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Songdog


“But when you wake up from a dream there’s no getting back there” --- the poignancy of passing time, the magic dissolving, is a recurring theme of folk noiristes SONGDOG. Lives fade away like a half-heard whisper behind the curtain in the cinema on a Saturday afternoon, love disappears in a taxi on a rainy night, they’re “growing old in a snakepit”, yet the spirit remains defiant in their uncompromising, explicit lyricism. Songdog are Lyndon Morgans and Karl Woodward (both from Blackwood, Wales) and Dave Paterson (originally from Dundee), whose delicate, stripped-down instrumentation surrounds intricate stories of life, love and loss. Signed to One Little Indian, Songdog's albums, including ‘A Life Eroding’ (2010), 'A Wretched Sinner's Song' (2008) and 'The Time Of Summer Lightning' (2005), have received press reviews and airplay on Jonathan Ross and Janice Long on BBC Radio 2, Gideon Coe on BBC 6Music and John Kennedy on XFM shows amongst others. Their cover of Dylan's 'Desolation Row' was commissioned specially for Uncut’s 100th birthday issue covermount. Songdog have just finished recording a new album for 2012, 'Last Orders At Harry's Bar'. Fans include Robert Wyatt, Jack Douglas (producer of John Lennon's Double Fantasy) and Bruce Springsteen, who used their track 'Days of Armageddon' for walk in music on his European tour and personally requested a copy of 'A Wretched Sinner's Song'. Live dates include shows at the Bloomsbury Theatre (supporting ...

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