Meet Arcade, a new collaboration featuring Ireland’s Heidi Talbot and Scotland’s Adam Holmes. These two have got together to create an album of original material titled Face The Fall which will be released on Drala Records on October 4th and will tour around the UK this autumn.
Let’s just say, you’ve never heard either of them sounding like this before. The multiple production credits include both Heidi and Adam as well as Cameron Malcolm and Louis Abbott (Admiral Fallow). The album features ten tracks, nine of the ten written by Adam and Heidi and one song written by folk noir singer-songwriter Rachel Sermanni whose own album we recently reviewed here.
Tom Gibbs, Jennifer Austin and Euan Burton also feature on the record alongside Phil Cunningham who reads poetry on the last track, All We Ever Are. Heidi and Adam will be joined by pianist Tom Gibbs on tour (dates below). Watch the album trailer below:
Heidi adds:
“Adam and I have been touring together in different bands over the last few years. We really love singing together and started writing songs over the last year. As the songs progressed, we decided to make an album
“It became obvious very quickly that the songs we enjoyed writing together weren’t necessarily folk songs. We both believe in going wherever the song feels good to go to and not feel like we need to stay in the confines of what we’ve created before. The outcome is not really a folk record, it’s more pop, but it’s still us and not a completely alien sound. A little different to what either of us has created before but we’ve put our hearts into this music. We hope people enjoy it
“We appreciate each and every single person who supports us by listening to our music or coming along to a show and we’re looking forward to performing these songs live and setting them free into the world!”
Live Dates
- 29th Sept – CCA, Glasgow
- 4th Oct – The Met, Bury
- 5th Oct – The Hive, Shrewsbury
- 6th Oct – Acapela Studios, Cardiff
- 7th Oct – The Junction, Cambridge
- 11th Oct – The Ropewalk, Barton upon Humber
- 12th Oct – Greystones, Sheffield
- 13th Oct – The Live Room, Saltaire
- 23rd Oct – Kings Place, London