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Diamante Hearts 2:570:00/2:57
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I Was in a Choir 2:360:00/2:36
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John Dopy Red 3:190:00/3:19
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Lancelot Brown 3:050:00/3:05
The Giving Style
'Tagine on the Table' kicks booty in a very swiny, sultry and slinky sort of way that I love!'
-Chris Ballew (The Presidents of the United States of America, Caspar Babypants)
‘Your music is the cat’s claws!'
('Ta musique est les griffes du chat'!)
- A spectator at Le Pop-In, Paris
Bio
The Giving Style is Justin Sicile’s vision for a chunky, psychedelic folk outfit that nourishes its community with a playfulness and sincerity that it can get cosy with.
TGS' first-ever single release was 'By the Horns' in 2015, which was accompanied by an animated music video created by Stella Salumaa. In 2017 Sicile met producer Adam Skinner who helped him refine and elevate musical parts to Monster Tracks for Bread Lovers, which was recorded in a small warehouse studio. Shortly after release, the lead single 'Blue Hair Special' was picked up in Manchester by The Vanity Project's (band) radio show.
In 2018 MTFBL was followed up by the one and only single 'Tagine on the Table', which Chris Ballew from the band Presidents of the United States of America deemed, ''Tagine on the Table' kicks booty in a very swiny, sultry and slinky sort of way that I love!'
2021 saw the release of a ground-breaking mini-album called Pear Person Tackles Loneliness in which Sicile wrote and recorded songs with older individuals of the community.
The Giving Style live show is energetic, light-hearted, and involves calming/transcendental instrumental pieces that Sicile has crafted and worked out playing in the streets. Sicile is joined by a full band in order to do the record justice.
Be greeted and cocooned by the warm, excitable sound of The Giving Style.
Music
LINKS
www.instagram.com/thegivingstyle
www.facebook.com/thegivingstyle
The Giving Style on Spotify. Listen here.
The Giving Style on Bandcamp. Listen here.
www.thegivingstyle.bandcamp.com
Awards + AcCOLADES
-Awarded National Lottery Arts Council England grant for Pear Person Tackles Loneliness Songwriting and Recording Project
-‘Blue Hair Special’ played on The Vanity Project's radio station (Manchester)
Venues Played
The East Court at Alexandra Palace
Paper Dress Vintage
The Victoria Dalston
Nambucca
The Fiddler’s Elbow
The Post Bar
Mascara Bar
The Beehive Pub, Tottenham
The Others
Biddle Brothers
Luna Bar
In Spirals
FESTIVALS PLAYED
-The British Waterways Cavalcade at Sheldon Square Amphitheatre, 2017 + 2018
-Rickmansworth Folk Festival, 2018
-The One (Charity) Stage in front of The Tate, London