Matt Woosey has made a career of defying expectations. His albums break down the confines of genre. His performances span from eyeball-to-eyeball solo sets in fans’ living rooms, to thundering full-band explosions that shake the most prestigious venues in Europe. He’s an artist who slips the creative handcuffs of the industry, a trailblazer with no […]
It is a very welcome return for the brilliant Larkham & Hall to The Tuppenny stage. Americana tinged folk and alt-country inspired by the great sixties folk artists and storytellers. Influences include Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, John Prine, Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell. ‘what England needs to reignite a spark for credible new songwriters. Breathtaking […]
We stepped in at the last minute to ensure this tour date went ahead for Grant, following a licencing snafu at original venue Baristocats. Grant Sharkey is a great musician, also a novelist, playwright and stand up, he’s a natural on stage and is a thought-provoking, yet hilarious comedian. Grasslands is musician and ecologist Thomas […]
We were pleased to be able to welcome Georgia USA native Kelley Swindall to The Tuppenny for her Swindon bow. Party Patsy & Part Dolly, with original songs in the story-telling tradition of WIlliams, Cash, and Dylan, Swindall is equally at home in a biker bar or under a proscenium arch. Taking the stage with […]
Death Is a Girl combines the groove of Prince and Rick James, with a dash of Deftones and the rocking musical vibes of Jeff Buckley, QOTSA and sprinklings of Mars Volta. This fusing of rock, funk, blues with a pinch of jazz creates a style of rock music normally heavy enough to mosh to, but […]
Sounds Like Women are a local charitable organisation that use music to raise awareness about women’s issues of domestic abuse, racial biases and inequality and to empower other women, find solutions and make people stop and care, giving a voice to those who don’t have an opportunity to speak. The Tuppenny are honoured to be […]
Blind Justice Page have a mission to bring the roots of Americana music into the 21st Century inspired by the golden age of old-time music and delta-blues. Phil Maguire has always been intrigued by storytelling and drinking songs. With these in mind, he has worked to create his own voice and stories out of the […]
Another last minute gig switcheroo, although not exclusively down to Covid this time. Poor Hatty, the support artist succumbed last gasp, but then the originally booked artist, who had pursued me relentlessly for the gig in mid 2020, had “forgotten” to tell me that he was stopping playing live. This was only discovered at the […]
We celebrate the 100th live session on our little stage with Barney, a Thursday Night Music Club veteran, who takes his deserved Sunday Social bow. He is a Folk/Pop Singer-Songwriter & Storyteller and an expert Lapsteel/Slide Guitar player.
Following the total covid related abandonment of the previous gig featuring The Shudders, thsi one looked in trouble too when for the same reason Stay Lunar had to pull out. But, heroically Si & Matt stepped up to headlines and Jol did the super-sub job. Si & Matt Hall are brothers. Not just brothers in […]