Spare Room

After throwing out the lines, waiting, and wondering, the rods have begun to bend. Our silver catch lines the shore commencing their little deaths.

It's with pleasure we announce the benefactor for our up and coming 3rd album. On an unpredicted wind they did roll in and did handsomely offer their support. They are...(drum roll)...SPAREROOM.CO.UK!
Rooms rented, rooms wanted, flat mate matching and more, Spareroom is UK's no. 1 flat-share website.
http://www.spareroom.co.uk/
Expect from this symbiosis a bunch of innovative ventures such as 'The Spare Room Sessions' in which The Red Clay Halo and I play and broadcast gigs from an empty room.
We're super pleased and thankful to Spareroom for supporting us in being independent.

So plans for the next album in a sneaky peek nutshell are:
To go into the recording studio in June.
To release 'Little Deaths' as the single off the album in October along with a beautiful film made by Patti Gaal-Holmes and directed by Poppy Jackson.
To release the full album in January both in the UK and Australia.

There you have our loosely knitted plan to poke your fingers through.

Best from

Emily

ps. Here's some Red Clay Halo-shaped shadows for you, cast upon the red clay road that winds alongside the Blackwood River, in the South West of Western Australia.

Look Out For My Love

Download this FREE Neil Young cover...

...recorded live at The Luminaire

Look Out For My Love

'Nostalgia'

'Nostaglia' is released today in the UK as a digital single. Here are the lyrics:

Tram wires cross Melbourne skies

cut my red heart in two

my knuckles bleed down Johnston street

on a door that shouldn't be in front of me

Twelve thousand miles away from your smile

I'm twelve thousand miles away from me

standing on the corner of Brunswick

got the rain coming down and mascara on my cheek

Oh whisper me words in the shape of a bay

shelter my love from the wind and the rain

Crow fly be my alibi

and return this fable on your wing

take it far away to where gypsies play

beneath metal stars by the bridge

Oh write me a beacon so I know the way

guide my love through night and through day

Only the sunset knows my blind desire for the fleeting

only the moon understands the beauty of love

when held by a hand like the aura of nostalgia

by Emily Barker

West Australian Tour

I type from '1896,' not the year, obviously, but the name of a cafe in Bridgetown, Western Australia- my home town. Bridgetown is set in the beautiful Blackwood Valley through which a low, summer river meanders lazily. I'm here with my fiance (!!!) Dom, who proposed to me just last night under the shade of a jarrah tree by the river. We're enjoying a bit of quiet time before starting the tour.

The Red Clay Halo arrive in just over a week and will be visiting Australia for the first time. Can't wait to have them in my home country.

If you're in WA, please come along to one of our shows. Here they are...

7th Feb- Perth International Arts Festival solo show supporting Sharon Shannon @ Beck's Music Box.

14th Feb- The Railway Hotel, North Fremantle with The Red Clay Halo.

20th Feb- Bridgetown Repertory Theatre. Matinee at 1:30pm and Evening show at 8pm.

21st Feb- Mount Lawley Bowls Club, Perth.

25th Feb- Perth International Arts Festival supporting Dan Sultan @ Beck's Music Box.

27th (pm) and 28th Feb (am)- Nannup Folk Festival.

28th Feb (pm)- Redcliffe on Murray, Pinjarra.

5th March- X-Wray Cafe, Fremantle (solo.)

7th March- Duchstein Brewery, Margaret River (solo.)

Bye for now,

Emily

Front page of Myspace UK.

Hello there and hope you're having a good weekend. The rain drips down over Leicester town and I'm full of roast chicken, plums and cream, and tea- lots of cups of tea...and excitement.

Thanks to a friend informing me via facebook, I discovered that I'm on the front page of myspace UK!

http://uk.myspace.com/

Also, I'm heading to Australia tomorrow to start our first Australian tour with The Red Clay Halo.

Dates are here: www.myspace.com/emilybarker

'Nostalgia' is being released as a digital single on Feb 8th.

Here's the press release:

http://www.presscounselpr.com/

And the final reason for excitement is that the girls of The Red Clay Halo and I, have just finished a productive two-day rehearsal up in the Leicester cottage. The album's sound and identity is gradually revealing itself to us and we're pleased with what we're creating.

And that's about all I can think to tell you about right now.

Best wishes,

Emily

The Explorer's Club

I'm very happy to be a part of an exciting project called 'Explorer's Club.'

I have provided a track written in collaboration with the wonderful Ted Barnes.

You can read all about it below.

LOAF Recordings & Arctic Circle Present:

Explorer's Club

12 months of music, delivered directly to your inbox. A bag of Luxurious Screen-printed Products delivered directly to your door and a few surprise goodies we can't even mention, yet.

Features the delightful sounds of:
Sweet Billy Pilgrim / Peter Broderick / Ryan Teague / Minotaur Shock & J Underwood
Snowbird / Smile Down Upon Us / The National Jazz Trio Of Scotland W/ Beans
Oen, Sujet / Sons of Noel And Adrian / Kama Aina / Dustin O’ Halloran / David Kitt
Montag / Mint Julep / Janek Schaefer / Hauschka & Stefan Schneider / Nils Frahm
Johann Johannsson / The Sleeping Years / Homelife / Ted Barnes & Emily Barker
Origamibiro / Klima / Andy Nice & Isnaj Dui / Søren Bigum & Moogie Johnson
Orla Wren / Plusplus & Hybernation / François / Vincent Oliver / Inch-time
& Sone Institute

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The Explorers Club is a series of special, one-off singles released once a month from 30, or so artists from the four corners of the globe.

The Explorers club will bring you a unique selection of modern sounds that challenge how we receive and experience music.

The Explorer’s Club will offer a chance to subscribe to this great wonder of music that will allow you to get it delivered every month to your e-mail inbox. As a special bonus for those who subscribe, we’re offering the Explorer’s Club survival bag, which includes a quality organic cotton tote bag, screen printed calendar & poster and some extra little surprises, all specially designed by the Pika Pika design team.

Upon purchase, the subscriber will receive the luxurious hand screen-printed goodies pictured below (and at the top of this mail) as well as a couple of other surprises.

Starting from January 2010 the subscribers will receive a monthly e-mail, one every month for a year, with instructions on how to download the ‘release’ of that month. Each ‘release’ will include two or three exclusive mp3s and a beautiful digital booklet with a new hand-drawn explorer-themed penguin illustration.

'Almanac'

Since finishing our UK tour in October, I've been hibernating up in Leicester passing the dark, wintry days in a little cottage with my boyfriend, a pen, some paper and my guitar. I've been writing the next album and am pleased to say that last week I wrote the final song needed for it's completion.

It's inspired by a poem I found called 'Almanac' by Primo Levi which philosophises about the future of the earth and humanity.

Here are the lyrics to my song 'Calendar'...