other titles...
- Drinking for Two
- Herd Runners
- 4am
- Fragile Reign
- Sacramento
- Thirst For Romance
- My God Betrays
- Throw Me To The Dogs
- All I Want
- False Alarm
- Bad Crowd
- Please Come Home
- Mathematics
- Four Eyes
- People Help The People
- Clear Skies Ever Closer
Cherry Ghost
Cherry Ghost : Live at The Trades Club - January 25 2015 (rsd 20)
heavenly recordings
A career spanning live performance of Cherry Ghost released for the first time.
As the final act before their hiatus – coming after three critically praised albums in a decade - ‘Live at the Trades Club Hebden Bridge’ is Cherry Ghost performing an intimate, starkly arranged set at the 2015 Heavenly Weekender. Released now for the first time – on double vinyl and download – this is perhaps the best realised collection of songs from Cherry Ghost, the alias of the Ivor Novello award-winning songwriter Simon Aldred. The instrumentation – Aldred is joined on keyboards and light percussion by Christian Madden and Grenville Harrop – brings to the fore Aldred’s peerless songwriting, his oak-aged, prematurely wisened baritone. ‘History’ wrote the Quietus in 2014, ‘will be kind to Aldred’, and this collection proves exactly that – with a bit of time and distance, the songs presented here show a highly singular, highly accomplished songwriter, aspiring to the pop classicism of Glen Campbell or Bill Callahan. All of human life is here – tracking a drizzly Northern gothic of last bus loneliness, late-night Spars, solitary drinkers, factory floors and Gods that betray. And yet, there’s more than meets the eye. There’s magnetic renderings of his best known songs - ‘4AM’, ‘People Help the People’, the soaring ‘Mathematics’ - but surprises reveal themselves. ‘All I Want’ and ‘Herd Runners’ candidly examine Aldred’s sexuality, whilst the seldom heard bside ‘Bad Crowd’ reveals Aldred to be a much funnier songwriter than remembered. What runs right through Aldred’s work, however, is a yearning – a much tested faith in romance – so no wonder that the album ends on its most optimistic notes, at the darkest point of winter nestled in the West Yorkshire valleys, promising clear skies ever closer. 1500 for uk & ireland