the Imagined Village
One of the most unusual collaborations of the past decade, The Imagined Village made a significant impression with their critically acclaimed and commercially successful debut album (released via Peter Gabriel’s Real World label). They toured extensively, appeared on TV’s Later…With Jools show and won out at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. If the band had initially developed as a loose collective of singers and musicians, they have subsequently consolidated into a working, growing, organic aggregation. This stability in personnel is shiningly reflected in the brand new, follow-up album, which is also their first on the new record label ECC. Titled “Empire and Love”, it is released on 11 January 2010, a few days prior to a major UK tour that will include prestigious gigs at Scotland’s Celtic Connections Festival and London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Meet the Parish Council
Andy Gangadeen
Drums
Lord Carthy’s head gamekeeper and president of SPUG, Society for the Preservation of the Urban Groove. Sole member of the local Narcoleptics Anonymous
Eliza Carthy
Fiddles, Viola & Voice
Lord Carthy’s wayward daughter and landlady of the Hood and Pit Bull tavern, having been removed under scandalous circumstances, from her position as Headmistress of the village school. Allegedly received training in wet ops from the CIA, NASA and Mothercare.
Lord Carthy
Guitar & Voice
Laird of the Manor and owner of the last remaining private light rail network servicing his estate. Rumored to have made his fortune betting on the collapse of the South Sea Bubble.
Simon Emmerson
Cittern Guitars
Master brewer – creator of the universally unpopular 8% ale known as: “Tufted Puffin”. First responder and recently served with a strict ASBO banning him from approaching any bird watcher or site of ornithological interest.
Simon Richmond
Keyboards & Electronica
Village Vicar/Rabbi/Faith Healer. Founder of SPAK: Society for the Preservation of Analogue Keyboards, and expert in the field of profane and taboo harmonic intervals. Available for Bar Mitzvahs and Circumcisions. Steadiest hands in the village.
Ali Friend
Bass
Local biker, Lord Carthy’s personal train driver and reformed poacher. Now assistant gamekeeper to the Laird’s estate. Recently detained at Her Majesty’s pleasure he now runs neighborhood watch/vigilante group. Fully qualified tattoo artist.
Lady Sheema Mukherjee
Sitar & Voice
Runs Mukherjee’s Livery, the exclusive village stables. Olympic dressage gold medal holder, local Magistrate and aspirant MP. President of the Village Noise Abatement Society, currently locked in litigious conflict with Kalsi Constructions.
Chris Wood
Fiddles, Viola & Voice
President of village allotment society and known for his huge ripe plums. A man with very firm views on vegetables. Possesses a prize marrow. Runs a successful combined mobile Karaoke/Dry Cleaning business.
Barney Morse Brown
Cello
Runs the Gut and Bow Tea Room, renowned for his ‘all you can eat for a fiver’ light lunches and wide knowledge of fruit cakes. Proprietor of the strangely dwindling cattery.
Johnny Kalsi
Percussion, Dhol & Tabla
Executive but Silent Partner of the Kalsi Construction Company, voted England’s noisiest neighborhood business. Vice President of SPUG. Keen bell ringer and restorer, so often seen working at both the rope and the bell end.
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