Woodpigeon hit the road with Withered Hand

Calgary’s Woodpigeon are heading to UK shores this January to embark on a solo tour of Scotland and the North East with long term friend Withered Hand. You can catch both acts on the following dates:

January
16 – Musa Church, Aberdeen
21 – Old Bridge Inn, Aviemor
22 – The Star Inn, Stornoway
23 – Hootenany, Inverness
25 – Stereo, Glasgow
26 – CLUNY 2, Newcastle
27 – Westgarth SC, Middlesbrough
28 – Fishtank, Durham

February
04 – Tollbooth, Stirling

To celebrate the tour Mark Hamilton of Woodpigeon and Dan Willson of Withered Hand have recorded a duet of The Velvet Underground’s ‘I’m Set Free’ (which you can download from both Woodpigeon’s and Withered Hand’s homepages).

January 21 will also see the release of a UK / Europe only digital release entitled Fra La Nuvole, which pulls together the Spirehouse and Our Love is as Tall as the Calgary Tower EPs. The songs of Fra le Nuvole were recorded in part at home in Calgary (featuring LoveACT’s Darcy McIntyre), and with Hampus Norén in Stockholm, while the remixes were assembled in Montreal, Quebec and Doha, Qatar. The track-listing is as follows:

01. Spirehouse (From Die Stadt Muzikanten)
02. Our Love is as Tall as the Calgary Tower (From Die Stadt Muzikanten)
03. Music for the Naturally Unhip [w/ Hampus Norén]
04. Don’t Fret, My Pet
05. Toil [w/ Darcy McIntyre]
06. No Cigarettes
07. Hove Beach
08. Spirehouse (Shipshapen Remix)
09. Empty-Hall Sing-Along (Dead Edits Remix)
10. Our Love is as Tall as the Calgary Tower (Montag Remix)