Music And Events - listings Apr 10
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Thu 01/04/2010
£5
They’ve only sold 10,000 albums; they’ve only had 100,000 songs downloaded; their sublime Swans tune has only featured once in the climax to a Greys Anatomy storyline (thus inspiring hundreds of college kids to make their own Swans Youtube videos) – but they are still Unkle Bob and they are playing a one off warm up show tonight at The Betsey ahead of a UK tour with James.
8:30
Thu 01/04/2010
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). And it's like a real society too, you know. *COME DOWN AND PLAY* (but please try and arrive before 8.00pm if you do want to play) 8.30pm UPSTAIRS
With a fine new album out on LOOSE RECORDS and soon to tour with THE DUKE & THE KING
Sat 03/04/2010
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
Following an unsuccessful career as a wedding band, the Dublin-based Annulments are now sticking to what they do best; playing songs they have written influenced by blues, ballads, breakdowns, mountain minstrelry, dixieland, gospel, country, soul and rock n' roll.
CVW debut for the Gothic Country troubadour here with a FULL BAND SET. "Miller's voice conjures a life lived at the bottom of a whiskey bottle and an unhealthy acquaintance with a draughty boxcar" - Trevor Raggatt, ROCK N REEL)
GILES GOODEN
Former Jawbone Band man ... "... a fine song writer - he's a particularly sharp lyricist - who deserves to be heard. A bright future beckons" Gerry Ransom Rock and Reel
DJ - POCO POW
TROTWOOD resident DJ spinning a twangy brew of cosmic faves and whatever else happens to drift through his transom from The Band, Beach Boys, Big Star, JJ Cale, Johnny Cash, Chicago, Gene Clark, Crazy Horse CSN/CSNY/C&N, CCR, Delaney & Bonnie, Flying Burrito Brothers, Little Feat, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Maria Muldaur, New Riders Of The Purple Sage, Michael Nesmith, John Phillips, Poco, Spirit, Steely Dan, Manassas, Velvet Underground, Foghorn Leghorn, Scottsville Squirrel Barkers, Neil Young, Ry Cooder, Bob Dylan, Byrds, Grateful Dead, Area Code 615, Nana Mouskouri, Bobbie Gentry and that …
A tribute half hour set for the recently departed Chilton.
Tue 06/04/2010
LICENCE TO TELL: HEROES AND TRICKSTERS STANDUP STORYTELLING EVENING £5 on the door
Licence to Tell is an initiative to take Storytelling into non traditional and non theatre venues, where people can enjoy exciting and diverse stories from many different cultures. Think Storytelling meets Stand Up, and you get the idea of how the evening works. Three or four performers take it in turns to make you laugh or cry, intrigue or delight you with their lively tales.
7:30 pm UPSTAIRS
Vayu Naidu Company (VNC) was founded in 2001 to promote storytelling theatre. The company champions young performers in order to keep our oral tradition of intercultural stories alive, fresh and relevant!
Tue 06/04/2010
SNAKE MOUNTAIN REVIEW MONTHLY SHOWCASE FEATURING THE FINEST FOLK AND AMERICANA INFLUENCED ARTISTS.
8:30 pm CELLAR
Plus guest slots
Thu 08/04/2010
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!
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.
A country/alt.bluegrass band that play barn-yard hoedown music in a Gram Parsons-Ryan Adams-Neil Young kinda way. Driven by the guitars and warm harmonies of San Francisco ex-pats Dan and Jeremy, the sound is completed by bass, banjo and drums.
Thu 08/04/2010
Tickets are £5 in advance/ £7 on the door
RELEASE PARTY for new Ep 'A SINGLE CUP OF TEA' released on DIY indie label Smuggler's Records. Each ticket will include a ltd Ed. copy of the 5 song Ep in CD format.
7:30 PM CELLAR
In the short space of time that The Momeraths have been together, the band have performed three UK tours, supporting Slow Club, VV Brown and The Zutons ... Descibed as 'A witty and bizarre little band who create the most imaginative tunes that you can listen to over and over again' catch them here in the intimate Betsey cellar before they get too big.
"positive and loving tunes that make you want to grow your hair and sell all your possessions" ... Bloody Awful Poetry
ham-fisted, homemade folk music, rickety punk and skiffly rock and roll
Fri 09/04/2010
8:30 CELLAR
'Where genius meets idiocy' (Mark Lamarr, BBC Radio 2)
Mon 12/04/2010
BETSEY'S TESTES - QUIZ - £1 per person towards the prize money.
TV GAMESHOW STYLE QUIZ HOSTED BY BOB 'HOLNESS' SIMON
this week: APRIL FOOLS SPECIAL featuring FAMILY FORTUNES / DEAL OR NO DEAL / WHEEL OF FORTUNE / WINE TASTING / MUSIC / LOCAL HISTORY / BACK TO SCHOOL / SPORT / YESTERDAY'S PAPERS / and more. 8.00PM MAIN BAR
Tue 13/04/2010
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. Sure to be very fine.
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?
Thu 15/04/2010
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). And it's like a real society too, you know. *COME DOWN AND PLAY* (but please try and arrive before 8.00pm if you do want to play) 8.30pm UPSTAIRS
With a fine new album out on LOOSE RECORDS and now touring with THE DUKE & THE KING ...
Sat 17/04/2010
£5
8:00PM CELLAR
Damaged Goods' answer to everything that's punky and poppy and completely awesome!
Incredibly fun and loud pop songs from France's best kept secret
swoon and swoon again, here come Sweden's sweetest girl duo
incredible melodies and songs about Scott Pilgrim, it's Beat Happening reinvented
Tue 20/04/2010
£3
PRESENTED BY FUSELIT
If you're in London on Tuesday 20 April 2010 and have a love of Lenny, Jon and Declan Ryan are hosting Dress Rehearsal Rag, a night of poetry and song celebrating Leonard Cohen, with a short talk by music journalist Gavin Martin and fiction from Chris Teevan and Mak Rahmdel. 8:00PM UPSTAIRS
Sat 24/04/2010
£2 on the door
PLAYING STUFF LIKE THIS: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Envelopes, Tilly and the Wall, The Airfields, Tiger Trap, The Pipettes, The Research, The Long Blondes, The Ballet, Dolly Mixture, The Positions, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Besties, Acid House Kings, Sambassadeur, The Manhattan Love Suicides, Bearsuit, Talulah Gosh, Architecture In Helsinki, Jens Lekman, Client, Freezepop, Au Revoir Simone, The Fall, Bis, Mistys Big Adventure, Pipas, Hefner, Speedmarket Avenue, Cannonball Jane, Gorkys, Action Biker, Shimura Curves, The Pastels, Persil, The Radio Dept., Strip Squad, Compute, Slow Down Tallahassee, Ballboy, The Positions, Love Is All, The Lucksmiths, Beat Happening, Kanda, Barcelona, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Absentee, Figurine, The Blow, Fat Tulips, Huggy Bear, Camera Obscura, The Aprils, Lucky Lucky Pigeons, Masters of the Hemisphere, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Comet Gain, My Darling YOU!, Deerhoof, The Aislers Set, All Girl Summer Fun Band, The Decemberists, Girlfrendo, Helen Love, Suburban Kids With Biblical Names, Broken Social Scene, Belle and Sebastian, Go Sailor, Sarah Records ... and so much more!
9pm til 1am CELLAR
Sat 24/04/2010
99p SOUL 99p
Top DJ's on the decks spinning the finest Northern Soul til 1:00am all for less than a quid!
8:00pm UPSTAIRS
Wed 28/04/2010
£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 8:30
"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
Fri 30/04/2010
PATRICK DUFF £7
Former STRANGELOVE man performs his new album "THE MAD STRAIGHT ROAD" solo acoustic.
In the 90s Patrick Duff was the singer in Strangelove; the Bristol alternative band who released three critically-acclaimed albums on Parlophone EMI. After Strangelove, Patrick travelled the world, playing his songs in festivals and working with other musicians; most notably a collaboration with an 81-year-old woman, African storyteller and musician Madosini, with whom he lived and worked in the townships of Capetown South Africa.On his return in 2005 Duff’s first recorded solo album 'Luxury Problems' featuring members of Portishead, Spiritualised and Suede was released on EMI's legendary Harvest label. In early 2010 Patrick launched his new album 'The Mad Straight Road', which again features a host of acclaimed musicians, and which he describes as "a synthesis of some of the music that has shaped my life". Alongside this amazing new record of rich textures, Patrick is embarking on a series of intimate, one-man solo shows across the UK which showcase his unique song writing talent.
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