Hello,
welcome to our mini-site on mothership Trial & Error,
Read the Robert Jesse and Simon Lord biog here
See photos here
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GIGS COMING UP
11th November
The Moon Music Orchestra
The Gladstone
64 Lant St, Borough (Borough tube)
Like an old fashioned folk night- if the participants had been force-fed Fairport Convention and Steely Dan records their whole lives then forced to try and come up with something original. With no drumkit. We'll start at about 8 and play till we're too drunk to standup. There's rumours of a spot from the one and only Pete Hellicar aswell!
www.myspace.com/theholymoonmusicorchestra
www.myspace.com/hellicarcragolewislloydandfriends
12th November
Robert Jesse
City Folk
@
The Social
5 Little Portland St, W1
Supporting cool banjo playing supremo Curtis Eller. Gonna bring a long a few MMO gypsies and play some freaky shit. Maybe.
www.myspace.com/thesocialw1
November 30th
Robert Jesse
The Green Note Cafe
106 Parkway, London, NW1 7AN
Lovely little place this. Right near our friends at Bugbear Discs. Check their website for more details. Mr Jesse will definitely be there on said date though.
www.greennote.co.uk
As usual check www.myspace.com/robertjesseuk for whats going on. Working on the album which should surface soon. Also preparing some wierd-ass Moon Music Orchestra tunes with that bunch of goofy anglo gypsies which should keep us all sane in these strange times.
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Robert Jesse- Adrian/Girl
Limited Edition 2 track CD offering a peek at some of the new material taking shape in Simon's Hackney Wick studio. Only available in Rough Trade (www.roughtrade.com) and Bugbear Discs (www.myspace.com/bugbeardiscs).
"rather lovely two track cd that comes in a beautiful handmade sleeve.these songs are like a brittle tindersticks with touches of james yorkston or adem" - Rough Trade Shop
Robert Jesse and Simon Lord - Without/Without
Released November last year. The debut Jesse/Lord collaboration. Available in all good record shops.
“Some of the most dreamy, beautiful folk sounds around. Lush, simple, but incredibly
atmospheric.” - Small Fish Records
“Excellent new single from the London based Trial and Error label in the style of Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, clean acoustic folk guitar, one gentle vocal track 'within without' about 'the force' and one slightly more complex acoustic guitar solo side. It's a lovely.” - Warp Records
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29th AUGUST
Two Brand New Recordings up on My Space
News From Nowhere and Jack and The Beanstalk. The first a song, the second an instrumental. Both Robert Jesse, but both with a little bit of Simon Lord. Come check them out at www.myspace.com/robertjesseuk
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2nd SEPTEMBER
Moseley Folk Festival
"Set in the surprisingly beautiful and unspoilt corner of surburban Birmingham that is Moseley private park. Spread over the first weekend of September we bring you two days of exciting and innovative music and outdoor fun. Our line up speaks for itself; there's something for everyone, young and old, traditional and contemporary."
Yeah, and Robert Jesse and Simon Lord are playing at 12:35 pm on Saturday 2nd!
Line-up is cool- Incredible String Band, John Renbourn, Findlay Brown, etc, etc. Check www.moseleyfolk.co.uk for more info.
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MID-SEPTEMBER
Tank Magazine CD- News From Nowhere
Very cool and interesting quarterly publication Tank are putting this little ditty right into their free CD. You can get it in Borders and other shops like that and it really is rather good. Check it at www.tankmagazine.com
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OCTOBER 25th/26th
Tolmen International Guitar Symposium
Little guitar and early music festival down in the depths of Cornwall. More info soon.
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Praise the lord of the seasons, it's spring at last! To commemorate this retreat of the cold north wind we are playing a gig at Bush Hall with John Renbourn and Robin Williamson (Incredible String Band) on the 26th April. The last few cold months have been spent wrapped up warm in Simon's Hackney Wick den recording various people's new material- Barbarossa, Findlay Brown, Nancy Wallace and Daniel Orcese have all been dropping in- followed by a flurry of new solo material from Robert and some strange little tit-bits starting to take shape from that ever-erratic union that is Robert Jesse and Simon Lord. Who knows in what form this will all emerge. We can but wait and see. The main thing is that we can all strip ourselves of our coats, remove these stifling scarves and shake the cold from our bones. It aint hot yet but it definitely is a little less cold and for now that'll just have to do.'
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New Year, New Gig's, Look sharp...
9th Feb, Biddle Brothers, 88 Lower Clapton Road, London, E5 0QR
from about 8pm, DJ''s, beer, birthdays, guitar dueling agogogogogo...
12th Feb, Heavenly social, 5 Little Portland street, w1
City Folk night with by the fireside, mmmmm warmth.
19th Feb, puur all dayer at the Strongrooms, curtain road,
Top DJ'S (including Tunng) and Bands at the best night in the ditch.
2nd March, Barbarossa hootenanny featuring Hush the Many, Elysian strings et yours truly,
Luminaire, Kilburn £5
13th March, spitz, with assorted guitar wizards come to teach us some hot shit, ouch.
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the wind is rising, the nights are drawing in, leaves lie brown and lifeless... we are sipping G&T in the opulent surroundings of the Parlour, Sketch, Conduit St...
Come and join us there with Fin, Barbarossa et al. on wednesday 9th November 9pm
Then, wander cross the river to the Doghouse, kennington, if you make it by Sunday 13th November you can catch us play again... marvellous.
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'Man, have we been busy! Seems not another week passes without another weird thing emerging in the space between these two poor boxes of wood. It is a simple request we bear in our hearts as, humbly, we beckon you forth. 'But what for?!' we hear you bellow, 'what is it you want, and what have you got?' 'Well' we say,'come to Cargo (Rivington St, EC2) at 8:30 on Monday 3rd October and we'll show you.'
(Tunng are also playing...)
also catch us at:
Wednesday 12th October, the Purple turtle (mornington crescent)
with Lions & Tigers,
Wednesday 26th October, the parlour, sketch, with Fin, Barbarossa et al....
Sunday November 13th, the Doghouse, Kennington