ACOUSTIC LADYLAND | PRESS

"The show passed all expectations ... this is a very exciting band"
[JAZZWISE]

"This virtuoso quartet is one of the most refreshing things I've heard in a long time ... there's a rare poetic talent working here, and I was delightfully absorbed in their music."
[IAN CARR]

" Acoustic Ladyland rock! The UK's answer to Medeski, Martin and Wood.. if you didn't know London jazz could sound this hip then rush out and hear them"
[DAZED & CONFUSED]

"Pete Wareham is destined to become a new British jazz giant"
[EASTERN DAILY PRESS]

Tom Cawley is " a superb player.... (he) provided several furious, commanding displays." THE [INDEPENDENT]

" Tom Herbert's "ultra - solid, swinging and soulful " bass playing (JAZZWISE) has "all the swagger of a tomcat patrolling his neighborhood."
[THE GUARDIAN]

"Seb Rochford now sounds like the best new percussionist on the UK scene since Mark Mondesir" [JOHN FORDHAM - THE GUARDIAN]

" 'Camouflage' looks certain to be one of the outstanding European jazz
releases of 2004"
[Jazzwise Magazine]

" Thoughtfully soulful sax from Pete Wareham, deliberate,Charlie Haden-like
bass from Tom Herbert,percussive piano from fine newcomer Tom Cawley and the
kind of controlled audacity from Seb Rochford at the drums that's nowadays
expected from him...the playing standards are faultless." John Fordham,The
[Guardian]

"Acoustic Ladyland are among the most versatile and uncontrivedly virtuosic
bands on the current UK scene."
[Chris Parker, UK CD Round Up, Jazz@Ronnie Scott's]

" Acoustic  Ladyland rock! If you didn't know London jazz could sound this
hip then rush out and hear them!"
[Dazed & Confused }

From the 2004 Cheltenham International Jazz Festival:

" In this tumultuous climax to their set, Seb Rochford's rhythmic frenzy at
the drums goaded Pete Wareham into the weekend's most dramatic playing"
[Alyn Shipton,The Times]


³ Acoustic Ladyland revisits Hendrix¹s greatest moments with fascinatingly
original slants... if you were on a downer about the future of British Jazz,
tonight would be a good time to have your mind changed.²
[Jazzwise Magazine ]

"Acoustic Ladyland are an enigma: part cool jazz, part pop-rock; part
savant, part naif; part of the F-ire Collective of London musicians, with a web site
that tells you to 'stay groovy - we love you."
[Oxford Times]