Event

Meursault with Jonnie Common

'Crow Hill... a small, isolated town... its dark history, twisted and unseen, rising steadily towards the surface, threatening to consume a landscape that it no longer recognises.
The sprawling innards of abandoned C-90 cassette tapes, containing the distorted confessions of strangers litter these streets...
A beast (once a terrifying local legend) is reduced the status of an urban fox. A prowling sentinel, forgotten and un-feared...
A high school teacher regales a disinterested classroom with the (dubious) tale of an Egyptian canine being struck by a meteorite...
Family and friends look on in horror as one of their own wilfully (and violently) devolves into a sea creature and begins his painful crawl, back to the primordial soup...
All the while, cloaked figures look on, growing steadily in number. Silent and elemental as they bear witness to the events of the day.
Crow Hill is a place where fiction intrudes upon reality, haunting those who have neglected its teachings and devalued its message...
Our monsters are as real as our better angels. We must take great care in how we tend to them.'

"Pennycooks most vibrant, ambitious and remarkably cohesive record to date."
- The Skinny

"Its dark, disturbing, and completely absorbing."
- Scots Whay Hae!

'Jonnie Common takes a break from making his potentially long awaited and at-the-very-least overdue new album to clear the stage of cobwebs for his old pal Pennycook. Expect old songs, new songs, old songs with new beats, new songs with old beats, long lost jigsaw pieces and still warm photocopied pages of your diary. Witness his mind unravel before you and knit itself into a small jumper for your ears. No, not a hat.'

"Half sung, half rapped, always whole-hearted."
- The Big Issue