Adrian Crowley takes time out from the recording of his fourth album for a few gigs around Ireland and London.The new album features Domino records artist, James Yorkston among others and was engineered by Steven Shannon.
Last month saw Crowley heading off on a short headline tour in the UK accompanied by the above mentioned James Yorkston and sharing the bill with the now legendary Fence Collective.
Since last Summer Crowley has toured in the USA with ex- Galaxie 500 duo, Damon and Naomi (where he recorded an hour long radio session at WNYC for WFMU, New Jersey). Crowley also was invited to tour with Domino Records artists, HOOD on their extensive tour of Spain and Portugal.Ryan Adams namechecks Adrian in a recent issue of Rolling Stone as one of his favourite underground songwriters around. Adams showed up at one of Crowley’s recent show in Philadelphia apparantly having been a fan for some time.
Lastly, Adrian has been asked to appear on the next Rough Trade Shops compilation. The theme is ‘Songwriters’ and compiles the legendary London shop’s favourite songwriters of all time. The record due for release in the coming months will also feature tracks by Elliott Smith, PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, Daniel Johnston, Folk Implosion, Catpower…and others. Crowley is the only Irish artist to be featured.
The song chosen is ‘Girl From The Estuary’ which is taken from 2001’s ‘When You Are Here
You Are Family’ recorded by Steve Albini.
Adrian has been invited to open for James Yorkston in London on 18th December at the Luminaire for a special Christmas show.
Upcoming gigs:
Wednesday November 30th – Cyprus Avenue, Cork with Adem
Thursday December 1st – Roisin Dubh, Galway with Adem
Monday December 12th -Whelans, Dublin with Jose Gonzalez
Sunday December 18th – Luminaire, London with James Yorkston.
