Myles Manley Announces UK & Ireland Tour

Myles Manley has announced a 13 date tour including London, Leeds, Edinburgh and Dublin. He will be performing alongside fellow Irish musicians, Chris Barry and Solamh Kelly. Manley makes idiosyncratic folk music on guitar with rhythms and colours snatched from various places, most recently Eric B and Rakim, Micachu and The Shapes, Moondog, The Clash's Sandinista, Jinx Lennon, Frankie Cosmos, etc.

"I started listening to a lot of early hiphop for some reason and what I loved about it was the clunkiness of the sounds, and the excitement you can hear at a whole new world of opportunities. I bought an MPC and started making idiot beats late at night that I'd write songs to. I've always had an ear for weird rhythms and I was able to make stuff that you'd never come up with rehearsing in a room with a drummer."

A batch of songs written in this way was then taken to human drummers Solamh Kelly and Oisin Trench and recorded by longtime collaborator Chris Barry, who added his own guitar parts, yielding the single you have in your very ears. "It is amazing to play with such musicians because they take a framework and make it come alive, add their voice to it. It starts to express a time and a place. And it starts to express my unbelievable talent."

Relax; Enjoy Your Night Upon The Town is set for release on February 17th via Dublin's Little L Records, available on 7" and all major digital platforms.

FULL DATES BELOW:

Feb 17 London (New Cross) -- Amersham Arms

Feb 19 Coventry -- The Tin Arts and Music

Feb 22 Newport -- Le Pub

Feb 24 Leeds -- House Show

Feb 25 Edinburgh -- Safari Lounge

Feb 26 Sheffield -- Audacious Art Experiment

Mar 3 Belfast -- The Sunflower

Mar 4 Sligo – McGarrigles

Mar 23 Buncrana -- Ned's Point

Mar 24 Derry – Bennigans

Mar 25 Dublin -- The Workman's Club

Apr 8 Limerick -- Dolan's Warehouse

Apr 9 Dundalk -- The Spirit Store