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Sweet Billy Pilgrim Announce New Single and Tour Dates

• 2nd Nov 2009

SWEET BILLY PILGRIM Brand New Single: ‘Kalypso’ Released: November 2nd on Samadhisound.

Sweet Billy Pilgrim follow their Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize-nominated album ‘Twice Born Men’ with the release of ‘Kalypso’, the track they performed at the event.

‘Kalypso’ is a beautiful and haunting song, reminiscent of Elbow at their most atmospheric, with a chorus that revolves like a madrigal. The spartan, hymn-like air sees Sweet Billy Pilgrim drift into Fleet Foxes territory, conjuring cinematic moments of sparkling electricity out of the ether.

The band set off on their first full UK tour alongside Portico Quartet, darlings of the left-field jazz scene, at the end of October. In true everyman style Sweet Billy Pilgrim have foregone the traditional tourbus in favour of squeezing into a Ford Mondeo and hitching a trailer to the back.

And it’s this basic approach that makes the glorious music they create even more remarkable. ‘Kalypso’, like its parent album ‘Twice Born Men’ was recorded in a shed at the bottom of Tim’s garden, using all sorts of everyday household utensils as instruments, alongside the more traditional guitars, drums and assorted electronica.

Dates are as follows:

Monday 2 November London Koko

Tuesday 3 November Manchester RNCM

Wednesday 4 November Edinburgh Electric Circus

Thursday 5 November Glasgow The Arches

Saturday 6 November Middlesbrough Town Hall Crypt

Saturday 7 November Birmingham CBSO Centre

Sunday 8 November Brighton & Hove The Old Market

Sweet Billy Pilgrim’s single ‘Kalypso’ is released on David Sylvian’s Samadhisound label distributed by EMI Label Services.

The album ‘Twice Born Men’ is a Barclaycard Mercury Music Prize album of the year for 2009.