Coming to The Musician in February 2018

Songdog is a vehicle for the songs of Lyndon Morgans (from Blackwood in South Wales) with accompaniment from Karl Woodward (guitar/banjo/mandolin), Dave Paterson (drums/accordion) and Jasper Salmon (violin). Songdog's latest album "Joy Street" has four star reviews from Mojo, Maverick and the Mirror as well as a 9/10 from Americana UK amongst others. Best described as "folk noir" Songdog make powerful emotional music that cuts to the heart like no other band. "Dylan Thomas meets Ray Davies backed by The Waterboys" - Uncut.


In support, and making his first visit to Leicetser, is East Anglia singer-songwriter Kevin Pearce. A writer of "the finest songs" (Mojo) and a maker of "classic albums" (Bob Harris) his Leicester debut is not to be missed..

First set 8.30pm

Dizzy Lizzy are a fantastic live tribute act, dedicated to the legendary Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy. Established in 1994, their sound and set-list faithfully recreate that trademark Lizzy sound. Philomena Lynott once stated that Dizzy Lizzy are “the closest to playing my son’s music'”. The band do indeed have an amazing sound and resemblance to the classic 70s and 80s rock band, taking you back in time to relive that magical musical era with a superb blend of classic foot stomping rock anthems and emotive ballads.

One of the country's most dynamic tribute acts, they are the only act to have headlined both the ‘Vibe for Philo’ in Dublin & ‘Remember Phil & Gary’ event in Holland. They have also performed and toured with original Thin Lizzy guitarist Eric Bell whose reaction on first seeing the band was telling. “I could only watch three numbers owing to the emotions. The resemblance to Phil and the mannerisms and playing, it was spooky – it made the hairs stand up on the back of my neck…”

The Bootleg Boss is the real deal. A Springsteen fan for 25 years, he has lived and breathed the spirit of the New Jersey landscape and developed an amazing way of delivering the classic hits of the Boss.

From the early days of Greetings at Asbury Park, through Born to Run, The River, Born in the USA and later albums, The Bootleg Boss gives 100% commitment in a three hour show with his own East Street Band of seasoned musicians, creating an authentic sound and live experience.

BOTHERATION PRESENTS
Kevin Hewick's annual Birthday fundraiser this year is a Countesthorpe College special featuring many ex music students ( including Kev himself) raising funds for British Heart Foundation (in memory of Adi Barrett), Ian's Chain Suicide Bereavement Charity (for which Kevin is Patron) and last but not least admission is by dried food stuff for the local foodbanks.

Open 3.30pm
Acoustic Line up: (CC= Countesthorpe College Alumini)
Kevin Hewick Band (CC)
Autumn Dawn Leader
Paz Alexander
Jim Smith (CC)
Rob Cooper (CC)
Gary Woolley (CC)
John Rainer (Cc)

Electric Evening 7pm
A2RK - ( featuring drum and vocal track by our late friend Adi Barrett)(CC)

Homage to Bowie - with Rich Barton, Dave Davies & Paul Robinson (CC)

Chance Remark (CC)

Jersey Budd with Nick Murphy & Robbo (CC)

Finala Jam

Biography
After the indefinite hiatus in 2013 of UK alt country outfit Ahab, song writer Steven Llewellyn went on to form his own band with the help of Ahab originator Dave Burn.

Being firmly a part of the London country scene made it easy to get involved in collaborations with members of bands like Danny & The Champions of The World, who’s drummer Steve Brookes, already having toured heavily with Ahab, became a permanent member of Orphan Colours in 2014.

A guitar tech contact of Brookes later lead to a meeting between Llewellyn and Noah & The Whale guitarist Fred Abbott. The lead guitarist was in the midst of auditioning lead singers for his solo project and the two found common ground in their appreciation of Tom Petty and Jason Isbell. When Abbott heard Llewellyn’s demo’s for the new Orphan Colours project he immediately signed up.

Graham Knight was quickly drafted in on bass and vocals, having already played shows with ahab throughout 2012, he was an obvious fit.

Jess and the Bandits are back with a brand new album and UK tour. Following a successful couple of years with the release of their debut album ‘Here We Go Again’ the band have been busy in the studio writing and recording what is set to be their most exciting release to date.
Having wowed the likes of Terry Wogan, Gaby Roslin and Bob Harris with their radio-friendly combination of high-energy pop-country music, they have appeared on TV shows including Lorraine, Aled Jones’ Weekend, The Wright Stuff and Songs of Praise.
Now back with their new record entitled ‘Smoke & Mirrors’, the band are excited to be back on the road in the UK.

Korn Again are a Korn tribute band from the UK endorsed by the original band. After forming just seven years ago, Korn Again have wasted no time in cementing their claim as the world's greatest Korn tribute act, and have managed to replicate the band’s trademark raw and aggressive sound, effortlessly translating it to the live arena through countless high-octane live performances.

Korn Again also have the stamp of approval from the original band themselves, as they were joined on stage by Korn's bassist 'Fieldy' and drummer Ray Luzier during a show in December 2016 to perform two of their biggest known hits - 'Here To Stay' and 'Freak on a Leash'.

The UK #1 Creedence Clearwater Revival Tribute Show bring you “The Green River Tour” celebrating Creedence Clearwater Revival’s #1 Album “Green River” and their #1 hit single
“Bad Moon Rising”.

Experience a two hour nostalgia trip back to 1969, the heady days of Woodstock and one of the most important musical periods in history, along with all the greatest hits including
Proud Mary, Have You Ever Seen The Rain, Fortunate Son and many more.

Selling out venues internationally, they were invited to perform at The O2 Arena VIP Lounge in 2018 for guests at Fogerty’s show. ‘Review are
established as the definitive tribute among theatre audiences, with an authentic, honest and power-packed celebration of the Creedence legacy. They conjure up the full throttle, high-energy experience of seeing Creedence on stage in their prime, and six decades on, we experience the spirit of Creedence reprised with
Creedence Clearwater Review.

International touring blues-rock powerhouse Catfish are making waves on the music scene in the UK and Europe. They have now won a total of five UK Blues Awards. Matt Long, the guitarist/vocalist, was named Instrumentalist of the Year in the UK Blues Awards in both 2020 and 2021. In the UK Blues Awards of May 2020, the band was also named Band of the Year. In 2018 they won the UK Blues Award for Blues Act of the Year (England) to add to their 2016 British Blues Award for Paul Long as Keyboard Player of the Year.

In the last few years, they have played at almost every major UK Blues festival and have established themselves as a real force in the British Blues scene. They now tour regularly in Europe.

Hope In High Water are a duo from Milton Keynes, UK whose distinctly British take on acoustic Americana has captivated audiences across the UK since early 2014. The pair incorporate folk, blues and country into their compositions, delivering what Rock’n’Reel Magazine describe as ‘exuberant songs performed with passion and intensity’.

An unlikely pair to be pushing the frontiers of the Americana/folk scene, both Josh and Carly started out in the punk scene, churning out high-energy performances and angry, politically charged music night after night. This sometimes comes as a shock to those who have come to know the pair for their intense and authentic brand of folk. However, it is from these roots that Hope In High Water developed a strong belief in the importance of honest and sincere song writing and a taste for the darker elements of the American folk tradition. By combining that approach with an intense love of various traditional forms of music from blues to country, folk to soul, the pair has found an original way of interpreting these traditional sounds.

Hope In High Water’s sound is strongly influenced by the wanderlust and sense of movement that carries through their lives. Both spent much of their childhoods travelling, Carly with her dad’s work that pulled her from place to place and country to country and Josh with his Blues musician parents who showed him the joys of a bustling bar on a Saturday night. These experiences left a longing in the pair that lead both to independently start bands and tour the UK and Europe throughout their early twenties.

It is through the travelling lifestyle that the two were to meet in a London venue in 2010. Crossing paths again several years later, the pair quickly formed a bond and within months were both living together and beginning to collaborate musically. With the demise of both of their respective bands, Josh and Carly both quickly began to again feel that familiar pull of the road and decided to take the dark, roots inspired brand of folk they had been honing at home out into the world.

Talulah Blue presents a spectacular Bowie themed burlesque night to celebrate Valentines Night. with Bowie tribute band 'The Serious Nights' and Bowie themed burlesque dancers:- Talulah Blue + Pearl Grey
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Solitaire Carpenters tribute pays homage to the illustrious music of Karen and Richard Carpenter, with authenticity to their music at the heart of the show. Featuring many of their popular hits, Solitaire has delighted audiences all over the country.

2 Box Ting presents:
Higher Meditations Sound
Systems Plus special guests

Representing and supporting the roots scene from producers to selectors

A four-piece band from the West Midlands performing a heavy mix of rock, blues and soul from the Glenn Hughes and friends family tree.

A love of the great music that Glenn Hughes has been involved or associated with over the past 40+ years brought the band together. Formed in 2011 with the sole purpose of playing this wonderful music with energy and passion and performing a few lesser known tracks.

The set includes songs by Glenn Hughes, Trapeze, Deep Purple, Hughes/Thrall, Black Country Communion, Led Zeppelin, Joe Bonamassa, Government Mule and California Breed.

Alex Cornish is a singer-songwriter from Dunbar, Scotland, a seaside town just outside Edinburgh.  He has produced five critically acclaimed albums to date, his most recent being "Hang on the Word" which came out in July this year ("classical and crafted, absolutely magical" said BBC Radio Scotland's Roddy Hart) .  In session for Dermot O' Leary he was called a "genius", Mark Radcliffe declared his music to be "absolutely gorgeous'", “a voice to stand comparison to Thom Yorke” said The Scotsman on Sunday and “a beautiful album that has Mercury Music Prize nomination written all over it” said The Sunday Times.  So, with all this praise...why you haven't heard of him?  He isn't sure either but you are in for a great night if you come down - classic and inventive singer songwriting, top notch piano playing, beautiful backing from his band and stories from the road.  Not to be missed

It's been so long since the olden days when I was on Top of the Pops prancing around with Fairground Attraction. That year we won awards for the best single (Perfect) and best album (The First of a Million Kisses) on the worst TV show ever (the 1989 Brit Awards with Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood) before, like all good groups, we fell out when the royalties came in. I had all these songs that were supposed to be our second album, so my good friend Brian Kennedy and me became Sweetmouth and made Goodbye to Songtown. After that I got a call from Morrissey, “send me some music” he said, I sent it, we recorded an album (Kill Uncle ) and a bit (Your Arsenal ) and four singles (Our Frank, Sing Your Life, My Love Life, Pregnant For The Last Time). Kirsty MacColl, my old mate from way back yonder, got back in touch and we wrote the story of our lives falling to pieces (Titanic Days). I was popular back then, all sorts of people asked me to write songs for them or with them. The brilliant Carleen Anderson and I wrote a song called Let it Last, I wrote songs with cowboys in Nashville and recorded Love Ruins Everything with Lloyd Cole in New York. I wrote a song with Carole King (!) - David Bowie covered 'I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday' (a song I wrote with Morrissey) - I even had George Martin conducting the orchestra on ‘I’m Yours’ a song I wrote with Ringo Starr. But that’s all over now, back in 1999, my publisher told me I was committing commercial suicide when I decided to keep the songs to myself and record a solo album. But I did anyway, with Liam Watson (who went on to win a Grammy for his work with The White Stripes) at the crusty old mixing desk of the legendary and now defunct Pathway Studios. With the help of my Fairground friends, Roy Dodds on drums and Roger Beaujolais on vibraphone, we made Insensitive Songwriter. My publisher was right, but that didn’t stop me doing another one, and in 2002 I put out The Mighty Dove . Both records are flawed but, I think, they contain some really good stuff too. So now? I’ve done another one! It's called ‘Stand Beside Me In The Sun’ and it is out now.

Now in their second decade since forming, DURAN are the UK’s leading tribute to Duran Duran. Performing to audiences throughout the UK and Europe, winning new friends along the way, DURAN continues to authentically recreate the sounds and energy of Duran Duran’s live shows, paying noteworthy and respectful homage to the Wild Boys of pop.

This popular, award winning, tribute act delivers a cocktail of timeless hits and fan favourites from Duran Duran’s 40 year career, satisfying both the hungriest of Duranies and music lovers alike!

So for the ultimate live tribute show to Duran Duran look no further! DURAN will soon be landing at a venue or festival near to you, right here on Planet Earth!

Open 7.45pm -Starts 8.15pm
The Orange Circus Band is a raucous Celtic/Bluegrass collective based in the UK, with roots in Virginia, USA. 
Whilst having a hand in roots, rock and gospel music, and updating traditional songs taken from The Blue Ridge Mountains - largely inspired by Granny Alice -The Orange Circus Band produces original music that has a wholly unique, fresh sound. You can expect wild playing, beautiful harmonies and boundless energy guaranteed to raise the roof and warm the hearts. 
Whilst releasing the single 'Gold 'n' Rum' with its accompanying video shot across northern Italian territory, The Orange Circus Band has just finished a stack of UK gigs across the summer, festival line-ups, touring Europe, whilst also hosting the 'Walking with Music' tour across southern Spain.

"Now this is fun, the new single from the Orange Circus Band, a UK/Virginia outfit who look destined for big things" 
– Jeremy Searle

The Hartland Country Band
HARTLAND are a Midlands based band comprising of 6 experienced musicians sharing their passion for "Modern Country Music". Dawn Jacques (lead vocals/guitar), Craig Chapman (vocals/lead guitar), Ray Ashton (mandolin, mandola, guitar, vocals ), Graham Wheatley (bass guitar, vocals), Helen Butterfield (fiddle, vocals) John Iliffe (drums)

“I have always wanted to put together a country band and set my stall out to achieve it. Through contacts and a few adverts I was able to bring together today's line-up” says Dawn.

The band bring many years experience together independently playing across many genres, but its their dedication to Modern Country Music that delivers their not to be missed on-stage chemistry. Performing mainly covers from todays biggest country artists such as Keith Urban, Dixie Chicks, The Band Perry, Kacey Musgraves, Lady Antebellum, Sara Evans, Ward Thomas, Maren Morris, and many more.

For up to date info and news please join The City Acoustic Club Facebook group!

The LYNNeS are Juno award winning songwriter Lynn Miles and award-winning songwriter Lynne Hanson. The two Canadian heartbreak poets are multi-instrumentalists (piano, acoustic, electric guitar, mandolin), fusing tight vocal harmonies with hauntingly gritty lyrics. Individually they have toured North America and Europe, and their debut album Heartbreak Song For The Radio will be released in 2018.

FINAL UK TOUR !
Please join Bob for his last UK tour dates and his 76th Birthday on this very day to boot.

Long recognized by peers as being blessed with the acute vision of a master painter coupled with the precision attention to detail of a great novelist, Cheevers has written over 3,000 songs in his five decade career. Along the way he has rightfully earned the mantle of master songwriter as well as the respect of his many songwriting pals, including Texas icon Ray Wiley Hubbard, who recently said, “Bob is one cool scarecrow gypsy poet who writes and sings the romantic beautiful truth. When he releases a record, I listen.”
Also a cult favorite in the UK and Europe where he has toured for more than a decade, Cheevers continues to find inspiration in the life he’s chosen in Texas as well as the rich Southern heritage that came from his growing up in Memphis. His rootsy, blues-flavored songs spin tales of life in a conversational language of the heart that rock the soul. They are intimate and expansive, poignant and bracing, tender and raucous, unflinchingly honest and redemptively healing. As he laughingly is known to say, “I don’t know if these stories are true, but they happened to me.”