Lanterns On The Lake Confirmed as Support to John Grant and Midlake
Sunday, 04 September 2011
Written by Rob Sleigh
Newcastle-based folk sextet Lanterns on the Lake have been confirmed as support for this week’s Royal Festival Hall date in London by John Grant and Midlake on Wednesday 7th September. The show will see both acts perform Grant’s critically-acclaimed solo album ‘Queen of Denmark’, which was released last year. See below for tickets.
Lanterns on the Lake will be performing a number of live dates throughout the coming months, including shows with French solo artist Yann Tiersen in October. The six-piece are due to release their debut album ‘Gracious Tide, Take Me Home’ on 19th September. The video to the single ‘Keep On Trying’ can be viewed below.
Speaking about the album, vocalist Hazel Wilde said: “A lot of lyrics were inspired by me and Paul [Gregory, guitarist] moving back to the coast, where I grew up, after we’d been living near the city centre. They’re also memories of growing up here, the feeling of homesickness and stories of people around us and of the sea. The title ‘Gracious Tide, Take Me Home’ seemed to sum up all the themes.”
Going on to talk about the album’s recording process, she added: “You only get to make your debut album once, so we wanted it to be personal and honest and special to us, so we recorded everything in our own houses again. Though the loud bits were done in a basement of a shop in Newcastle.”
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