Shows

By the Fireside, Electric Tape Recorder Mon 6th October 2008 Big Chill House, Pentonville Road Kings Cross These two were real stars at this year's End of the Road Festival, on both The Local's own and on the Big Top stage. Here we've got them for a free show to sooth your skint ass.

By The Fireside
London based musician and producer Daniel Lea is enchanted by the forgotten narratives of yesterday. Trawling the past for visual and lyrical inspiration, gathering snippets from forgotten histories, By The Fireside is his music box and storytelling vehicle.

Inspired by dialogue and imagery from old noir classics, world cinema and the silent era, Daniel Lea welds unique influences into his music. Lea’s first EP, ‘Battles That Add Up To None’, drew heavily from his grandfather’s time in the air force in WW2, quickly catching the attention of the peeps down at Rough Trade Records. Rating it amongst the top releases of 2005, the mix of ‘lo-fi loops with homemade ramshackle folk’ found a healthy audience and By the Fireside was heralded as one to watch. 

The Electric Tape Recorder
"From Sheffield, and they are genius: humorous, full of broken metaphors and salvaged instruments, mangled hearts and dead pixels. The blues, as practiced by the children of Bukowski, Captain Beefheart and Jeffrey Lewis. Whoa! We don't wan't to imagine that parentage again!" Everett True - End of the Road festival - 2008