Musical adventures. Patrick Watson is a fantastic artist and band. 'Adventures In Your Own Backyard' is their brilliant new fourth CD (on the Domino label, via V2.)

In a sold out ABClub in March 2008. In a sold out Orangerie at the Botanique in April 2012. Time for another step up, a spine-tingling trip to your ABConcert Hall.

But you don’t have to take our word for it. Believe the media for a change.

Agenda BDW: 'Patrick Watson, de Canadese zanger die met onthutsend mooi gevolg pop aan klassiek en folk knoopt...'

Les Inrocks about his 'sci-fi folk': 'bien plus étrange et beau que ça... ne fréquente que la grandeur et l'apesanteur*'

De Morgen: 'voortdurend garant voor muzikaal spektakel, of voor een krop in de keel... excentriek... fabelachtige show...'

KnackFocus: 'Minuscule, subtiel gearrangeerde maalstroompjes, waarin grandeur en soberheid een zwierig rondedansje uitvoeren. Denk bij alles wat wufte pop is aan Grizzly Bear, en bij de rest aan Erik Satie en Claude Debussy. En noem het engeltjespop. zal uw nageslacht gewéldig vinden.'

Further references? Cinematic Orchestra, of course, with whom he collaborated and appeared in AB for the very first time. We now like to think of Sufjan Stevens or Robert Wyatt or Rufus Wainwright. Our loyal Watson was this time apparently particularly inspired by Ennio Morricone!? Excellent! Elementary!

*big word for weightlessness

Support-act will be Half Moon Run, also from Canada. Recent reviews continue to refer to their heavenly mix of atmospherics à la Radiohead and 60ies folk-rock harmonies. Certainly with delightful vocals and very playful percussion too.
The AB's then envoy to the important SXSW festival in Austin Texas USA this year spoke of: 'Half Moon Run with a series of intelligent but impassioned pop songs. Their ‘Full Circle’ is certainly the pop song/earwig (delete what is not applicable) of the day.'
Their debut CD (of the year) is now finally finished too: ‘Dark Eyes’!