Jackie Oates

For the second year in a row a Jackie Oates album has featured in Mojo’s top ten folk albums of the year.  Hyperboreans has reached number 5 on the end of year album chart of 2009 in this the biggest specialist music magazine in the UK.

Hyperboreans has received a four star review in Mojo which says, ‘Former member of Rachel Unthank & The Winterset blossoms…this third Oates solo album finds her exuding fresh confidence, boldness and maturity.’

Hyperboreans is to receive an international release through One Little Indian’s partners across the world with the release date confirmed as 11th November 2009 in all territories, except Germany where it will be released in mid-January. 

The distributors will be: Australia / Brumby’s/One World Music, Austria / HOANZL, BeNeLux / Bertus, Czech Republic / Day After, Finland / Supersounds Music, France / PIAS, Germany / Rough Trade, Hong Kong / Love Da Records, Iceland / Smekkleysa, Israel / MCI Records, Italy / Goodfellas, Japan / SKD Distribution/Imperial Records, Norway / Voices Music & Entertainment, Poland / ISOUND, Russia / Soyuz, Slovakia / Wegart Ltd., South Africa / Just Music, Spain / Popstock, Sweden / Border Music, Switzerland / Namskeio, Turkey / Equinox Music & Entertainment. 

If you have problems locating the album please contact your local distributor or send us a message through the website.

From Jackie…I am holding a special competition for ticket holders for the autumn ‘09 tour. David Owen has produced some beautiful artwork for the vinyl version of my new single ‘Birthday’. He has also very kindly agreed to create a one-off never-to-be-repeated poster for one lucky winner. This will be a framed copy of the cover of my ‘Birthday’ single but will have my name replaced with the name of the winner, with the date of their birthday added below the single title. The poster will then be signed by both David Owen and myself. The competition is only open to ticket holders and the prize will be sent to the winner in exchange for an original copy of their tour ticket.

To enter send an email to jackie_oates@yahoo.co.uk, giving the date of Bjork’s birthday and the venue of the show you are attending. The competition will close on October 31st at 12 noon. The winner will be announced on the website in the week following. Good luck!

Jackie’s cover of Birthday by the Sugarcubes is now available to listen to on the homepage.

On Monday (21st Sept) Jackie received her first radio play of the single ‘Birthday’ from her ‘Hyperboreans’ album on Cerys Matthews daytime show on 6Music. To listen to the show follow this link and click ‘Monday’ on the right hand side of the page. The show will be available for seven days.  ‘Birthday’ will be released on 7” vinyl, with specially commissioned artwork by David Owen, on 2nd November with pre-release copies available at shows on Jackie’s October/November tour dates.

It’s today! Jackie Oates’ new album Hyperboreans is out today and will be available in all good stores on the high street and online. See the links to Amazon and The One Little Indian shop at the right of this page for the easiest ways to pick up a copy.

Look out for reviews of Jackie’s Oates’ Hyperboreans album this weekend in the following papers – The Guardian on Friday (4th), The Telegraph on Saturday (5th) and The Independent on Sunday (6th). Hyperboreans is released on Monday 7th and will be available in all good stores including HMV, on Amazon, iTunes, through the One Little Indian webshop (see link on the right of this page). If you don’t find a copy in your local HMV, do order a copy from the shop. It should only take a couple of days to come in.

Hyperboreans has received a five star review in the October issue of Songlines, just out today. It has been chosen as one of Songlines’ ‘Top Of the World’ albums and Jackie also has the track ‘Isle Of France’ from the album on the Songlines covermount CD available with the same issue.

‘Expectations for Hyperboreans were high. On all fronts Oates delivers, with beautiful singing, innovative arrangements and an intriguing selection of songs’ ***** Songlines, Oct ‘09

For more Hyperborean quotes click here

Newly signed to One Little Indian Records, on September 7^th 2009 Jackie will release the highly anticipated follow-up to ‘The Violet Hour’.

‘Hyperboreans’ is the coming-of-age album for Jackie Oates.  Produced by her brother Jim Moray and featuring a title track written for her by Alasdair Roberts, it sizzles with a new confidence and maturity.  Read more about the new album here.