An announcement for band people in London.
A new bass player is sought for the exotic London-based project / supergroup that is SCARLET’S WELL. They’re about to release their fifth remarkable album, ‘Black Tulip Wings’ on Siesta Records. It’s already one of my favourite records of the year, even if I am one of the lyricists. Doubtlessly they’ll play a few concerts to promote it.
Scarlet’s Well songs are a unique brand of foppish folk-pop: witty, archaic and Romantic: at least in the Coleridge sense of the word. Musical comparisons might suggest The Divine Comedy, Kurt Weill, Tiger Lillies, Tindersticks, perhaps even the more vaudeville side of The Dresden Dolls. It’s all channelled by SW leader Bid, former frontman of legendary artpop group The Monochrome Set.
Contributing SW songwriters to date include Christina Rossetti, Edgar Allen Poe, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alex from Franz Ferdinand, trendy accordion god Martin White and myself.
Please visit www.scarletswell.co.uk for more about the group. Email doctormole@scarletswell.co.uk if you think you can help find a bassist.
Oh, they have one of those MySpace pages too:
http://www.myspace.com/scarletswell
Thanks,
Dickon Edwards
P.S. I’ve decided to break my ‘no links’ rule for entries that more resemble blog postings, eg ‘Announcements‘ and ‘Recommendations‘.
