Nik Barrell is a member of Brighton’s finest country-blues band, GinClub, but also plays acoustic sets of his intelligent self-penned songs, as well as collaborating with the likes of Sharon Lewis and Shoestrung. "Nik sings like he’s drawing on a thousand years of experience and time has just been suspended." (Second Sunday). "“Down-and-dirty hungover blues, Ray Davies style”. (Viva Lewis)
THE WILLOW
ON STAGE: 9.20
Custom Blue front-man Alex Pilkington has disappeared in a forest of wires, some acoustic, to provide for The Willow... Watch for a series of vinyl releases as well as an album planned for 2009.
influences: Espers, Six Organs..., Bonnie, Wilco, Sunforest, Drake, PJ, Custom Blue, The Eye, Troubleman, Feist, Faust, Spirit, Canned Heat, Mountain, Havens, Guthrie (both), Cale, Cave, Spacek, Harmonic 33/313, Ayub Ogada, Voice of the Seven Woods, Martin, Mitchell, CSN, Neil Young, Calexico, Iron & Wine, Doobie, Azymuth, Arthur Verocai, Axelrod, My Bloody Valentine, Loop, Spacemen 3, Teenage Fanclub, Sun Dial, Lemonheads, Beatles, Stones, Dead, Lovin Spoonful, Al Kooper, Bloomfield, Mountain, Reich, Murakami, Kerouac, Part, Eno, Budd, Neu, Linda Perhacs, Pentangle, Roy Harper, Low, Global Communications, Richie Havens, Delaney and Bonnie, Allmans, Sonic Youth, Meg Baird, Po Girl, Be Good Tanyas, Richard Thompson, Davy Graham, The Who, Zep, Zapp, Jefferson Airplane, Merry Pranksters, Tom Wolfe, Laced-chilli, Haight, Palace, LCFC, Jackie Mittoo, Basic Replay, BJ Cole, Country Joe and the Fish, London Sinfonietta, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Spirit, Steve Miller, John Mayall, Carl Craig (most things Detroit), Rusty Man, Nick Drake, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Max Romeo, Junior Delgado, Dawn Penn, Robert Stone, Elliot Smith, Simon & Garfunkel, The Byrds, Wonderstuff, Aronofski, Bert Jansch, Kate Rusby, Dervish, Incredible String Band, Gordon Lightfoot, Jeff Alexander, Messiaen, Ligetti, Lee Hazlewood, Labi Siffre, Carla Bruni, Mink Deville, Don Cherry, Vashti Bunyan, Mogwai, Devon Sproule, Scott Walker, Robert Wyatt, The Cure, Delerue, Joy Division, The Band, Little Feat, Dylan, more later.....
LAURA KOONJEAN
ON STAGE: 8.40
Well, the album is nearly ready. Cant wait for you to hear it SINGLE is out in April - yeah!! Lxxx
CHRIS LAWSON JONES
ON STAGE: 8.00
What happens when a British singer-songwriter takes matters into his own hands and heads to Nashville and Los Angeles to make his first record? This summer sees the release of Chris Lawson Jones' debut LP, Carolina. Having spent his musical apprenticeship in and around London guitar bands, when he came to make his own record he scratched the musical itch created by his upbringing on bluegrass, alt-country and all things Americana and headed Stateside. Collaborating with musicians such as Aaron Embry (Elliot Smith and Daniel Lanois) and Phil Madiera (Emmylou Harris, Elvis Costello and Alison Krauss) his British song writing was lent a distinctly Southern edge and the outcome has already drawn comparisons with Ryan Adams and Pete Yorn. The record is also the first release for Big Label Records – an independent label that Jones himself set up with friends from the US and runs in London.
11 May (Monday) - NIK BARRELL, THE WILLOW, LAURA KOONJEAN, CHRIS
