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CHRISTIAAN WEBB & THE SWEET LORDS (The Webb Brothers)

http://soundcloud.com/christiaan-webb

Joshua Caole

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Zoe Devlin

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7.30pm, Thursday 19 April @ Leaf Bold St

Tickets £7adv from...

In person: Probe (School Ln) & The Music Consortium (Bold St)

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WE'VE FOUND THEM (WELL ONE OF THEM ANYWAY)

After a month long search for The Webb Brothers, last week we hit gold as we managed to find Christiaan during a 3 day cyber search. It was touch n go for a moment or two, but just as we were about to give up and switch the computer off we found his soundcloud page. We were also very pleasantly surprised to learn that he plans to release his debut solo album, 'A Man Possessed' on April, and not only that but he planned to gig too.

So here we are, he's playing here. We had to make it happen. It's gonna be great. Jimmy might turn up.

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16th April 2012 sees the release of A Man Possessed, the debut solo album by Christiaan Webb that features 11 songs that represent the culmination of a life-altering spiritual journey for Christiaan.

Eldest son of songwriting legend Jimmy Webb (Witchita Lineman, Galveston, By The Time I get To Phoenix), Christiaan first came to public attention as part of the Webb Brothers, a band he formed with his younger brother, Justin. In 1998, the demo album Beyond the Biosphere was released to

critical acclaim in the U.K. and was quickly picked up by London-based label Easy! Tiger Records. The Webb Brothers then signed with Warner Music and the album Maroon was released to critical and commercial success in 2000. Touring extensively, the brothers built a strong fan base in the UK

that continues to this day.

2003 saw the release of the eponymous Webb Brothers album (as well as recruitment of brother James), showcasing the versatility and depth of Christiaan’s songwriting. In 2009, the brothers joined their father to form ‘Jimmy Webb and the Webb Brothers,’ releasing the reflective, maturesounding Cottonwood Farm (Proper Music).

Following this collaboration, Christiaan began work on the songs that form A Man Possessed, partly inspired by the writings of Don Miguel Ruiz. “The way this album came about has been a spiritual journey more than anything else,” says Christiaan. “Last year, I read the book The Four Agreements. It affected me; a Toltec wisdom book had changed my life. This was quite a change for a guy who had been a freewheeling rock-and-roller for 18 years.” The album began to take shape in early January 2011, the songs coming in a flash - lyrics, melody and chords, sometimes all in an hour or less. “I had never experienced anything like it. They were coming out so fast and

they were some of the best songs I had ever written. I felt like a marionette, my fingers moving to new and unexpected places on the piano. I really did feel like ‘a man possessed.”

With this new, unexpected collection of songs, Christiaan set out finding the right location to record them. “I reached out to Musicbox Studios in Cardiff, Wales. Mark ‘the bear’ Foley and Andrew ‘Bernie’ Plain have been good friends to the Webb Brothers over the years and had always left their

door open to me”. With Bernie (drums), Mark (Bass) and Graham Ryder (Guitars) on board as the newly named ‘The Sweet Lords’, A Man Possessed was recorded in the UK in April 2011. Produced by Charlie Francis (REM, High Llamas, Turin Brakes), it also features Christiaan’s good friends Romeo Stodart and Angela Gannon from the Magic Numbers and acts from the Cardiff area including Zervas and Pepper, Steve ‘Sweet Baboo’ Black and John ‘Catfish’ Thomas.