Currently on UK TOUR
Canadian Singer-Songwriter
Christina Martin returns with a brand new single, ‘Lungs Are Burning’.
Her new 10-date UK tour kicked
off on June 24 and includes dates in London, Brighton, Birmingham and
Manchester.
A fervent anthem for those who
are lost and longing, “Lungs Are Burning” is the first
single from Christina Martin's forthcoming album (Come Undone
Records/Tonetoaster). The song was triggered by the rising Fentanyl drug crisis
killing thousands of Canadians, with Christina’s lyrics set to music by her and
guitarist/producer Dale Murray. With
lyrics like “while I’m watching the babies” and “got to go out and get some,
baby”, Martin captures the desperation of “chasing the dream” and the horror of
living it. Murray’s stately production
brings that stark reality home with a bite.
Martin: “The song is a modest attempt to bring light to the heavy topic of
addiction, and reflects my own personal sense of loss, longing and a deep void,
and the ache I feel from losing my brother and friends to addiction and mental
illness.”
Canadian Singer-Songwriter
Christina Martin began writing and recording her own music while slogging it
out on the Austin, Texas bar scene in the early 2000’s, before returning home
to Canada in 2003. Since 2008 she has been relentlessly recording and touring
in Canada and overseas, building connections the old-fashioned way, at venues
big and small, singing songs about loss and love, anxiety and perseverance.
Along the way, she has earned multiple East Coast Music and Music Nova Scotia
Awards. Her songs have been featured in
films, on television, and she’s performed at music festivals around the world
(Rolling Stone Weekender Festival, Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival,
International Folk Alliance, Reeperbahn Festival, Canada Music Week).
Christina lives in rural Nova
Scotia with her husband and musical partner Dale Murray. They share a life that’s simple, honest and
adorned with the joy of music. “Lungs
Are Burning” is another powerful step in their remarkable musical journey.
David Hawkins talks in-depth with
Nova Scotia based singer-songwriter Christina Martin, features her single Lungs
Are Burning
Lungs Are Burning Tour – UK Tour Dates
Sat June 24, 2017 - The Studio-Fat Pigeon Live, Nantwich, Cheshire (Castle St, CW5 5BA)
Sun June 25, 2017 - The Basement,
York (13-17 Coney St, York YO1 9QL)
Mon June 26, 2017 - Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham (17 York Rd, Birmingham B14 7SA)
Thurs June 29, 2017 - The Dog And
Partridge, Marchington (Church Ln,
Uttoxeter ST14 8LJ)
Fri June 30, 2017 - Sonder
Festival, Manchester (31-33 Spear
St, M1 1DF)
Sat July 1, 2017 - The Bank, Eye, Suffolk
(2 Castle St, Eye IP23 7AN)
Thurs July 6, 2017 - The Latest
Music Bar, Brighton (14 - 17
Manchester Street BN2 1TF) *
Fri July 7, 2017 - The Sound
Lounge, London (210-212 Upper
Tooting Rd, SW17 7EW)
Sat July 8, 2017 - The Little
Rabbit Barn, Essex *
*WITH BAND
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