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Erland & The Carnival

About Me

*If you want to book for gigs contact: [email protected]*

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 19/05/2008
Band Website: butterflyrecordings.com
Band Members: Past and present
Simon Tong
David Nock
Erland Cooper
Andy the Bruce
Danny Wheeler
Nigel of Bermondsey
Joel Stanley
Georgia Sands
Joel McCormack
Samantha Marais
Dom Lash
Charlie Henry

Influences: Jackson C Frank, Bert Janch, Davy Graham, Pentangle, Fairport, Trees, Lomax

Sounds Like: paper and sticks and shovel and match
Record Label: Butterfly Recordings/static caravan
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

devon, luminaire, 7inch, molesley folk - yes!!

cheers for all that came over to the recent gigs , we are now doing the cover art for the record, beware the goat , wild gig in brummy last night, rah
Posted by on Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:04:00 GMT

6music session, Album & 7"

radio 6 session with Marc Reiley was great but only after some pints and whiskey, from then on it got nice and messy..he is a good fella!Cheers to all that came to Machester and Liverpool gigs followi...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:30:00 GMT

mixing at Youths

Spent the week mixing the album, will post new mixes, pics etc. Sounding good, o yes. Check out the guitar solo in 'Derby Run', hilarious David is a machine! All he needed to keep going was a Per...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:32:00 GMT

bardens gig not happening

sorry but the Bardens Boudoir gig isn't happening. 
Posted by on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:51:00 GMT

BBC 6 Music

Marc Riley played 'The harder I Fall' last night to close his show. Cheers Marc!Check out the iplayer from last nighthttp://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/shows/marc_riley/
Posted by on Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:28:00 GMT

album

We are back in the studio this weekend to do the second half of the album, so the bulk of it will be done over 2 weekends and we can put it out for the summer! come on..In the meantime we are doing im...
Posted by on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:24:00 GMT

13

we've spent the weekend recording at 13 (new tracks up for your amusement), when we finished early Monday am there was propper snow out, glorious non boring Orkney isles style weather! Yes, never seen...
Posted by on Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:04:00 GMT

Love is a Killing Thing

Here's a live version of 'Love Is A Killing Thing' with Simon Tong on ye olde, beastly pump organ. I heard a version of the song over at the Ralph Vaughn Williams memorial library but I can'...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 06:13:00 GMT

Butterfly Recordings podcasts

Check out the Butterfly Recordings podcast on iTunes with label founders Youth & Simon Tong in conversation with Gill Mills.Download Podcast here! 
Posted by on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:52:00 GMT

Carnival on youtube

check out Carnival videos over on youtube ft. Samantha Marias the first of hopefully many Butterfly live sessions!
Posted by on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:24:00 GMT