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Coming to The Musician in January 2016

Fri 1st Jan 2016
CLOSED
Xander Promotions
YouTube
Tickets
Sat 2nd Jan 2016
Ali Clinton
£6.00adv £8.00door
Ali Clinton is a UK based singer, songwriter and multi instrumentalist. Drawing on vast influences; from the raw punch and passion of the blues to the ethereal ambience of Radiohead, Ali is a refreshingly unique artist in the UK today. His reverb soaked guitar and soaring powerful vocal adds to the perfect mix of song writing and technical ability leading to a performance you don't want to miss.
Sun 3rd Jan 2016
CLOSED
Mon 4th Jan 2016
CLOSED
Tue 5th Jan 2016
obsUnplugged 2016
feat: Lucy DK, Rob Kelly and Beth Morris
The obsUnplugged is a series of nights to make selections for this year's local festival stages.
80+ acoustic/electro-acoustic acts will be selected to play over 2 weeks, showcasing some of the best local and national acoustic talent

obsUnplugged began in 2011 and to date, 100s of participating acts have been selected for various major local summer festivals!
Wed 6th Jan 2016
obsUnplugged 2016
feat: Evie Ward, No Mans Heath and Rogue State Circus
The obsUnplugged is a series of nights to make selections for this year's local festival stages.

80+ acoustic/electro-acoustic acts will be selected to play over 2 weeks, showcasing some of the best local and national acoustic talent



obsUnplugged began in 2011 and to date, 100s of participating acts have been selected for various major local summer festivals!
Thu 7th Jan 2016
CLOSED
Fri 8th Jan 2016
obsUnplugged 2016
£5.00
feat: Dan Wright, Michael Kurtz, Elysian, Luke Broughton and Emily J Crane
The obsUnplugged is a series of nights to make selections for this year's local festival stages.

80+ acoustic/electro-acoustic acts will be selected to play over 2 weeks, showcasing some of the best local and national acoustic talent



obsUnplugged began in 2011 and to date, 100s of participating acts have been selected for various major local summer festivals!
Sat 9th Jan 2016
Private Party
Sun 10th Jan 2016
obsUnplugged 2016
£5.00
feat: Greg Masora, Oscar Prince, Michael Squire, Geno Ayre Lynch and Tony Jones
The obsUnplugged is a series of nights to make selections for this year's local festival stages.

80+ acoustic/electro-acoustic acts will be selected to play over 2 weeks, showcasing some of the best local and national acoustic talent



obsUnplugged began in 2011 and to date, 100s of participating acts have been selected for various major local summer festivals!
Mon 11th Jan 2016
The City Acoustic Club
Open Mic Night
Free
Doors 8:00pm
For up to date info and news please join The City Acoustic Club Facebook group!
Tue 12th Jan 2016
obsUnplugged 2016
£5.00
feat: Zeb Project, Tony Alles & many more, International Acoustic Playboys and Les Hayden
The obsUnplugged is a series of nights to make selections for this year's local festival stages.

80+ acoustic/electro-acoustic acts will be selected to play over 2 weeks, showcasing some of the best local and national acoustic talent



obsUnplugged began in 2011 and to date, 100s of participating acts have been selected for various major local summer festivals!
Wed 13th Jan 2016
obsUnplugged 2016
£5.00
feat: Steve Parker, Helen Toft & Lee Allatson, Faye Haddon, Stephen Essex and Anna My Charlotte
The obsUnplugged is a series of nights to make selections for this year's local festival stages.

80+ acoustic/electro-acoustic acts will be selected to play over 2 weeks, showcasing some of the best local and national acoustic talent



obsUnplugged began in 2011 and to date, 100s of participating acts have been selected for various major local summer festivals!
YouTube
Tickets
Thu 14th Jan 2016
Gordie Tentrees
£8.00
plus Jaxon Haldane ( From The D Rangers)
Doors 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Deeply personal and moving, melodic and uplifting and lyrically rich – these are the songs that will tear your heart out, one note at a time. Master storyteller and multi-instrumental performer Gordie Tentrees has arrived. Yukon based, Ontario raised, farm boy, golden glove boxer, school teacher, youth counsellor turned folk artist, Tentrees has released 6 records touring North America, UK, Australia and Europe up to 200 concerts each year, nominated for Western Canadian Music Awards, international song competitions and toured with Kelly Joe Phelps, Fred Eaglesmith, Steve Poltz and Mary Gauthier.

“This is the fifth album by a man who really should be a household name, thanks to the excellence of his vocal and writing skills and his ability to create atmospheres and arrangements perfectly suited to his writing, something not all great singer songwriters are able to master.”
– AMERICANA ROOTS UK 5/5
Fri 15th Jan 2016
obsUnplugged 2016
£5.00
feat: Claire Schofield, Idle Empire, Hannah Haley, James Cull, Rak-Su and Amii Dawes
The obsUnplugged is a series of nights to make selections for this year's local festival stages.

80+ acoustic/electro-acoustic acts will be selected to play over 2 weeks, showcasing some of the best local and national acoustic talent



obsUnplugged began in 2011 and to date, 100s of participating acts have been selected for various major local summer festivals!
Sat 16th Jan 2016
obsUnplugged 2016
£5.00
feat: Winnie, Anker Valley Boys, The Levy, Gav & Alex, Michael Vickers and Remy Turi
The obsUnplugged is a series of nights to make selections for this year's local festival stages.
80+ acoustic/electro-acoustic acts will be selected to play over 2 weeks, showcasing some of the best local and national acoustic talent

obsUnplugged began in 2011 and to date, 100s of participating acts have been selected for various major local summer festivals!
Sun 17th Jan 2016
obsUnplugged 2016
£5.00
feat: Chris Moody, Eve Lily, Jo O'Malley and Grace Jenkinson
The obsUnplugged is a series of nights to make selections for this year's local festival stages.

80+ acoustic/electro-acoustic acts will be selected to play over 2 weeks, showcasing some of the best local and national acoustic talent



obsUnplugged began in 2011 and to date, 100s of participating acts have been selected for various major local summer festivals
Mon 18th Jan 2016
CLOSED
Tue 19th Jan 2016
CLOSED
Tickets
Wed 20th Jan 2016
Jaz Delorean
(from Tankus The Henge)
£7.00adv £8.00door
plus Gru
Roguish vagabond Jaz Delorean was raised on a travelling victorian steam fair (true!) which probably explains his Dickens-esque appearance and theatrical presence. A multi-instrumentalist Delorean excels wowing audiences with his piano, accordion, trombone.

Jaz Delorean is an English singer, as well as performing and recording as a solo artist, he is the composer and singer for British band Tankus The Henge.

Influenced by charismatic characters such as Jack Kerouac, Tom Waits and Edith Piaf, his music and lyrics often travel down the wistful, broken-hearted route, performed live with a mischievous glint in his eye and a roguish lopsided grin.
Thu 21st Jan 2016
CLOSED
Fri 22nd Jan 2016
The Highway Junkies
Chicken Head Lounge presents
Free
feat: Slim Jim and Tony Alles & many more
The first Chickenhead Lounge of 2016 kicks of down at The Musician Leicester on Friday 22nd January..Opening the show local bluesman ‘Tony Alles’, this guy is a great guitar player with a mean blues voice. From the ashes of your hosts OCR we bring you ‘Slim JIm’, a 2 piece guitar and drums combo serving up north hills Mississippi music with classic blues and original songs on the side..
‘Highway Junkies’, This Notts based 4 piece make their first appearance in The Lounge and will be will rounding off the night.with their Americana bar room stomp.
Tickets
Sat 23rd Jan 2016
RENEGADES - The Very Best of Thin Lizzy
£10.00adv £12.00door
Renegades are four mega-talented, Midlands-based musicians with one thing in common; an undying love of the timeless and unforgettable music of Irish superstar rock band Thin Lizzy.


The quartet locked themselves away in the rehearsal studios for almost 12 months to nail note for note renditions of the famed twin guitar fronted, legendary band's evergreen repertoire before they would attempt to play in public.


But when they were ready to rock, boy oh boy oh boy did they rock? Now, a few months down the line, the band have a handful of sizzling gigs under their belt and have speedily built up a solid reputation; as THE band to watch if you are a fan of Lizzy's music. If you can get in, that is!
Tickets
Sun 24th Jan 2016
Prostaid JazzBash
12th Annual ProstAid JazzBash
£12.00adv
feat: The Welland Valley Stompers, The Jazz Crew, The Saratoga Jazz Ensemble, Steve Fearn & Friends, The Spa Strummers, King Brasstards, Jazz Salon Rouge and T H Q
Doors 12:00am - 10:00pm
Mon 25th Jan 2016
The City Acoustic Club
Open Mic Night
Free
Doors 8:00pm
For up to date info and news please join The City Acoustic Club Facebook group!
Greenbird Promotions
Tickets
Tue 26th Jan 2016
The Paul McClure Band
Album Launch Show
£5.00
plus The Hardy Band
Doors 8:00pm
Also known as The Rutland Troubadour, Paul McClure is releasing his second album, Songs For Anyone, on Clubhouse Records the day after this gig, so it's your chance to hear the songs 24 hours early and blow away those January blues!

Renowned for his live shows, which feature great songs interspersed with his trademark dry with, McClure is rapidly emerging as one of the finest songwriters on the UK Americana scene, and he's definitely the funniest. Only a fiver too!!

“A man with a suitcase full of great songs“ - R2 magazine.

Support comes from Leicester newcomers The Hardy Band, an outfit rapidly making a name for themselves on the national stage with support slots for the likes of The South and their pop-tinged blend of Americana, country and folk.
Wed 27th Jan 2016
CLOSED
Tickets
Thu 28th Jan 2016
Amy Wadge & Luke Jackson
A pairing of two generations of captivating singer songwriters
£12.00adv £14.00door
Doors 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Amy Wadge is widely regarded as one of the country's most successful female singer/songwriters. Over the course of five solo albums, two collaborations, numerous compositions for other artists and hundreds of live performances all over the globe, she has established an outstanding body of work. Her voice is simply amazing with a breathtaking range and emotional impact while her songwriting continues to surpass most of her contemporaries.She has recently written songs with numerous upcoming songwriters, including Ed Sheeran, who released an EP, “Songs I Wrote With Amy”. Ed’s recent globally best-selling single, “Thinking Out Loud” was co-written with Amy.

Luke Jackson is a rising young Roots singer/songwriter from Canterbury, Kent , and 2013 saw him nominated for both the Horizon Award for Best Emerging Talent and the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awardand in 2014 he was named Fatea’s “Male Arist iof the Year”
With a bold, show stopping voice and honed guitar skills, Luke is a confident and captivating performer demonstrating an astonishing maturity

Luke is a singer-songwriter from Canterbury, Kent, who in 2013 was nominated in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for both the Horizon Award for Best Emerging Talent and The Young Folk Category. He was also winner of Fatea’s “Male Artist of the Year 2014” and 2016.
Over the past few years he has steadily been developing a reputation for himself in the Folk & Roots circuits either through his solo shows, many festival appearances or when opening for such luminaries as Fairport Convention, Show of Hands, Steve Knightley, Martyn Joseph, Seth Lakeman, Karine Polwart, Oysterband, Paul Brady, Glen Tilbrook and Sarah Jarosz.
Xander Promotions
YouTube
Tickets
Fri 29th Jan 2016
Stipe (R.E.M. Tribute)
£8.00adv £10.00door
Doors 8:00pm
R.E.M. are one of the world’s most enigmatic bands. With a string of peerless albums; one eye on the underground and one eye on the soaring chorus; we will never see their like again. From “The One I Love” through to “The End of the World” and more besides.
Stipe bring you all the top songs from these icons including “Losing My Religion”, and “Man on the Moon” and with all the atmosphere, attitude, emotion, and energy you’d expect. Stipe will provide the same cagey mix of attitude, poetry and idiosyncratic sound built around jangling guitars and hazy vocals of frontman Michael Stipe.
Whether it’s playing major festivals or appearing on the One Show, performing for Michael Stipe himself, Stipe are the definitive R.E.M. tribute – a complete band, and encyclopaedic knowledge of the back catalogue. They bring R.E.M. to life on stage – the contrasts and the magic; that direct connection to the music.
The boys from Athens’ legacy is in good hands.
Wake Up Promotions
Tickets
Sat 30th Jan 2016
Who's Who
£10.00adv £12.00door
Doors 8:00pm
Since their humble beginnings in West London in 1996 to now, Who’s Who, the longest established Who Tribute Show in the UK, have received incredible reactions across Europe and beyond for their exciting live performances. Pete Townshend’s leaping and Roger Daltrey’s microphone whirling antics have all but transformed the standard of tribute shows and set a benchmark within the industry for others to follow.

Widely recognised and respected by their musical peers and acknowledged by members of (and those close to) The Who, as the group that most interprets the songs of Pete Townshend and the legendary live performances of The Who with honesty and integrity.

Giving nothing less than 100% during a performance, Who’s Who ensure that a night to remember is guaranteed for those people who are lucky enough to be able to attend.
YouTube
Tickets
Sun 31st Jan 2016
RavenEye
£10.00adv £12.00door
Power-rock trio RavenEye was formed by multi-award winning guitarist/singer Oli Brown along with stunning bassist Aaron Spiers. Having already toured Spain, France and Italy supporting guitar legend Joe Satriani in 2014, RavenEye has been slamming audiences with their signature heavy riffs and incendiary live show. Whether it be straddling a bass drum high into the night or jumping into a raucous crowd, RavenEye is a high-energy rock act not to be missed.

Like the beginning of a good joke, the two Englishmen and an Australian have all travelled different paths up until the bands formation this year. Oli Brown has spent 10 years touring the world under his own name and in that time released 4 albums and has established himself as one of the most formidable guitarists/front men in the UK scene. Kev Hickman has also seen his fair share of international touring, and with an unforgettable stage presence he has developed an intense, hi-octane performance. Aaron Spiers tore into the UK in 2012 and since then has established himself as a force to be reckoned with on stage, he’s also released several solo albums and written scores for orchestras in Australia. After meeting and creating music together, they all knew that this would be their musical future, here begins RavenEye.

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