Music
THE NIGHTINGALES
Date: 21/04/2019 to 21/04/2019
The Nightingales was formed by former members of Birmingham’s original punk group The Prefects. With an ever fluctuating lineup, based around lyricist / singer Robert Lloyd, the band recorded a bunch of singles, three albums and many radio sessions for John Peel. The current line up features Lloyd, original Prefects guitarist Alan Apperley, Andreas Schmid from Faust
CC Smugglers
Showing: 25/04/2019 to 25/04/2019
Thursday 25th April 2019 Doors 7pm Curfew 10.30pm Age 14+
Kit Downes
Date: 03/05/2019 to 03/05/2019
Kit Downes is a BBC Jazz Award-winning, Mercury Music Award nominated solo recording artist for ECM Records. He has toured the world with artists such as Squarepusher, Thomas Strønen, Aidan O’Rourke and Django Bates and written commissions for Cheltenham Music Festival, London Contemporary Orchestra, Stavanger Konserthus, Cologne Philharmonie, BBC Radio 3 and the Wellcome Trust
French Boutik
Date: 04/05/2019 to 04/05/2019
Sharp-as-you-like French Mod band, French Boutik have so far released 3 EPs, captured on the recently released The Essential album, so Front Pop is their actual debut album. Their ‘60s-drenched power pop is more than just a bit infectious. https://www.facebook.com/frenchboutik/
Dan Walsh Trio
Date: 11/05/2019 to 11/05/2019
Nominated for best musician at last year’s BBC Folk Awards, Dan Walsh combines ‘virtuoso playing and winning songwriting’ (MORNING STAR). This exciting new trio sees him team up with award winning fiddler Ciaran Algar and long time collaborator Nic Zuppardi on mandolin. Describing what Dan does is no easy task but at the heart of
Gaz Coombes
Date: 29/05/2019 to 29/05/2019
Seventeen years in the same band, and you can start to forget things. Gaz Coombes is recovering a feeling – the moment you first realise that music can give you goose-bumps, make your hair stand on end. He got it aged fourteen, and he’s getting it again now. It was a “new emotion,” he recalls.