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Friday June 26th
Press release- Sam Hunt & David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights
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22 June 2009
Sam Hunt performing with David Kilgour and the Heavy Eights
For Immediate Release
On Thursday the 16th of July Sam Hunt and David Kilgour & the Heavy
Eights’s will be performing at historic Dunedin venue Sammy’s, promoting
their newly released LP Falling Debris. This is a rare chance to witness two
of New Zealand’s most enigmatic performers under the same roof.
Sam’s live performances in the South are a rare event, and he is a master of
the art, being personally selected by Leonard Cohen to open his recent New
Zealand shows. Sam has just released a new book of his favourite James K.
Baxter poems (James K. Baxter Poems published by the AK University
Press).
David and the Heavy Eights have not performed in Dunedin for two years.
Over that period they have toured the USA, Australia and NZ promoting
their previous LP The Far Now.
In more recent times David has worked on some music for dance (Flicker)
and played a little guitar on Vincent Ward’s movie Children of the Rain. Also
the Clean regrouped in NYC after said Heavy Eights USA tour and began
writing and recording a new LP called Mister Pop, to be released in the USA,
Europe and NZ early September. Most of the LP was recorded in Dunedin
with Tex Houston at the board. The Clean also played three sold out shows at
the Cakeshop in NYC and one in Philadelphia. If you go online you should be
able to download for free the new Clean single called In The Dream life You
Need A Rubber Soul featuring Dunedin’s very own Haunted Love.
Whilst in Dunedin, Hunt and Kilgour along with the Heavy Eights will be
working on new material together for future release. They hope to work this
collaboration into the performance at Sammy’s.
The doors will open at 8.30pm and David and the Heavy Eights will start at
9pm sharp. Sam will perform between two sets from DK, the first showcasing
Falling Debris and the second previewing new material and revisiting some
old favourites. Door sales only, $20 or $15 with 2009 Radio One Onecard.
Some kind words about Falling Debris…
It is as though Kilgour’s music has grown up around these poems, attaching
itself to the words like they were always meant to be together
Nick Bollinger, Listener
This is the sort of effortless folk-rock which has made Kilgour an enduring
figure among those who came of age in the Flying Nun years
Russell Baillie, NZ Herald
For media enquiries please contact:
[winkle@ihug.co.nz ]
[davidkilgour.com ]
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