Hector Gannet + Cosmic Cat + The Early Purple

Hector Gannet, from North Shields on Tyneside, are masters of a kind of

new, modernist folk music, taking their name from an ill-fated trawler

which sank in the North Sea under heroic circumstances in 1967. Hector

Gannet’s musical incarnation began to draw attention when they wrote

and performed music to accompany vintage footage of the North East

heritage of shipbuilding and fishing as part of a project for the BFI, and a