Music And Events - listings Feb 10
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Tue 02/02/2010
NOW MONTHLY - FIRST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH - A FOLK, COUNTRY, BLUES AND AMERICANA SHOWCASE featuring the very best acoustic songwriters and acts on the London circuit.
PLUS ... special guests, floor spots & a featured album on the player. ACTS TBC
Thu 04/02/2010
ownly 3 poond
*LONDON'S FINEST FOLK CLUB* and home of the *LANTERN SOCIETY RADIO HOUR*
Trevor Moss and Hannah Lou (ex Indigo Moss) host an enchanting and charming musical evening in our upstairs acoustic room featuring the finest new and established folk influenced talent playing round the camp fire (but without the fire). It's like a real society too, you know. COME DOWN AND PLAY, (BUT IT'S GOTTA BE FOLKY) AND GET DOWN BEFORE 8.00PM 8.30pm UPSTAIRS
Sat 06/02/2010
CLERKENVILLE WEST £5 WHOLE PUB
OUR MONTHLY TRI LEVEL FEST OF ALT.COUNTRY, COSMIC AMERICANA AND BLUEGRASS -
3 bands plus DJ POCO POW rinsin it in the main bar til 1.00am ish. Bands alternate between upstairs and the cellar, you pick up a pint each time you pass GO. Doors 7.30, first act 8.30, bar til 1.00am
Full band show
POCO POW
TROTWOOD resident DJ spinning his usual twangy brew of cosmic faves along with whatever else happens to drift through his transom .... and introducing the POCO POW featured artist slot ... a solid hour of THE BEACH BOYS on the decks after the last band.
Mon 08/02/2010
BETSEY'S TESTES - QUIZ £1 entry fee
TV GAMESHOW STYLE QUIZ HOSTED BY BOB 'HOLNESS' SIMON
this week: VALENTINES SPECIAL featuring FAMILY FORTUNES / WINE TASTING / MUSIC / LOCAL HISTORY / BACK TO SCHOOL / WHEEL OF FORTUNE / VIZ / SPORT / YESTERDAY'S PAPERS / DEAL OR NO DEAL and more. PRIZE MONEY. 7.30pm main bar
Tue 09/02/2010
THE KITCHEN SESSIONS £5
JOINT RESIDENCY of ADAM BEATTIE and OLIVER TALKES with their respective bands and a special guest. The second Tuesday of each month.
8:00PM UPSTAIRS
Ace banjo lad with ever changing line-up of consultants ... ""distinctively rich vocals with carefully crafted lyrics and simple folk-rooted guitar melodies" Brazen Magazine
former front man with Southern Tenant Folk Union with outstanding new solo material ... Bethnal Green's Townes Van Zandt anybody?
Wed 10/02/2010
CATFACE COMEDY £6 / or £5 if you book in advance (see below)
THE SELL-OUT SHOW IS BACK FIOR A VALENTINES DAY SPECIAL!
Hosted by resident MC Leanne "Catface" Diggins with a top notch comedy line-up and of course the erotic Catface dancers! FOR ADVANCE BOOKINGS: email: da_catface@hotmail.com or call: 07951 069 765 8pm start UPSTAIRS
Thu 11/02/2010
MY GRASS IS BLUE £5
Our monthly BLUEGRASS HOEDOWN ... 2nd Thursday of the month ... keepin’ it pure and keepin’ it real with the finest pickers in the land totally unplugged and harmonising the hell out of the upstairs bar ... banjoes, mandolins and candles, it's a beautiful thing!
Stanley Brothers influenced close harmony singing & dark tales of love betrayal and murder. tragic songs of murder and death 8.30 pm UPSTAIRS
banjo, mandolin, dobro, upright bass and guitar plus knockout Appalachian/NorthLondon harmonies! Speedgrass, Philosograss, and Lovegrass all the way from our resident heroes.
Tragic songs of murder and death
Sat 13/02/2010
TOM WILLIAMS & THE BOAT plus GUESTS £5 CELLAR
8:00pmk
Sat 13/02/2010
THE VULGAR TONGUE PROJECT £5 UPSTAIRS
The Vulgar Tongue Project - 30 poets read new poems based on characters described in Grose's 1811 dictionary of underworld slang.
Poets include Sophia Blackwell, Inua Ellams, Mark Waldron, Diana Pooley, Sid Bose, Katrian Naomi, Angela Kirby and many more. Hosted by Roddy Lumsden. 7:45PM
Wed 17/02/2010
BIG WEDNESDAY £3 / PROCEEDS TO SURFERS AGAINST SEWAGE
Our own bar stars Liberty & Yana present a brand new addition to the Betsey's fine melange of live music:
an eclectic midweek band night in London's cosiest real music venue ... INDIE to ELECTROPOP, ALT. to ANTI-FOLK, MENTAL to EXPERIMENTALISM and more! All profits go to SURFERS AGAINST SEWAGE ... what better way to keep our oceans clean than via the Betsey with a pint and some tunes?!! WANT A GIG? mail: info@thebetsey.com and if you fit the bill we'll give you a shout. "Stay casual, Bruno" (Big Wednesday, 1978) 8:00pm CELLAR
Fusing gothic widescreen Americana, garage blues and bar room rock and roll.
label mate of The Lucky Strikes and of course everybody's favourite finger-pickin-slide-stomp psychedelic veg man
Melodic psych-folk two piece in a welcome return to The Betsey following their support slots late last year for Paul Curreri.
Thu 18/02/2010
** TREVOR MOSS & HANNAH-LOU ALBUM LAUNCH SPECIAL**
*LONDON'S FINEST FOLK CLUB* and home of the *LANTERN SOCIETY RADIO HOUR* Trevor Moss and Hannah Lou (of Indigo Moss) host an enchanting and charming musical evening in our upstairs acoustic room featuring the finest new and established folk influenced talent playing round the camp fire (but without the fire). COME DOWN AND PLAY BUT IT'S GOTTA BE VAGUELY FOLKY AND GET DOWN BEFORE 8.00PM 8.30pm UPSTAIRS
Wed 24/02/2010
£5
MONTHLY RESIDENCY FOR HACKNEY'S FINEST BLUEGRASS TINTED FOLKSTERS.
If you haven't already caught them at their regular Sunday morning busking spot on Columbia Road then catch them here the last Wednesday of the month. "one of those rare acts that, rather than seek fame and fortune by any means necessary, are content to achieve simply on the back of good songs and hard work ... gentle harmony-led songs call to mind early Simon & Garfunkel and even The Everly Brothers. And while Faulkner's superb harp playing conjures images of freight train-hopping Americana, the unadorned, strictly English-and-so-what vocal delivery sets them apart from the crowd and only adds to their charm - as it did with The Go-betweens thirty years earlier ... impossible to dislike. - Gerry Ranson, Rock n Reel, Sept/Oct '09 8:00PM UPSTAIRS
"Easy-flowing harmonies and melodies swim along like early Jayhawks, the lyrics smiling in the face of life and love's travails". Andy Fyfe, Q Magazine, Nov '09
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