12th February 2011
Lisbee will be supporting Paul Carrack on Dates in Germany and Luxembourg in
April and May!
See here for more details
29th September 2010
'Ultimate Guitar' review of 'Harriet' - click on image below...
27th September 2010
Gig preview from the Huddersfield Daily Examiner
...and their review of 'Harriet'!
23rd September 2010
'HARRIET' reviewed in the Daily Mirror!
... and the Basingstoke Gazette!
22nd September 2010
Review from 'Get Ready to Rock'
LISBEE STAINTON Harriet
With a support slot with Joan Armatrading not long under her belt, Harriet is the latest single to be released from Lisbee's Stainton's excellent Girl on An Unmade Bed album.
Written for and about a persistent friend at university, Harreit sits at the Kate Nash end of this promising British talent's songwriting spectrum. It's radio friendly and almost guaranteed airplay. And with a forthcoming UK headlining tour, the future looks bright for this very talented singer songwriter. ****
14th September 2010
Review from 'The Indie Handbook', USA!
Lisbee Stainton, girl on an unmade bed
"Lisbee Stainton was first featured here about a year ago. Then again, her most recent album, Girl On an Unmade Bed, was released months ago and has been reviewed by publications far more important and, dare I say—relevant—than this one. Why, then, should I bother with it? Haven’t I missed the window? Well—no, actually; The Waste Land is 75 years old, but that doesn’t stop me reading it every month or so. And, while I’m not suggesting that Girl On an Unmade Bed is going to define the next quarter century of music, I do quite like it.
The album begins with a pair of waltzes—a new version of Lisbee’s classic “Red” and the title track—which, together, amount to about six minutes of harmonic seduction (oh, those chord changes!…), before picking things up a bit with “Is Whispering”. The second verse of “Underground” is easily one of the best moments of the album: The man said we’d be free to fight them on the beaches in the night / The shells fall on our shore, rubble, trouble, boil and bubble / Take my hand, oh take my hand and we’ll run to the underground / and hide here ’til the ‘all clear’ sounds.
Other highlights include the coming of age number “Just Like Me” and “Practice Room”, a song that seems to me proof that the lives of music students on either side of the Atlantic are not all that different. Take this, for example: There’s a prima dona in the room behind me / singing opera so that Rome can hear. I can’t say I didn’t become intimately familiar with that sound in my four years of fruitless “practicing”. And then there’s “Harriet”, due for release later this month as the next single from the album. I used to think it would be cool if someone were to write a song about me. Harriet did too, apparently—so cool, in fact, that she asked for one, quite frequently it seems. Harriet! Why did I say I would do this for Harriet / Just because she wants me to? / I’ll write a song all about you / Just to get you out my room. (I am beginning have second thoughts about having my own song.)
Perhaps the death of Paste Magazine is a harbinger of the death of indie music (the beardy-flanneled music genre, that is, not the DIY ethic) as people will undoubtedly be shouting from the mountaintops in the coming days, but singer-songwriters are in the midst of a solid run (about 800 years) and show no sign of letting up. Just like the best of those pioneering minnesingers and trouvères*, Lisbee is currently wandering Europe and the UK on her massive (and first ever) headline tour. And though her name will never be as fun to say as that of Walther von der Vogelweide, she is infinitely more charming and there are eight strings on her guitar. Add to that this brilliant album (which can be streamed, along with her first album Firefly, on her website) and it’s pretty clear to see why there’s no denying that Lisbee Stainton is going places.
How’s that for relevance?
*Technically, the traveling ones were called jongleurs, but I needed the minnesinger reference."
10th September 2010
CALLING ALL LISBEE STAINTON MUSIC FANS!
Would you like to get some FREE SIGNED merchandise (a t-shirt, plectrums, badges, a CD - lots of goodies!) plus TWO tickets for the price of ONE for any show of your choice on my upcoming tour??
If the answer is 'OOH YES!', then all you need to do is join my STREET TEAM. I'm looking for a group of energetic and happy people to hand out flyers, stick up posters and generally advertise the shows in each seperate area on my tour! Every person you get to come to the show as a result with recieve a voucher for a half-price t-shirt!
My tour is from September until December and currently I have shows booked in the following UK/Ireland cities:
OXFORD
WINCHESTER
NEWBURY
LONDON
SWINDON
NOTTINGHAM
HUDDERSFIELD
MANCHESTER
LEEDS
LIVERPOOL
YORK
CAMBRIDGE
SOUTHAMPTON
BRISTOL
BEWDLEY
DUBLIN
DERRY
BELFAST
LEICESTER
BIRMINGHAM
CARDIFF
TUNBRIDGE WELLS
If you live in or near any of these places and would like to get involved and join my STREET TEAM, then all you have to do is join this group and write your name, plus the city you live in/near from the above list and your email address on this group's wall
6th September 2010
Lisbee's song 'Never Quite an Angel' is featured in
'Latest and Greatest Women of Song'
a deluxe 3CD boxed setfeaturing many of the biggest female artists of all time.
Available now!
30th August 2010
Interview with Lisbee in 'Acoustic' magazine! (PDF)
7th August 2010
LISBEE'S NEW SINGLE
"HARRIET"
WILL BE RELEASED ON 20th SEPTEMBER 2010!
Lisbee says she wrote ‘Harriet’ in order to get some peace (!) “When I was at University my friend Harriet kept hassling me to write a song about her. In the end I did just so she’d stop going on about it,” She explained. “I’m sure Harriet will be shocked when she finds out she’s now the subject of my new single. That’ll teach her!”
16th July 2010
More dates added to autumn tour
See gigs page for details!
4th July 2010
The last tour blog!
30th June 2010
Review of Lisbee supporting Joan Armatrading in Jersey
Click on image to read!
22nd June 2010
Even more video tour blogs!
18th June 2010
First dates for Lisbee's headlining tour of UK and Europe announced!
See gigs for details....
27th May 2010
More tour video blogs!
17th May 2010
Lisbee article in the 'Burton Mail' (UK)
Lisbee article in the 'Independent' (UK)
30th April 2010
Lisbee "Live in Concert" on BBC Radio 2!
On Thursday 20th May at 8pm Lisbee's recent performance at Bristol Colston Hall
will be broadcast on BBC Radio 2's legendary 'In Concert' programme.
Be sure to listen in!
29th April 2010
Lisbee's new single
"Is Whispering"
Available now!
B-side is 'Village Green'
28th April 2010
Lisbee will be featured live on the Robert Elms Show
on 30th April 12-3pm!
Listen to it here
18th April 2010
More tour blogs!
1st April 2010
Great new review of 'Girl on an Unmade Bed' from
Acoustic Magazine USA.
27th March 2010
Watch Lisbee's on-tour video blog!
25th March 2010
Lisbee merchandise now available on site!
Click here for T-Shirts, Bags, Badges and more!
14th March 2010
Review from Lisbee's concert at Iserlohn, Germany!
For original German version click here
For English (approximate!) translation click here
08th March 2010
The deluxe edition of 'Girl On An Unmade Bed' is now available to pre-order at
and
The album has two new tracks, 'Just' and 'Poison Apple' and comes in
a new digipak gatefold sleeve.
Official release date 29th March 2010
25th January 2010
LISBEE'S NEW SINGLE 'NEVER QUITE AN ANGEL'
RELEASED TODAY!
Currently playlisted for Five weeks
on BBC Radio Two!
17th January 2010
LISBEE'S 'FAIRWELL TO BLIGHTY' GIG
Lisbee's last gig in London before she heads off to conquer Europe at
The Jazz Cafe Camden
on 2nd March, 2010
supporting Vonda Shepard
More details HERE
11th January 2010
LISBEE'S NEW ALBUM 'GIRL ON AN UNMADE BED' RELEASED!
Great reviews and coverage in The Independent, The Express, Daily Mirror,
Mojo, Uncut etc.
See reviews page HERE
18th December 2009
LISBEE'S TOUR WITH JOAN ARMATRADING NOW CONFIRMED FOR EUROPE!
Lisbee will now also be supporting Joan Armatrading on dates
in Germany, Switzerland, Holland and Austria
beginning on the 3rd of March 2010 before returning for dates in
Sweden, Holland, Finland, Norway, Gemany, Austria and Belgium in May.
More details HERE
13th November 2009
UK TOUR SPRING 2010 ANNOUNCED!
Lisbee will be supporting Joan Armatrading on her 35 date tour of the UK
beginning on the 31st of March 2010.
To find out more and book tickets
see HERE
6th November 2009
New www.lisbee.com now live
Buy CDs and downloads of all Lisbee's music online
2nd November 2009
Lisbee's new album 'GIRL ON AN UNMADE BED' official release date set
for 11th January 2010
29th October 2009
Lisbee plays live at Tom Robinson's 'Fresh on the Net' Festival
at The Riverside, Hammersmith, London
18th October 2009
Lisbee in The Times
Click on the image to read the article...
18th May 2009
Lisbee's new single 'JUST LIKE ME' released today!
Winner by popular vote 'Record of the Week' on the
Radcliffe and Maconie show on BBC Radio 2!
10th April 2009
Lisbee played live in session on Tom Robinson's BBC 6 Music Show
You can hear the three tracks she played (plus chat!) by clicking the links below:
10th April 2009
Lisbee's amazing new 8-string guitar!
Designed and built by the brilliant Joe White!
16th February 2009
FLY ON THE WALL AT ABBEY ROAD
Watch a sneak preview of work on Lisbee's new CD recorded at the legendary Abbey Road,
Studio 2, London
4th February 2009
FREEQ MAGAZINE REVIEW
Interview and review of 'Red' in Freeq magazine
(click on image for full size version)
21st January 2009
LISBEE ON TV!
ITV Meridian ran a great news article on Lisbee on 21st January, '09. Watch it below!
19th January 2009
Lisbee's new single 'RED' released after 5 weeks on the BBC Radio 2 Playlist!
Lisbee is the only 'unsigned' artist to be playlisted on BBC Radio 2
apart from Eva Cassidy and Katie Melua
Arranged and recorded by Rupert Christie (U2, Kate Bush, Coldplay) at the legendary Abbey Road Studio 2 and featuring the London Metropolitan Orchestra strings (David Juritz (Leader London Mozart Players & Maggini Quartet), Cathy Thompson (Medici Quartet), Andy Brown, Chris Fish).
