Since being Mercury Prize-nominated for 2001’s Here Be Monsters (preceded by the Maplewood mini-album), then winning innumerable accolades with 2003's From Every Sphere (which included the hit, ‘All Of Your Days Will Be Blessed’), Ed Harcourt has been falling in love, striding through Swedish snow in search of wild boars, recording with crack-addled cultish American rockers, touring U.S. arenas with R.E.M. and Wilco, rapping in karaoke bars, getting beaten up and almost run over by Mexican skinheads for accidentally throwing gravel at their car in Colorado, performing at tributes to Gram Parsons, Jeff Buckley, Randy Newman, Neil Young and The Beatles, and deciding that every moment of every song should be the most important thing you’ve ever done.

With this in mind, he wrote his most honest and exposed album, Strangers. The opus was produced by Jari Haapalainen (The Concretes, etc) at the Aerosol Grey Machine Studio in the middle of woods in Sweden.

“I’m not kidding, there were wild pigs, stray cats – I’ll show you pictures if you don’t believe me. Though you won’t like our moustaches."

Fourth album The Beautiful Lie hits the UK in June 2006.

Biography from Edharcourt.com. Photo courtesy of Emma Porter.

Releases

• Until Tomorrow Then - The Best Of - album, out 08/10/2007 on EMI Records. (post review)
• You Put A Spell On Me - single, out 01/10/2007 on Heavenly. (post review)
• The Beautiful Lie - album, out 05/06/2006 on Heavenly. 1 review (read/post)
• Elephant's Graveyard - album, out 08/08/2005 on Heavenly. (post review)
• Strangers - album, out 13/09/2004 on Heavenly. 1 review (read/post)
• This One's For You - single, out 30/08/2004 on Heavenly. 1 review (read/post)
• Loneliness - single, out 14/02/2004 on Heavenly. 1 review (read/post)
• From Every Sphere - album, out 17/02/2003 on Heavenly. 1 review (read/post)
• All Your Days Are Blessed - single, out 03/02/2003 on EMI Records. 1 review (read/post)
• Still I Dream of It - single, out 04/11/2002 on Heavenly. (post review)
• Shanghai - single, out 08/04/2002 on Heavenly. (post review)
• Apple Of My Eye - single, out 28/01/2002. (post review)
• Here Be Monsters - album, out 25/06/2001 on Heavenly. 1 review (read/post)

Past events

• Tue 01 Apr at London Rough Trade East. 1 review (read/post)
• Tue 23 Oct at London Koko. (post review)
• Mon 22 Oct at Brighton Digital. (post review)
• Sat 20 Oct at Oxford Academy. (post review)
• Fri 19 Oct at Bristol Trinity. (post review)
• Thu 18 Oct at Cardiff The Point. (post review)
• Tue 16 Oct at Birmingham Barfly. (post review)
• Mon 15 Oct at Nottingham The Rescue Rooms. (post review)
• Sun 14 Oct at Norwich Arts Centre. (post review)
• Fri 12 Oct at Cambridge Barfly at The Graduate. (post review)
• Thu 11 Oct at Liverpool Barfly. (post review)
• Wed 10 Oct at Sheffield Leadmill. (post review)
• Tue 09 Oct at Leeds Brudenell Social Club. (post review)
• Sun 07 Oct at York Fibbers. (post review)
• Sat 06 Oct at Manchester Academy 3 (formerly Hop & Grape). (post review)
• Thu 04 Oct at Newcastle upon Tyne Northumbria University Stage 2. (post review)
• Wed 03 Oct at Glasgow Oran Mor. (post review)
• Tue 02 Oct at Edinburgh Liquid Rooms. (post review)
• The Voice of Slavery, Sun 25 Mar at London Forum. (post review)
• Mon 18 Dec at London Cargo. (post review)
• Sun 22 Oct at Glasgow Classic Grand. 1 review (read/post)
• Tennants Vital Festival, Wed 23 Aug at Belfast Botanic Gardens & Palm House. 1 review (read/post)
• Let's Rock! Edinburgh, Fri 21 Jul at Edinburgh Royal Highland Centre. (post review)
• Fri 09 Jun at London Union Chapel. (post review)
• Thu 08 Jun at London Union Chapel. (post review)
• Wed 08 Feb at London Madame Jo Jo's. (post review)
• Mon 23 Jul at Manchester Roadhouse. 1 review (read/post)

News

• 27/03/2008: Watch: Ed Harcourt, Keiran Hebden’s One Little Plane on Jeremy Warmsley’s ‘TV show’
• 27/09/2007: Here Be Cancellations: Ed Harcourt dates pulled
• 06/07/2007: End Of The Road update: Ryan Adams announced!
• 06/07/2007: T in the Park: Inspiral Historical Proclaimers, or something
• 25/09/2006: Cortney Tidwell to open for Ed Harcourt
• 21/07/2006: Let's Rock! Edinburgh bill announced
• 20/03/2006: Harcourt's Dead Dog: single and album news
• 01/10/2004: Time For Change tonight: free guestlist
• 29/09/2004: Ed Harcourt: tour and single news
• 10/08/2004: Ed Harcourt returns with album, single and tour; the usual.

Links

• Ed Harcourt - official site

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