Blitzgigs Presents: Headful of Bees Labelfest for Berlin Music Week
- September 6th, 2012
- Posted in alt country . Featured . Folk . Indie . singer-songwriter
- By Danno
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Working hard during Berlin Music Week (basically Christmas for local musicians and performers and other assorted music industry ne’er do wells here in Berlin), Berlin label and music-creative hub A Headful Of Bees will be hosting a large program of workshops and performances. The program features a few loungeroom concerts and some ace DIY workshops and will be culminating in a get together in Lovelite, where you and I will be going (you are coming, right?) along with a bunch of ace singer-songwriter types, playing and drinking into the small hours of the morning, all in worship of Berlin music.
Since everyone is a headliner during Berlin music week, everyone, there’s no such thing as first on and last on and top of the poster and bottom of the poster in the fine print, in no particular order here’s who’s work will be featured on the night…
Wasp Summer (AU)
Born in England and reared in an Australian surf town, Sam Wareing birthed Wasp Summer in Berlin’s fertile international DIY singer-songwriter scene. Wasp Summer’s songs are laced with intuition, they twist folk and alt.country in a way that gives a unique feeling of spaciousness. Wasp Summer debut as a three-piece band at Berlin Music Week.
Eric Eckhart (US)
Eric Eckhart chased a dream. Leaving America, his corporate job, possessions, family and friends, moving to Europe and reconnecting with his lifelong passion for music. Eric’s critically-adored sound is a unique blend of Americana – indie rock, played back through memories and experiences from his home territory of West Virginia.
Ken Burke (IE)
Dubliner Ken Burke has been performing since his early teens and was part of the circle of songwriters in Dublin in the late 1990’s that eventually birthed the likes of Damien Rice, Gemma Hayes and eventually Glen Hansard. His recently completed album Middle Child Syndrome (Konstantin Gropper of Get Well Soon), is out now.
Nina Hynes (IE)
Nina Hynes has been releasing records since 1999 and has supported the likes of Stereolab, Roxy Music, David Gray, Smog, Terry Callier, Julee Cruise, The Swell Season and Damien Rice. Her first two albums Staros (2002) and Really Really Do (2007) went on to become well-loved by audiences across the US, Slovakia, UK, Ireland and the Czech Republic.
Miss Kenichi (DE)
Miss Kenichi, born a trucker-kid in a secluded little town in the woods ..even though this particular little town is situated in the South-East of Germany, it could just as well be by a dusty ol´road somewhere in Alabama. Her two debut albums Collision Time and Fox have both done very, very well and deservedly so; her music is minimalistic, yet full of gloomy atmosphere, a unique place where gruff guitars challenge a hauntingly beautiful voice.
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