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Coming to The Musician in July |
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Bob Cheevers
£5
plus Southpaw
www.bobcheevers.com
When I close my eyes, Bob Cheevers sounds like Willie Nelson singing
with the honesty of Jackson Browne and the balls of Steve Earle... but in a voice
that is completely his own. When I open my eyes, I see a middle aged man having
the time of his life in front of an audience he has spellbound with his tall
tales and true stories." -Tom Hamilton, music promoter, Glasgow. "Bob
Cheevers has forgotten more good songs than most songwriters write. A contemporary
of those other masters of the songwriting art, Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham, Cheevers
is the real deal and still waiting to be truly discovered. – Flyin’ Shoes
Review
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Alex Lowe (Hurricane 1)
£4adv £5door
plus Stevie Jones, Mark Gill, Lisa De Ville plus The Connection
www.alexlowexperience.com
A solo artist since 2001 ex Hurricane#1 vocalist and rhythm guitarist Alex Lowe has released three solo albums and two singles to date. The gravel-voiced (think Faces-era Rod Stewart meets Bob Dylan) singers latest project is Garage Flowers a band formed by Lowe and Sean Hannam. Garage Flowers are a classic rock and roll act, influenced by The Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, Primal Scream, The Who, Johnny Cash, Wilco and The Kinks.
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Beholder
£5
www.myspace.com/beholderuk
Bloodstock favorites Beholder perform all time greats by bands such as Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Thin Lizzy, Iron Maiden, Metallica and Alice In Chains. And this powerful five piece don't stop with old school metal classics either, they also storm through modern day, riff heavy tunes by the likes of Black Label Society Rammstein, Pantera and Drowning Pool. These guys work a crowd brilliantly and effortlessly tear through a set perfect for fans of classic metal. |
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Penfold Gate
£5
plus Autohype, Ducks & Drakes and The Prince Bishop
www.myspace.com/penfoldgate
Melodramatic popular song, powerpop and folk. As featured on Channel 4's 'The JD Set'. |
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Magic Teapot presents
Laura Veirs
£10adv
plus support
www.lauraveirs.com
On her third Nonesuch release, Saltbreakers, singer-songwriter Laura Veirs remains tantalized by the mysteries and marvels of the natural world, filling her work with images, both precise and poetic, of the ocean and the stars. But she digs even deeper this time into the vagaries of human nature, transforming the turbulence of her own life, as well as her concerns about the hair-trigger state of the world at large, into a collection of songs distinguished as much by their emotional urgency as by their often astonishing musical inventiveness. Veirs recorded the album in Seattle, with band-mate Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Bill Frisell) once again producing and mixing. Though she now calls her group Saltbreakers, it's actually comprised of her longtime compatriots, formerly known as the Tortured Souls -- guitarist/bassist Karl Blau, keyboardist Steve Moore and drummer Tucker Martine. |
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Dumpys Bluezz Intoxicated
£5
www.dumpysrustynuts.net
Fronted by charismatic mad man Dumpy (Dumpys Rusty Nuts) Bluezz Intoxicated play classic 60’s rock & blues (John Mayall, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix) and a whole lot of progressive blues stuff. Their gigs feature loads of guitar soloing from Dumpy, and they normally end the night lifting the roof off playing Silver Machine with all the usual Hawkwind type sound effects which DRN use.
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The Blessing and Black Carrot
£7
plus special guests
www.theblessing.co.uk
www.blackcarrot.net
"The Blessing are a blast" - Mojo. "At last: a noisy, thrashy post-jazz combo that sounds like a proper band" - Independent on Sunday. "Gloriously powerful" - BBC Music Magazine. "Seamless and startling" - The Times.
Market Harborough’s Black Carrot are one far-out combo. As hostile as Van Der Graaf Generator, as pounding as Faust and as mercurial as Can, these ultra-talented musicians are demanding, intimidating, frenetic and mental. Frankly, you wouldn't dare make them up.
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Barricades Rise
£3
plus Simon Stewart & Terry Emm,
Joel Owen and Project Notion
www.myspace.com/barricaderise
Barricades Rise are a two piece acoustic indie band hailing from Nuneaton, that formed in December 2007. They have been compared to the likes of Turin Brakes, Starsailor, Puressence and Elbow. In March they triumphed through to the finals of Leicesters 'Battle of the Acoustics' and finished as winners. Their debut ep is out on June 21st entitled Blueprints, and can be downloaded from www.indiestore.com/barricadesrise
www.myspace.com/simonastewart |
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Eve Selis
£8adv £9door
www.myspace.com/eveselis
And as with fellow frontwomen Bonnie Raitt, Maria McKee
and Melissa Etheridge, Eve Selis's voice can arc-weld
material from almost any genre into a personal manifesto.
And any vocalist would covet her band too. Marc Intravaia
and Jim Soldi (ex-Johnny Cash band) are legitimate
first-chair guitarists, each capable of leading a major
band. Together, they're an embarrassment of riches,
a stereo six-string storm of intertwining rebel riffs
in the service of energized melodies and steel-beam
song constructs. Add Sharon Whyte's work on keyboards,
accordion and vocals and the rhythm section of bassist
Rick Nash and drummer Bob Sale and you have the specs-sheet
for electrified Americana that's as good as it gets. |
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Magic Teapot presents
Ian McLagan & The Bump Band
£12adv
plus support
www.ianmclagan.com
www.macspages.com
Ian McLagan is a genuine, dyed-in-the-wool rock’n’roller. In fact, his smiling visage — he was, after all, a member of the Small Faces and the Faces — would serve as an ideal illustration in the proverbial Dictionary of What Is Truly Cool.The man known to his many mates and even more fans and admirers as 'Mac' is the sort who shrugs off such puffery. And then he just carries on creating splendid and genuine rock’n’roll with his Bump Band as well as musically aid and abet a marquee line-up of truly blue ribbon talent that he has toured and recorded with: The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, Taj Mahal, John Hiatt, David Lindley, Paul Westerberg, Billy Bragg and Patty Griffin, to name some but hardly all of the notables that McLagan has worked with over his four-plus decade career. |
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The Mustangs
£5
plus The Piranhas
www.themustangs.co.uk
The Mustangs are regarded as one of the best and most exciting blues rock bands in the UK today, and their fantastic new album “Nothing Stays The Same” looks set to push the band further into the spotlight. With their high energy, blues-based rock originals, the group has quickly grown a reputation as the best live band on the South Coast of England. A Mustangs stage show is like no other, with the tireless energy of lead singer Adam Norsworthy the focal point around which they build their shows, climaxing in a sonic and visual crescendo that is sending crowds home ecstatic time after time. |
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Sunday Club
£3
plus Hot Rocks, Murdoc and Fazed |
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Michael Chapman
£6adv £7door
plus Chris Conway
www.michaelchapman.co.uk
"Michael Chapman was never just a singer-songwriter - his gritty brand of guitar based songs span folk, ragtime, jazz and blues... it's on the tracks which feature Chapman's magnificently bleary vocals that this album really scores. Hell To Pay and Only Pretend are outstanding tracks, that world-weary voice singing words of bitter experience. This man is so laid back that he makes JJ Cale sound like he's on helium." |
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Acoustic Guitar Special
featuring: Al Hughes, Bob Tibbits, Nigel Beck and Martin Nelson
£4
www.al-hughes.com |
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Derrin Nauendorf
£6adv £8door
plus JT Nero
www.myspace.com/derrinnauendorf
Renowned for his intense
live shows and raw emotive music, Derrin Nauendorf’s
music is hard to categorise,made up from many roots
styles, blues, folk and Americana. Untamed acoustic
guitar, cutting lyrics, a powerful, evocative voice
and honest songs, delivered with passion, but twisted
to a unique sound. “First impressions? One Australian
guy with an acoustic guitar and his mate with a homemade
drum kit. What would you think? Me too. I then listened
to this live album and Derrin, guitar, sidekick and
drums proceeded to blow me away.” – David
Blue, Net Rhythms. |
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Joanne Shaw Taylor
£8door
plus Will Tang
www.joanneshawtaylor.com
Producer and Eurythmics guitarist Dave Stewart discovered Joanne when he saw her playing at an event hosted by UB40 and his reaction was as follows;- “I have played with all sorts of blues musicians all over the world, RL Burnside in Memphis, John Lee Hooker in New York, but I have never heard a British white girl playing the blues guitar so deep and passionate. It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end”.
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Leicester Acoustic Blues All-Stars
featuring: Tony Jones, Tony Alles, Mick Ridgeway, Bob Dayfield and Al Sampson
£5
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David Wyatt
£5
plus Peter Wyeth and Natile Squance
www.myspace.com/davidwyattmusic
Very possibly the best up and coming singer-songwriter in the UK today, David Wyatt possesses an emotive, four octave voice, big, dramatic songs and a vagabond charm and that makes him a spellbinding and of hillarious live performer. David is currently working on a new album with Diesel Park West's John Butler producing and piloting his barge around the canals of England.
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A word about our listings
A guide for Customers
These days artists and bands tend to book their tours months in advance. In order to give you the best notice of up and coming shows we list events once they have been confirmed by the band or their management. The downside of this is that dates can change due to unforeseen circumstances, sometimes at very short notice.
We do our best to ensure that this site is kept as up to date as is possible, with updates happening at least once a week. Therefore to avoid disappointment we recommend that you check these listing prior to setting out for your show especially if you are traveling any distance.
Not listed?
A guide for Artists and Promoters
The quickest way to get yourself included in our listings is to send an email to musician at mohawkvisuals.com once your gig is confirmed.
We also need you to do the following -
Put the name of the artist or band name along with the date of your show in the email subject line.
Attach a reasonable sized photograph. A 72dpi, jpeg, bigger than 200x200 pixels would be fine. Please don't email files over 1mb in size. If in doubt please drop us a line before sending.
Let us have your web address so we can link to your site or Myspace page.
Send us some text. Whilst we are happy to tidy up spelling or grammar, we don't have the time to write or edit copy for you. Ideally we need a nice concise 'blurb' of between 75-100 words. Please don't send a three page biography, or else we are likely to bounce it back to you. If you have a selection of press quotes send what you have as we can usually easily compile something from them. There are plenty of examples of the sort of thing we need here on the site to help you out.
Please note - If you have played at The Musician before and we have text on file, we will continue to use use it for any subsequent listings unless you supply new copy.
If you spot any errors please send an email to musician at mohawkvisuals.com.
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