Talented singer & multi-instrumentalist Charlie Barnes released his debut album 'More Stately Mansions' earlier this year, and today sees the release of a reworked version of the title track as a brand new single, coupled with an additional re-imagined album track titled 'Easy (Listening) Kid', both previously unreleased. To celebrate the release of this new single, a video for 'More Stately Mansions' has been launched which you can view here: https://youtu.be/w4fZO6j6I2s

Charlie had this to say: "The idea for this video came together essentially by accident. I can't really remember what gave me the original burst of inspiration, so I reckon let's go with the censored version for the front cover of 'Smell the Glove' by Spinal Tap (umlaut omitted by vote of iPhone keypad). Ryan and I story boarded the whole thing via Twitter using mostly emojis, shot it in a couple of hours one afternoon with the help of my girlfriend's Dad (man knows his fire), and sat down to a lovely Sunday roast. The only real difficulties we had shooting the video were the parts when I continually erupted in giggles. Acting!"

Purchase the single from the following links:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/more-stately-mansions-single/id1038435803?ls=1&app=itunes

http://www.amazon.com/More-Stately-Mansions-Charlie-Barnes/dp/B0169CV4T8

https://play.google.com/store/music/album /Charlie_Barnes_More_Stately_Mansions?id=B4upesfj6orglj2qg6sb6lc7zby

Charlie has been touring the UK solo for the past couple of weeks, and tonight he finishes the run in Cambridge at Hot Numbers Coffee. He will then head out to Germany for more dates at the beginning of November. Full details below:

05.11.2015 - Berlin, Posh Teckel

06.11.2015 - Göttingen, Salonmusik

07.11.2015 - Köln, motoki Wohnzimmer

08.11.2015 - Wiesbaden, Kulturpalast

10.11.2015 - Nürnberg, Bedroom Disco

11.11.2015 - Trier, Chrome

12.11.2015 - Mannheim, Café Rost

14.11.2015 - Hamburg, Bedroom Disco

Charlie was also recently announced as a touring member of English indie-pop band Bastille, and was seen on festival stages throughout Summer including Glastonbury, Reading & Leeds, Rock Am Ring & many more.

You can now pick up your copy of the album 'More Stately Mansions' from the following places: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/more-stately-mansions/id1019351893?ls=1&app=itunes

Disorientating and captivating in equal measure during early appearances in Student Union bars and basement venues either side of the Pennines, as well as at European festivals Melt and Reeperbahn, the Leeds-based artist's early performances took on the guise of a man vs. machine solo rock opera. Songs were constructed on stage as he writhed about on his stool like Silver Apples on uppers - the transmissions from his web of loop pedals, keyboards, pads and samplers seemingly coursing through his body's contortions. More Stately Mansions hasn't changed the process much, it's just that - as he puts it - "the extra pairs of hands aren't channels on a loopstation or sample libraries anymore, they're owned by other people with their own ideas."

Mostly recorded at Chapel Studios in Lincolnshire, with vocals put down in an isolated cottage in the middle of Wales, More Stately Mansions deals with unashamedly bold brush strokes. Songs like 'Sing To God's' gossamer strings strike delicately amidst rumbling percussion and several moments of histrionic guitar malevolence that recall those aforementioned teenage influences; the title track's layered vocals hark back to Queen in their mid-70's pomp, while 'Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth' rises and falls on a series of scything post-hardcore riff acrobatics. All of this is cut through with a climactic vocal that bores out vestiges of Jeff Buckley, or even Freddie Mercury, delivered with an overwhelming sincerity that goads its audience out of apathy and into a reaction, an expressive way of performing that Barnes has embraced since childhood.

CHARLIE BARNES online:

www.charliebarnesmusic.co.uk

www.facebook.com/charliebarnesmusic