Via HotPress.com we learn that Hal Willner has confirmed the preliminary line-up for the July 18th Rogue’s Gallery concert in Dublin.
Performing songs from the Rogue’s Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys album are Teddy Thompson, Waterson: Carthy, David Thomas of Pere Ubu fame, Julie Fowlis, Baby Grapms, Ed Harcourt, Rachel Unthank, The Winterset and of course, Gavin Friday.
Update (June 12): Lou Reed has been confirmed for the Dublin show.
Hal Willner is taking Rogue’s Gallery – Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys on the road this summer. The concerts will take place Dublin, London and Gateshead and we can confirm that Gavin will be taking part in all three shows.
Tickets are available from the venues’ websites.
18 July 2008 – Grand Canal Square, Dublin
24 July 2008 – The Sage, Gateshead
28 July 2008 – Barbican Hall, London
The Rogue’s Gallery album is available from Amazon.com.
Gavin Friday performing Baltimore Whores at St Ann’s, May 2, 2007. Photo by Monique Carboni.
Come celebrate another successful year at St. Ann’s Warehouse with the world premiere of Hal Willner’s Rogue’s Gallery Live, a concert of selected pirate ballads, sea songs, & chanteys. As a Benefit for Arts at St. Ann’s, music producer Hal Willner will bring his signature gift for matching maverick musicians with extraordinary material. These ancient tales of hardship, fate, lost love and lust scour the depths for the crystal allure that led men to the sea for hundreds of years. Rogue’s Gallery Live promises to be an ocean-rolling good time spent with a world class group of salty dogs, sea inspired cuisine, and a lot of fun.
LOU REED, GAVIN FRIDAY, LAURIE ANDERSON, BABY GRAMPS, JENNI MULDAUR and BETH ORTON will be performing pirate ballads, sea songs and chanteys at the world premiere of Hal Willner’s Rogue’s Gallery Live in New York on May 2, 2007.
The concert, based on the double CD born on the sets of the Pirates of the Caribbean films, will be in support of ‘Arts at St Ann’s’. All proceeds benefit programming at St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn.
Programme:
6:30 pm Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres
8:00 pm World Premiere of Rogue’s Gallery Live
9:15 pm Dinner and dessert
Tickets range from ‘Co-Chair’, at $10,000 a table (10 tickets), to ‘Friend’ at $250 (1 ticket). To buy tickets contact Inga at 718.834.8794×11 or inga@artsatstanns.org (before April 20)
USA Today:
“Aside from a few duds (contributions from Lou Reed and Bryan Ferry seem more suited for a cruise soundtrack), this is premium booty, especially Bono’s A Dying Sailor to His Shipmate, Lucinda Williams’ Bonnie Portmore, Sting’s Blood Red Roses and tracks by Teddy Thompson, Jolie Holland, Joseph Arthur and Rufus Wainwright. The real grog-guzzling centerpieces are a very salty tune by Gavin Friday and Loudon Wainwright III’s outrageously bawdy Good Ship Venus.”
Toronto Sun:
“But give the real props to the inspired Willner, who uncovered all this buried treasure, put together the sessions and helped this pack of scurvy dogs revamp and personalize these waterlogged work songs, drunken singalongs and stunningly salty odes to Baltimore whores, mermaids, rolling seas, cruel captains and cannibalized cabin boys. Freakiest of all: We’re already looking forward to Vol. 2 next year.”
Hal Willner writes about recording Rogue’s Gallery on the Anti-website:
‘In London it started with Bryan Ferry & Nick Cave with Kate St. John and Warren Ellis wrangling the band together, Gavin Friday in Dublin, Joan as Policewoman in New York, & the great Jack Shit trio in Los Angeles.’
Anti also provided the liner notes and an MP3 (medley).
There were four old whores from Baltimore
Drinking the blood red wine
And all the conversation was
“Yours is smaller than mine.”
Chorus:
Through me roly, poly, tickle my hole-y,
Smell of my slimy slough,
and drag your nuts across me guts,
I’m one of the whorey crew.
“You’re a liar,” said the first whore,
“Mine’s as big as the air
The birds fly in, the birds fly out,
And never touch a hair.”
Chorus
“You’re a liar.” said the second,
“Mine’s as big as the sea
The ship sails in, the ship sails out
Never troubles me.”
Chorus
“You’re a liar,” said the third whore,
“Mine’s as big as the moon,
the men jump in, the men jump out,
Never touch the womb.”
Chorus
Swab your decks, me hearties
Slice them up with pride
Light your oars, you sons of whores
Yours is smaller than mine
“You’re a liar,” said the last whore,
“Mine’s the biggest of all,
the fleet sailed in on the first of June,
and didn’t come back till Fall.”
Chorus
