Amelia Curran announces UK CD Release Tour
NEW ALBUM SPECTATORS – Release: 11 February, 2013

Intriguing, diverse, and brimming with passion - Maverick magazine

The perfect recipe for late-night music for grown ups! - Word magazine

Without doubt a major star singer/songwriter in the making. SPECTATORS is truly wonderful - Shakenstir

Halifax songstress Amelia Curran is excited to be heading back to the UK with the release of her new album Spectators released on Feb 11th on Blue Rose Records.

Amelia will also be touring through the UK in Jan/Feb to promote the new album (already released in Canada on Six Shooter Records) with the tour kicking off at Celtic Connections in Glasgow on Jan 30th (Full tour details below)

Amelia’s acclaimed 2009 album Hunter, Hunter won her the much sort after Juno Award for Best Roots and Traditional Album. With her new album, Curran returns to the scene with ten tracks that raise the bar on her signature lyricism, but also push beyond the folk boundaries that have defined her previous releases.

Produced by John Critchley, Spectators brings surprises, including brass, strings, piano, and rumbling percussion. “What Will You Be Building,” a downtrodden Dixieland dirge, distills existence into one essential question. “The Modern Man” is another standout track – Curran’s stark vision stands sharply against a dark, tense, shivering backdrop. Even, or perhaps especially, the love songs, cut through the bone. In particular, the earthquake heartache of “San Andreas Fault,” is as graceful as it is devastating.

Guest musicians featured on the album are a collection of Toronto and St. John’s notables, including The Once, Todor Kobakov, Bryden Baird, Selina Martin, Oh Susanna, and Martin Tielli.

Since the release of her first album in 2000, Curran has an impressive discography which each year have gained a number of East Coast Music Award nominations including ‘Folk Recording Of The Year’, ‘Female Recording Of The Year’, until her album triumphed over all and won the much desired Juno Award.

Amelia Curran was born to write music, a songwriter by trade, but a writer at heart, she believes language is everything.

AMELIA CURRAN TOUR DATES

Wed 30th Jan 2013

Glasgow – O2 ABC Glasgow (Celtic Connections 2013)

01413538000/ www.celticconnections.com / £TBC/ TBCpm (Opening for Aimee Mann)

Thurs 31st Jan 2013

Glasgow – O2 ABC Glasgow (Celtic Connections 2013) TBC

01413538000/ www.celticconnections.com / £TBC/ TBCpm

Mon 4th Feb 2013

Cottingham, East Yorkshire – The Backroom

01482847007/ www.backroomcottingham.couk / £10 adv/ 8pm

Tues 5th Feb 2013

London – Pull Up The Roots @ The Slaughtered Lamb

www.pulluptheroots.co.uk / £10 adv/ £12 door/ 7.30pm

Wed 6th Feb 2013

Biddulph, Staffordshire – The Biddulph Arms

01782514896/ www.biddulphupinarms.com / £12 TBC/ 7.30pm

Thurs 7th Feb 2013

Norwich – The Bicycle Shop

www.thebicycleshopcafe.com / £8 adv&door/ 7.30pm

Fri 8th Feb 2013

Liverpool – The Rodewald Suite at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall

01517093789/ www.liverpoolphil.com / £12 / 8.30pm

Sat 9th Feb 2013

Newcastle – Jumpin’ Hot Club @ The Cluny

01912304474/ www.jumpinhot.com / £10 / 7.30pm (Opening for O’Holley & Tidow)

Sun 10th Feb 2013

Sheffield – The Greystones

01142665599/ www.mygreystones.co.uk / £7 adv/ £9 door/ 7.30pm

www.ameliacurran.com

www.sixshooterrecords.com