The 2017 programme of events is in addition to the regular Sunday Night Sessions and the Thursday Night Open Mic.
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Blues-influenced covers and original material with a jazzy edge.
The band: Olly Blanchflower (double bass), Eric Porter (guitar and vocals), Ben Lewis (fiddle and mandolin), and Neil Farquharson (drums).
£5 on the door. Doors 8pm; music at 9pm.
The Big Village Quiz kicks off at 8pm.
Teams of 4 to 6 players; £1 each player.
Proceeds to local charities.
The bar will be open.
Fourth Engine and Nature of Wires team up for a Synth Music Spectacular.
Entry by donation, bring your friends!
Doors 8pm; music at 9pm.
Dark, electronic trio Nature of Wires hail from Herefordshire. Active from 1986 to 1994, Andrew Stirling-Brown (vocals) and Gary Watts (synths and programming) toured the UK and released music that captivated fans with its melodic but muscular take on the synthpop sound that was popular at the time. Life and responsibilities led to the band taking a short break - which ended up lasting two decades - until good fortune brought them back together in 2014. With renewed vigour and a desire to show the World what it missed, they set to work on new material, producing the Cyber Rendezvous album, a collaboration with Californian vocalist CountessM, released on Manchester’s AnalogueTrash label in July 2016.
The past year has seen Nature of Wires go from strength to strength: writing new music and developing intricate and dazzling live shows with the help of the band’s newest member Tim Powell-Tuck (live electro-drums). They have been performing live across the UK since their reformation, including a BBC Introducing session, Foundations Festival in Salford, the BBC stage at Tenbury Music Festival and the SynthWave Live Festival in London. Their music has featured in the Top 5 Artefaktor Radio chart positions in five consecutive months April-August 2017, as well as getting airtime on local BBC stations in the UK and synthpop/alternative radio programmes worldwide.
Fourth Engine are synth-pop duo Russ Dallen and Rachel Trimble. From Bristol, their emotive lyrics and passionate vocals merge seamlessly with classic 80s synth roots and more recent dancefloor influences to form a musical soundscape which is at once melancholy and thoughtful, yet uplifting and edgy. Formed in 2015, their debut EP Breakdown – released in 2016 – covered such concepts as self awareness, psychological emasculation, and the fickle and shallow nature of the pop music industry. The pair made their live debut at The Tunnels in Bristol, in February 2018, at the launch of local synth-rockers Sinestar’s third studio album A Million Like Us; they are now eager to bring their thought-provoking songs to more audiences. They are currently working on new material for their first album - due for release in 2018.
Their EP is available at fourthengine.bandcamp.com.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheFourthEngine/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FourthEngine.
After the success of debut album Identify Yourself Glasgow singer songwriter Rosie Bans is back on the road. Bringing her live band to UK audiences for the first time this will be a chance to hear the songs from the record in a live setting. In Rosie’s trademark style, expect both intimate song details punctuated with "slap-your-face banter" and performances that truly pack a punch.
Rosie Bans singing Sugar
Rosie Bans - REALiTi (Grimes Cover) | Ont' Sofa Live at Stereo 92
www.rosiebans.com/music
www.rosiebans.bandcamp.com
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Rosie Bans is a fierce Glaswegian independent artist. Drawing inspiration from the songwriting skills of Imogen Heap, Amanda Palmer and Tori Amos, she is a far cry from many of the piano-pop singer-songwriters dominating the industry today.
Musically educated at The Ian Tomlin School of Music, Edinburgh, Rosie Bans’ compositions stitch soulful elements together with jazz, soul, pop, rock and punk. With these "honest, sonically complex and inspiring creations, Bans succeeds in fusing together varying musical styles" (Gig Slutz) to create a fresh and really exciting original sound.
"a talented writer of intensity and integrity" The Musician Magazine "honest, sonically complex and inspiring creations" Gigslutz
New album Identify Yourself is out now at www.rosiebans.com/music.
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£5 on the door.
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Elizabeth Cornish doesn’t tell stories. Instead she gives you a tantalizing glimpse into her world and invites you to fill in the gaps for yourself. Following a number of studio releases with her band, Where Were We Then, her first home recorded album, sees Cornish return to her musical roots as a solo, acoustic artist. Her cathartic songs overflow unashamedly with raw emotion. They are simultaneously fragile and powerful and, although they touch on dark and painful subject matter, they are never melancholy. On the contrary, Cornish’s poetry, infectious choruses, and waltzing guitar lines lift you up and leave you feeling hopeful.
While Displaced, her debut album, dealt with her struggle to make sense of her nomadic upbringing, Where Were We Then is an expressive journey about enduring love, personal loss, and grief. Inspired by folk, country, and indie-pop singer-songwriters including Laura Marling, Lucy Rose, Jason Isbell and John Moreland to name a few, Cornish effortlessly weaves elements of these genres into her delicately crafted songs while remaining undeniably true to her artistic origins as a through and through singer-songwriter.
Where Were We Then will be released on 27th April 2018 and is available through Timezone Records.
This event marks the release of a new cd Who Knows Where The Time Goes - a tribute to Sandy Denny.
“Went to see the Julie July Band and have just got home. Very emotional experience. The band played were excellent and Julie’s singing was superb. You close your eyes and you are listening to Fairport. Thank you Julie July xx” (Steve)
“Enjoyed the show so much you were so magical and mesmerising….I will be buying tickets for next year” (Kari)
“A truly great songwriter touches people and leaves an everlasting impression” ……and that’s what Sandy Denny achieved in her short musical career. A singer-songwriter in her own right and considered a founder of the British Folk-Rock movement, she left a legacy of beautiful, haunting and romantic songs that transport the listener to another time and place.
The band and I have been performing Sandy’s music around the UK for a number of years now and, to mark 40 years since she left us, we decided to record some of our interpretations of her songs in an Album – Who Knows Where the Time Goes? and launch it in our home town of West Malvern.
For me the journey has been emotional: I have met and had the pleasure of performing with some wonderfully talented musicians and - sadly – we lost Martin our drummer along the way.
I feel so humbled and privileged to be able to sing her songs – they evoke real feelings in me and I am moved. And the audience that come to listen feel it too and, together, we keep her memory alive.
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£10 on the door.
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