Front & Follow HQ kindly sent me some photos of the packaging for the new release.   Set for release 13 July 2015. Pre-order here – https://fandf.bandcamp.com/album/you-brought-the-knife .  

The Doomed Bird of Providence are pleased to announce the release of a new 5 track EP ‘You Brought the Knife’ on 13.07.15.  To be released by Front & Follow. The EP is based on the life of Maria Murray (nee Middleton) – former slave and convict who found her way from Belize to Australia…

We have completed an EP of 5 songs to be released on Front & Follow 13th July 2015.  

News here – http://www.frontandfollow.com/the-return-of-doomed-bird/

The last couple of shows have been great.  Cheers to Shindig (Cambridge) and Audioscope (Oxford) for putting on such great events. Next show is 31st January 2015, Southend-on-Sea, organised by Squeezebox Folk. We did a show with them in late 2013 which went down well.  This one is in a larger venue (The Dixon Studio)…

OXFORD: Audioscope @ The Jericho Tavern SAT 8TH NOV, 2014 Doors at 1.30pm, ends midnight Matt Elliott (Third Eye Foundation, Flying Saucer Attack), The Telescopes, Wrangler (Cabaret Voltaire/Tunng), You Are Wolf, Circle Traps, The Doomed Bird of Providence, Kid Kin, The Neon Violets Audioscope14 is the fourteenth annual festival raising money for homelessness charity Shelter…

25/10 – Leper Chapel of St. Mary Magdalene £7 on the door / £5 advance Tickets on sale here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/288103 An evening of sound and vision, spoken word, shadows & theatre, curated by SHINDIG. https://www.facebook.com/events/476568519145264/513963438739105

The Doomed Bird of Providence are performing at the Ramsgate Music Hall on Fri 27 Jun 2014. Further details – http://www.ramsgatemusichall.com/events/event.php?s=2014-06-27-the-doomed-bird-of-providence

Fine reworkings by Kemper Norton of The Doomed Bird of Providence track Mahina (from their second album Blind Mouths Eat). Download only (physical release to follow as a part of a ‘remixes and rarities’ cd later this year): http://boomkat.com/downloads/963060-kemper-norton-to-mahina    

Number 5 of Wyrd Daze ‘The digital zine of extraordinary creativity’ features an exclusive track by The Doomed Bird of Providence. It also features tracks by an array of great artists including Front & Follow artists Lutine. More info here: http://wyrddaze.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/issue-5-showcase/

From Front & Follow HQ – “‘To Mahina’ begins with the ships that formed part of the Cornish diaspora to Australia in the nineteenth century, and imagines an encounter between a Cornish emigre miner  and  a Japanese pearl fisherman who has made a similar journey. Because of dangers such as shark attacks, risk of drowning…

A small message of thanks to everyone that supported The Doomed Bird of Providence in 2013. It was a lot of work putting the album together but in the end I think it turned out well and I am very grateful to everyone involved in making it happen. SO… Thanks to Justin and Helen Watson…

http://www.mixcloud.com/eveningoflight/cloudscape-43-winter-solstice-2013/

The Doomed Bird of Providence are on the new Wire Magazine subscriber compilation  – Below the Radar 15. http://thewire.co.uk/audio/btr/below-the-radar-15  

Thanks to Christopher Nosnibor at whisperinandhollerin for the review of Blind Mouths Eat. http://www.whisperinandhollerin.com/reviews/review.asp?id=10548

There’s a great review of Blind Mouths Eat in December’s Terrascope Rumbles. http://www.terrascope.co.uk/Reviews/Rumbles_December_13.htm

A new track by the Doomed Bird will be featured on Adventures In Music And Sound – Resonance FM, Thu, 28 November, 21:00 – 22:30. It’s called Boyd’s Tower and will also be on the next Below the Radar (Wire Magazine subscriber compilation). http://resonancefm.com/  

David Cowling from AmericaUK has written a great review of the album. http://www.americana-uk.com/cd-reviews/item/the-doomed-bird-of-povidence-blind-mouths-eat-front-follow-2013

The Wire asked Mark from the Doomed Bird to submit links to sites online that were of interest to him.   It includes a range of different links including a couple of Australian folk music sites, a convict database, Old Bailey court cases and some links to a few favourite authors. http://thewire.co.uk/in-writing/the-portal/the-doomed-bird-of-providence-27694 Photo: Owen Llewellyn…

Pre-order the limited edition t-shirt. http://frontandfollow.bigcartel.com/product/blind-mouths-eat-t-shirt  

‘Blind Mouths Eat’, the 2nd album by The Doomed Bird of Providence is out today. It has already received a number of positive reviews including: Norman Records    Freq ATTN:Magazine Clive Bell wrote a full page review in the November edition of  Wire Magazine : “Sometimes cussedness is an essential virtue for musicians. The Doomed Bird…

15th November – Club Integral, London 16th November – Dead Air Live, Colchester 20th December – Squeezebox Folk, Leigh-on-Sea more on the way…

Some reviews of Blind Mouths Eat – Norman Records Freq ATTN:Magazine  

Clive Bell wrote a full page review of the new album in the most recent issue of Wire Magazine. http://thewire.co.uk/archive/issues/357 Clive Bell writes: “Sometimes cussedness is an essential virtue for musicians. The Doomed Bird Of Providence’s Mark Kluzek oozes cussedness like sweat. He’s an Australian in exile, assembling a group of Brit players to realise…

Blind Mouths Eat can be pre-ordered from the stockists below: Rough Trade – http://www.roughtrade.com/albums/77658 Norman Records – http://www.normanrecords.com/records/143485-the-doomed-bird-of-providence-blind-mouths-eat- Boomkat – http://boomkat.com/cds/834389-the-doomed-bird-of-providence-blind-mouths-eat Piccadilly Records (Manchester) – http://www.piccadillyrecords.com/products/TheDoomedBirdOfProvidence-BlindMouthsEat-FrontAndFollow-93382.html Resident Music (Brighton) – http://www.resident-music.com/productdetails&product_id=27713  

The Wire’s Clive Bell has written a full page review of the forthcoming album. The Doomed Bird Of Providence Singing Australia’s visceral history. http://thewire.co.uk/archive/issues/357

The Doomed Bird of Providence have completed their second album.  To be released on Front & Follow, the album is entitled Blind Mouths Eat. It will be released on Monday 11th November. All album artwork is by Australian visual artist Peter Aldrich (http://peteraldrich.weebly.com/). Once again the album was mastered by Mark Beazley (Trace Recordings). They’ll…