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Two Projects for Glenn Armstrong: Sine qua non & Salomé (with Kit Downes)

July 7th, 2014

Sine qua non – Serge Gainsbourg re-imagined Out now on Coup Perdu records is the gorgeously-recorded, beautifully-packaged Sine qua non – Serge Gainsbourg re-imagined. Recorded at Abbey Road studios in 2013, SQN is a testament to producer/curator Glenn Armstrong’s aesthetic vision and ear for detail and quality. I was fortunate enough to have played in READ MORE




Bourne Davis Kane: appearances & releases

June 28th, 2014

Sound Carvings, Strange Tryst Bourne Davis Kane have already premiered Piers Hellawell‘s Sound Carvings, Strange Tryst, as part of the 2014 New Music Biennial at the 2014 Belfast festival in March. The next performance of this collaborative commission will be at London Southbank Centre on July 6th (with a concert of BDK’s own music at Friday Tonic (Front Room, READ MORE




Bourne Davis Kane to work with Piers Hellawell for New Music Biennial 2014

June 21st, 2013

The PRS Foundation’s New Music Biennial consists of twenty composers and commissioning organisations that have been selected to produce new musical work in 2014. Working closely with Belfast-based composer (and longtime friend of the band) Piers Hellawell, Bourne Davis Kane will workshop the material together, with each of us leaving behind our respective working methods, whereby Piers will then: “…refine these READ MORE




Bourne and Chris Sharkey to support Marc Ribot solo show in March!

February 26th, 2013

Bourne – along with guitar lothario, Christopher Sharkey will be playing before the wonderful Marc Ribot on March 14th at the Howard Assembly Room in Leeds. It’s been ten years since, under the guise of Distortion Trio, that Bourne, Sharkey and Dave Black played a set with Mr. Ribot at The Wardrobe in 2003 (to which Marc remarked after playing together, “Nothin’ like READ MORE




Billy Moon chosen for the ‘Northern Line’ Touring Scheme

February 21st, 2013

Billy Moon has been chosen as one of twelve ‘ambassadors’ for the Northern Line touring scheme – a Jazz North initiative. There will be a showcase concert at The Capstone Theatre, Liverpool on March 25th. This appearance will see Billy Moon in an intimate duo setting with Seaming To (expanded to include cello and violin for subsequent READ MORE




Impermanence Trio Album Launch

January 6th, 2013

Happy New Year! Just a brief announcement to say that Impermanence Trio (Bourne, Riaan Vosloo (bass) & Tim Giles (drums)) will be launching their debut album at The Vortex on Tuesady, 8th January. The vinyl only release (download code included) is shared with Tricko (Tareco), featuring Kit Downes (piano), Lucy Railton (cello) and Alex Killpatrick (sound artist). Impermanence Trio & Tricko (Tareco) READ MORE




Montauk Variations heads the list of Stewart Lee’s records of 2012 in The Sunday Times!

December 10th, 2012

It is a great honour for me to have had Montauk Variations selected as one of Stewart Lee‘s records of the year in yesterday’s (09/12/12) Sunday Times Culture supplement.   Lee has already reviewed Montauk in The Times earlier this year: “Matthew Bourne is found in typically excitable mode on the newly released Everybody Else READ MORE




Concerts in YORKSHIRE

November 13th, 2012

November 15th – Leaf Label Night at 26th Leeds International Film Festival So, it’s not often I get the chance to play near to where I live but the last month or so has been the exception rather than the rule! So, TONIGHT I’ll be playing live to projection of the Luis Bunuel/Salvador Dali classic, READ MORE




BOURNE DAVIS KANE – 10th Anniversary Tour!

October 31st, 2012

Bourne Davis Kane, is celebrating ten years of companionship and music making with an intimate 10th Anniversary Tour in November. It’s been a while since the last outing but it is a band that continues to evolve and change along with the shape of our lives – it is not a band that is driven by READ MORE




WIN WORLD TOUR OF LONDON TICKETS AND A CD!

October 4th, 2012

In advance of next week’s World Tour of London, The Leaf Label are giving you the chance to win tickets to all four shows AND a copy of Montauk Variations. Click on the picture for details of how to enter!!