Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards

Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards played The Local Stage at End Of The Road Festival 2009.

Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards is the new project from the voice of Absentee. Bringing together an unplanned but stellar line up, perhaps a more fitting title would be Dan Michaelson and Friends, but that’d be far too simple.http://www.endoftheroadfestival.com/admin/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=1282

Recorded over two sessions at The Premises (solar powered) studios in Hackney with Dan at the helm, a bunch of friends took some rare, usually impossible, time out from their hectic schedules to lay down or rather, ‘look after’ the record. Those present; Henry Spenner (Fields), Laurie Earle (Absentee) Arnulf Lindner (Ed Harcourt), Romeo Stodart (Magic Numbers), Tom Gorbut and Henry Clarke (Rumblestrips), and Steven Adams (Broken Family Band). Throw in Icelandic producer Valgeir Sigurdsson (Bjork/Bonnie Prince Billy/ Nico Muhly), and further production duties of Nick Terry (Bernard Butler/Duke Special/Libertines) and Dan Michaelson himself, you would say its an album in very safe hands indeed. In fact, as Dan explains, possibly recalling those days when The Million Dollar Quartet got together...

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