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Live Music Session #124 -Death is a Girl + Oxbowlake

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 […]

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Live Music Session #123 – Reuben’s Daughters + Tamsin Quin

After one of the most talked about sets at last years Shuffle and a cracking special acoustic set from Reuben’s Daughters back in November we thought we would strike whilst the iron was still hot and get a fuller band show in the diary… Conceived in Barton Creek, TX, USA (after missing a plane home…) […]

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Live MusicSession #122 – Fly Yeti Fly

This months Sunday Social session features the return of the fabulous canal dwelling folkies Fly Yeti Fly. Fly Yeti Fly are the Wiltshire-based acoustic duo Lorna Somerville and Darren Fisher. Blending sensitive vocal harmonies with intricate guitar arrangements, mandolin and harmonica, the duo weave songs and stories from their travels together, with a sound that […]

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Live Music Session #121 – Rodney Branigan + Jim Blair

Americana Folk Roots with virtuoso presentation, with a touch of clean comedy thrown in for good measure. Rodney’s style is trademarked as ‘Full Contact Folk Music’ Rodney is a Texas-born troubadour who learned to play in Austin, perform in Los Angeles, craft songs in Nashville, and put it all together in London and has played […]

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Live Music #120 – Chris Cleverly

We are excited to welcome Chris Cleverly to the Sunday Social for the first time! Cleverley’s music is infused with the hazy, dreamlike essence of the 60s Folk Revival. Rich with lightning-fast melody and beautiful vocals, every song pulls you in to reveal lucid storytelling – confirming his compelling place within the world of alternative […]

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Live Music Session #119 – Wyldest + Harry Leigh (Stay Lunar)

The musical evolution of Zoe Mead, who writes and records under the Wyldest moniker, has been a steady one – a mix of deliberate exploration, a natural shifting in taste, and a certain virus twisting her arm. After recording drums for 20 songs touted for her second album – Monthly Friend (out now via Hand […]

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Live Music Session #96 – Steady Habits + Black Sheep Apprentice

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 […]

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Live Music Session #95 – Ellie Gowers

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 […]

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Live Music Session #94 – The People Versus + Barney Kenny

RESCHEDULED FROM 14TH OCTOBER It’s always great when a band is recommended and immediately proceeds to blow you away. Especially when it is a band so local. We couldn’t say no really, so grabbed a show as soon as we could. Therefore we are super excited to welcome to The Thursday Night Music Club the […]

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Live Music Session #93 – Buswell & Nyberg + Dakota Simpson

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 […]