Farm Hand
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“Truly brilliant and truly bonkers. Farm Hand
engages with those of us here in a way that makes us glad we’ve attended this show. 10/10”
“Music with reverent, almost religious overtones”
“Farm Hand offers something truly alternative sharing more similarities with an interactive art show than alternative music”
“beautiful pieces of music, hymnal and sombre and hilarious, and you should really go and see him if you can.”
“With its arcane oddness and warped, subterranean beats, the music of Farm Hand seems very much at ease alone in the dark”
““Over the course of his set, he stands on one table, takes a seat at another and shows off some line-dancing moves – all before prompting a discussion about the best way to cook couscous” ”
Bio
Farm Hand is the solo name of Islet member and Shape Records founder Mark Daman Thomas. Farm Hand is the sound of Mark being restored to factory settings after moving from Cardiff to his homeland in the sparsely populated hills of Radnorshire. Freewheeling and full of deep, cyclical melodies, his work is a reflection on the realities of rural life, built on car boot beats, field recordings, loops and second hand organs. Farm Hand will release his second album “Land Work” in June 2022. “Music with reverent, almost religious overtones” WIRE “…almost spiritual in its delivery, with drawn out melodies and deep choral harmonies rubbing against bucolic electronics” M Magazine
Twitter: @farmhandle
Instagram: @farmhandle
Photo by Tom Raybould at The Printhaus, Cardiff
“International Dreams” is almost spiritual in its delivery, with drawn out melodies and deep choral harmonies rubbing against bucolic electronics”
“International Dreams feels like an important album”
“A vein of Welsh Psych gold mined from the Radnorshire hills.”
“International Dreams is an essential continuation of Wales’ tradition of rurally honed psychedelia”
“His droney-church-organ shifts and scrapes, together with deeply voiced singing by his silver-coated figure, made for an other-worldly experience
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Twitter: @farmhandle
Instagram: @farmhandle
Previous performances:
2023:
1st Dec - Shift, Cardiff
2022:
27th May - Cardiff, Ffotogallery
1st May - Machynlleth Comedy Festival
23rd April - Newport, Le Pub
2019:
26th Mar - Divine Schism, Fusion Arts, Oxford (supporting Rattle)
2018:
19th Oct - Swn Festival, Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
22nd July - Printhaus, Cardiff w/ Quodega
16th June - Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff w/ Alex Dingley
31st May - Gwdihw, Cardiff w/ Ed Dowie
26th May - Blue Honey Cafe, Cardiff Psych and Noise Fest 2018
2017:
07 Dec - Transport Club, Cardiff (supporting Sweet Baboo)
06 Dec - The Lexington, London (supporting Sweet Baboo)
05 Dec - Komedia (Arts Cafe), Bath (supporting Sweet Baboo)
14 Nov - The Social, London (Huw Stephens Presents)
04 Nov - Spillers Records, Cardiff (album launch)
13 Oct- The Castle Hotel, Manchester (supporting Thomas Truax)
14 Oct- The Tabernacle, Talgarth (Make Noise Wales)
29 Apr - Machynlleth Comedy Festival
22 Apr - Outpost Coffee, Cardiff - Record Store Day
06 Jan - Chapter, Cardiff (BBC Radio 3 - Exposure)
2016:
15 Dec - Clwb Ifor Bach - Please Mind Your Head Fundraiser
18 Nov - Clwb Ifor Bach w/ Flamingods
24 Aug - Clwb Ifor Bach w/ Suuns
20 Aug - Green Man Festival
16 Aug - Noctule - Eglyws Faen Cave, Green Man Festival (one-off underground performance - see below)
12 Aug - The Parrot, Carmarthen
04 Jun - Festival of Voice, Cardiff
14 May - Focus Wales, Wrexham