Exclusive video premiere of The Photograph, the brand new duet from Canada’s JF Robitaille and the UK’s Lail Arad.

The video was made by Flo Kohl and Ellis Pendens and shot in the Notting Hill neighbourhood of London, in the Print Room bar at the Coronet Theatre — the same theatre that Hugh Grant goes to pine over Julia Roberts in Notting Hill.

Watch the video for “The Photograph” on Exclaim.ca

JF and Lail are currently working on their upcoming full length in Montreal and have a few UK festival dates booked this summer.

Tour dates
07/28 Cornwall, UK Port Eliot Festival
08/01 London, UK – The Lexington
09/01 Larmer Tree Gardens – End Of The Road Festival

‘The Photograph’, the new single from London-based singer-songwriter Lail Arad and Montreal’s JF Robitaille is out today. To help celebrate the release, Spotify Canada has added this stunning new summer single to their New Music Friday playlist, featuring all the best new weekly tracks.

‘The Photograph’ was produced by Mikko Gordon (Gaz Coombs, Thom Yorke) at London’s Hackney Road Studios and will appear on the duo’s much anticipated forthcoming debut album.

In the meantime, you can catch Lail and JF this summer touring about the UK.

Summer Dates:
July 28, 2018 – Port Eliot Festival, UK
August 1, 2018 – The Lexington, London
September 1, 2018 – End Of The Road Festival, UK

“The Photograph”, the new single from JF Robitaille and Lail Arad to be released digitally worldwide on June 15th 2018!

During a co-headline tour of Italy in 2016, acclaimed singer-songwriters JF Robitaille (Canada) and Lail Arad (UK) found their duets increasingly in demand. Recording together was the next logical step. A snowy winter of songwriting in Montreal was followed by a month-long residency at the legendary Society Club in London.

The pair tested out their new material over five sold-out nights before hitting the studio with Mercury Music prize winning producer Mike Lindsay (Tunng, Laura Marling). The success of their debut single “We Got It Coming” opened new doors and in Autumn 2017 they embarked on a 42-date tour across 8 countries, from Italy to India, culminating in a sold-out London show and live radio sessions for Loose Ends (BBC Radio 4), Robert Elms (BBC London) and John Kennedy (Radio X).

Their stunning new summer single “The Photograph” was produced by Mikko Gordon (Gaz Coombs, Thom Yorke) at London’s Hackney Road Studios and will appear on the duo’s much anticipated forthcoming debut album.

Join us and IFOA: International Festival of Authors for the launch of LANCES ALL ALIKE, new poetry by Suzanne Zelazo.

In LANCES ALL ALIKE, Zelazo imagines what a friendship between Mina Loy and Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven – two modernist poets and artists – may have looked like had their work not been suppressed and misattributed to their male peers.

LANCES ALL ALIKE amplifies and celebrates women’s voices, exploring the ways in which the insidiousness of a masculinist cultural climate diminishes the opportunities for women writers to work with, and for, one another.

To celebrate, we’re throwing a modernist salon, perhaps like one that Mina and Elsa would have frequented, complete with readings, collaging, and Exquisite Corpse. Free and all are welcome. Doors at 7.

Suzanne Zelazo is a poet, editor, and educator. She has a PhD in English with a speciality in modernist poetry. Suzanne is the author of the poetry collection PARLANCE (Coach House) and is the co-editor of BODY SWEATS: THE UNCENSORED WRITINGS OF BARONESS ELSA VON FREYTAG-LORINGHOVEN (MIT Press) as well as CRYSTAL FLOWERS: POEMS AND A LIBRETTO by Florine Stettheimer (BookThug).

Get all the details on the Facebook event page.