Upcoming live music

THREE CORNERED MOON

Drummer Dave Collingwood and singer and guitarist Robin Allender perform under the name Three-Cornered Moon. Allender and Collingwood previously played in Gravenhurst (Warp Records) and currently make up the touring band of Yann Tiersen (composer of the soundtracks for Amelie and Goodbye
Lenin).

Allender released his solo debut album The Bird and the Word in 2007, then went on to form The Allender Band, featuring Collingwood on drums, Alex Wilkins on guitar and Sam Tarbuck on bass. The band recorded an EP,
In the Grip of Light (2008), and an album, Outer Dark (2009). Songs from
these releases have been played on BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio 2 by Gideon
Coe, Steve Lamacq and Radcliffe & Maconie. Steve Lamacq also interviewed

Furlined

Soaring cello, lush vocals and some truly outstanding songs define  Furlined, a Bristol-based four-piece who will release their second album, Sovereign Ring, in June 2010. The band are a powerful live act, who can draw an audience in with their intimate, idiosyncratic sounds and irreverent wit.

"Morrissey meets Americana – superb songs with an irresistible English wit. " TOTAL GUITAR March 2008
"Furlined have woven their Smiths and Americana influences into an album of mid-tempo reflections and disarming ballads. Beguiling cello, warm riffs, wistful vocals and a catchy top line. Class." MUSICIAN July 2008
"These songs are stark but appealing constructions, full of sharp observation and understated, mordant wit." VENUE August 2008

Suzy Condrad

Suzy sings, loops, blows bottles and weaves a web of story and song which is fleshed out by lightening flamenco fingerpicker Mike Manley, feisty soprano Jenny Gal Or and green-fingered percussionist Joe Medler. Compared variously to Joan Baez, Martha Tilston, Kate Bush and Kristin Hersh, the upbeat and heartfelt songs are easy to remember but hard to pigeon-hole and draw smiles and tears from anyone from infants to the elderly.

www.myspace.com/suzycondrad

Tickets are available from Ashkeys Music

Chumbawamba take to the stage once more to celebrate the release of their new album ABCDEFG. The theme of the album is music - that volatile stuff which both the band and their audience have shared for as long as they can remember. Armed with acoustic guitars, accordion and trumpet, five-part harmonies, a bucketful of attitude, the band are touring to promote this gem

www.myspace.com/acoustichumbawamba 

http://www.myspace.com/belindaohooleymusic

Roxanne Tataei brings conviction to your sound-system; A powerful voice on a stage with a tale or two to tell. Half Jamaican and half Iranian, at the tender old age of 21, her debut album entitled “Memoirs” is the fortuitous result of hard graft and a singular minded headspace.
Her shows and songs showcased both her musical ability and stagecraft and their popularity soon began to attract the attention of the A&R fraternity. This in turn led to offers from a number of labels but Rox was supremely attracted to a common approach to artistic freedoms and signed to Rough Trade. The process of recording her album Memoirs has involved all of her sonic influences and sessions on both sides of the musical pond.

A night of up and coming Bristol talent hosted by the amazing Gretta.

Terry Clemmett & The Vampire Slayers

Ellise Rose

Lady Nade 

Malusi

Steve Duncan AKA Bless Head 

Kizello Lucy Walker

 

Tickets are available from Ashkeys Music

Martin Simpson's guitar playing is unsurpassed; he is one of the finest finger pickers and slide pickers of our time and was recently named one of the top artists of the decade by Acoustic Guitar Magazine. Winner of 5 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards - 2 of them in 2008 for Best Original Song and Best Album - an Indie Award for his album Cool & Unusual, and the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ards Guitar Festival, he is a superb interpreter of traditional music and song from both sides of the Atlantic.

His latest CD "True Stories" is generating rave reviews across the music press and media, with special guests including Phil Selway (Radiohead), Andy Cutting and Andy Seward (Kate Rusby Band), Nigel Eaton (Page & Plant), Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh (Danu), Jon Boden (Bellowhead), Keith Angel, BJ Cole and Danny Thompson.

www.myspace.com/martinsimpson1

Photo by Hugo Morris 

Small color

"Lovely popmusic", (Vital Weekly, The Netherlands)

Small color are duo consisting of Yusuke Onishi and Rie Yoshihara based in Yokohama, Japan. They create bright and emotional alternative pop music based on the guitar and voice with such nostalgic accents as the accordion,  toy piano and organ. Despite the heavy emphasis on acoustic instruments Small Color do not shy away from adding electronics to the warm sound palatte.

Onishi is a sound artist, composer and guitarist and the primary producer for Small Color. Yoshihara is an accomplished accordion player and instructor. In Small Color she is responsible for the vocals, atmospheres and art direction. Yoshihara also records under the name Trico! and has released two solo albums for the Flyrec label in japan.