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Artists	Blitzen Trapper, Lambchop, Pearly Gate Music
Date	Friday 26 November 2010
Organisation	AB + Botanique + Toutpartout
Location	Koninklijk Circus/Cirque Royal Accessible to visitors with handicap Smoking Ban Hearing damage risk - Earplugs available
Hour	20:00

Announcing text

Toutpartout will be organizing the first edition of the Autumn Falls festival during the weekend of November 26, 27 and 28 2010.
Toutpartout is a European booking agency/Benelux promoter, booking tours and shows in venues all over Europe.

Friday November 26 Lambchop plays at Cirque Royale. Buy your tickets via www.botanique.be

Lambchop (usa) performing ‘is a woman’
Lambchop are still our favorite Nashville based alt.country ensemble, focused around frontman Kurt Wagnern the man blessed with a heavenly, mesmerizing voice. Rewind to the year 2000, the start of a new millennium. Lambchop had just released their fifth and breakthrough album ‘Nixon’, which was spiced with a decent dash of contemporary soul. Subsequently Wagner gave up his day job laying floors in order to pursue a full time music career. The first result of this was ‘is a woman’ (released in 2002) which Lambchop will be performing in its entirety during Autumn Falls.
Wagner on the making of ‘is a woman’: “We wanted to make a Lambchop record that focussed on the songs themselves, the ‘song’ meaning a voice representing the words and a piano providing the foundation for the music. Most of these songs were written out in the back yard on a laptop that I borrowed from my father, sitting under a mimosa tree.” Now, we’re generally reluctant to quote from bands’ biographies but this one seemed to bear a great deal of truth: “‘is a woman’ is an elegant, luxurious and refined album that mines rich seams of romance, despair, beauty, poetry and magic.” Duly noted. Good to know: on the bonus cd of ‘is a woman’ you can find a stripped down version of The Sisters Of Mercy classic ‘This Corrosion’. Suddenly Lambchop were even played on daytime radio.

2010 marked the tenth anniversary of Portland, Oregon’s Blitzen Trapper. Recently also, the six-piece’s fifth album ‘Destroyer Of The Void’ has been unveiled to the world. Contrary to what the sound of their name might imply Blitzen Trapper actually does deliver mesmerizing multi-harmony Americana. The influential webzine Pitchfork put it this way: “Blitzen Trapper's version of Americana is one of the most melodic and playful since ‘Being There’-era Wilco.” Another nice compliment from Pitchfork perhaps? ”Unlike many of their contemporaries doing the bearded-70s-folk-rocker thing, Blitzen Trapper's influences lie less with hippie-ish CSNY or the Grateful Dead and more with the rugged late-60s roots-rock of Bob Dylan and the Band.” Another thing that makes you want to keep them even closer to your heart is the fact that Alela Diane is one of their guest vocalists on their last album.