebrates album release with small club gigs across the UK
Following a three week tour of the USA in July/August 2015, Reeves Gabrels, long-time artistic partner of David Bowie and The Cure’s current lead guitarist, is taking his power trio, Reeves Gabrels & His Imaginary Friends, back to the UK. The band toured England in October 2014 and look forward to a fuller UK run in October 2015.
If you’re a fan of great songs, stellar musicianship and fearless improvisation, you should catch Reeves & friends live while you can.
The UK dates are as below:
Thursday 1st Oct 2015 Norwich, Waterfront Studio Friday 2nd Oct Guildford, The Boileroom Saturday 3rd Oct Liverpool, Studio2 Parr Street Monday 5th Oct York, Fibbers Wednesday 7th Oct St Albans, The Horn Thursday 8th Oct London, The Black Heart Friday 9th Oct Sc**thorpe, Café IndiePendent Saturday 10th Oct Glasgow, The Hug and Pint Sunday 11th Oct Newcastle, The Cluny Tuesday 13th Oct Leicester, The Cookie Wednesday 14th Oct Manchester, Night & Day Thursday 15th Oct Tunbridge Wells, The Forum
Tickets are onsale at all usual outlets at 10am Friday 3rd July 2015 Support comes from Lisa Ronson on all dates.
The band will be celebrating the CD release in July of their album, Reeves Gabrels & His Imaginary Friends, along with its wider digital distribution via CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon and the like. To date the album has been available via Bandcamp only: reevesfriends.bandcamp.com/ where listeners have appreciated the high-quality download options in addition to MP3s.
Meanwhile, the low-key early release has generated high praise – with June’s Vintage Guitar, for example, calling it “a smart record with clever songs, tongue-in-cheek humor, and superb guitarmanship from top to bottom.” www.vintageguitar.com/20650/reeves-gabrels/
Tour set highlights from the new album include the biting “Drown You Out” and the spooky “House of Usher,” which draws its title from an Edgar Allan Poe story published in 1840. Unusual interpretations of Bo Diddley’s early rocker “Who Do You Love” and Jimmy Reed’s blues “Bright Lights, Big City” also feature.
Fans of earlier Reeves Gabrels albums will be pleased too, as the trio plays songs from Sacred Squall of Now (1995), Ulysses (1999) and Rockonica (2005) plus co-writes with some of Reeves’ more famous friends, such as Tin Machine’s “Bus Stop,” written by David Bowie & Reeves Gabrels, and “Yesterday’s Gone,” written by Reeves Gabrels & Robert Smith of The Cure.
Band biography Reeves Gabrels & His Imaginary Friends are a Nashville-based power trio fronted by “one of the most daring rock-guitar improvisers since Jimi Hendrix” (Guitar.com) who also sings, writes and produces. Each song is its own adventure when Reeves and friends perform. Originals and co-writes have sharp lyrics and well-made melodies set in rich soundscapes. Selected rock and blues covers are re-imagined in sometimes-wild ways. One Gabrels lyric says it all: “Let me bend your ear, and your mind a little too.”
Reeves Gabrels biography Reeves Gabrels is an American guitarist, songwriter/composer and music producer. A member of British band The Cure since 2012, Gabrels is known as well for his long partnership with British singer David Bowie with whom he worked regularly from 1987 to 1999. Throughout, Gabrels developed his own wide-ranging creative identity by performing, writing and recording independently and in collaboration with musicians worldwide. A New York native, Gabrels now lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Lisa Ronson biography Lisa Ronson is a singer and writer of songs with wry, existential lyrics and a sound that blends synth-pop and alternative rock. She relocated to London in 2012 from New York where she was a member of the art pop band The Secret History and released two albums with them. Lisa's acclaimed solo single "Shopping & F" (2014) featured Reeves Gabrels on guitar. Most recently, in June 2015 she toured in the UK with Tony Visconti & Woody Woodmansey’s Holy Holy performing David Bowie’s seminal The Man Who Sold The World album live.
No, say it ain't so! I am still regretting immensely giving up my Charlotte, NC 2008 tickets. I think that was a reschedule and that's why I was unable to go. Oh, well, it's July so perhaps some Curesmas presents in the form of releases at the end of 2015 or beginning of next year.
Fingers crossed!
steve
Big Hand
Songs Of A Lost World *CRUMPET BOY*
I wonder how they choose where they are going to play? Record sale? Or simply because he is located in the South? I doubt it will help but I'll give it the college try.
A tweet from Reeves July 12 just said this, which addresses your question:
@reevesgabrels ...As ppl have asked: no California, Northeast etc, alas; schedule/$ allowed 1 weekend + 2 weeks via van, routed from Nashville.
steve
Big Hand
Songs Of A Lost World *CRUMPET BOY*
I wonder how they choose where they are going to play? Record sale? Or simply because he is located in the South? I doubt it will help but I'll give it the college try.
A tweet from Reeves July 12 just said this, which addresses your question:
@reevesgabrels ...As ppl have asked: no California, Northeast etc, alas; schedule/$ allowed 1 weekend + 2 weeks via van, routed from Nashville.
Yep. Days of record labels throwing wads of cash at bands for tours are long gone (Unless that band has an army of spoilt, screaming children fans who will emotionally blackmail their idiot parents into buying them tickets that is) & touring costs quite a bit (transport, accommodation, sound engineers, lighting techs etc.) & the USA is a mahoosive place.
Tear out the pages with all the bad news
Pipperoo
Big Hand
Songs Of A Lost World Moon Moderator
I wonder how they choose where they are going to play? Record sale? Or simply because he is located in the South? I doubt it will help but I'll give it the college try.
A tweet from Reeves July 12 just said this, which addresses your question:
@reevesgabrels ...As ppl have asked: no California, Northeast etc, alas; schedule/$ allowed 1 weekend + 2 weeks via van, routed from Nashville.
Aw that's a shame. The Northeast really loves the kind of music he plays. Especially where I live here in moo cow country. I just went to the Briggs Blues Festival yesterday and there must have been 5000 people there. Maybe more. $30 bucks a ticket. I met Alexis P. Suter who is amazing! I adore her voice. And Devon Allman was there as well. was freaking fantastic. They both sold out of all of their CDs. $20 a pop. People REALLY love this festival and the Briggs are really nice people. (Don't mind my crappy sweaty hair. Awful pic of me haha)
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A tweet from Reeves July 12 just said this, which addresses your question:
@reevesgabrels ...As ppl have asked: no California, Northeast etc, alas; schedule/$ allowed 1 weekend + 2 weeks via van, routed from Nashville.
Aw that's a shame. The Northeast really loves the kind of music he plays. Especially where I live here in moo cow country. I just went to the Briggs Blues Festival yesterday and there must have been 5000 people there. Maybe more. $30 bucks a ticket. I met Alexis P. Suter who is amazing! I adore her voice. And Devon Allman was there as well. was freaking fantastic. They both sold out of all of their CDs. $20 a pop. People REALLY love this festival and the Briggs are really nice people. (Don't mind my crappy sweaty hair. Awful pic of me haha)
Looks like she's saying "OMG! I met Pipperoo!" And quite right too
Pipperoo
Big Hand
Songs Of A Lost World Moon Moderator
A New Romantic, a Mad Scientist, a Rockabilly, a Giant and a Drummer. Influenced by The Cure, YYYs, Nirvana and many more: soundcloud.com/thevaultedskies
The Northeast really loves the kind of music he plays. Especially where I live here in moo cow country. I just went to the 
