The Icelandic ash cloud has consequences for the AB too: the Newton Faulkner concert scheduled for Tuesday April 20th at the ABClub is postponed to Sunday June 13th.The tickets remain valid. If the new date doesn't fit, send the tickets, mentioning the bankaccount, to : Ancienne Belgique, AB Ticketshop, Anspachlaan 110, 1000 Brussels. Or you can come to the AB Ticketshop, Steenstraat 25, 1000 Brussels.
Finally back on the road again, with a new CD and a new right-hand. Rather literally too. Following the the worldwide success of his debut 'Hand Built By Robots' and single 'Dream Catch Me', this British singer-guitarist was entirely ready to make new recordings. Until he broke his right arm and wrist. A catastrophe for any musician, except if you’re called Newton Faulkner, you continue bravely, and you call your new CD 'Rebuilt By Humans' while you’re at it too (with thanks to many fans all over the world and doctors in France and Great Britain.)
Newton Faulkner is the sort of fervent performer who loves to travel and perform. He’ll do his thing in a small bar in Brussels, just as easily as a support act to Charlie Winston through France! But then he prefers to record in a small basement studio in London, though the result could just as easily be a collaboration with Cornelius, the intense Japanese producer, or a extremely charming cover of Massive Attack's 'Teardrop'.
'Have guitar, will travel troubadour', we read in his bio, and that’s how he looks too. A different look than Milow, for example, but with the same infectious craftsmanship!