Songdog
Celtic folk noiristes, Songdog combine acoustic and electronic instruments to create soundscapes and vignettes on life, love and loss. They’ll be enchanting us with their heartbreaking and magical songs at this year’s festival.
Songdog are Welsh-men Lyndon Morgans and Karl Woodward, and Dave Paterson from Dundee. Their albums include A Life Eroding (2010), A Wretched Sinner’s Song (2008) and The Time Of Summer Lightning (2005). They have received great reviews from Jonathan Ross and Janice Long of BBC Radio 2 and Gideon Coe of BBC 6Music.
Their influences form an eclectic mix of musicians and authors including: Leonard Cohen, James Joyce, Joni Mitchell, Samuel Beckett, Tom Waits, Marcel Proust, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Franz Kafka, The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen and Baudelaire. Lead singer Lyndon would happily join this crowd for a summer-afternoon’s chilling out in the hills.
Amongst Songdog’s fans is Bruce Springsteen, who used their track ‘Days of Armageddon’ on his last European tour and personally requested a copy of their album A Wretched Sinner’s Song.
They’ve toured extensively, with shows at the Roundhouse Studio, Bush Hall, Union Chapel, ICA and Spitz in addition to supporting Joan As Police Woman at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Go-Betweens on their last UK tour. They are regulars on the festival circuit and have appeared at the Analog, Wireless, Guilfest, TDK Cross Central and Secret Garden festivals as well as at international festivals in Canada, Spain, Sweden, Holland and Russia.
Lyndon’s non-musical writing includes Water Music (for which he won the Verity Bargate Award for Best New Play), Jitterbugger: a cartoon for the stage, a French monologue, Conte de Fées and a screenplay Crazy House. He was recently invited to submit a piece on Samuel Beckett for a forthcoming book about musicians and their literary heroes: Filthy Lyre. The lyrics for his song ‘Cold Coffee and Ava Gardner’ are featured in a new poetry anthology Ava Gardner: Touches of Venus by US academic Gil Gigliotti.
www.songdog.co.uk
www.myspace.com/songdog1
“Lyndon Morgans’s Welsh wanderers explore the soul’s secrets and heart’s longings.”
The Mirror
“Their music is dark and sinister and beautiful and Lyndon’s songs are by turns sexy, scary, funny, creepy, heartbreaking and usually always brilliant.”
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