All about…

JULIAN GASKELL “looks and sounds like he’s been plucked in wild full flow from an eastern European gypsy encampment in another century” – a tumbledown world of punk accordion, surf klezmer, speak-easy ragtime, intellectual drinking and protest songs, romantic piano torch ballads, sweet musette waltzes, weeping country laments, violent tangos and stomping balkan skiffle beats. Singer and songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and nomadic one-man-garage-orchestra Julian Gaskell howls and hollers his way through a global cacophony, leaping from cockney cowboy drawling to barely uttered murmurs of eloquent discontent, all delivered with a sharp, lyrical edge. His new album “Kind words from home” is a home-grown tour-de-force of musical and lyrical recklessness, a wall-of-thrift sound, “a moreish, richly narrative and evocative concoction” (Western Morning News).

Having honed his craft with his previous punk-folk bands “Ragged Trousered Philanthropists” and “Icons of Poundland”, and toured the world with Cornwall-based theatre companies “Rogue Theatre” and “Bash Street Theatre” Julian has now teamed up with ZAPOPPIN’ – a harmonium, banjo, stomp ‘n’ snare band from Falmouth. After touring and recording as a ‘powerskiffle’ three-piece the band now exist as a duo for which even the most hair-brained of sub-genres couldn’t keep the classification police happy. They’ve taken to calling it ugly music, and it sounds, at times, more frenetic than they’ve ever played before – but at others, more expansive and experimental.

Playing together as a three-piece, with individual ‘support’ sets thrown in, the very mental and shambolic musical genius combination of GASKELL vs ZAPOPPIN’ will be touring the UK and Europe in the Spring and Summer of 2012, and releasing a 7” double header through Damnsonic Recording Co. in MAy 2012.

Further information, music, tour dates, downloads, videos etc are on:
www.juliangaskell.co.uk
www.zapoppin.co.uk
http://damnsonic.tumblr.com

For bookings and other enquiries, please contact

Julian Gaskell mail@juliangaskell.co.uk