Tracer Trails and Fence present

James Yorkston’s Christmas Jamboree
feat. The Pictish Trail & Lisa O’Neill

Tickets £9/£7 from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/136685 or Monorail Music

James Yorkston invites his friends The Pictish Trail and Lisa O’Neill to join him in celebrating solstice at Wellington Church Hall in Glasgow.

All three will share the stage, swapping songs and stories throughout the show. We anticipate two one-hour sets with a break in the middle.

James says: “Will it be the same as the Book Festival Show [in August this year]? No, I doubt it. It’ll be better. Johnny will be drunker. I’ll be happier. Lisa will have done her Christmas shopping earlier in the day. It’s a win win win situation.”

This show is all-ages and you can BYOB.

Poster by Hanna Tuulikki: www.hannatuulikki.com

April 14th 2011

WH66Trails presents
Lone Pigeon
& The Pictish Trail
at Pilrig St Paul’s Church Hall
Pilrig Street, Leith

Tickets £8 from www.wegottickets.com or Avalanche Records.

Wh666 (in association with Tracer Trails) are very pleased and proud to announce a rare Edinburgh show for reclusive pop maestro Gordon Anderson aka Lone Pigeon.

He is playing only a tiny handful of UK shows, promoting the official Domino release of his boxset, Time Capsule; with over 159 tracks (!) collected over 7 discs (!!)

….who knows what he will play?!

Support is provided by the ever-so-cuddly sounds of Fence Records favourite The Pictish Trail. Fresh from a tour with KT Tunstall, this Trail is well worth following.

February 11th 2011

February 11th 2011

Tracer Trails present
James Yorkston
+ Marry Waterson & Oliver Knight
at Old St Paul’s Church Hall
(Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh)
8PM | BYOB | ALL AGES

Tickets (£8/£6 unwaged + b.f.) available NOW from www.wegottickets.com

Tracer Trails returns after a few months’ hiatus with a vintage bill of old and new folk from Fence Collectee / Domino hero James Yorkston, supported by the latest offshoots of the mighty Waterson clan, Marry Waterson and Oliver Knight.

JAMES YORKSTON will be singing songs old and new and reading excerpts from his acclaimed literary debut: It’s Lovely to be Here – The Touring Diaries of a Scottish Gent (Published 3rd February 2011, £9.99, paperback, The Domino Press).

Presented as a series of tour diaries, It’s Lovely to be Here offers a mix of deadpan humour and wide-eyed wonder whilst mapping out the realities and endless disorientations of life on the road.

A resident of the East Neuk of Fife, James Yorkston has been releasing a series of highly acclaimed albums through Domino Records since 2001 and has toured the UK, North America and Europe. A popular figure in the contemporary music world and integral member of the much lauded Fence Collective, his style shows a mastery of song traditions which has seen him collaborate with such artists as the Waterson Family, Martin Carthy and Bert Jansch.

MARRY WATERSON AND OLIVER KNIGHT are brother and sister who have grown up immersed in traditional song. As part of the Waterson Family musical dynasty, the siblings have thrived on communal music-making whilst developing highly original and distinctly English performance styles of their own.

Now signed to One Little Indian, the pair release The Days That Shaped Me (their first album for the label) in early 2011.