JAMES BLACKSHAW St Leonard's Church 16th October 2010

10/10/07 with Eli Keszler and Black Forest/Black Sea (photo: Susanna Bolle

JAMES BLACKSHAW
St Leonard's Church
Shoreditch
London
16th October 2010

01. All Is Falling
02. Tuning
03. The Cloud Of Unknowing
04. Tuning
05. Past Has Not Passed
06. Talk and Tuning
07. Transient Life In Twilight

Download it HERE

Support the artist - buy the records - go to the shows
http://www.myspace.com/jamesblackshaw
http://younggodrecords.com/Artists/?C=1988

And the winner, BY A MILE, of the CD give away is rleaf2003 with his killer, hybrid poem-comment.  It deserves a reprint:

Roses are red, violets are blue
I hope I get this cd via you,
and if I do..
heres what I'll do:

I'll play it for me,
my daughter and wife
in my car and truck &
and for all of my life

Echoes of Thompkins
ringing down the street
coming from my headphones
as my feet touch concrete

Walking to the store
to buy IA4
I thought I had won,
but alas, I dreamed this folklore

So once again I support IA4,
but hope Santa/ or the postman
knocks on my door,
and says: Ryan you won :)

Nice one!  Dude, shoot me your addy and I'll drop the CD in the mail.

James Blackshaw - Live @ St. Giles Church, London

James Blackshaw
St. Giles Church, London
25Oct08
Soundboard recording uploaded to the internets by pjc - thanks dude!

This is a great recording of Blackshaw playing his signature 12 string songs. The first cut is Cross from his recently released The Glass Bead Game. But at the time of the show you can hear Blackshaw say that it is untitled. Very cool.
Though he also says that he will play a couple new things, I think that was the only one. I'm no Blackshaw expert so I did the best I could on the middle two titles. Please let me know if they are titled incorrectly.

I took the liberty of deleting track two, 4+ minutes of tuning and he doesn't even tell any jokes. Everyone knows you are supposed to tell jokes while tuning your guitar. Please go buy some of Blackshaw's stuff so that he can buy another guitar for that other tuning or at least hire a freakin' guitar tech!

Amazon
Tompkins Square
Young God Records
Official site
MySpace

Download it HERE

James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game

Release date is May 26th. This sounds like another good one from Blackshaw!

Blackshaw has recently signed to Michael Gira's Young God Records label (Devendra Banhart / Angels Of Light /Akron/Family / Lisa Germano / Larkin Grimm / Swans etc...)and his seventh studio album The Glass Bead Game is to be released in May 2009. Blackshaw is currently a member of Current 93, Brethren of The Free Spirit (duo with Jozef Van Wissem) and performs live with Pantaleimon. He has toured extensively in Europe, US and Japan, playing approximately 200 shows since 2005 in a broad range of environments from sold-out 1,000 capacity venues supporting Jose Gonzalez to intimate church shows and institutions such as The Douglas Hynde Gallery in Dublin and The ICA in London. He has featured on National Public Radio in the US, BBC Radio 2 and performed live on VPRO television in The Netherlands.
Go to the label site, Young God Records

James Blackshaw on MySpace