http://www.independentrecords.ie/news.shtml Independent Records is a Dublin based label which has been releasing records since 1994 specialising in licensing both U.S. and Irish albums for release in Ireland and beyond. en-ie Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:25:33 +0000 Copyright: (C) Independent Records 2006 60 http://www.independentrecords.ie/logo_2005.jpg http://www.independentrecords.ie/ Hot on the heels of the announcement of his new album, So Runs The World Away, on Independent Records Ireland on 23rd April and Irish tour Josh Ritter has confirmed he has signed on with Random House imprint The Dial Press to publish his first work of fiction, Bright’s Passage, in summer 2011.

Ritter told Entertainment Weekly, “It was while I was writing song for my new record, So Runs the World Away that the story came into my head for Bright’s Passage. Several of the songs on So Runs the World Away are fairly complicated narrative songs, so my first instinct was to try and make Henry Bright’s story into a song. As I thought about it, though, I realized this was my chance to try my hand at a novel.” He added, “I’ve written lots of longer-form fiction before, but none that I’d ever think to show anyone. I’ve always thought that one of the most important talents a good writer can have is the knowledge of when to share a work and when to leave it locked in your desk. Besides my songs, Bright’s Passage is the first work I’ve I wanted anyone to see.”

Ritter says that for him, songwriting and novel-writing bring the same challenges: “While the audience may not be in the room with a novelist, they still demand the same kind of attention as they do from the performance of a song. They ask that you give them your full attention, that you are generous with your time and that you don’t over stay your welcome. They give you their trust, and if they can tell your efforts have been for the right reasons, they’ll give you the room for whatever flights of imagination you’re willing to take them on.” Who does he like to read? “Muriel Spark, Pete Dexter, Dennis Lehane Stephen King, Mordecai Richler, Philip Roth and Daphne du Maurier and Flannery O’Connor. I like anyone who is willing to burn their own dollhouses down.

A track ‘Change Of Time’ from the forthcoming album is available from www.joshritter.com

Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band
With special guest Joe Pug (except Kilkenny)
Saturday 24th April –The Live Lounge @ The Radisson Hotel, Galway
Sunday 25th April – Dolan’s, Limerick
Tuesday 27th April – Grand Canal Theatre, Dublin
Thursday 29th April – Festival Marquee at CQAF, Belfast (Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival)
Friday 30th April – Ormonde Hotel, Kilkenny (Kilkenny Rhythm & Roots festival)

http://www.independentrecords.ie/news/2010/02/62/ Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 February 8th, 2010

JOSH RITTER
SO RUNS THE WORLD AWAY OUT 23rd April

Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band
With special guest Joe Pug (except Kilkenny)

Tickets on sale tomorrow (Tuesday 9th Feb. except where noted)

Saturday 24th April –The Live Lounge @ The Radisson Hotel, Galway
Tickets €30 from www.roisindubh.net/tickets.php

Sunday 25th April – Dolans, Limerick
Tickets from www.dolanspub.com or 061 314483 and Ticketmaster outlets nationwide Priced €29 + booking

Tuesday 27th April – Grand Canal Theatre, Dublin
Tickets €36 (incl.booking fee) from www.ticketmaster.ie

Thursday 29th April – Festival Marquee at CQAF, Belfast (Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival)
Tickets onsale from Friday 26th February www.cqaf.com

Friday 30th April – Ormonde Hotel, Kilkenny (Kilkenny Rhythm & Roots festival)
Tickets €30 from (this is an 8.30pm show) from Rollercoaster records, 056 7763669

“If you love music and have a device on which to play it, you should listen to Josh Ritter…”
—Mary-Louise Parker in Esquire


So Runs The World Away, the new album from renowned singer-songwriter Josh Ritter, will be released April 23rd on Independent Records Ireland. This is the fifth full-length recording from Ritter, who has been widely heralded by critics and fans alike. Of the Idaho-native, Paste magazine declares, “Put simply, Ritter is the most gifted interpreter of Americana, as an arranger and a lyricist, working today.”
Recorded over 15 months at the Great North Sound Society in Maine, with additional recording at Brooklyn’s Saltlands Studio, So Runs The World Away continues Ritter’s longtime collaboration with producer and keyboard player Sam Kassirer. Additionally, the album features the return of Ritter’s core line-up of touring bandmates: Zack Hickman, Austin Nevins and Liam Hurley.
Of the record, Ritter says, “I think of the songs on So Runs the World Away like pictures painted in oil on large canvasses. It’s a record preoccupied with the extremes of scale, from infinitesimal particles to the nearly incomprehensible distances between the head of a pin and a nebula. Where the songs felt large to me, I wanted them to be huge, both musically and lyrically. I wanted them to feel like the steel hulls of massive ships sliding by deeply from below. Where they were small, I concentrated in on the smallest details that I could and we tried to make the music and the words work together. I love writing, and this was the most fulfilling record I’ve yet written.”
A nationwide Irish full-band tour coincides with the record which is released in Ireland before it’s worldwide release in May. Additional details will be announced shortly.


Praise for Josh Ritter:
“…he sets out to carry a world of ideas on a few basic chords….there is no limit to the depth and ambition of his songs.”—The New York Times

“How refreshing and inspiring it is to encounter a young artist whose achievements match his ambitions.”—The Washington Post

“…this is the most exuberant outburst of imagery since Bob Dylan’s A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.”—Stephen King naming The Animal Years his #1 album of 2006 in Entertainment Weekly

“(One of ) The 10 Most Exciting Artists Now”—Entertainment Weekly
http://www.independentrecords.ie/news/2010/02/61/ Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Aiken Promotions and Independent Records are very proud to present

A very special evening with

Josh Ritter & Band
Grand Canal Theatre, Dublin - Tuesday 27th April 2010
Tickets on sale this Monday 14th December at 9am priced €36 (incl.bk fee) from www.ticketmaster.ie

With 5 studio albums and 2 live albums in his catalogue Josh Ritter returns to Dublin for a very special evening at the brand new (and super lush) Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin’s Docklands. Josh has spent most of 2009 with his touring band, working on a new record. Having performed in Dublin and Cork with a 24 piece orchestra and around the country in October with a new string band, Josh is delighted to bring this band of brothers to the Grand Canal Theatre. Josh recently completed a UK tour with Ray LaMontagne, a US theatre tour (with The Low Anthem as support) and is special guest on the Swell Season shows in Europe in the New Year. Three of Josh’s albums ; Golden Age Of Radio, Hello Starling and The Animal Years were released in deluxe editions in Ireland in 2009.

The Grand Canal Theatre will be Ireland’s largest touring theatre for Musicals, Ballet, Family Shows, Drama, Concerts and Opera. The theatre will have the largest theatre stage in the country which will open the door to large theatrical productions which were previously unable to visit these shores.

Situated overlooking the Grand Canal Square and Grand Canal Dock in the centre of Dublin, Grand Canal Theatre is well served by public transport - Bus, Rail, Luas and Dart services all within a 20 minute walk from the venue. This iconic building was designed by world renowned architect Daniel Libeskind.

“Pretty soon, I predict, there will only be two kinds of people left in the world—those who recognize Josh Ritter as the newest and reigning Genius American Singer-Songwriter and those who haven’t heard him yet. So sit back and listen. You’ve had a hard day. But your work is done. You’re owed some joy.”

DENNIS LEHANE
Author The Given Day and Mystic River

Tickets priced €36 including booking fee go on sale this Monday 14th December at 9am from www.ticketmaster.ie

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