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Green Mind presents Steve Mason (Beta Band) + Um + world cup football

Friday 11th June 2010

Venue: The Haymakers
Category: Gigs & Live Music
One Liner: Indie/electronic
Price Info: £8 adv
Time Info: 7.30 - 11

http://www.myspace.com/stevemasonlovesyou

"Anyone with an ounce of empathy in them will find Steve Mason's third solo album, the first to be released under his own name, a sombre listen. As King Biscuit Time and Black Affair, or as part of the Beta Band, his troubled lyrics were swathed in so many layers of musical experimentation, producing mad hybrids of hip-hop and techno and reggae and folk, that their emotional impact was softened. But in this stripped-back setting, in which Mason's muted guitar and piano melodies are given a subtle electronic frosting by producer Richard X, his meditations on depression and heartbreak are devastatingly direct. "I lost my way when I jumped in the river"; "I cannot find myself to hide": the melancholy is almost suffocating. And the lovelier the music – in the swooshing, soaring chorus of The Letter, or the shimmering All Come Down – the more achingly fragile Mason sounds." The Guardian

+ Um (www.umbusiness.co.uk)
+ World Cup football on a 92" screen!

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