Ann will be playing an intimate show with a stripped down version of the band next February 16th upstairs at the Odessa Club in Dublin.
Tickets are €10 on the door or free to members and kickoff is at 8pm. Special Guest is Autumn Long
Odessa is at 14 Dame Court, Dublin 2. See www.oddessa.ie for directions
Ann will be headlining The Workman’s Club in Dublin on Sunday October 16th to co-incide with a Killerman remix EP for Halloween. The EP will include remixes by Karl Odlum, Colin J Morris and a mysterious hooded figure called HellOh and will be available via bandcamp on Oct 31st.
Currently back with a band and shaping up for her 4th studio album, this show will be Ann’s only headline gig this year, so expect a mix of old and new. Line-up will include Karl Odlum, Dave Hingerty, Gemma Hayes and guests tbc. The Workman’s club is a lovely new-ish venue just beside the Clarence Hotel along Wellington Quay. Special guest opening will be the fantastic Joe Chester.
Also Ann will be playing a more intimate gig in the Town Hall Theatre in Dungarvan next Sunday Oct 2nd as part of a new festival: Storytelling Southeast. For this one Ann will be accompanied by Kim Porcelli on cello and keys. Start time 7pm sharp.
See www.storytellingsoutheast.com for full festival programme.
Ann is among a number of Irish musicians who’ve contributed to a charity single to help raise funds and awareness around the struggle and injustice faced by Magdalene women in Ireland. These women have been dispersed all over the world after escaping horrific institutions in Ireland, the last of which only closed in September 1996.
The track is Julie Gold’s From A Distance and features Sinead O’Connor, Tomy Flemming, Moya Brennan and more. Reproduced by John Reynolds, all money raised from the track will go towards building a National Monument in Ireland to commemorate all Magdalene’s.
The single is available online now from Tesco, iTunes, Amazon, HMV and Virgin.
see www.magdalenesurvivorstogether.com
Ann will perform a couple of songs at the Cobalt Cafe, North Great Georges St on Sat May 21st as part of the next Nighthawks Show. Tickets will go on sale on Saturday, May 7th at the OXFAM SHOP on Parliament Street beside Temple Bar. Price €13. Doors open at 7.45pm. No admission after 8.10pm. Show ends at 11.10pm Telephone 01 6707022. For full line-up see http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=42474464173
Next Wednesday May 4th Ann will be taking part in a talk as part of SCENEnotHERD, Temple Bar Cultural Trusts audience programme engaging 15-19yr olds. The discussion will be about working in the arts and takes place at 4pm at Culture Box in Temple Bar. It is free to attend but prior booking is required:If you’d like to come along or find out more about it check these links ;
I’ve left a couple of songs up on the website for free download: a cover version of Leonard Cohen’s The Stranger Song and a B side from Flo called Blind Love. Download them here
Will be announcing some new shows for Spring shortly.
Hope to see ye back out and about somewhere along the road soon
Ax
A nice review for Flo from David Kidman – November 2010
Ann was asked to pick and describe some of her favourite things for the Evening Herald last Tuesday.
Here’s her top ten – and not a guitar in sight…
http://www.herald.ie/lifestyle/femme/favourite-things-ann-scott-2375416.html
Remix single & October tour
A spanking new remix of Universe will be available via itunes on October 15th. Bside will be a cover version of Joy Division’s Dead Souls. Ann will also be back out on the road with headline band shows at The Roundy in Cork, October 14, Roisin Dubh in Galway Oct 15 and Dublin at Whelans October 16.
Review & Interview
Here’s a link to a recent review of Flo from Crack In The Road -
http://www.crackintheroad.com/music/1780-review-ann-scott-flo
And here’s a link to an interview with Ann for Americana UK -
http://www.americana-uk.com/auk/modules.php?op=modload&name=PagEd&file=index&topic_id=29&page_id=373
Summer in Dublin
Ann will play four Sunday afternoon shows in the intimate room Upstairs at Dublin’s legendary International Bar in July. Start time will be 4.30pm. This is a rare opportunity to catch Ann play live and unplugged in the room where it all began. Special guests each week.
Doors 4.30pm Adm €6
July 4th, July 11th, July 18th, July 25th
Candy has been playlisted on the latest BBC Introducing: Fresh On The Net with Tom Robinson. You can listen to the show via Listen Again until May 31st via the links at http://www.bbc.co.uk/6musicintroducing
Dazzling 4/5 review for Flo below
http://www.redhotvelvet.co.uk/blog/travel-blog/ann-scott-flo/
Listen to Ann’s recent interview with Sean Rocks from RTE Radio 1′’s Arena Arts show. The podcast link below is to the full interview with two live acoustic performances - ‘Return to Die’ from the forthcoming record and a cover version of Jolie Holland’s ‘Old fashioned Morphine’. Enjoy.
Written and recorded during a mixed period of solitary downtime and hectic traveling Flo is Ann Scott’s third independent album release and her most personal work to date.
From bare bones acoustic to lush piano, via orchestral percussion, dulcimer, vibes and auto harp, Scott navigates to new musical depths on this installment, which she describes as ‘a bunch of songs about being lost and how to get there’.
This is something the Dublin songstress should know, having spent the last few years haphazardly touring the UK, Europe and the USA, lingering a month in Chicago to play the coffee shop scene and snatching three day’s studio time at Electrical Audio, where some of the album’s core moments were captured.
‘After months and months, trying out every permutation in accompaniment and treatment and rehearsal there is something very appealing about going into a studio and just bashing out your songs on a plain old acoustic guitar’ she explains. ‘That was the idea behind going into Electrical Audio. Rob Bochnik – who partly built studio B – had some time off from playing with The Swell Season while I was in Chicago, so we went in to put down some of the songs using that live approach as a starting point.’
Through many hours of subsequent home recording in Dublin, late night editing sessions and days hunched over tempo maps and midi screens, Scott emerged two years and 500 cups of tea later with a mixed bag of jilted folk songs, melodic blues and faintly kitsch pop, all sounding partly lush and partly DIY and consistently raw and honest.
While Scott takes command of most of the instruments, programming and a good chunk of engineering duties over the 14 track set, Flo is not without it’s team of heavy weights.
Long-term collaborator Karl Odlum puts his signature bass and defining strokes on tunes such as Killerman and Universe, a track which nails the overall faraway mood of the album to a tee. Subtle flourishes also come in the shape of Kim Porcelli’s dreamy cello, paired to great effect with Katherine Atkinson’s violin touches while road pal Gemma Hayes adds gentle vocal flutters on the poignant Love is in him and Under the Sun.
‘Karl Odlum came in at the mixing stage and let me loose on his stash of vintage synthesizers and hi fi samples.’ says Ann. ‘I also spent about a week at Black Box studios in France working with David Odlum polishing parts and it’s thanks to Karl and David and of course Rob that there is a whole lot of ‘pro’ going on amidst my murk of do-it-yourself.’
It is the self contained approach, however which gives Flo much of it’s dark and poetic intrigue through recurring themes of death, love and despair, while Scott’s dusky sweet vocals give a resonance and rare emotional warmth to the whole affair.
With two highly acclaimed albums under her belt, Flo is further testament to Scott’s ‘work hard’ ethic and shows a snapshot of a compelling voice on a creative orbit through an increasingly precarious indie wilderness.