Concrete Prairie make a welcome return (in a new 5-piece format). Borrowing from the genres of Folk, Country, Indie, Americana & Blues and brutalising them with our Britishness they create a beautiful heart worn racket. Support coems in the fine shape of Onze from Atari Pilot, road testing some new epic indie anthems in stripped […]
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Sue Harding’s unique voice, range and heartfelt delivery creates a hauntingly beautiful sound. Her songs are delicate but powerful, full of poetry and invention that never fails to enchant. ‘Flight’, her first album of original songs is a loving homage to Americana . Simple, scaled down and timeless. Indeed, there is a retro sensibility to […]
The Thursday Night Music Club continues it’s quest to bring the best Americana to Swindon with the arrival of Oxford based band Steady Habits, an Alt-Country 5-piece outfit fronted by Connecticut-native, Sean Duggan.Sean was co singer-songwriter of Loud Mountains, the harmony-driven band formed with his brother Kevin Michael Duggan in 2014. After the boys parted […]
We are excited to be able to welcome back the fantastic Ellie Gowers to The Sunday Social. Ellie’s music embeds a fierce energy that echoes the 60’s folk revival scene and she is known to hold audiences rapt with her strong and lucent vocals. Her songs are built from a childhood love of literature and […]
It is an overdue and welcome return to The Thursday Night Music Club for Shaun, in whatever format he turns up in on the night (solo, band, orchestra – it is all possible, anything from 1 to 60 people). This is an artist we rate so highly he headlined our first birthday party (wow, back […]
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Live Music Session #92 – SGO
A Sunday Social season wouldn’t be complete with a jigalong to the folk-masters SGO, A magical collaboration of musicians, playing 9 different instruments, with 5 voices creating close and choral harmonic vocals. The genre mission is “Some Kind of Everything” >>>> (SKOE) >>>> (SG’o) >>>> Folk, Blues, Country, Pirate, Parisienne, Gypsy, Experimental, Twisted Folk, and […]
Hailing from Bristol, Daisy Chapman is an extremely experienced and well-travelled pianist, singer and songwriter. Since 2004 Daisy has recorded 5 studio albums/EPs and released 1 live album, all penned and arranged by her. The music comprises of string quartets, percussion and choirs, not to mention her outstanding vocal range and ‘Nymanesque’ piano. The songs […]
This Thursday Night Music Club event features the music of Richard Wileman, a Swindon musician who is probably best known for releasing 14 albums as the composer behind Karda Estra. Inspired by weird soundtracks, easy listening and library music, art pop and prog rock, his first solo album ‘Veil’ features new songs and instrumentals plus […]
After one of the most talked about sets at this years Shuffle we have moved quickly to snap up a special acoustic set from Reuben’s Daughters. Conceived in Barton Creek, TX, USA (after missing a plane home…) Reuben’s Daughters is the musical brain-child of Bath-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Reuben Myles Tyghe, of alt-rock trio, Port […]
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Live Music Session #88 – Chris Webb
The Thursday Night Music Club welcomes back the fantastic talents of Tuppenny fave Chris Webb. Chris Webb is a solo independent performer from Bristol, releasing albums and gigging under his own name without management. Chris racks up near a hundred gigs most years and tirelessly releases EPs and albums for his fans. Also seen in […]