Then head over here to learn interesting factoids like who Les Shelleys would be most inclined to form a tribute band of and how they would finish the sentence, “playing music is…” Their answer is pretty f’n sweet! Enjoy!

Tom has some Cali shows coming up in April, get to ‘em!

06 Apr – Cactus Lounge @ The Standard, Los Angeles CA (w/ Penelope Fortier, Jesse Sarr)
21 Apr – HM157, Los Angeles CA
22 Apr – Largo, Los Angeles CA

Check your local public radio station for listening times, stream it live from the show’s site at 5 p.m. Central Time, or check back for an audio archive on Monday.

Tom:

1.) Gregory Page- Just To Get Away From You;
2.) Steve Poltz- Dreamhouse;
3.) Correatown- Further

Angela:

1. Leslie & The Badgers- Roomful Of Smoke
2. Ferraby Lionheart- Jack Of Hearts
3. Henry Clay People- Somewhere On The Golden Coast
4. Dorian Wood – Brutus
5. The Deadly Syndrome- Nolens Volens

Click on the links below to watch The Twilight Sad and Les Shelleys acoustic performances. Above is The Twilight Sad performing The Wrong Car and And She Would Darken The Memory for The Beat at the BBC.

The Twilight Sad – ‘The Wrong Car’ for GoldFlakePaint – here and ‘And She Would Darken The Memory’ – here

Les Shelleys on Homeplugged – here

Check out the Les Shelleys profile and The Twilight Sad profile for tour dates.

Visit the FatCat web store to get the new single The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise and the latest album Les Shelleys.

Les Shelleys profile page.

Les Shelleys were touring in support of their self-titled debut, which can be purchased here at the FatCat online store.

Les Shelleys were touring in support of their self-titled debut, which can be purchased here at the FatCat web store.

Les Shelleys were touring in support of their self-titled debut, which can be purchased on our webstore.

“Timeless…precious and original” AAA Music

“There is something beautiful about Les Shelley that almost instantly makes you sit up and listen.” The New Current

The World is Waiting for the Sunrise, the new single from Les Shelleys‘ gorgeous self-titled debut album is released today.

Basking in a sweet, close-harmony purity, the conviction of The World is Waiting for the Sunrise (originally by Gene Lockhart and Ernest Seitz and popularised by Mary Ford and Les Paul) is delivered with a sophisticated authenticity. This is quite clearly the work of serious musicians who although working with their own intuitive sense of direction  have not accidentally stumbled across such lilting, lifting vocal textures: see especially the breathtaking swoop of and my heart is calling for you in the second verse.

Les Shelleys are in good company in choosing the piece: Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Django Reinhardt, Chet Atkins and even the Beatles have all recorded versions of it.

The track is backed by album cut Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie. A folk standard, Les Shelleys' version is led by Angela, while Tom's wonderful, rickety-78-style guitar playing underpins with an understated, heartwarming grace.

Go to our webstore for more information and ordering options.

Be sure to check out the band’s profile page here

The album “Les Shelleys” is available to buy now, from our webstore.

Here are the details.

The Social
5 Little Portland St
W1W 7JD

Doors 7pm – £6 entry

Visit the Social here

Photo by Chinographer

The band’s self-titled debut album is out now and is available to buy from our webstore, and they join fellow FatCat artist Gregory and the Hawk for some shows around the UK, before heading alone to Switzerland (dates below):

Nov 18 – Brixton Windmill, London, UK *
Nov 19 – Appearance on BBC Radio Merseyside
Nov 20 – The Albert, Brighton, UK (2pm show) *
Nov 21 – Undertone, Cardiff, UK *
Nov 22 – Night & Day, Manchester, UK *
Nov 23 – Oporto, Leeds, UK *
Nov 25 – Claques 2 Festival, Lausanne, CH
Nov 26 – Helsinki, Zurich, CH

(* = with Gregory and the Hawk)

“Timeless…precious and original” AAA Music

“There is something beautiful about Les Shelley that almost instantly makes you sit up and listen.” The New Current

Les Shelleys, the self-titled debut album from Tom Brosseau and Angela Correa‘s new band, is a collection of tracks taken from a vast body of recorded works - beautiful, harmony-heavy voice and guitar arrangements of American standards and folk traditionals from various points of the last century. Home-recorded by Tom and Angie in Tom’s LA villa using only a minidisc recorder and a battery-powered microphone, Les Shelleys is a close, intimate set of recordings, that focuses on the purity and sweetness of the pair’s gorgeously intermixed voices.

Go to our webstore for more information and ordering options.

Tom and Angela are currently in Europe touring the release (as a co-bill with Gregory and the Hawk), with UK dates booked for later in November. Dates are as follows:

4 Nov – Incubated Mini Show @ Sound Records, Tilburg, NL
5 Nov – Cafe Derat, Utrecht, NL
6 Nov – Villa de Pilla, Enschede, NL
9 Nov – Espace B, Paris, FR
10 Nov – Home Plugged, Brussels, BE
11 Nov – House Show, Metz, FR
13 Nov – Teatro di Montefano, Montefano, IT
15 Nov – Hafen 2, Offenbach, DE
16 Nov – Mondial Halle, Hamburg, DE
17 Nov – In Love With, Berlin, DE
18 Nov – The Brixton Windmill, London, UK
19 Nov – BBC Radio Merseyside The Pool Session, Liverpool, UK – Les Shelleys Only
20 Nov – The Albert Matinee, Brighton, UK
21 Nov – Undertone, Cardiff, UK
22 Nov – Night & Day, Manchester, UK
23 Nov – Oporto, Leeds, UK
25 Nov – 2 Claques Festival, Le Bourg, Lausanne, CH – Les Shelleys Only
26 Nov – Helsinki, Zurich, CH – Les Shelleys Only

Be sure to check out the band’s profle page here

Les Shelleys Daytrotter session tracklisting
Hearts of Stone
Something Stupid
Oh Babe, It Ain’t No Lie
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll

“...they make bountiful music filled with the energy of resplendent daylight and the good feeling of an expanded sigh getting exhaled out of the mouth and body.” – Daytrotter

Fatcat Records Podcast - Les Shelleys 2nd Podcast by Fatcat Records on Mixcloud

The 23rd FatCat CatCast from Les Shelleys is a collection of artists that have influenced them, including The Kirby Sisters, Josephine Premice, Gloria Lynn and Lord Invader (see the track list below). You can listen to the podcast here through MixCloud.

Also, Les Shelleys did a great Radio2 live session last night! You can listen again for 7 days here.

Podcast track list:

1. Intro – Tom Brosseau
2. That's All Right - Elvis Presley
3. La Bamba (Gold Star Recording Session) - Richie Valens
4. My Baby's Comin' Home - Les Paul & Mary Ford
5. My Daddy Rocks Me - Artist Unknown
6. I Wish You Love - Gloria Lynne
7. So Long - Fats Domino
8. Who's Sorry Now - Connie Francis
9. Too Many Parties, Too Many Pals ' Bill Hailey
10. You Ugly Son of an Animal ' Josephine Premice
11. Boot it Boy' VO 1274 (Chicago 1929) - Tampa Red's Hokum Jug Band
12. Come on Children, Let's Sing - Mahalia Jackson
13. Pepsi-Cola - Lord Invader
14. Pretty Polly - Estil C. Ball
15. The Bird - The Flames
16. Whispering - Nino Tempo & April Stevens
17. Chloe - Spike Jones
18. I Left Her Standing There (Chicago 1939) - De Zurick Sisters
19. Lonesome and Blue - Woody Guthrie
20. Red Velvet - Kirby Sisters
21. Seems Like Old Times - Guy Lombardo
22. Take These Chains from My Heart - Hank Williams
23. It's Takin' Me Down - Delmore Brothers

Visit the Les Shelleys profile here for their upcoming tour dates with Gregory And The Hawk.

4 Nov – Incubated Mini Show @ Sound Records, Tilburg, NL
5 Nov – Cafe Derat, Utrecht, NL
6 Nov – Villa de Pilla, Enschede, NL
9 Nov – Espace B, Paris, FR
10 Nov – Home Plugged, Brussels, BE
11 Nov – House Show, Metz, FR
13 Nov – Teatro di Montefano, Montefano, IT
15 Nov – Hafen 2, Offenbach, DE
16 Nov – Mondial Halle, Hamburg, DE
17 Nov – In Love With, Berlin, DE
18 Nov – The Brixton Windmill, London, UK
19 Nov – BBC Radio Merseyside The Pool Session, Liverpool, UK – Les Shelleys Only
20 Nov – The Albert Matinee, Brighton, UK
21 Nov – Undertone, Cardiff, UK
22 Nov – Night & Day, Manchester, UK
23 Nov – Oporto, Leeds, UK
25 Nov – 2 Claques Festival, Le Bourg, Lausanne, CH – Les Shelleys Only
26 Nov – Helsinki, Zurich, CH – Les Shelleys Only

More dates to be announced soon

To visit the Gregory and the Hawk MySpace click here
And click here to visit the Les Shelleys MySpace for more information.

18 Nov – Brixton Windmill (buy tickets here)
20 Nov – Brighton Albert (matinee show. 2pm doors)
21 Nov – Cardiff Undertone
22 Nov – Manchester Night & Day Cafe
23 Nov – Leeds Oporto

The new Gregory And The Hawk album “Leche” is out on FatCat on November 9th in the USA and November 15th in the UK.
Les Shelleys’ self-titled debut is out, also on FatCat, on November 8th in the UK, and is already available to buy in the USA.

Don’t miss Les Shelleys on tour in the UK, ending up their run of dates with the following shows:

15 Sept – Tin Angel, Coventry
16 Sept – The Cluny, Newcastle
17 Sept – Guitar Bar, Nottingham
18 Sept – Twyford Swiss Cottage, Winchester (reservations encouraged: Oliver Gray 01962 714520)

Photo by Daiana Feuer

09 Sept – Slaughtered Lamb, London w/Emily Jane White
10 Sept – Fairtrade Gallery, Brighton
12 Sept – End of the Road Festival, Dorset
14 Sept – Bush Hall, London w/Olof Arnalds
15 Sept – Tin Angel, Coventry
16 Sept – The Cluny, Newcastle
17 Sept – Guitar Bar, Nottingham
18 Sept – Twyford Swiss Cottage, Winchester (reservations encouraged: Oliver Gray 01962 714520)

Don’t miss the chance to catch Tom and Angela perform their gorgeous arrangements of American folk standards for acoustic guitar and voice.

Check out the Les Shelleys artist page  for live dates.

Photo by LA Underground

Les Shelleys are an acoustic guitar/vocal duo from Los Angeles, consisting of FatCat's folk asset Tom Brosseau and his singing partner Angela Correa, better known as the indie-pop singer/songwriter Correatown. This, their debut release together, is an AA digital only single to precede their self-titled album, a collection of tracks taken from a vast body of recorded works - beautiful, harmony-heavy voice and guitar arrangements of American standards and folk traditionals from various points of the last century, out on the 8th of November in the UK, and 31st of August in the United States.

There is an undeniable timelessness to Tom and Angela's work here - something we have seen before in Tom Brosseau's FatCat releases under his own name (three full length albums and a handful of singles) - a gracious and praising nod to the frankness and honesty of the great folk songwriters whose work they recount, and yet their work together does not sound like a simple reissue from the vaults or conventional covers collection.

The 'Americanised calypso' popularised by the Andrews Sisters 'Rum and Coca Cola' here is dulcet like a lullaby, but swaying like its tropical origins. Tom begins, acoustic guitar and his flooring singing voice wrapped around the gorgeous melody, before Angela joins for the chorus and the pair tap gently together as their two voices harmonise sweetly.

'Green Door', originally written by Bob Davie and Marvin Moore in 1956, and covered by (among others) Shakin' Stevens and The Cramps, is entirely a capella under Les Shelleys' direction. Tom and Angela allow a focus on the purity and sweetness of their intermixed voices. Tapping into those inherently romantic and tender qualities of vocal harmonies that serve pop and folk music so well, an instantly likeable, charming personality is given to a time-tested composition.

Be sure to listen to the Les Shelleys podcast here for an exclusive chance to enter a ticket giveaway for their upcoming London show.