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Todmorden Working Mens Social Club OL14 5QG

Love songs about drinking and drinking songs about love

The Berlin-based duo will bring their charming and uplifting songs of love, life,
drinking and late nights to an intimate show at this characterful venue.
The long-time Folk Radio UK and BBC 6 Music favourites will be visiting Todmorden as part of a UK tour promoting two new albums ‘Pole Fitness’ and ‘Hotel Berlin’.

“Beautiful people making beautiful music, and doing it on their own terms. For my tastes, Stanley Brinks is the most talented lyricist we have ever and will ever record for Simple Folk Radio” – Dillon, Folk Radio UK.

Stanley Brinks was born in Paris, France, in 1973. He studied a bit of biology and worked as a nurse for a while. Half Swedish, half Moroccan, strongly inclined to travel the world, he soon began spending most of his life on the road and developed a strong relationship with New York. By the late 90s he had become a full-time singer-songwriter André Herman Düne as part of three-piece indie-rock band, Herman Düne. Several albums and Peel sessions later and after a decade of touring Europe, mostly with American songwriters such as Jeffrey Lewis, Calvin Johnson and early Arcade Fire, he settled in Berlin. The early carnival music of Trinidad became a passion, and in the early 21st century he became the unquestioned master of European calypso, changing his name to Stanley Brinks. Under this moniker he has recorded more than 100 albums, collaborated with the New York Anti-folk scene on several occasions, recorded and toured with traditional Norwegian
musicians, and played a lot with The Wave Pictures.

Clemence Freschard grew up on a farm near Dijon, Burgundy. She started
organizing shows in the barn when she was about 12 years old. At 18 she moved to the big city – Paris – where she baked pies and cakes in a cafe. There, a local musician and regular customer called Andre Herman Dune wrote a few songs for her to sing. She called her first E.P. “Neon Orange”. Homeless in Paris, she saved up just enough money to get herself a ticket to New York. There, she found an old electric guitar and started writing her own songs. She recorded her second E.P., “Shower Gel”, with Mike Gomez on lapsteel guitar. In 2004 she moved to Berlin, where she recorded her first LP, “Alien Duck”. Since then she has recorded and toured prolifically as a solo artist, with Stanley Brinks, with the Wave Pictures and with The Burning Hell.