Those that have followed Folk Radio UK over the years will know we have a big soft spot for Stanley Brinks & Freschard and who can blame us? Combined the duo have a playfulness which impossible to resist, they form a perfect musical union.
Brinks along with The Wave Pictures has already brought us ‘Gin’ (read Helen’s review) earlier this year which Helen noted ‘crackles and sparkles with a joie de vivre which is sadly lacking from all too many of Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures’ contemporaries’.
Now Stanley Brinks & Freschard are back again with ‘Pizza Espresso’ an album of love songs about drinking and drinking songs about love. Picture Emmylou and Gram relocated to Berlin with a guitar, a pennywhistle and a washboard and writing ten gorgeous duets to be sung on lazy summer evenings. Here’s ‘Take it Easy’ our Song of the Day:
“if you have time, and nothing on your mind, why, iʼm free, for you and me”
UK Tour Dates
AUGUST
15 – CAMBRIDGE – The Portland Arms
(Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures + Freschard)
16 – BRISTOL – The Louisiana
(Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures + Freschard)
17 – GREEN MAN FESTIVAL
(Stanley Brinks and the Wave Pictures)
18 – LEEDS – Brudenell Social Club
(Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures + Freschard)
19 – HARROGATE – tbc
(Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures + Freschard)
20 – EAGLESCLIFFE – The Waiting Room
(Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures + Freschard)
21 – NEWCASTLE – Cluny
(Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures + Freschard)
22 – EDINBURGH – Sneaky Peteʼs
(Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures + Freschard)
23 – DOUNE, (near STIRLING) – The Rabbit Hole
(Stanley Brinks and the Wave Pictures)
24 – DOUNE – The Rabbit Hole
(The Wave Pictures and Freschard)
25 – SHEFFIELD – Riverside, Point Blank Theatre
(Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures + Freschard)
26 – LONDON – Shacklewell Arms
(Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures + Freschard)
27 – FALMOUTH – tbc
(Stanley Brinks and Freschard)
28 – EXETER – tbc
(Stanley Brinks and Freschard)
Pre-order via Fika Recordings, also available on vinyl.