Stornoway performs at the RSC

LIVE AT THE RSC

STORNOWAY PERFORMS ON THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE THEATRE STAGE

Stornoway (+ support)

Sunday 10 July, 7.30pm

Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

Box Office: 01789 403493 www.rsc.org.uk/stornoway

Tickets: £22 and £18

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Indie folk band, Stornoway, comes to the RSC for one night only on Sunday 10 July, performing tracks from their most recent acclaimed album, Bonxie.

Hailing from Oxford, the group features singer, lyricist, and guitarist Brian Briggs; keyboard player Jon Ouin; bassist Oli Steadman, and his brother Rob Steadman on drums

In the early 2000s, “at a time when what was on the radio was the Kaiser Chiefs…” Briggs and Ouin worked painstakingly on their first songs, teaching themselves about recording and arrangement. Though only 60 miles from London, the band were adrift from the music industry: recording their own material, playing shows in unusual venues, building substantial local support.

As Briggs put it, they “just got on with it”.  Stornoway built a hermetic world with a sound of its own. There, the band’s wildlife interests gave flight to their deep feelings. Songs like Zorbing about the elation of young love are joyfully unselfconscious, unmindful of prevailing fashions.

So self-contained were they, Stornoway didn’t sign to their first label 4AD until Beachcomber’s Windowsill was ready for release.  Scrupulously diligent, Tales From Terra Firma took three years to follow, featuring the magnificent single Farewell Appalachia – modern as Radiohead, timeless as the Byrds.  

Their third album, Bonxie, was released to critical acclaim in 2015

Praise for Bonxie:

“Stornoway’s best work yet” 5 stars, The Guardian
“The sound of a band finding the form of their lives” 5 stars, Mail on Sunday

More information on Stornoway: www.stornoway.eu

For more press information and photos please contact:
Dean Asker
RSC Press Office

01789 412660, 0778 9937759