Boo Hewerdine and Brooks Williams as State of the Union create a magical, stripped back and enthralling musical atmosphere with two guitars and two voices. Reuniting for their only show in 2024 this wonderful duo are not to be missed!
Support from Tu-Kay & Ryan and Rich Young & Myke Clifford.
Doors 7pm, Support 8pm
Over the span of her career, Jolie Holland has knotted together a century of American song – jazz, blues, soul, rock and roll – into some stew that is impossible to categorize with any conventional critical terminology. This is her burden and her gift, to know all of these American songs of the last ten decades in her head and her heart, and to have to wrestle with their legacy. She dives straight to the pathos of a song the way the very greatest singers, singers like Mavis Staples, or Al Green, or Skip James, or Tom Waits do.
Upon first encounter her songs seem challenging, perhaps unsettling at times, but as so many poets and rockers have shown us (from Dante Alighieri to William Blake to Sylvia Plath to Patti Smith to Nick Cave to Mark E. Smith) that’s where the beauty lies. As evident on her first recordings, Holland apparently has no fear of the truth, and there is no emotional core that she cannot reach in song. In fact she thrives on the red hot centre of a musical composition, in all its strange and brutal detail.
Toby is an English musician and actor who was born in Oxford and grew up in Spain with his three sisters. Touted as ‘One To Watch in ’23’ by Rolling Stone Magazine, Toby released his first track of 2023 ‘Too Good” and the first track from his upcoming album. Too Good draws on the sounds of the late 60s and early 70s, and artists such as Marc Bolan and David Bowie. The track delivers a modern and comical look at the insecurities Toby experienced when he was younger, with driving guitars, relentless backbeat and catchy melodies.
Almost Nothing is a new band from Scottish musician and writer Roddy Woomble.
The debut album was written and recorded throughout 2021/22 in collaboration with four different producers: Scott Paterson (Protection), Andrew Wasylck, Le Junk, and Luciano Rossi.
Almost Nothing is an exercise in artistic freedom, the album shifts from electronica to moments of shimmering art pop – a genre fluid record – melodic, poetic, catchy and just confusing enough to escape full comprehension.
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Communion Music presents: LOUIS DUNFORD
Louis Dunford is a story teller, with stories that need to be told. Born under Bow bells and raised in Islington, Louis’ songs are chapters straight out of his lived experiences. Sometime raw, sometimes funny and always honest, the stories are all underpinned by infectious melodic hooks.
Since winning Acoustic Magazine’s singer/songwriter of the year back in 2010 he has spent his time on the road, building a strong and loyal following all over the UK and beyond.
He was the first independent musician to sell out Bristol’s, The Fleece, (450 cap), and The Bierkeller, (750 cap), and SWX, (1000 cap).
Gaz has an impressive back catalogue of nine studio albums. The latest of which, Morning Walking Club, went straight in at #1 in the Official UK Folk Album Charts, #3 in the Official UK Indie Breaker Charts, #6 in the Official UK Download Charts, #10 in the Official UK Indie Album Charts, and even #37 in the Official UK Album Sales Charts.
Not a bad result for this fiercely independent musician, with no record label, no manager, and no agent – just a guitar, a van, and a steadfastly belligerent refusal to give in.
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