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20 April 2008
Club Hipersons at the Cafè Teatre Llantiol

I'll be playing a solo saxophone set followed by a duet with accordion and piano player Baldo at the Café Teatre Llantiol in Barcelona on Sunday 20th of April.

Santi Balmes of the band Love of Lesbian will be doing his thing too.

Sunday 20th of April, doors 19.30
Club Hipersons at the Cafè Teatre Llantiol
C/ Riereta 7
Barcelona
€6 entry

More info on the night here, and on Hipersons here.

09 March 2008
Marseille Figs in the USA

Marseille Figs will be playing our first US dates on the 13th, 15th and 18th of March. Thursday 13th and Saturday 15th will be supporting the Pogues at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia and the Roseland Ballroom in New York respectively. The 18th is just the Figs at the Parkside Lounge, NY.

Tuesday 18th March, 8.30pm
Parkside Lounge
317 E. Houston Street
New York

22 February 2008
That Mysterious Forest Below London Bridge

Eddie Prévost's Matchless Recordings has just released the CD That Mysterious Forest Below London Bridge. It was recorded live in concert at Shunt Lounge in the caverns and arches beneath London Bridge railway station in November 2006. It costs only £7 if you buy it at the Matchless Recordings website.

There are three tracks by three different groups. Here's the track listing:

1. Chant_Lambert_Lexer_Milton_09/11/06 (21.09)

Tom Chant soprano and tenor saxophones — Ross Lambert guitar
Sebastian Lexer piano and laptop — Matt Milton violin

2. Coleman_Wastell_Wright_09/11/06 (21.45)

Jamie Coleman trumpet — Mark Wastell Indian harmonium
Seymour Wright alto saxophone

3. AMM_09/11/06 (25.34)
Eddie Prévost percussion — John Tilbury piano

Figs in Berlin

Marseille Figs will be playing at White Trash in Berlin next Friday. Here's some details:

Friday, 29th February, 2008, 21:00
White Trash Fast Food
Schönhauser Allee 6/7
Berlin
€6
With DJs Silke Thoss & Vicious Vroni

10 February 2008
Marseille Figs, The Dirty Canon album launch

The Marseille Figs will be celebrating the launch of their album The Dirty Canon with a concert at the George Tavern in London on Friday 15th of February. Joining us will be John Edwards on double bass, Jem Finer on banjo and saxophones and Andrew Rankin on drums. It will be most fun. Join us.

Friday the 15th of February, 8pm till late. Free entry.
The George Tavern,
373 Commercial Road,
London

If you can't make it to the George why not come down to the Black Gardenia for a little warm up show on Wednesday the 13th of Feb.

The Black Gardenia
93 Dean Streat,
London
£5

20 January 2008
z1c0 at the Hurta Cordel Festival, Madrid 30/1/08

The trio z1c0 (Pablo Rega on guitar, Luis Legido on drums and myself on saxophones) are appearing at the Hurta Cordel Festival at the Casa Encendida in Madrid on Wednesday the 30th of January. The evening starts at 20.30 and we're followed by the group Currents. It'll cost you all of €3 to hear us play.

La Casa Encendida,
Ronda Valencia, 2, 28012 Madrid
T +34 902 43 03 22 / T +34 91 602 46 41

24 October 2007
The Dirty Canon

The Marseille Figs' first proper album is finished and scheduled for release on November 19th, distributed in the UK & Europe by Cargo Records. It'll be available online from the Cargo website and Stateside from CDBaby.

The Dirty Canon features romping stompers, barroom ballads, honking skronking songs, sweet old saws, dirges, hymns and derelict love songs. It's got thunder, lightning, monkey grunts and rock & roll romance galore. Get it from all good shops starting November 19th, or preview it at LastFM.

Produced in Hamburg by polymath artist and Pogues-founder Jem Finer and Louisiana swamp-pop legend DM Bob, and finished in London with Brian O’Shaughnessy (of Screamadelica fame), The Dirty Canon features guest performances by Automatic Jack Brennan on drums and London Legend John Edwards on double bass. It's Figs of London no. FOL 1.

21 August 2007
Mulhouse Jazz Festival

I'll be playing with Didier Lasserre (drums) and Benjamin Duboc (double bass) at the Mulhouse Jazz Festival on the 22nd of August.

More info here.

19 June 2007
Sala Nasa Solo

I'll be performing a solo saxophone concert on Tuesday 26th of June at Sala Nasa in the city of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, north west Spain.

Also appearing will be Pop and Parto.

€5
21.30h
R/San Lourenzo, 51-53 B
15705 Santiago de Compostela,
A Coruña - Galiza
Tel: +34 (981) -573998
Fax: +34 (981) -587321
info@salanasa.com

15 May 2007
Marseille Figs in London and Berlin

The Fi gs will be playing The Black Gardenia on Saturday the 19th of May. 93 Dean Street, London. First set around 10pm, then through the night.

Also: Viva Cake, Saturday the 26th of May, at the St. Aloysius Social Club, London. First set around 9pm. You can bring a cake with you if you want.

And the following weekend: White Trash, Saturday the 2nd of June. The last one was a gas. Schoenhauser Allee 6/7, Berlin. €5 on the door. First set around 10pm.

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