Portico Quartet Tour Dates March 2010

Portico Quartet

After the huge success of their critically acclaimed second album, Isla (released last year on Peter Gabriel's Real World records), Portico Quartet hit the ground running in 2010 with their most ambitious UK tour to date, including their biggest show yet at the Barbican on March 8th 2010.

Portico Quartet are Jack Wyllie (sax and loops), Milo Fitzpatrick (double bass), Nick Mulvey (Hang) and Duncan Bellamy (drums and Hang), four young musicians from East London who started a band together after the chance purchase of a 'hang' at a music festival in 2005.

In just a few years Portico Quartet's hypnotic music has taken them from busking, to a Mercury Prize nomination, to performing at the Royal Opera House and recording their most recent album Isla at Abbey Road with producer John Leckie (Stone Roses, Radio Head etc). Portico Quartet are also set to feature in the The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special, being directed by Morgan Spurlock (30 Days, Super Size Me).

Musically, Isla is a darker, more mature, expansive statement than their Mercury nominated debut, Knee-Deep In The North Sea, with the addition of loop pedals, real-time electronics and strings arranged by the band's bassist Milo Fitzpatrick. The album received rave reviews online.

Portico Quartet Tour Dates March 2010
5th Swansea Pontardawe Arts Centre
8th London Barbican 7.30pm / £10-£20
11th Kendal Brewery Arts Centre 7.30pm / £12.50
12th Liverpool Philharmonic Hall 8.30pm / £14.50
13th Gateshead The Sage Gateshead 8pm / £15/ £13
14th Manchester Band On The Wall 7.30pm / £10
16th Bracknell South Hill Park Wilde Theatre 7.30pm / £13
18th Southampton Turner Sims 8pm / £16/ £15/ £14.50
19th Bexhill De La Warr Pavilion 8pm / £10
20th Coventry Warwick Arts Centre 8pm / £12.50/ £10
21st Northampton Royal & Derngate 7.45pm/ £15/ £13
26th Constantine Tolmen Centre Constantine 7.30pm £9/ £8
27th Penzanze Acorn Arts Centre 8.30pm / £12/ £10

Also See: ilikemusic.com | Portico Quartet

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