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Fri, 18 May 2012 12:26:27 +0100

Catherine AD Reprise: The Covers Collection Released: June...

Fri, 18 May 2012 12:25:00 +0100

Catherine AD

Reprise: The Covers Collection

Released: June 25th 2012

“Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful… genius in fact!” - ROB DA BANK
“Like an Anglo-Celtic Tori Amos discovering the joys of Michael Nyman…A mini album that’s really worth crying about” - 8/10 - NME
“A phenomenal talent!” - HUW STEPHENS
“A leftfield hit in the making” - DAN CAIRNS, THE SUNDAY TIMES
“This songstress makes my knees go weak and my heart even softer…” - SHEENA BEASTON

Following the release of mini album, Communion (which the NME named one of its twenty best “Cult Albums of 2011”) and ahead of the release of her full-length debut this winter, Catherine AD’s Reprise brings together a selection of her reinterpretations and cover versions. Featuring eleven songs recorded at home on her laptop, the collection includes a 12 vocal-layered interpretation of Sleigh Bells’ ‘Run the Heart’, and the Sunday Times featured ‘one woman choir’ reworking of Hurts’ ‘Better Than Love’.

Catherine recorded and played all but one of the instruments across the 11 tracks, compiling the collection after injuring her hand during sessions for her album, leaving her able to use only her left hand, unable to play the piano for 5 months. After three DIY EPs, which she’s been drip-dropping into the world whilst finishing university, her creative force has already found favour at the Sunday Times, NME, Daily Mirror and Clash Magazine, as well as with some of America’s most influential bloggers. Her songs have already enjoyed airplay with Lauren Laverne (6Music), Rob Da Bank (Radio1) and Steve Lamacq (Radio2) and she has played with the likes of Anna Calvi, Martha Wainwright, and Cold Specks. She will be playing a special show with her string section on June 15th at the National Portrait Gallery in London, and appearing at both the Hay and Latitude festivals this summer.

Reprise will be released on OUTSIDERHOOD on 25th June 2012.

For more info contact: info@outsiderhood.com

TRACKLISTING
1. Better Than Love (Hurts)
2. Run The Heart (Sleigh Bells)
3. Paris (Friendly Fires)
4. The Wolves (Act I and II) (Bon Iver)
5. I Have Never Loved Someone (My Brightest Diamond)
6. Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
7. He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) (The Crystals)
8. The Book Of Love (Magnetic Fields)
9. Black Eyed Dog (Nick Drake)
10. Wild is the Wind (Nina Simone)
11. Baby Can I Hold You (Tracy Chapman)

LIVE DATES
9th June, HowtheLightGetsIn, HAY-ON-WYE - www.howthelightgetsin.org
15th June, National Portrait Gallery, LONDON - www.npg.org
13th - 15th July, Latitude Festival, SOUTHWOLD - www.latitudefestival.co.uk

http://www.catherineAD.com
http://facebook.com/CatherineADmusic
http://twitter.com/CatherineAD

Catherine AD ‘Going Wrong’ Here’s a sneak...

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:09:00 +0100

Catherine AD ‘Going Wrong’

Here’s a sneak preview of Catherine AD’s forthcoming mini-album Communion. It’s now available to pre-order, including a special mechanical music box edition, which comes with hand-pressed sheet music via: http://catherinead.bandcamp.com. This Outsiderhood release will be available from all major digital download stores from October 17th 2011.

At the weekend, Catherine AD played Bestival and has forthcoming shows confirmed at The Ivy in London on October 6th supporting Patrick Wolf, and at Leylines Festival in Oxford on October 15th.

Catherine AD - ‘Going Wrong’ (free download)

More info about Communion…
In late spring of 2011, Liam Howe (Marina & the Diamonds, Emiliana Torrini, Sneaker Pimps) captured a new set of string-laden recordings by Catherine AD and her all female string section. Recorded live in a single Sunday at the legendary Church Studios in London’s Crouch End (once owned by the Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart and birthplace of Sweet Dreams, now owned by David Gray), Communion is a collection of songs stripped of drums and modern technology.

A concept born in part out of economic restrictions - “as my grandparents must have mislaid my trust fund down the Welsh coalmines…”, Catherine half-jokes, it is also testament to a love of the songwriters and studio methods of times past. As well as a reference to the former sacred function of the studio space, Communion takes its name from the idea of “sharing something between a group of musicians” and the numerous churches that Catherine and her strings had been playing in the run-up to the recording.

Credits

Cover image by Roberto Foddai
Released 17th October 2011 via Outsiderhood.
Recorded live at Church Studios, London on 20th March 2011.

The mini-album was mastered by Jon Astley (Tori Amos, Emmylou Harris), engineered by Richard Wilkinson (Magic Numbers) and recorded by Liam Howe (Marina & the Diamonds, Emiliana Torrini, Sneaker Pimps).

Strings: Vicky Falconer Pritchard (violin, saw, accordion, BVs), Mary Kelly (viola), Gillian Wood (cello).

Catherine AD: Voice, Steinway Grand Piano, Toy Piano, Flute, Wurlitzer.

http://catherinead.com

Catherine A.D. at Live at Leeds festival in Holy Trinity Church...

Mon, 02 May 2011 19:27:00 +0100

Catherine A.D. at Live at Leeds festival in Holy Trinity Church by @StuartofLeeds via Songs For The Boy Who Wouldn’t Read Rilke

Plus new track, via Catherine’s latest mailout from her forthcoming mini-album Communion, Live at Church Studios…

<a href=”http://catherinead.bandcamp.com/track/waiting-to-breathe-live-at-church-studios” _mce_href=”http://catherinead.bandcamp.com/track/waiting-to-breathe-live-at-church-studios”>Waiting To Breathe (live at Church Studios) by Catherine A.D.</a>

MTV love for Catherine AD’s ‘Better Than Love’...

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 11:17:00 +0000

MTV love for Catherine AD’s ‘Better Than Love’ by Hurts re-interpretation. (link)

Hype Machine #1: Catherine A.D. leaps above Daft Punk to top the...

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:12:00 +0000

Hype Machine #1: Catherine A.D. leaps above Daft Punk to top the HypeM chart. Thank you for all your support.

Run The Heart (Sleigh Bells Cover) by CatherineAD

Catherine A.D. re-interprets/re-creates/remixes/covers Sleigh...

Wed, 08 Dec 2010 02:51:00 +0000

Catherine A.D. re-interprets/re-creates/remixes/covers Sleigh Bells’ ‘Run The Heart’.

http://sheenabeaston.com/

Sometimes, when you least expect it, you find something ever so soothing, and yeah, it’s precisely what you need at that very moment in time. So enter Catherine ADtoday (who is no stranger to these pages), with a simple and sublime cover that’s intended to make you feel real feelings. There, I said it. My heart is warmed.

With this blanketed take on Sleigh Bells‘ Run the Heart, the songstress makes my knees go weak and my heart even softer. In other words…

...I love it.

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Run The Heart (Sleigh Bells Cover) by CatherineAD

Download: CatherineAD - Run The Heart (Sleigh Bells Cover)

In The City // BBC Introducing

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 00:03:00 +0100

Catherine AD was featured on BBC 6Music as part of their In The City picks this year and - after a sprint down the motorway from Manchester - she was also interviewed live on BBC Introducing here ahead of her show at the Limelight Theatre ( - you can listen back to both shows for a limited time by clicking the links).

She also received lovely honourable mentions from the Quietus and CMU as a highlight of the conference.

Forthcoming shows....

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:38:00 +0100

Catherine AD plays the following shows this autumn:

25th September, LONDON, Union Chapel
Facebook event // Last FM event

14th October, MANCHESTER, In The City
In The City // Facebook Event

16th October, AYLESBURY, Limelight Theatre
Facebook Event // WeGotTickets

14th November, LONDON, The Garage
Facebook Event //

5th December, LONDON, Union Chapel
Last FM event //

Catherine AD plays a homecoming show on Saturday 16th October at...

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:26:18 +0100

Catherine AD plays a homecoming show on Saturday 16th October at the Limelight Theatre in Aylesbury.

Tickets available from: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/85672

@CatherineAD to play her first US show in LA next week. Info...

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:52:00 +0100

@CatherineAD to play her first US show in LA next week. Info from the promoters as follows…

On August 2nd - Dark Dark Dark, Emily Lacy and Catherine AD. are going to play as a part of DDD’s west-coast tour.

We’re going to project some water-themed videos, and eat some delicious food from the ‘Swear On Our Friendship’ food collective snack-stand. Homemade pies, lemonade, summer rolls, popsicles +++ !
…
summer night show - indoor picnic…
come!

Aug 2nd - 8:30pm
at Public Fiction (the avenue 50 mini-museum)
749 Avenue 50
Los Angeles CA 90042

6$ - all ages

»>———>

(For you westsiders who may not know: Dark Dark Dark are the talented musicians who were a part of “The Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea” - a boat project that the artist Swoon did down the Mississippi river, the Hudson Valley and in the Venice Biennial. They are also starring in the documentary “Flood Tides” which will be screened at the Hammer this Fall.)

http://www.myspace.com/darkdarkdarkband
http://www.myspace.com/emilylacyfolkmusic
http://www.myspace.com/catherinead

http://switchbacksea.org/
http://floodtidefilm.com/

Here’s a photo interview Catherine AD did for...

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:30:22 +0100

Here’s a photo interview Catherine AD did for http://anegativenarrative.com/

Thank you Sunday Times Culture. If you haven’t heard this...

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:19:00 +0100

Thank you Sunday Times Culture. If you haven’t heard this “hottest download” get it from http://catherinead.bandcamp.com.

This photo is a from @kattkieru. Send us your photos of Skeleton...

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:44:00 +0100

This photo is a from @kattkieru. Send us your photos of Skeleton Songs for a little something we’re putting together. Either twitpic them to us including @outsiderhood in your tweet or email them to info@outsiderhood.com.

If you haven’t got your copy yet, order it from http://catherinead.bandcamp.com

"Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful… genius in fact!"

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:11:48 +0100

““Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful… genius in fact!””

- Rob da Bank on BBC Radio 1 last night [Listen: 55mins in on iPlayer] RE: Catherine AD’s cover of HURTS ‘Better than Love’

Skeleton Songs by Catherine AD is one of Rough Trade...

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 20:30:00 +0100

Skeleton Songs by Catherine AD is one of Rough Trade Shops’ new release picks this week. Find it on ‘The Wall’ in the store from Monday or get it from their website now.

‘Better Than Love’ (HURTS cover) by...

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:58:06 +0100

‘Better Than Love’ (HURTS cover) by @CatherineAD.

Free MP3: http://catherinead.bandcamp.com/track/better-than-love-hurts-cover

‘Better Than Love’ by HURTS re-interpreted by...

Mon, 31 May 2010 12:39:00 +0100

‘Better Than Love’ by HURTS re-interpreted by Catherine AD.

Free download available from http://catherinead.bandcamp.com

@CatherineAD provides the meaning of “kooky”, her...

Sat, 29 May 2010 11:25:00 +0100

@CatherineAD provides the meaning of “kooky”, her second word of the day for Wordia

Catherine’s Skeleton Songs EP is released on June 7th via Outsiderhood.

'Missiveh' by Catherine AD is the MPFree today @LaverneShow on BBC 6Music

Wed, 26 May 2010 12:27:00 +0100

'Missiveh' by Catherine AD is the MPFree today @LaverneShow on BBC 6Music