STEVIE JONES & THE WILDFIRES New Album Soft Release + Guests

STEVIE JONES & THE WILDFIRES
Stevie Jones and The Wildfires are a well-established Northamptonshire based independent 4 piece touching genres as wide as Americana, Prog and Alternative Rock centred around powerful acoustic-based songwriting. At this special event they release their 4th album ‘Getting There’ which again was recorded at Deadline Studios with producer Adam Ellis. It takes them in a slightly new introspective songwriting direction covering romance, heartbreak, anxiety and recovery and includes two covers by The Waterboys and City and Colour. It will be an exclusive chance to hear the new material performed live and get hold of CD copies of the 9 track album which won’t be available for streaming until the autumn.
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GIDDY AUNT
A brand new Northants indie rock outfit featuring ex members of 90s legends Wishplants and Solarise debuting exciting new material.
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BENN HARTMANN & HARRIET CARTER
Benn Hartmann has been a regular performer on the local music scene for some time. He has written songs for a host of artists as well as establishing a name as a solo artist and has a number of releases now available on Bandcamp, receiving high praise from BBC Radio Leicester. He will be joined at this event by his fiancée Harriet Carter on backing vocals for an original set.
https://bennhartmann1.bandcamp.com/music

CALDER
In his own words “43 year old father who thinks he’s going to be a rock star. It sounds like David Gray and Kelly Jones got drunk in Bon Ivers’ studio and made an album about boyhood dreams”. A formidable local singer songwriter with a host of cracking songs and real life stories. We look forward to him opening the gig.
https://caldersmusic.com

The Lovely Eggs are an underground punk rock duo from northern England. They have a fierce punk rock ethos that music should have no rules. For Holly and David being in a band is a way of life. True to this, they live the way they play. Fiercely, constantly in search of the good times.

With observational and often surreal lyrics about life The Lovely Eggs have a powerful stripped down sound: one vintage guitar amp, one Big Muff distortion pedal, a guitar and a drum kit.

With releases in the UK, Europe, USA and Japan, The Lovely Eggs have played hundreds of gigs around the UK, USA and Europe supporting the likes of Half Japanese, Shonen Knife, The Slits, The Television Personalities and Art Brut as well as a two month tour of America and a string of dates at SXSW in Austin, Texas.

"You won't hear another band like this anywhere between now and the the end of the millenium. The Lovely Eggs are just brilliant!" - Huw Stephens, Radio One

8/10 Spin “Over the last decade, Cincinnati garage/pop/folk practitioners Wussy have refined a winning formula. Every 15 months or so, they break from full-time jobs (stonemasonry, waitressing, special ed), record a dozen-ish songs, play some clubs, then return to their 9 to 5s. Many an indie band can claim a similar bio, but few match the songwriting consistency of former Ass Pony Chuck Cleaver and formerly unaffiliated Lisa Walker.”

5/5 Artrocker “I’m suprised Wussy are not more maistream. If they’re producing music as beautiful and well constructed as that featured on this newest album-then everyone should be aware of and appreciate their talent.”

Cale Tyson is a singer and songwriter from Nashville, TN. Born in a small town in Texas, he was raised in Fort Worth, the home of Townes Van Zandt and the place where he first heard the classic country sounds that have inspired and enriched his gentle, melancholy, and undeniably whiskey-soaked sound.

"Old school, sad-bastard outlaw country for a new generation of excited country fans."
-Rolling Stone

Formed in the UK, The Members have established a worldwide fan base by touring relentlessly from the early days. The Sound of the Suburbs is a massive worldwide post punk anthem. The track Working Girl was a huge USA MTV hit.
Having conquered New Zealand and Australia in 2013 and successfully toured a new album The Members were ready for new challenges. In 2014 the band completed an amazing 30 date USA Tour (their First in 30 years) and are currently putting the finishing touches on a new album before gearing up for lots of shows in 2016 to celebrate 40 years of Punk Rock.
The Members current line-up includes three original band members, Nigel Bennett, JC Carroll and Chris Payne together with drummer Nick Cash.

"When I finally got to see them live, I was transformed into a hysterical nine-year-old girl at a Beatles concert.” Kurt Cobain

Shonen Knife are a ground-breaking all-female Japanese, pop-punk rock trio formed in Osaka in 1981, when Naoko Yamana first heard late ‘70’s punk-pop, particularly The Ramones. Inspired, the band crafted their own idiosyncratic songs, fashioned brightly coloured outfits and DIY albums. In 1985, K Records released ‘Burning Farm’ in the United States. Deals with Sub Pop and various majors followed. 1989 saw the crème of the alt. rock scene (including Sonic Youth, L7 and Redd Kross) covering their favourite Shonen Knife songs on the tribute album ‘Every Band Has A Shonen Knife Who Loves Them’. They toured with Nirvana (on the ‘Nevermind’ tour), The Breeders, as part of Lollapalooza, wowed the Reading Festival and Roskilde, recorded sessions for John Peel and appeared on MTV’s ‘Beavis and Butthead’. The band returned to the UK after a gap of 16 years in 2009 and since toured regularly throughout Europe gaining many generations of fans.

2016 will be the band’s 35th year of rock and will see them release their 20th studio album. With no signs of slowing down, Naoko continues to say: “Let’s Rock!”.

Back in 2016 for its 12th year, the Original Bands Showcase is set up for unsigned bands and artists of all genres. An independent music event that takes place annually in Leicester, the OBS first launched back in 2004. Its main aim is to give a platform for local live bands and an opportunity to increase exposure and fan base under the umbrella of a series of organised and well supported nights of live music. It has now become an established and credible event on the live music calendar.

The Silver Threetles are more than a tribute to The Beatles, they are an in depth appreciation of Beatles music. A homage. The Silver Threetles came out of the desire to see The Beatles perform again. How would The Beatles deliver those songs after all this time?

There's millions of Beatles tributes, dressing up and recreating the records. The Silver Threetles decided that they wanted to focus solely on the music, noodling with the songs until they felt new and different.

"The challenge is to keep the essence of the song, whilst giving them a playful fresh coat of paint."

The Silver Threetles have created a unique series of shows that give the audience a breathtaking Beatles experience, paying tribute to music, but also adding a huge amount of energy to the perfoermcance. You can expect more than just a Beatles tribute band. This is an event.

While working on the, ultimately doomed, follow-up to The Monsoon Bassoon’s I Dig Your Voodoo in early 2000, Kavus Torabi opened his badpalm to reveal an awkward handful. Songs that didn’t quite fit. Too personal, too singular, TOO PERSUASIVE.
Whatever inroads made into the first tentative steps of ‘self-production’ were soon trampled upon by the formation of an exciting new outfit with songwriting partner Dan Chudley (Initially called Miss Helsinki then later Authority).
These so-called inroads came further to tarmac and three-lane, what with Torabi’s joining of Cardiacs in 2003 and Guapo in 2005.
Following Chudley’s retreat from London (E) and inspired by a somewhat improved studio setup, The Cop’s Dream, work did finally resume in 2007 on the project now named Knife World or, if you’d prefer, Knifeworld.
Although the bulk of the parts were cack-handedly stumbled by the increasingly hubristic Torabi, gifted friends were bullied into a suitable performance. These included Melanie Woods, Sarah Measures, Ben Jacobs, Katharine Blake and James Larcombe.
To launch the release, a live band was astonished. In addition to the Melanie Woods and Khyam Allamis, Emmett Elvin and Chloe Herington were joined on keyboards and saxophone/ bassoon (respectively). Both musicians were of Chrome Hoof, a group with whom Torabi was involved as guitarist. Craig Fortnam played his wife’s bass guitar. (Fortnam had been part of Authority, while Torabi and Woods were involved in North Sea Radio Orchestra, Fortnam’s ‘core project’.)
Following ir/regular live shows in the UK, this version of Knifeworld released the EP Dear Lord, No Deal in 2011 (Recorded in the purpose built Skyhenge studio)
Necessity insisted a new rhythm section be invented and thank all the half-imagined deities it did. Drummer Ben Woollacott and bassist Charlie Cawood was it.
Torabi had already played with Woollacott for the previous threeyear in Mediaeval Baebes. Cawood was a friend of Allami. He was considered ‘young blood’ by the older members of the band, or if you must, Youngblood.
The remaining Allami drum tracks for what would have been the second album were used for the Clairvoyant Fortnight EP in 2012.
Already a six piece, Chloe Herington’s beautifully stacked parts on Clairvoyant Fortnight were too persuasive to leave out, so in casting both logic and practicality to the wind and then casting reason to the fates, Knifeworld expanded to an eight piece with the addition of horn players Josh Perl and Nicki Maher. Both is also singing and Perl he adds the acoustic guitar?
In December 2012 having spent the summer performing live, work began on The Unravelling. Conceived as an eight-part song cycle and composed specifically for this line up, the recording took most of 2013 to complete. As a ‘taster’ of what to expect Knifeworld shot a video and made available the sprawling Don’t Land On Me in the summer of that year. It was this video that came to the attention of InsideOut Music who, through a mutual friend Mike Vennart, made contact with the band and offered a record deal. A most unexpected and welcome surprise. The unwelcome accept.
The Unravelling was mixed by the remarkable Bob Drake and released in July 2014.
Tonight the band will performing songs from their latest album Bottled Out Of Eden.

Winners of 2014's BBC Radio Two Folk Award for Best Duo, Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin, have come a long way on their journey.

In 2009, Phillip, one of the UK's finest slide guitarists and harmonica players, moved into a tent in south Devon. He had his tent, his car, and a five year plan to earn a living through his music. He met Devonian fiddle-singer Hannah Martin, and the pair instantly recognised a very powerful musical connection. The pair's first album, Singing The Bones, was released in 2011 to warm praise. Their second studio album, Mynd, was released to great acclaim in September 2013, appearing in end of year best-ofs for The Guardian, The Telegraph, fRoots Critics Poll, Mark Radcliffe's Radio Two Top Ten, and Songlines. They were voted Best Duo at the Radio Two Folk Awards almost exactly five years since Phillip sat in his tent and made his plan!

The alchemy of Martin's ever evocative songwriting, fiddle and banjo playing and the much extolled skills of Henry on dobro, harmonica and lap steel fuse into a wholly distinctive world sound - songs of lament, tunes of hope, and totally unpredictable twist and turn music.

"One of the best duos on the planet" - Mike Harding

Kyle Carey will be making her third visit to Leicester, having previous played with Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker. A singer of Gaelic Americana, she has, in Mike Harding's words, "a voice to die for" and both hr albums have been acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic.

Presenting
Rock - Gospel - Spoken Word - Indie Rock

A Special Event by The Modfathers: The UK's No1 Paul Weller Tribute,
celebrating and telling the stories of the songs from From The Jam, The Style Council & Weller's solo career.

"A CELEBRATION OF THE MUSIC OF RORY GALLAGHER"

Rory’s music reached a massive audience from Norway to Spain, from Japan to the USA, Covering all parts of the globe and producing some of the greatest rock/blues albums of the 60’s 70's and the 80's.

Sadly we lost Rory on 14th June 1995, to his devoted fans and followers this was the ultimate tragedy. The BAND OF FRIENDS is not a tribute to Rory, more a celebration of his life and music.

'Please be assured that this is no tribute band.
Think a rendition of a composer's former work performed by those who have a full right to both perform it and choose their musicians.
RG would approve. No Doubt' Noel Buckley, (Get Ready to Rock UK)

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“Exquisite. The Law of Large Numbers never comes across cloyingly, its content ably handled and express with the same cliche-free purity The Delgados mastered” BBC

“Pollock has rediscovered the former band’s grandiose esoterica and stark, scratchy danger” NME [8/10]

Following the disbandment of The Delgados in 2005, the band Emma co-founded with her three fellow Chemikal Underground starter-uppers (Paul Savage, Alun Woodward, Stewart Henderson), Emma released her solo debut ‘Watch The Fireworks’ on 4AD. Returning to Chemikal for her next solo outing ‘The Law of Large Numbers‘ in 2010, Emma picked up more plaudits and acclaim for her unique brand of lavishly lyrical songwriting.

Then? Well, stints developing the Fruit Tree Foundation alongside Idlewild’s Rod Jones and playing a central role in The Burns Unit (who performed on Later…With Jools Holland) proved more than a little diverting since it’s been five and a half years since we had a new body of work. Until now that is as her new solo album ‘In Search of Harperfield‘ is scheduled for January 29th 2016.

Thank fuck we say: it’s about time. You can’t spend all your days running a recording studio Emma, not when your songs are as good as this…

Rory McLeod is a generous, hardworking, lyrical performer - A songwriter- storyteller- whose mission is to carve new roads, keep memory alive,and to take his audience on a journey - emotionally, physically and musically on large and small stages.

Rory McLeod & The Familiar Strangers' present Rory McLeod's songs in a fresh and exciting new musical environment and bring a musical depth and range to compliment Rory's outstanding talents as wordsmith and to match his engaging and earthy performing qualities:

Diego La Verde Rojas - Columbian Harp, Cuatro
Bob Morgan - Clarinet, Saxophone
Richard Sadler - Double Bass
Rory McLeod, Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica, Spoons, Tap shoes.

If your musical preference is a combination of rootsy blues and folk Americana, delivered with irreverent humour and nuggets of folklore, then look no further. This transatlantic duo of multi-award winners ticks all the boxes, combining the talents of Europe’s leading contemporary Bluesman with the Grammy-nominated songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Mississippi.

For devotees of blues and Americana on this side of the Atlantic, Ian Siegal needs no introduction. He’s the eight-times British Blues Awards winner, three-times European Blues Awards winner, and two-times US Blues Music Awards nominee. He’s sung with the prestigious Orchestre National de Jazz in Paris, played in more than 40 countries, and among his latest albums is a BBC recording made at London’s Royal Albert Hall. His accolades include two from MOJO magazine for Best Blues Album of the Year. Ian is the only non-American to achieve this distinction.

Formed on Canvey Island in Essex in the early 1970s Dr. Feelgood remains one of the most popular and exciting live rhythm and blues acts in the world. The raw and uncompromising style of their performance resulted in the album Stupidity that immediately went to the number one position in the U.K. charts.

Dr. Feelgood have also enjoyed global success with a string of hit singles including Roxette, Back in the Night, Milk and Alcohol, Down at the Doctors, She Does it Right, Going Back Home and See You Later Alligator - which gave the group their first gold record.

The last album to feature Lee Brilleaux - Down at the Doctors, was recorded live at the Dr. Feelgood Music Bar on Canvey Island, (now the site of the Oysterfleet Hotel) just two months before he died. The current line up features the rhythm section Kevin Morris on drums and Phil Mitchell on bass, approaching 27 years in the band and Gordon Russell on guitar. Vocalist Robert Kane (formerly of the Animals) joined in 1999.

Radio Clash perform a tribute to the music of The Clash with precision, power and passion. So if you want to experience the sight and sound of this iconic band one more time ... this is Radio Clash!

Back for another birthday bash for Dawson, The Dissenters welcome back Howard Smith (The Razors/Blues Move) to his old job on lead and slide guitar duties. Following last years epic birthday bash in December, Dawson had a break from playing live that lasted until August this year when the band were invited to play at The National Blues Festival at Colne in Lancashire.

Howard signed up and a few warm up gigs were arranged which were packed and rocking and the band went down a storm at Colne. During his lay off Dawson made another blues pilgrimage to America and finally got his mojo back in Memphis where he was invited to sing with top Memphis band Feeworld at the legedary Blues Cafe on Beale Street, that did the trick!

The awesome Andy Wales brings his superb Blues Band to open the show.

"Western Canadian Music Award nominated artist JP Hoe is the ultimate singer-songwriter. The Winnipeg native is earnest, wry, ironic, funny and insightful. His material has a genuine homespun feel, filled with catchy hooks and melodies – genuine, uncontrived and confessional."
Ottawa Life Magazine

CP Lee, the passionate Mancunian musician, writer, broadcaster, film & music historian. Tonight Kevin Hewick & The Musician are proud to host his show 'Just One Alberto'
C.P started playing in the North West folk and beat clubs of the 1960s with his band Greasy Bear later becoming a lynchpin of the punk rock explosion with his next band Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias. In 1977 Lee wrote the "snuff-rock" musical Sleak, which ran for several months in London's Royal Court Theatre and the Roundhouse. After Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias split up in 1982, writing, broadcasting, lecturing and the Ukule came to the fore and the rest is history ( as they say)

This is a very special double bill. Dan Walsh, late of Walsh & Puond and currenly of The Urban Folk Quartet and a fine solo career, is probably the best clawhammer banjo player in the UK. His fiery, high energy playing has won him fans the length and breadth of the land and it'sa delight to welcome him back to Leicester.

"The real deal" - Uncut.

A regular visitor to Leicester, Jess Morgan appears for the first time with her new trio. A superb acoustic guitarist, she has been writing great songs and making equally great albums and EPs for a while now and has played at Folk By The Oak, Cambridge and many many others. A delight to watch, her trio adds extra body and interest to her songs and is not to be missed.

"Simply stunning" - Folk Radio UK

Making his name early on as an icon with the 6 piece R&B the Southside Stompers, Big Boy Bloater has proven himself to be one of the finest guitarist and performers of his generation and has drawn praise from his contemporaries for his powerful voice and dynamic and instantly recognisable guitar style with luminaries such as Imelda May who has confessed to being a “massive fan”, Jools Holland has declared him “one of the great bluesmen of our time” and Mark Lamarr who even personally funded a vinyl run of the single Whammy just so he could have a copy.

Big Boy Bloater has performed alongside Carl Perkins, Wanda Jackson, Paul McCartney, Imelda May, Paloma Faith, Snowboy, The Boomtown Rats, Jim Jones Revue and more.

Tonight, Big Boy Bloater and The LiMiTs celebrate the release of their latest album "Luxury Hobo"

Silver Vine Arts is a non-profit, artist led, community interest organisation, run by a small (but ever growing) group of creative individuals. Their origin began with Summer Art Trail 2014 where the organisers and volunteers shared a similar passion in supporting artists. From there WTS Gallery was established where members organised and curated regular exhibitions for up and coming artists. Gaining more talented and hardworking creatives along the way Silver Vine Arts was founded, running and coordinating creative events and fundraisers such as arts festival Summer Art Trail, Winter Footprints and The Encounter Counter; and implementing training and employment opportunities for artists.

OUR MISSION
As an organisation our focus is to create opportunities for artists and creative organisations such as arts festivals and exhibitions, residency programmes, artist open calls, and paid internships and training. Hosting and organising regular events we thrive to bring culture and all inclusive experiences to the midlands area.

The Band consists of three skilled Session Musicians including Andy Knott on lead Guitart who has worked with Deff Leppard & Paul Wellar and many more well known bands on session work.

They specialize in instrumental rock - think Satriani, Jeff beck , Floyd, Zeppelin & rush

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