TOUR DATES:
16TH MARCH: ST. ALBAN’S CHAPEL, FULHAM, LONDON
17TH MARCH: SHERRINGHAM THEATRE, NORFOLK
21ST MARCH: TEASY DOES IT, HEATON, NEWCASTLE
22ND MARCH: HOUSE CONCERT, SHEFFIELD
Here’s a wee teaser of meself and the Fear Beag doing live post-modern fiddley-dee….
FEAR BEAG and I are doing 2 collaboration shows in Ireland CORK: 25 Jan, and DUBLIN: 26 Jan
AUTUMN SHOWS Brittania/Eire
25 OCTOBER: DUBLIN: Doyles
26 OCTOBER: CARDIFF: Gwdihŵ
30 OCTOBER: CAMBRIDGE: CB2 Basement
10 NOVEMBER: CLONAKILTY: De Barras
Thanks to everyone who came out to the shows on the summer tours in China and Australia. It was overwhelmingly positive, carried along by all of you. There will be a handful of shows in the UK and Ireland this autumn before work starts on a new record, so watch this space in the next week or so for dates.
For now, here is a film made by Marcus Flack of Liquid Creations about myself and Paul Davies and some unusual violins.
The Maestro and the Maker – Ep01 from Liquid Creations on Vimeo.
JUNE 22ND: PRAGUE: POTRVÁ 7.30pm
JULY 9TH: BEIJING: The Bookworm 8pm
JULY 16TH: CHENGDU: The Bookworm 8pm
JULY 22ND: HANOI: The Hanoi Social Club, Vietnam 9pm
AUGUST 13TH: MELBOURNE: Grace Darling 8pm
AUGUST 18TH: CANBERRA: The Phoenix 8pm
AUGUST 20TH: MANLY: The Artichoke (with live painting by Carlos Barios) 7.30pm
AUGUST 24TH: SYDNEY: Tone (with Karoshi)
AUGUST 31ST: BANGKOK: WTF, Sukhumvit soi 51, 9pm
Note Bene: I am travelling this tour as a long journey east across Russia’s trans-siberian railway and through Mongolia. I am making short films along the way, to be found here: justingrounds.tumblr.com
EDINBURGH>> A steady crossing over a glimmering sea and the children of this new world surrounding me like a sea of gelled hair and Nintendo and give me give me. But the train is peaceful and the gig is packed with eager bubbly people. Forest is a welcome home. First show of the tour and I’m still stumbling with sea legs. But the warm buzz of the Forest carries me home, lulled into a reverie of goodness by Harry Bird’s opening songs. Sweet spiritual delights from SJH and I’m off on an unknown road. NEWCASTLE<<Two early mornings back in the cold modern corridors of Newcastle Collge but the workshops are a blast. The students are a shining gem amidst the garbage of the financial institution with its cuts 
and underlying violence towards its humble teachers. The politiks of this land seem royally fucked, but we improvise vocal music together and we rise above the ashes. Venue is awesome, sound is sweet, and Beccy is a magical alchemist. And once again the crowd carries me through and O Newcastle I love you. SHEFFIELD>> Breakfast with the sharks and what the hell is fakie-bacon? Being a vegetarian is nigh-on-impossible in this place. We’re headed to the world and the house of kindreds. Asleep in the car and then record shops and trying to find a phone charger to text my girl and setting up a sound-system that the world is pulling in on-off on-off rhythms.The room is full of love in the eyes of the young audience, and 8-year old Jake has figured out my electronics before I began. Jem is proud of his speakers and Harry runs in at 8 and fills the room with gypsy spirit. 2-year old Esther is a moon-baby and runs around the house shouting “Gig, gig, gig!” LONDON>> Another early rise after late whisky but this time
with coffee. The bus to London stops and starts in clouds of diesel exhaust and I make solemn vow to keep to the rails. Carnivale is a safe haven, Andy the sound guy tells me of his new baby and Phil sets up the projector for live visuals. So we set off and flow together into a cloud-like vision of glory. The music is coming rich and spontaneous and there are moments of light. After a Two Horses encore my mother hugs me and runs to her train. Now we’re really rocking. BRIGHTON<< This horse never stops and I’m beginning to get tired but Brighton is all summer sunglasses, beer in gardens. Its trek trek across town then filming performance under a bandstand, then trek trek and radio performance, then off to venue via endless record shops vinyl heaven ah for more time! Venue is wooden stage and walls and thrums nicely, as they say. Nice soundman who sums it all up as a ‘climactic experience of joy’ EDINBURGH>> is just a stop and a bed after a 6hour train delay and only dinner with band and label man and woman who were forgiving and blast these rails but please take me home, home across to Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, Cork and back to our favourite venue. CLONAKILTY
TourFragment 1: Spring Reelings Live from Justin Grounds on Vimeo.
The new record is called ‘The Moon Pulled Us Here” and we’re really proud of it. We have lovingly made a limited edition run of 300 10″ black vinyl with hand silkscreened brown card sleeves, numbered and signed. To pre-order your copy, and get a free download, click here.
NEW EP OUT MARCH 19 2011 on limited edition 10″ vinyl and download
TOUR DATES:
Brittania:
MAR 19: FOREST HALL, EDINBURGH
MAR 22: CUMBERLAND ARMS, NEWCASTLE
MAR 23: CASA JEM, SHEFFIELD
MAR 24: CARNIVALE, LONDON
MAR 25: THE ROSE HILL, BRIGHTON
MAR 26: MEDINA, EDINBURGH
Eir:
APR 14: DE BARRA’S, CLONAKILTY, IRELAND
APR 17: AN CRUIBIN, CORK, IRELAND
APR 27: BROWN BREAD MIXTAPE, DUBLIN, IRELAND