Salter Cane http://saltercane.com/ Hailing from the Southernmost Reaches of Great Britain, these Four Players trade in Ballads of Melancholie & tales of Murder. en Saltonbury http://saltercane.com The Glastonbury Festival is kicking off this weekend. Salter Cane will not be there. If you are also foregoing an excursion to the Somerset countryside, why don’t you join us for an alternative, smaller gathering in Brighton.

We’ll be playing in The Prince Albert pub on Trafalgar Street on Friday, June 25th. We will be joined by our good friends and superb songsmiths, Caramel Jack.

An excellent evening’s entertainment is guaranteed. So why not come in out of the sunshine and soak up some songs of love, death and misery instead?

]]> Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:12:34 GMT post 32 Crippled Black Phoenix http://saltercane.com Here’s quick heads-up: Salter Cane will be supporting this Monday, April 26th at The Freebutt (suitably situated in Phoenix Place, Brighton. Show up early to if you want to see us.

Want to know more about Crippled Black Phoenix? they are:

…a collective of musicians from many other bands (including notably Iron Monkey, Gonga, Mogwai, Electric Wizard and others).

So there.

]]> Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:13:03 GMT post 31 Are friends acoustic? http://saltercane.com Thanks to everyone who came braved the cold weather to come out to The Prince Albert last night. It was truly an honour to play together with and Caramel Jack. Put us all together on the same bill and we make for a pretty damn good night out.

We had fun, especially when we covered two very different songs: Tim Buckley’s Song To The Siren and Tubeway Army’s Are Friends Electric?

While we were playing, Brighton was getting covered in a blanket of snow. Instruments in hand, we trudged home through the transformed white landscape. A cold end to a good night.

]]> Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:31:39 GMT post 30 Remembering the Gilded Palace of Sin http://saltercane.com A bittersweet event took place upstairs in The Price Albert in Brighton recently. A concert by Danny Schmidt marked the last ever gig organised by The Gilded Palace of Sin.

The Gilded Palace have been putting on gigs in Brighton for years and they’ve always been very kind and generous to Salter Cane. For the gig in The Albert, a limited run of special commemorative posters where made, listing all the bands who ever played under the banner of the Palace. Salter Cane were in there along with many visiting bands that we have played support to.

I remember the first Gilded Palace of Sin concert I went to, not long after moving to Brighton. The mighty Flophouse Jr. were playing upstairs in The Lift (now The Hope). The support band that night was a local band called Caramel Jack.

Since then, Salter Cane and Caramel Jack have formed a kind of mutual appreciation society and we relish any chance we get to play together. That’s why we think our next concert will be quite special.

On Thursday, December 17th, Salter Cane and Caramel Jack will be playing at The Prince Albert. It will be a festive affair …well, as festive as a bunch of miserablists like us are likely to ever get.

We’re looking forward to it and we hope to see you there. Together, we can raise a glass to the memory of The Gilded Palace of Sin. And then we will rock.

]]> Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:41:10 GMT post 29 Salter Cane and The Drones http://saltercane.com ‘Tis the weekend to be spooky, creepy, or just generally scary. But when the blood dries and the zombies and vampires have returned to their graves for another year, life must go on.

If you’re in Brighton and you’re wondering what to do after crawling around town in the guise of the recently undead, come along to The Prince Albert on Monday night. There, you can thrill to the sinister sounds of Australia’s own The Drones, ably supported by Salter Cane.

We promise a night of swampy reverb for all. See you there.

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