'If you don’t know Richard Walters then you’re no Oxford music enthusiast. The man has being around forever, playing nearly every Oxford Punt since time began (he got away with doing so on several technicalities). He set up The Beard Museum, a regular acoustic night at The Purple Turtle, and has been an all-round stalwart on the live gig circuit ever since. Having had several brushes with the main-stream music industry, Walters is currently settled with Noel Hogan's Mono Band. Noel was previously the guitarist in The Cranberries' - BBC Radio Oxford
Richard Walters covers Daniel Johnston's True Love Will Find You In The End. Taken from his forthcoming album The Animal due out in September 2009. This single is available on iTunes now.
Pre-order! for 21 September. The Animal is co-produced by David Kosten (Bat For Lashes, Faultline) and Ant Whiting (MIA, Paloma Faith, Zero 7) and features the single Brittle Bones and his Daniel Johnston cover True Love Will Find You In The End. More details... Written over a three year period of ecstatic highs and crushing lows for Walters, he was galvanised to record the album only after he had fallen in love with an American girl and moved with her to Paris from his home town of Oxford. His gentle falsetto, free from theatrics and histrionics, means that the subjects of his songs come as a surprise. Singing about having a seizure, or the anxiety you feel at the start of an affair, or about domestic abuse from the point of view of the abuser, Walters resolutely refuses to "rock out": the mood is of quiet despair and unfulfilled desire, of anxiety and dismay, of melancholy and longing.
tracklist 1. Brittle Bones 2. Weather song 3. All at sea 4. Crawl up to my room 5. We have your head 6. The Animal 7. Red brick 8. True love will find you in the end 9. American stitches 10. Spirit of the stairway
das darf hier natürlich nicht fehlen richard walters - brittle bones Brittle Bones music video directed by Phil Hawkins. Single out now on Kartel on limited edition 7" vinyl and download.
FREE DOWNLOAD!! Afternoon poppets, I recorded a new song as a b-side for upcoming single 'True Love Will Find You in the End'...and I've decided to make it available as a free download for a while.
I'm particularly proud of this little song. We recorded it looking out over the Parisian rooftops and chimneys some weeks ago, and its a souvenir of a perfect day I suppose.
Let me know how you like it. Lots of love,
R xx quelle: richards myspace
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richard walters - flooded valley
anti atlas - cool is the night (feat. richard walters)
der richard ein ganz großer, der bestimmt wieder ganz kleine
Come out tonight, let's go dancing shoot out the lights, the hole distance and throw our souls from tall buildings on broken roads, just like kids Don't give up, just yet..
.."this is a little song from my album, which comes out in September. If you're allowed to have a favourite song from your own record, I suppose this is mine. I apologize for looking so 'orrible in this video, it was kind of early."
and get a copy of my debut album all ordered up and delivered and everything. no shops, no itunes, just postmen and letterboxes...oh and credit cards...and unwrapping.