Sweet Laredo
Friday, 21 May 2010
http://www.myspace.com/sweetlaredo
Ticket price:£6
Doors:8pm
Sweet Laredo
The subtle influences of Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone
combined with Erykah Badu make Sweet Laredo compelling Listening.Evening
Standard
Sweet Laredo are Sarah J. Scott and Dan W. Coggins T.
Finding a shared love of soul, jazz, blues and hip-hop they began to
collaborate on smoked-out,beats-driven tunes. These were then stripped back to
be played only on a battered old spanish guitar giving full reign to Sarah's
incredible voice which veers wildly between the gutsy blues moan of Etta James
and the smoked-out rasps of Eryka Badu.
www.myspace.com/sweetlaredo
VANDAVEER
Sunday, 23 May 2010
http://www.myspace.com/vandaveer
Ticket price:£5 adv/6 door
Doors:7pm
“Superb. Vandaveer’s Divide & Conquer avoids the
sophomore slump by miles and miles.” – POPMATTERS
“Jarring new folk.” – ROLLING STONE
“Divide & Conquer is as good as we could’ve
hoped–slightly more delicate than Grace & Speed and punctuated with
crescendos that explode in mid-air. ” – LA BLOGOTHEQUE
Vandaveer’s debut album, Grace & Speed, a mostly live,
stripped down affair, swiftly entered this great big dusty world in the spring
of 2007 garnering rave reviews and comparisons to Donovan, Dylan, Waits, Drake,
Simon, and the like. Touring continually on both sides of the Atlantic ever
since, Vandaveer has played 250+ shows, sharing stages with a host of humbling
artists including Bon Iver, Alejandro Escovedo, Vashti Bunyan, Vetiver, Evan
Dando, Scout Niblett, The Ditty Bops, Smog, Fleet Foxes, Alela Diane and his
dear friends in DC’s ramshackle collective, The Federal Reserve. In addition to
said Vandaveering, Heidinger has been known to fraternize and conspire with
other music-making hooligans, primarily as a bassist with fellow DCers These
United States.
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