Occasionally a promoter asks if I want to do a gig that is quite a bit in the future…
…top prize this year goes to The Music Box who run a lovely monthly night in Shoreditch.
They just booked me to play in January 2014. Lovely, I should have written a few new songs by then!
So unless you already have plans, might I suggest that you put 8th January 2014 in your diary.
Paper Dress Vintage, 114-116 Curtain Road, London, EC2A 3AH
There has recently been a flurry of interest in my track ‘Hackney Gentrification Song’ with local publications N16 Magazine, Dalston TV and Hackney Post all giving it virtual shout outs.
It has also come to the attention of the film crew making ESTATE, a non-fiction feature film about a Hackney estate which is soon to be bulldozed. You can find out more about the film here and have a look at the ‘behind the scenes’ section of the site which uses my song.
It is not often i get to be the cover boy for anything… well not since the Hackney Citizen put my mug on the front page…
You get five points if you can spot me in the picture to the left. They have kindly said they will post a copy to my Gran which should tickle her pink!
…anyways, here are the gig details again in case you missed them:
I will be playing with Tim Graham and Katie Stone Lonergan on Sunday 21st April at Cafe 1071 at 3pm.
Cafe 1071, 45 Oxford Castle, Oxford, OX1 1AY
So Pedal Folk, the cycling music tour I am doing late April is now all sorted and we will be ending our two wheeled jaunt by performing at Folk Weekend Oxford which I am super excited about.
I will be playing with Tim Graham and Katie Stone Lonergan on Sunday 21st April at Cafe 1071 at 3pm. There may be bubbly to celebrate the end of the tour.
Cafe 1071, 45 Oxford Castle, Oxford, OX1 1AY
On 5th April at Ye Olde Rose and Crown Theatre Pub in Walthamstow, I am putting on a show called ‘I’ll Be Good To The Land; A History Of Land Rights And Protest In Folk Song And Story’ as part of the Community Food Growers Network spring events series.
I will be joined on the evening by many friends and a special guest called Hugh Lupton as we unpick the people’s history of this fair isle.
Hugh is one of the most brilliant and widely respected story tellers in the country. You can catch a sneaky peak of him below on youtube.
