Now for 5 hrs kip in the Heathrow Yotel #PodHotel. #WoodFestival later today. http://ift.tt/1FpT46X
Farewell NYC. As Jerry Lee said, “I sure do hate those motherhumpin planes”. http://ift.tt/1Fj6rUm
UK Tour Dates
I’m hotly anticipating this solo tour of the UK in May wherein I’ll be playing songs both old and new on guitar and piano as they were originally conceived. Come hear a few songs from my forthcoming album, as well as some old chestnuts, and get a glimpse into the nascent world of the material.
Saturday 16th May 2015: BRAZIERS PARK (Oxfordshire) - Wood Festival (http://woodfestival.tumblr.com/)
Sunday 17th May 2015: BIRMINGHAM (Kings Heath) - The Kitchen Garden Cafe (0121 443 4725 / www.kitchengardencafe.co.uk) £8 adv / £10 door, 7.30pm doors
Tuesday 19th May 2015: BRISTOL - Stag & Hounds (www.stagandhoundsbristol.co.uk) £4 adv / £TBC door, 8pm doors (support from Lonely Tourist)
http://www.stagandhoundsbristol.co.uk/hans-chew.html
http://www.bristolticketshop.co.uk/eventdetails.aspx?e=8913
Wednesday 20th May 2015: SWANSEA - Born in Americana @ The Café Nissé (01792 686914 / http://borninamericana.co.uk/) £7.50 adv / door,7.30pm doors
http://tentofxerxes.co.uk/music.html
Thursday 21st May 2015: DONCASTER (South Yorkshire) - Upper Room @ Doncaster Brewery Tap (01302 376436 /http://doncasterbrewery.co.uk/) £8 adv / £10 door, 7.30pm doors
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/310748
Friday 22nd May 2015: NEWCASTLE (Heaton) - The Butterfly Cabinet (0191 265 9920 / www.butterflycabinet.com) £15 adv, 7.30pm doors (double header with Michael Chapman)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1563033560626360/
Allendale Coop and Post Office, RPM music Newcastle and Gigantic.com
Saturday 23rd May 2015: GLASGOW - King Tuts Wah Wah Hut (08444 999 990 / www.gigsinscotland.com) £10 adv / £12 door, 8.30pm doors
Sunday 24th May 2015: EDINBURGH - Henry’s Cellar Bar (0131 662 4082 / http://www.henryscellarbar.com/)
Tuesday 26th May 2015: LONDON (Brixton) - Windmill Brixton (http://windmillbrixton.co.uk/ / www.wegottickets.com) £7 adv / £TBC door, 8pmdoors
http://windmillbrixton.co.uk/listings/events/26-may-15-hans-chew-usa-the-windmill/
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/312241
Thursday 28th May 2015: HIGH WYCOMBE (Buckinghamshire) - Kingsmead House Concert (01494 446703 / http://kingsmeadconcerts.wordpress.com/) £10, doors 7.30pm
Friday 29th May 2015: BEWDLEY (Worcestershire) - Bewdley Live @ St Georges Hall “Music In The Hall” (01299 402027 /www.bewdleylive.co.uk) £8 adv / £TBC door, 7.30pm doors
http://www.thehall-bewdley.org.uk
Saturday 30th May 2015: BEXHILL-on-SEA - Music’s Not Dead (instore 3pm)
Saturday 30th May 2015: BRIGHTON - Brighthelmstone Promotions presents… The Verdict (www.brighthelmstonepromotions.co.uk / https://www.wegottickets.com/event/313858) £9 adv / £TBC doors, 8pm doors
Joined Dave Heumann (of Arbouretum) and his excellent solo band (including Stephen Tanner on bass fiddle) last night at The Living Room to play some piano on a couple of songs from Dave’s forthcoming solo album “Here In The Deep”.
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
Hans Chew - 9pm
Dave Heumann - 10pm
Ember Schrag - 11pm
The Living Room
134 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn
718.782.6600
tickets: http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=5746275
Tonight @mercuryloungeny 7pm. Thanks for the cartoon @melodiepro http://ift.tt/1CtRkX1
I’ll be performing solo grand piano and acoustic guitar this Sunday, March 1st at 4pm on stage 1 at Rockwood Music Hall. Free show. I’d love to entertain you.
Until then, here’s something different: an 11-minute slice of psychedelic-salsa-gospel-rock for you, live from the one and only DeBarra’s, Clonakilty, Ireland. Recorded live during the Life & Love tour, August 2nd, 2014. Dave Cavallo- guitar, Hans Chew- piano, Ricardo “Chango” Ortiz- bass, Jesse Wallace- drums.
Solo performance on baby grand and guitar
Sunday afternoon, March 1st, 4pm, free
Rockwood Music Hall- Stage 1
196 Allen St.
New York, NY 10002
212.477.4155
http://www.rockwoodmusichall.com/
I’m on this one yall: Saturday, May 16th, hope to see you in the shire!
Just about got this sucker wrapped up @uniformrec #album http://ift.tt/1zQawP8
Working it out with @uniformrec in this #jawn http://ift.tt/1KiIVFN
A foray
Super music lover DJ Richard Leader was kind enough to say that Life & Love was his album of the year. You can hear my on-air ramble with him here.
WELL ALL RIGHT! From-> fuckinrecordreviews:
BEST REASON TO WRITE YET ANOTHER FUCKIN’ RECORD REVIEW IN 2014…HANS CHEW Life & Love LP (At The Helm, UK)New York City is beyond privileged to have songwriter zealots Zachary Cale, Ember Schrag, David Shuford and Hans Chew calling the place home, playing out and about on Tuesday and Wednesday nights like it ain’t no big deal. But it is a big deal - they’re all a big deal - because radiance of such caliber is an uncommon marvel. Fuckin’ Record Reviews had the good fortune this calendar year to witness many stellar shows offering a counterbalance to the slow gruel of daily indignities - Good Throb, Magick Markers, Pampers, La Misma, Hysterics, Coma In Algiers, Mordecai, Watery Love, WV White, Silk Purse, Elisa Ambrogio, Dreamsalon, 75 Dollar Bill, Matt Krefting, Vanessa Rossetto, Degreaser, Civil Union, the Gizmos (!) the Weirdos (!!), Destruction Unit, Excepter, Cale, Schrag, D. Charles Speer & the Helix, Guerilla Toss, Rhyton, Antietam…(we can go on and on of course, every one of these artists deserve fulsome blathering ) - but if we had to pick one single live music event that impacted the most, it’d be Hans Chew’s delayed record release soirée in late August.What Hans and his band accomplish is a rare and beautiful thing: somehow conjuring guileless magic from the intersection where Little Feat, the Pontiac Brothers/Liquor Giants and Goose Creek Symphony share combustible space and doing so without artifice or plundering, leaving room for Hans’ spectacularly personalized songwriting, singing and piano. It fills a black dirt heart with all the bittersweet joie evocative of nothing less than our three most cherished piano-flecked Hoyt Axton lps (Joy To The World, Country Anthem and Less Than The Song). Sure, name checking the aforementioned dinosaurs comes across like a wide eyed Mojo mag Americana column about corned beef hash, but fuck it. Hans’ tuneage is so exceptional - in the same impossibly distinctive manner as Chuck Cleaver and Lisa Walker’s songwriting in Wussy - we care not if Fuckin’ Record Reviews gets tagged from hereon in as NPR, Jr.While the FRR editorial team often swims in the discharged post seduction fluids of reckless stumble bum daredevils barely able to hold their instruments, we hold no predetermined grudge against those who possess some fluency with how to play, i.e., those with actual musicianship. Hans Chew and his band can play like nobody’s business. There are swells and bursts, electric piano foregrounding, floppy boot stomps and stinging words about life and love and loss, so much life and love and loss and love and life. The crescendos of ‘Mercy’ have moved us from grizzled darkness to ebullience on more than a few morning commutes, so much so that we have to thank Hans right here and now for writing it and his crackerjack band - drummer Jesse Wallace, bassist Ricardo Ortiz and guitarist Dave Cavallo - for commuting all over us. Most followers of Fuckin’ Record Reviews are not likely to have many records that sound like this in their subunderground lairs spackled with the blood of Aaron Dilloway and Gravel Samwidge, but if we could dispel our no-fi basement curse every now and again and bask in some sanctified rays, this’d be the band with whom we do it. Bravissimo on every front.
- Eye popping cover by Melodie Provenzano, whose multifaceted creative talents can be eyed and eared at http://www.melodieprovenzano.com/
- Buy Love & Life at http://hanschew.bigcartel.com/product/hans-chew-life-love-lp
The Long Rally's Favorite Records of 2014
My favorite Best Of list features BOTH Connie Acher AND Hans Chew!
Steve Gunn & Mike Cooper - Cantos de Lisboa (RVNG Int’l)
Hiro Kone - Fallen Angels (Geographic North)
Vanessa Rossetto - Whole Stories (Kye)
Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band - Intensity Ghost (No Quarter)
Sir Richard Bishop - VDSQ #8 (Vin du Selecte Qualite)
Connie Acher -…
Missing you #JackRose. Here’s a practice recording I just found of him showing me When The Tailgate Drops in his living room in Philly from June of 2009. Thanks Jack, your music, friendship and support still mean so much…
Exclusive! Hans Chew releases video for Goodnight
Hans Chew has exclusively streamed the video for his track Goodnight via The Blues Magazine.
The track is taken from Chew’s second album Life & Love, which was released earlier this year.
The video was shot in one night in New York City and “tries to capture the mood and restlessness of the setting and the song.”
The Gospel According to #Leon.
Cuttin New Orleans party numbers @blackdirtstudio #whereyat http://ift.tt/1w5VEEs
Ode to George