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Agent Starling are on this month’s BBC Music Introducing Mix Tape
Thrilled about this! You can listen or download the album here https://loudhaileruk.bandcamp.com/album/european-howl
We are so excited to be featured on this here’s what BBC 6 Radio presenter Tom Robinson had to say about the Agent Starling track European Howl.
‘Now in all the years since this podcast started I don’t think we’ve ever knowingly featured a hurdy-gurdy but there’s a first time for everything thanks to Agent Starling.’
Listen Here:
BBC Music Introducing Mixtape – The BBC Music Introducing Mixtape with Tom Robinson – BBC Sounds
The Hull Story
We are delighted that The Hull Story announces the next chapter of Open Bridges / A River Full of Stories. Find out about it at the link:
Open Bridges project to sing again with tour of Holderness churches
The Hull Story is an excellent news magazine. It’s great to have a quality independent voice for Hull which is an ideal fit with the Open Bridges independent ethos.
We are delighted that The Hull Story announces the next chapter of Open Bridges / A River Full of Stories. Find out about it at the link:
Open Bridges project to sing again with tour of Holderness churches
The Hull Story is an excellent news magazine. It’s great to have a quality independent voice for Hull which is an ideal fit with the Open Bridges independent ethos.
Minor Surgery
Here we go, the next Agent Starling video. This one is fun! It’s our composition, Minor Surgery.
Welcome to the next Agent Starling video. This one is fun! It’s our composition, Minor Surgery.
Debut album European Howl now available from Bandcamp https://loudhaileruk.bandcamp.com/album/european-howl
Agent Starling: Quentin Budworth hurdy-gurdy, other instruments/voice Lou Loudhailer.
Video by Quentin Budworth. Audio: mastered by Kevin Carafa
The Story behind Agent Starling’s European Howl Cover Art
The story behind the remarkable European Howl artwork by fine artist Anna Kirk-Smith
We have had lots of lovely comments about our spectacular European Howl starling and hurdy-gurdy art work. The cover was created by fine artist Anna Kirk-Smith. Anna, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, and a previous Head of BA(Hons) Fine Art at Hull School of Art & Design told us about how she developed the idea for the cover.
“Whilst standing at my studio window watching the shrieking pitch battle of starlings tussling for a beakful of mealwormed suet, the thought came to me that what this species and hurdy-gurdys have in common is that once they get going, they are both impossible to ignore. They audibly and visually own the space they inhabit. It was at this point I decided that the album cover I had been asked to design was going to be a simple face-off between the two personalities.
Both have a sense of understated…
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Agent Starling in On Magazine
Thanks to On Magazine for featuring Agent Starling. Have a look behind the scenes recording our new album, European Howl
Thanks to On Magazine for inviting us to take part in their Artists Q & A
Where are you and any other band members from?
There are two members of Agent Starling, Quentin Budworth and me, Lou Duffy-Howard (aka Lou Loudhailer). We’re from the East Riding of Yorkshire, specifically Bridlington and Kirk Ella.
What’s the name of your latest release?
It’s our debut album European Howl
What’s the title of your latest release, and what does it mean to you?
The album is called European Howl. It’s named after one of the tracks, an ode to being European – a call for connection in today’s isolationist climate.
What was the hardest part about putting this release together, and why?
The whole album came together easily and naturally. That’s not to say it wasn’t hard work though. Writing and recording can be a very intense process which was magnified because we…
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