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Henry’s Funeral Shoe: For Sale!!!

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HENRY’S FUNERAL SHOE EUROPEAN TOUR KICKS-OFF IN SUPPORT OF THEIR LATEST FULL-LENGTH EVERYTHING’S FOR SALE (ON ALIVE RECORDS)

Henry’s Funeral Shoe have just finished the new video for their song “Stranger Dig” from their Alive Records full-length debut Everything’s for Sale and was directed by the Welsh production company DogDay Films. You can view the video here. (Please feel free to post for your viewers.)

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Henry’s Funeral Shoe was formed by two brothers in 2008 from South Wales, inspired and influenced by many of the albums that singer/guitarist Aled Clifford had looted from his father’s vinyl collection when he was growing up. The Who, CCR, Peter Green, Robert Johnson and The Beatles were favourites, and Aled quickly became a gifted guitar player, aided and taught by Ned Edwards, a long time collaborator of Van Morrison. Aled soon played with various bands, eventually doing some recording sessions for producer Ian Grimble, and even recording at the legendary Abbey Road studios.

His younger brother Brennig started playing drums at nine. At fifteen he joined a local band, learning his trade by performing covers of The Clash and Thin Lizzy before moving on to writing original material. The dexterous brothers have finally joined forces to create some of the loudest soulful rock’n'roll to come out the UK in a long time. Their debut album Everything’s For Sale is a fun and raucous mix of heavy rock and psychedelic blues which reminds us that the U.K can produce more than great pop music, but also some amazing rock’n'roll. Don’t lose the rhythm!

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Free Mp3: Henry’s Funeral Shoe’s song “Don’t Lose The Rhythm” from their Everything’s for Sale album: http://www.pavementpr.com/1.mp3s/HFS.DontLoseTheRhythm.mp3

Here’s what people have already been saying about Henry’s Funeral Shoe:

The best live performance I have ever seen in my life! - VALLEY CAT PRESS

The following statement may strike you as dubious, but I stand by it: Henry’s Funeral Shoe is quite possibly the best airboat cruisin’ music since Mountain’s “Mississippi Queen.” - CRAWDADDY

There is absolutely no treading on egg shells with this record. Gritty, overdriven guitar riffs, gravely deep vocals and saw-off, pump action drumming in abundance. Simple, straight forward punk blues which draws on early Black Keys and a slight grunge undertone. Just because this record was recorded in just a few days doesn’t mean anything has been missed, infact the raw power of a punk blues duo, driven by passion has been captured in its entirety. Everything’s For Sale certainly carries the heavy punch that you would expect from any Alive release and of course Henry’s Funeral Shoe wear their influences on their sleeve. This is a band that proves the nu-blues movement in the U.K is very much awake and raising the bar. – BLUES IN LONDON

There’s nothing radically new on this debut from Henry’s Funeral Shoe, but the guitar and drum combo have a raw, fuzzed-out, garage-boogie attitude and a riff-o-rama sensibility that is pretty endearing. Their sound can be heavy as a 2000 lb. budgie, menacing as a back-alley swaying drunk, and when they crank up the riffing or let rip with some high-octane slide, it’s as transporting as anything by post-Mississippi Fred McDowell. – POPMATTERS

It didn’t take me long to mix Everything’s For Sale into my rotation. This is a great debut from the Welsh duo and I hope that they follow the lead of other two-piece blues acts and start incorporating some fresh ideas in future efforts. There is an abundance of talent here. - HEARYA

Is Henry’s Funeral Shoe the Welsh answer to the White Stripes? Or to the Black Keys? How about both at once? The duo certainly plows the same guitar/drum blues duo earth as those acts, but is less pop-oriented than the former and less obsessed with Led Zeppelin than the latter. Aled Clifford is a manly but versatile vocalist whose hero seems to be Steve Marriott, rather than Robert Plant, and he’s a fine slide/boogie guitarist. His brother Brenning keeps the cans a-rockin’ and a-groovin’. With a pronounced bent towards the John Lee Hooker side of the blues fence, the Shoe have an entirely different feel than their more famous brethren, lighter of foot and heavier of tone, as heard in Second Hand Prayer and It’s a Long Way. Mary’s Tune ends the record on a folky and rather sweet note, just to show that the guys can pitch woo as well as make whoopy. - SLEAZEGRINDER

Amongst the feedback and crashing cymbals the most important thing that HFS bring to the party are a collection of ten fantastic, well written songs. - Chris Phillips/BRFM RADIO

FOR MORE INFO ON HENRY’S FUNERAL SHOE:
http://www.alive-totalenergy.com/x/?page_id=195
http://www.myspace.com/henrysfuneralshoe

HENRY’S FUNERAL SHOE 2010 TOUR OF EUROPE (more dates to added soon)
Feb 05 Brecon, Wales
Feb 11 Bordeaux, France
Feb 12 Nimes, France
Feb 13 Cognac, France
Feb 19 Fribourg, Switzerland
Feb 20 Besançon, France
Feb 22 Lille, France
Feb 25 Amiens, France
Feb 26 Tulle, France
Feb 27 Ferrand, France
Feb 27 Saint-Etienne, France
Mar 01 Orleans, France
Mar 02 Binic, France
Mar 03 Nantes, France
Mar 04 Rennes, France
Mar 05 St Brieuc, France
Mar 06 Evreux, France
Mar 09 Tubingen, Germany
Mar 12 Utrecht, Netherlands
Mar 13 Sliedrecht, Netherlands
Mar 14 The Netherlands
Mar 16 Liége, Belgium
Mar 18 Helmond, The Netherlands
Mar 19 Den Haag, Netherlands
Mar 20 Zwolle, Netherlands
Mar 21 ***More European Shows to be confirmed***
Apr 10 Cardiff, Wales
Apr 17 London, England
Apr 27 Cardiff, Wales


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