aaamusic | On 10, May 2012

Dead Belgian are a Liverpool-based band playing the music of Jacques Brel.  They began life in 2007, inspired to share Brel’s music with all who would listen.  Each member brought their own influences to the band, from European folk to progressive rock, stripping the songs to their bare bones and fattening them up again using a ramshackle drum kit, ukulele, guitar, accordion, saxophone, mandolin, clarinet and flute.  Dead Belgian have developed a playful and inventive sound that meshes dense melodic patterns, demonic waves of intensity and passages of sparse frailty with vocals that have drawn comparison to Edith Piaf, Anthony Hegarty and Nico.

 

It is a sound unique to themselves while still capturing the beauty, passion and humour of the original work, a rousing and rowdy back-porch reinvention of Jacques Brel’s honest and poetic stories.

 

Andy Delamere – percussion, vocals

Fionnuala Dorrity – vocals, guitar, ukulele

Simon James – saxophone, flute, clarinet, mandolin, vocals

Matthew Wood – accordion, vocals

 

05.06.12            20.00                The Basement                                       YORK

06.06.12            20.00                Hotel Deux                                            NOTTINGHAM

07.06.12            19.30                The Lantern Theatre                               SHEFFIELD

08.06.12            19.30                Spiegeltent – Bath Festival Fringe           BATH

11.06.12            19.30                Kitchen Garden Bar and Cafe                 BIRMINGHAM

24.06.12            15.00                Ryan’s Bar                                            LONDON

29.06.12            19.30                The Kazimier                                         LIVERPOOL

With Attila the Stockbroker and Rory Ellis

30.06.12            19.30                The Brindley                                          RUNCORN

 

Please visit www.deadbelgian.com for further details.