Berwick St, Soho, London Saturday 21st May 2011 – street market taken over by some of the UK’s most prestigious indie labels: Rough Trade, Heavenly, Peace Frog, Moshi Moshi, Domino, Mute, R&S, Wall Of Sound, Soul Jazz, Bella Union and XL.
The plan was simple – grab a box of our CDs, some promotional signs constructed by Matt and a set of headphones/MP3 player containing the whole of “Sketches for A Lost Summer” then proceed to location and set up our own super-independent market stall. What could go wrong? Continue reading →

Exclusive unreleased track “Welcome To The Past”, our set closer from the ScooterCaffè gig in September 2010.

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 ScooterCaffè, 8th September 2010 courtesy of Brenda Hayward.

The massive world tour resumes on Weds 8th September 2010 with a return to  ScooterCaffè
132 Lower Marsh, Waterloo, London SE1 7AE.

The Untied Knot (that is Nigel Bryant and Matt Donovan)
with The Saskatoons (Ross Hemingway and Robin Prime)

plus a playlist of psych, electronica, folk, kosmische/kraut, country, exotica, library, jazz, post-punk and more…

Doors 7pm, live music from 8pm.
Free entry
Tube: Waterloo/Lambeth North

Last Wednesday’s gig got cancelled at the eleventh hour when some doddering old berk who had come to sort out the drains at Scootercaffe caused a catastrophic sewage leak. One of the gig-related complications you can’t really anticipate. Anyway, Matt and I will be re-scheduling something soon so keep ’em peeled.
Thanks to our Andy who had possibly the shortest soundman’s shift in history and the intrepid Jason who came all the way up from Brighton. Apologies to anyone who made it to the venue only to be disappointed…

In brighter news – great news to see BBC 6 Music has a reprieve so well done all those campaigners who helped to achieve this!

The Untied Knot (that is Nigel Bryant and Matt Donovan) live plus a playlist of psych, electronica, folk, kosmische/kraut, country, exotica, library, jazz, post-punk and more…

Downstairs at Scootercafè
132 Lower Marsh, Waterloo, London SE1 7AE.

Doors 7pm, live music at 9pm.

Free entry

Tube: Waterloo/Lambeth North

The Untied Knot – Westway (Promo film 2010) from The Untied Knot on Vimeo.

Promo film for track from The Untied Knot’s album “Sketches For A Lost Summer” available from www.theuntiedknot.co.uk

All footage shot by Robin Prime in 1980’s Leicestershire, edited by Nigel Bryant.

Also available on Youtube

I urge you all to take action to try to save BBC 6 Music, especially as its Freak Zone show was the first radio programme to feature The Untied Knot. 
Losing a channel such as 6 Music which is willing to expose marginalised music with often little commercial potential will be detrimental to both listener and emerging musician.

On that note, The Untied Knot continues to be grateful to the shows which have exposed its music to a wider audience. In particular, Jeffrey Davison’s  Shrunken Planet show on WFMU which has recently played “Requiem For The Thirteen” and “Pelham Street” and possibly our biggest fan outside the UK, Fernando Pérez Herrero who has spun “Low Tide” and “Spanish Pine” in the last few weeks on Cielo líquido . It’s especially nice to hear our music amongst such great company…

More airplay, this time from WFMU-FM – an independent freeform station broadcasting at 91.1 fm in New York, at 90.1 fm in the Hudson Valley.
Jeffrey Davison played “A. Corns” on his Shrunken Planet show on Sat Feb 6th. Nice to see it was in the company of some of my personal guitar heroes, Jack Rose (rest his prematurely departed soul) and Voice Of The Seven Woods. You can listen to the show here.