Party: EAVES | 26.10.15 | CLWB IFOR BACH

Party: EAVES | 26.10.15 | CLWB IFOR BACH

Orchard Entertainment presents
EAVES
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26.10.15
Clwb Ifor Bach
Tickets: £7
http://bit.ly/1dg9vp2
7.30pm | 14+
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Glacially beautiful folk-rock from the brilliant Leeds singer, with lyrics like daggers – Sunday Times

This heartbreaking piano ballad reveals the raw power of the Leeds singer-songwriter – The Times

What Green Feels Like is Eaves' hauntingly beautiful debut album, which was released on Heavenly Recordings in April.

Still in his early 20s and based in Leeds, having grown up on the other side of the Pennines, Eaves released his debut, As Old As The Grave EP, to much acclaim in November of last year.

Beautifully wistful, emotionally powerful and lyrically astute Eaves’ debut album is tinged with a world-weary wisdom that belies his age. His delicate and haunting songs have an ageless quality which touch on his upbringing, dreams and death, and especially the desire to get from where he was to where he wants to be.

“My songs are very emotional and change dramatically. To perform them, I have to be in the zone. I remember where I was when I wrote them and why I wrote them,” explains Joe. “I have to perform them in the way they were written; otherwise I’m letting myself and the audience down.”

Eaves has previously toured alongside Nick Mulvey Boy & Bear and Slow Club, and recently wrapped a European run of shows with Philip Selway (Radiohead).

Anybody’s first impression on hearing Joseph Lyons aka Eaves might reasonably be how old he sounds. He even has a song titled ‘As Old As The Grave’, which could be a reasonable description of a voice which sounds like it has been simmered in oak vats since time immemorial. The next thing that strikes you is the wisdom in his words – dark yet unusually spirited tales of love, death, hope and alcoholism which have reduced audiences to attentive silence at gigs, festivals and on tours with the likes of Slow Club and Nick Mulvey, whose gigs he traveled between via a National Express coach, “carrying my guitar bag on the bus!”

Heavenly Recordings’ exciting new signing could be the north’s answer to Nick Drake, if the singer-songwriter-pianist wasn’t such an amiable and chatty 23-year old, who listens prog metal bands such as Opeth and Mastodon as well as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, who describes his music as “this weird psych singer songwriter sound” and whose lyrics display thoughts and wisdom far beyond his years.


https://soundcloud.com/eavesmusic