A first post. Next month I'll be playing a "solo" show at The Underbelly in Hoxton for Folk and Dagger. Piano accompaniment will come from Sam Tannenbaum and probably other members of The Devils will join us. As 'Mr and Mrs Samuel Kidd' we'll be playing some brand new songs and new arrangements of things you might have heard before.
The new songs take up the Robinson myth via Celine, Weldon Kees, Chris Petit and Patrick Keilor. I'll be posting about Robinson more in the coming months as the collection develops.
The Decline of the English Murder Ballad Pt 1 Demo by The Devil May Cares
I recorded this demo with Nick from The Devils on a cassette four-track in his bedroom a few weeks ago. 'The Decline of the English Murder Ballad' finds Robinson and I committing an increasingly debauched series of murders in search of better subject matter for songwriting. But as the murders become more depraved, we find that both they and the songs slip into self-referential vulgarity.
