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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 travelling any distance.


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Put the name of the artist or band name along with the date of your show in the email subject line.

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Coming to The Musician in September 2017

Xander Promotions
YouTube
Tickets
Fri 1st Sep 2017
Gwyn Ashton
£10.00adv £12.00door
plus Tony Alles
From searing electric slide guitar to the subtleties of delicate open-tuned acoustics, Ashton’s virtuoso skills on the instrument and
stage presence are at the heart of his shows, with the full-band sound achieved through a mix of vintage and modern guitar effects
and kick drum. Pushing the boundaries of a solo performer, he creates a rich palette of soundscapes without the need for backing
tracks or even a set list. With a natural crowd rapport, he works his audience hard. From a whisper to a scream, he is a dynamic and
mesmerising soulful guitarist, vocalist and writer of songs about life and observations collected from over 30 years on the road.
Sat 2nd Sep 2017
CLOSED
SHOW POSTPONED TO 27/12/17
Unfortunately tonight's Real Magic (Queen Tribute) show has been postponed due to unforeseen circumstances and will now take place on 27th December 2017.
Mon 4th Sep 2017
City Acoustic Club
OPEN MIC NIGHT
Free
For up to date info and news please join The City Acoustic Club Facebook group!
Wed 6th Sep 2017
Andy Mann's Wake
The wake of our friend and soundman - Andy Mann
will be taking place at The Musician from 5pm onwards -
ALL WELCOME - open mic tribute
(The Funeral is at Gilroes
crematorium from 3pm)
Tickets
Thu 7th Sep 2017
The Bitter Springs with Vic Godard + Helen McCookerybook
£7.00adv £9.00door
plus Helen McCookerybook
Vic Godard is a British singer-songwriter formerly of the punk group Subway Sect, performing tonight with with his old mates and former group The Bitter Springs. Expect songs from the Sansend LP, Blackpool and lots more.
Forty Tenth promotions
Tickets
Fri 8th Sep 2017
The Infusion
£10.00adv £12.00door
feat: Hubcap
Doors 8:00pm
I have been trying for ages to arrange a date to get Roz Bruce's wonderful Psych/Rock band The Infusion back to the Musician, so am delighted to have finally suceeded.

They are on a high at the moment after the release this year of their stunning award winning new album "Doctor Doctor", along with a National Tour plus big festival shows.

"One of the most technically gifted guitarists I have ever seen, channeling Hendrix, Satriani and Vai in equal measure in her guitar and PJ Harvey, Suzanne Vega and Bonnie Rait through her vocals. Roz nearly knocked me off my chair with her dark, twisted and beautiful songs." - Off Beat Magazine
Xander Promotions
YouTube
Tickets
Sat 9th Sep 2017
U2 Tribe
£10.00adv £12.00door
Doors 8:00pm
U2 Tribe = The U2 tribute Band for the UK and Europe. U2 Tribe are a U2 tribute band, based in the South East of England, whose members are all passionate U2 fans.
The four members of U2 Tribe are committed to capturing an authentic sound and performing with energy and passion in a similar way to the original band.
With a repertoire of songs from all parts of U2's amazing 40+ year career, U2 Tribe have an ever changing set list that will suit all events and occasions."
YouTube
Tickets
Sun 10th Sep 2017
Marcus Malone Band
£8.00adv £10.00door
plus Attila Vural
Doors 7:30pm
Hailing from Detroit Michigan, Blues guitarist Marcus Malone was initially coveted by Motown records - working on demos with some of the biggest names in the business - before being moved to LA by Ike Turner’s management team and signing with United Artists Records. Growing up in Detroit meant he was always open to musical diversity, hanging out the MC5 and opening for Bog Seger and Iggy Pop, but it was his passion for rocking Blues that led him to Europe.

He quickly made an impact by opening for BB King at the Albert Hall and he hit the Euro festival circuit in support of a brace of British label rock/Blues solo albums. Ironically for an exiled American musician, it led to one of his songs ‘One More Time’ appearing on the celebrated 'Blueprint - Best of British Blues' album.

Comparisons with Paul Rodgers are merited for a supreme vocal stylist who is equally at home singing blues/rock as he is soulfully phrasing heartfelt lyrics. Marcus’ well deserved critical recognition has resulted in nominations for 2017 European Blues awards for 'Best Vocalist' and 'Best Album' in addition to a nomination by the UK Blues Awards 2018 for 'Best Male Vocalist'.
Tickets
Mon 11th Sep 2017
The Real McKenzies
Andy Wright Presents
£12.00adv
feat: The Brandy Thieves
The Real McKenzies is a Canadian Celtic punk band founded in 1992 and based in Vancouver, British Columbia. They are one of the founders of the Celtic punk movement, albeit 10 years after The Pogues. In addition to writing and performing original music, Real McKenzies perform traditional Scottish songs, giving them a new punk-influenced sound.
YouTube
Tickets
Tue 12th Sep 2017
The Rails
£12.00adv
plus Sally Barker
English singer-songwriter duo Kami Thompson and James Walbourne have reached deep into their rich musical histories to concoct the kind of sharp, true folk rock blend rarely heard since the Seventies. Produced with indie legend Edwyn Collins and featuring folk frontierswoman Eliza Carthy on fiddle, The Rails debut album Fair Warning is a little wonder, packed with traditional and original songs that stand outside of time yet resonate with contemporary urgency. Recognising perfection when they hear it, Island records have revived their vintage Pink Label for the duo, home to John Martyn, Nick Drake and Fairport Convention.
Tickets
Wed 13th Sep 2017
Jess Vincent
£6.00adv £8.00door
plus Paul McClure
Jess Vincent is a name that should become as familiar on the lips as the wind is upon the trees” Fatea Records

“One of the most exciting singer songwriters I've heard in years, with a magical voice and an exceptional and truly innovative songwriting talent” Reg Meuross (producer)

“When Jess sings, her belief and passion shines through her voice. FETCH MY HEART flows so lightly and easily. The slower title track, SEESAW DREAMS, sends shivers up and down the spine. ANNY BONNY is a song I never want to end, it’s so beautiful. I can’t recommend this album highly enough” Terry Ferdinand - Bishop FM
Forty Tenth promotions
Tickets
Thu 14th Sep 2017
The Willows
£10.00adv £12.00door
plus Red Herrings
Doors 8:00pm - 11:00pm
The Willows are a folk roots family band from Cambridge. Regularly compared to the likes of Alison Krauss & Union Station and Laura Marling, their musical style pulls influence from both Americana and UK Folk traditions. Fronted by the stunningly distinctive voice of Jade Rhiannon, supported by rich vocal harmonies and sensitive acoustic musicianship, The Willows have a distinctively refreshing sound that continues to captivate and inspire audiences everywhere they go.

Formed in spring 2010, the band have spent their formative years plying their trade in numerous folk and acoustic clubs all over the UK, supporting the likes of LAU, Uiscedwr, Rory McLeod, Peatbog Faeries and Lucy Ward along the way. Performances at the likes of Cambridge Folk Festival, Folk By The Oak, FolkEast and Secret Garden Party have followed, helping build a reputation as a compelling festival band.
Tickets
Fri 15th Sep 2017
Weller Unplugged
£8.00adv £10.00door
The best of Paul Weller, The Jam & The Style Council performed acousticly by the No 1 Tribute to Paul Weller...
Tony Brown & Kev White of 'The Modfathers'
Xander Promotions
YouTube
Tickets
Sat 16th Sep 2017
Stipe (R.E.M. Tribute)
£10.00adv £12.00door
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.
Magic Teapot
Tickets
Sun 17th Sep 2017
Sean Taylor
£8.00adv £10.00door
plus Les Hayden
Doors 8:00pm - 10:30pm
'Articulate, compelling ... brilliant'' (Four stars) Mojo Magazine

"An absolutely superb guitarist... reminiscent of John Martyn" Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2

'A fine blues guitarist ... Taylor is a man to watch’ Guardian

"Sean Taylor is a wonderfully talented modern troubadour whose sincere, thoughtful songs pull you in. I've had the pleasure of sharing the stage with him. He swings. Check him out!" - Eric Bibb
Mon 18th Sep 2017
The City Acoustic Club
OPEN MIC
Free
For up to date info and news please join The City Acoustic Club Facebook group!
Greenbird Promotions
Tickets
Tue 19th Sep 2017
James Delarre & Saul Rose
£11.00adv £11.00door
feat: Siobhan Wilson
Doors 8:00pm - 11:00pm
James Delarre and Saul Rose combine thrilling fiddle performances with some of the finest melodeon playing in a new duo harnessing all the subtleties of traditional music while producing an exciting and energetic display of musicianship. Together they produce flowing melodies, rich harmony and considered vocal delivery. The firm friends’ joy in playing music together is hypnotic, captivating and addictive.

James Delarre has worked with Jim Moray, Mawkin (a band formed with his brother) and Topette. He has also appeared playing on the BBC’s ‘Peaky Blinders’ and ‘London’s Calling’ and has performed on two forthcoming feature films with BBC, Fox Searchlight and Ruby Films. Saul Rose is one of the leading melodeon players in the country. He's best known for his work with the Kings of Calicutt and Waterson:Carthy and has also played in Whapweasel, the Jim Moray band and Faustus as well as in duos with Eliza Carthy and Maclaine Colston.

In support Siobhan Wilson makes a werlcome and overdue return to Leicester. Her new album will be out ahead of the gig and will showcase her beautiful, haunting vocals and deft songwriting.
Magic Teapot
Tickets
Wed 20th Sep 2017
Helen Money
£8.00adv £10.00door
plus Gloria
Doors 8:00pm - 11:00pm
“From the searing beauty of Chesley’s distorted cello on Vanished Star to the brutalising aesthetic of Leviathan, right through to the peace found in the closing sections of Facing The Sun, Become Zero is an affecting and profound work that inspires great empathy.”

– Record Collector, November 2016

Alison Chesley, known also by her stage name Helen Money, is a classically trained cellist who draws her inspiration not only from Pablo Casals and Shostakovich but Jimi Hendrix and The Minutemen.
She began playing the cello at the age of 8 in her hometown of Los Angeles, and through her undergrad and graduate studies, steered a course towards a career in classical music. While in Chicago attending Northwestern University, however, her focus shifted towards the rock music she had always loved. The instigation came from Jason Narducy, a singer/songwriter inspired by Bob Mould, who was looking for a cellist to perform new material with him. Together they formed the band Jason & Alison, then Verbow, becoming a force on Chicago’s active club scene. They came to the attention of Epic Records and released two recordings for the label, produced by Bob Mould and Brad Wood respectively. Alas, like many major label signings from that era they were dropped unceremoniously and disbanded. At a crossroads of sorts, Alison decided to go full steam ahead in pursuit of a career outside of classical music.
She began a busy period as a solo artist, especially on Chicago’s then thriving studio scene, where she played on over 100 albums including those by Bob Mould, Broken Social Scene, Anthrax, Mono, Russian Circles, Disturbed and Poi Dog Pondering. She began composing music for films, theater and dance including two world premiers with the modernist icon Shirley Mordine. And, in 2007, Alison wrote the first Helen Money album and released it on her own label, Cellobird Records. Since then, she’s recorded three additional albums as Helen Money, the latest of which, Become Zero, is available on Thrill Jockey Records.
Helen Money has toured the world several times over opening for bands such as Sleep, Shellac, Earth, Mono, Neurosis, Magma and Jarboe including a 2015 appearance on The David Letterman Show with Bob Mould and an appearance at the 2012 ATP Festival in London curated by Portishead.
Tickets
Thu 21st Sep 2017
White Manna
£7.00adv £9.00door
plus support
The Other Window PRESENTS
Heavy duty jammage from these Californian spaced out, garage psych space rockers, whose sound is often described as equal
parts Stooges punk, Hawkwind space rock, super melodic Sabbath like basslines and Kosmiche beat. White Manna's tidal wave of noise is dense, intimidating, transcendent and unforgiving with equal sprawls of fuzzed out stoner stomp,and droney motorik fuzz rock drift.

For fans of The Stooges, MC5, Hawkwind, The Doors as well as modern day psych rock heroes The Heads and White Hills.
Magic Teapot
Tickets
Fri 22nd Sep 2017
John Murry
£12.00adv £15.00door
plus Mountaintop Junkshop
Doors 8:00pm - 11:00pm
“On The Graceless Age you can hear John’s affinity to artists such as Mark Linkous and Mark Lanegan, but seeing him on stage, with just his guitar and his songs reminded me of Townes (Van Zandt), that raw-boned, exquisite beauty, so real that it borders on the uncomfortable, you feel you should look away, but it’s just too compelling to do so. The pain, the intensity, the honesty just draws you deeper”. Michael Timmins (Cowboy Junkies)
Sat 23rd Sep 2017
Private Party
Sun 24th Sep 2017
CLOSED
Tickets
Mon 25th Sep 2017
The Subhumans
Andy Wright presents
£12.00adv £14.00door
Subhumans are an English punk band formed in the Warminster and Melksham area of Wiltshire in 1980. Dick Lucas joined later in the year, having formerly been in another local band, The Mental. Other members had been in The Stupid Humans. The band's musical style is typically classified as hardcore punk or anarcho-punk.
Tue 26th Sep 2017
CLOSED
Wed 27th Sep 2017
CLOSED
Tickets
Thu 28th Sep 2017
The Marrakesh Express
£9.00adv £10.00door
Doors 8:00pm
A live performance featuring the music of the original Byrds and Crosby Stills Nash and Young, the band have a remarkable take on a remarkable era which in so many ways remains unsurpassed even today. The band delivers a magnificent full electric and acoustic show with archival footage and costume effect.

Turn Turn Turn, Eight Miles High, Mr Tambourine Man, So You Want to be a Rock and Roll Star, through to Woodstock, Guinevere, Down By The River, Ohio and many more classics songs from the time when America delivered its response to the British Invasion.

The only show of its kind anywhere in the world today and a truly brilliant night's entertainment.
Tickets
Fri 29th Sep 2017
Sex Pistols Experience
£11.00adv £13.00door
plus Ed Tudur Pole
The Sex Pistols Experience are the world's leading Pistols tribute show band, with a Worldwide reputation built-up from over 1500+ live shows from extensive tours of the U.K, U.S.A, Europe, and South America. The band have played all the top venues & festivals, & appeared in film & T.V as the Sex Pistols/Sid & Nancy. They gained approval from the 'real' Sex Pistols band themselves with appearances on Jonesy's Jukebox in L.A, & performing Pistols aftershow parties.
Cheeseweasel Promotions
YouTube
Tickets
Sat 30th Sep 2017
Stacie Collins
£12.00adv £14.00door
plus The Midnight Dogs
Doors 8:00pm
Sporting a slam-bang rock 'n' roll band and a hard-core honky- tonk wail, Stacie Collins pushes the boundaries of rock, blues and country. A singer-songwriter and a bad-ass harmonica player in the style of Chicago Blues greats Little Walter and James Cotton, Collins has garnered a reputation for her high energy shows, diverse songwriting and unlike most chick-singers, they are not all about love and heartbreak.



Based in Nashville, TN, Stacie is a road warrior having performed countless shows in the USA and Europe over the past few years and has even spawned a Japanese �Stacie Collins� tribute band. In addition to touring, Collins, along with her writing partner, husband, band mate Al Collins (Jason & The Scorchers) have written, recorded and released five records on her own label.



Had her records been released twenty or thirty years ago, they would have sounded as natural on �70s FM radio alongside ZZ Top and The Rolling Stones as they do next to contemporary rockers like the Drive-By Truckers or Blackberry Smoke.



"Proof of a lady excelling in a man's world" - Classic Rock Magazine

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