Last of the Real Hard Men

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LAST OF THE REAL HARDMEN is always Chris Summerlin and sometimes Lucinda Chua. It is also occasionally Ian Scanlon and Gareth Hardwick. It is even more rarely Kevin Smith. It has been Judith Paton. It may be again.  

LOTRHM creates Instrumental Fahey-esque musings that will chill your bones and warm your cockles. Based in Nottingham, England, Summerlin has been creating noise and beauty in equal measure in a variety of bands for many years now (including Reynolds and Wolves of Greece) and currently makes fine rock music with Lords.

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- Opposition T

'One man and an amazingly multi-tongued semi-acoustic guitar. Metal
slidery, fiddly niggle lines, country twangery, thematic chords with twinkling undercurrents, wolf-whistles and birdcalls, jazz-jerky
playfulness and wayward picking, and a final power-down to steely
tickling. A couple of covers in the set, including a John Coltrane piece, but the Hardman's bizarrely-titled compositions dominate - "All
of this shit I'm eating is leaving a bad taste in my mouth"; "I can see it coming and it looks bad"; and a dedication to the guitar, "Song for Honey". The classicism of Steve Hackett, the beauty of Nick Drake, the desertscape loneliness of Ry Cooder.

The Last of the Real Hardmen has a tenderness to his touch that makes
the strings sing like a choir, sparkle like spring Sun on a mountain lake. Sounds that he tells us are miserable are actually full of wistfulness and memories of past pleasures, there's not a dreary moment in the set. Sublime ethereal grace.'
- www.oppositiont.co.uk