PROMOTER RESOURCES

Woodpigeon is less a band or project than a repository for multi-instrumentalist Mark Andrew Hamilton’s aural anthologies of modern reckonings. Post-genre in an orchestral folk-pop context, Woodpigeon embellishes with echoes from other forms and eras: a swell of remorseful strings, the distant rousing call of horns, an urgent rhythmic skiffle of frustrated ardour, textural ripples of atmospheric noise. But oh, the melodies! Those are the soul of a Woodpigeon song, erudite lyrics borne by Hamilton’s spooky bittersweet vocals – like the ghost of a choirboy teetering on the cusp of manhood reincarnated into gently rustling autumn leaves.

SOCIAL MEDIA ARTIST PAGES

Website: WP HQ
Facebook: woodpigeonmusic
Twitter: woodpigeontweet
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5UDSvbfSs63qDk39xVtEdy
Wikipedia: Woodpigeon_(band)

TOURING HIGHLIGHTS

Woodpigeon has appeared as opener alongside Calexico, Iron & Wine, Grizzly Bear, Andrew Bird, Patrick Wolf, and Junip. Festival Appearances include Iceland Airwaves, The End of the Road, SXSW, NXNE, The Great Escape, Field Day, Meltdown, Wales Goes Pop!, Pop Haldern, Pop Montreal, and Sled Island. Woodpigeon tours as both a solo performance featuring layered loops and as a group. A full tour history is available here.

Booking Inquiries (UK/EU): Mirca Lotz at Fwd: Like Waves
Booking Inquiries (NA/ROW): WPHQ

SOLO PERFORMANCE TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

1 x DI for Acoustic Guitar via Loop Station
1 x Vocal Mic
1 x Extra Mic Stand for Looped Vocals via Loop StationWOO_tech_hospitality_rider

Fog Machine and low, dramatic lighting are preferred.
If a Mirror Ball is available, please have it prepared for use throughout the set.
If a Video Projection System is available, please have it prepared. A file will be provided.

Download Rider in .pdf here.

CATERING RIDER

Woodpigeon Solo travels alcohol-free. Instead of expense on alcohol, please include the following:
3 x Postcards from the city of the performance
1 x Sticker of the city for the guitar case (city shield/touristic sticker)

SELECTED PRESS

“**** It’s bloody marvelous.” –SUNDAY TIMES
“**** An inspiring meditation on exile and return.” –THE GUARDIAN
“**** Seductive.” –MOJO
“**** Melodic and affecting.” –Q

“Absolutely majestic… this is the best album to come out of Canada since Funeral. 5/5” –
ARTROCKER
“Delightful … poetic and effortlessly gorgeous.” –THE WORD
“Refreshingly breathtaking, this is an album to fall in love with.” –CLASH
“Sounds rather like The Pastels might have done had Brendan Benson circa Lapalco been
in charge.” –DROWNED IN SOUND
“Lovely … relevant, modern and orchestral … these are songs for a range of emotion.” –
THE NATIONAL POST

“This is Arcade Fire with ration books and gas masks, or Elliott Smith fronting Sparklehorse
… it’s stunning, subtle and romantic.” –NME
“Extravagant shows of brasses or strings spiral out … Hamilton’s light, resilient voice is
tailor-made for mulling on the deceits and realities of what we see and do.” –THE GLOBE
AND MAIL
“Strings soar … and voices blend like a cool breeze hitting the ocean mist … Woodpigeon
take flight with an ease that their name wouldn’t make you believe.” – EXCLAIM!

“Understated beauty with an unshakable longing … meet your new indie folk heroes.” –SUBBA-CULTCHA
“Hamilton’s delightfully dour and lovelorn lyrics and sprightly, sweetly mellow music,
makes the morse seem wholly palatable … accomplished, quietly intelligent, playful and
really rather enchanting.” –BBC
“Rich acoustic chamber pop with quietly barbed lyrics.” –UNCUT
“Sehr gut.” –METRO UK

“A tapestry of plaintive guitar, shuffling snare drums, twinkling glockenspiel and
handclaps … from swirling blizzard chamber-pop to hushed alt.country … adrift in
sweeping landscapes.” –METRO
“A perfect balance of grandeur and intimacy, delight and melancholy… a left-field gem …
you can’t help but fall in love with.” –CHROMEWAVES
“The next great Canadian breakout band.” –NOW

ALBUM DISCOGRAPHY

Songbook (2006 LP)
[Rectangle Records / The End of the Road Records / Lirico]

Treasury Library Canada c/w Houndstooth Europa (2009 LP)
[Boompa Records / The End of the Road Records / Lirico]

Die Stadt Muzikanten (2010 LP)
[Boompa Records / The End of the Road Records / Lirico]

BALLADEER / to all the guys i’ve loved before (2010 Ltd. Ed. LP)
[Boompa Records]

Diamonds (2012 Ltd. Ed. LP)
[Boompa Records / Lirico]

Thumbtacks + Glue (2013 LP)
[Boompa Records / Fierce Panda Records / Lirico]

Album downloads and Promotional CDs available upon request.

VIDEOS

Take Away Show | Blogotheque

Robin Song

PHOTOGRAPHS

Top two images are hi-res, suitable for print.

From top to bottom:
Row 1: Both by Bergþóra Jónsdóttir.
Row 2: L by Peter Lynch, R by Paul Aucoin.
Row 3: L by Rob St. John, R by Sarah Tesla.
Row 4: L by Arran Fisher, R by Robert Calder.