Goldmine presents
TIN PAN ALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL
In association with Marshall Amplifiers and Philippe Dubruille guitars
SATURDAY 17th SEPTEMBER 2011
2:00PM – 2:00AM
3 VENUES: THE BORDERLINE, THE 12BAR CLUB, THE ALLEYCAT
Featuring:
ED HARCOURT – PETE MOLINARI – THE POPES – LEWIS FLOYD HENRY
THE HOMOSEXUALS – JOANA & THE WOLF
Plus 40 more acts including:
The Dash – Melody Nelson – Tess Parks – De Shamonix – Complete Radio Silence Graveltones – The Connectors
Sabatta – Anto Dust – Tall Poppies – Sheet Noise – Tiny Birds – The Blind Hearts – The Valkarys – Lucho
More To Be Announced
Tickets only £10 available online from HMV Tickets, Ticketweb, See Tickets and in person from all participating venues
London’s “Tin Pan Alley” is quite simply Europe’s premiere music street. Filled with specialist music shops, it is the bastion of songwriters, studios, guitars and all things revered by those who are passionate about music. Pretty much every music great has performed or recorded in Tin Pan Alley; The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks and Jimi Hendrix have all made music history in this street and the Sex Pistols notoriously recorded their first demos there when they lived above number 6..
The Tin Pan Alley Music Festival aims to celebrate the capital’s musical legacy and continue tradition by showcasing current rhythm & blues artists, diverse bands and singer songwriters alongside up and coming bands.
Artists so far confirmed include Mercury nominated Ed Harcourt, Celtic legends The Popes, and astounding one man band Lewis Floyd Henry fresh from Ray Davies’ Meltdown, along with 40 other established and up and coming acts.
A special event to be announced shortly will also take place at midnight to commemorate the 41st anniversary of the death of Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix died in London during the early hours of 18th September 1970.
The completely independent one-day festival takes place in three venues which lay in the vicinity of Tin Pan Alley: The Borderline, The 12Bar Club and The Alleycat Bar.
One ticket will give music lovers access to a 12 hour marathon of gigs at all three venues from 2pm until 2am. In order to make this festival accessible during these economically difficult times tickets will be priced at £10.
TIN PAN ALLEY MUSIC FESTIVAL ESSENTIAL INFO:
VENUES
The Borderline
16 Manette Street
London W1D 4AR
020 7734 5547
The 12 Bar Club
26 Denmark Street
London WC2H 8NL
020 7240 2120
The Alleycat
4 Denmark St
London WC2H 8LP
020 7836 1451
TICKET LINKS
hmvtickets: 0843 221 0100 or visit www.hmvtickets.com/events/4117
TicketWeb: 08448 472465 or visit www.ticketweb.co.uk
In person: from all participating venues
LINKS
Official Website
Facebook Event
SELECTED ARTISTS:
ED HARCOURT
One of the most consistently creative musical talents in London and certainly one of the most productive, Ed Harcourt has released five studio albums, two EPs, and thirteen singles. His debut album, Here Be Monsters, was nominated for the 2001 Mercury Prize. His music is influenced by Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and Jeff Buckley, among others. Live, Harcourt has opened for many artists over the years including R.E.M., Snow Patrol, Wilco, Beth Orton, The Divine Comedy, Supergrass, Norah Jones Brian Jonestown Massacre.
Ed Harcourt’s fifth studio album Lustre was released on 14 June 2010, the first on Ed’s own record label Piano Wolf Recordings. According to Ed: “It’s got horns, violins, howling, mellophones, the Langley sisters, barks, whistles, hell I even sung down by a creek in the middle of the night.”
THE POPES
Formerly led by Shane MacGowan of the Pogues, The Popes’ blend of rock, and Irish folk, became known as Paddy Beat. ‘Shane MacGowan and the Popes’ released two studio and one live album in the 1990s. Post-MacGowan, The Popes are led by Paul ‘Mad Dog Mcguiness. Their comeback album ‘Outlaw Heaven’ was released to rave reviews in 2008.
…”Rouses like only the very best of Irish Folk can…” Nick Duerden – Q Magazine
“The Popes’ excellent Outlaw Heaven album is what The Waterboys would have sounded like had Mike Scott sipped from the streams of whiskey. A true rough diamond.” Dave Simpson – The Guardian
LEWIS FLOYD HENRY
For the past few years, like a Mississippi bluesman in the early 20th century, Lewis has pitched up on street corners around London, at Brick Lane, Borough Market and the South Bank, every time trousering a pocket full of loose change, but also gradually spreading the knowledge of his extraordinary genius. Unlike those Delta entertainers, he arrives armed with a trolley carrying a battery-operated amplifier and diddy custom-made drumkit – hence the title of his mind-blowing debut album, ‘One Man & His 30w Pram’. Even less like them, he has accrued 100,000 hits for a YouTube clip, where he blasts out a block-rockin’ take on The Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘Protect Ya Neck’ outside Tottenham Court Road tube station. Elsewhere on the site, you can see him busting out a Prokofiev tune with his teeth. As one comment thereabouts imaginatively puts it, “When Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix and Ol’ Dirty Bastard died, this guy was born.”
PETE MOLINARI
Pete Molinari is a country blues artist from the Medway Delta. “I’ve travelled a long road to get here. These songs have been on that road. From playing little places in Chatham and London to the late night coffee houses of Greenwich Village, Memphis, New Orleans, San Francisco, LA and Paris. I seem to be drawn to these places. There’s something more real about them. More close to the earth”
Pete’s new album ‘A Train Bound For Glory’ is now out on Clarksville Records. Featuring contributions from classics such as The Jordanaires, Chris Scruggs and The McCrary Sisters.
THE HOMOSEXUALS
With a subversive name that didn’t lend itself well to printed handbills, an art school D.I.Y. ethic, and a deconstructionist approach to music, cult ’70s British punk rockers the Homosexuals were highly influential to those lucky enough to have heard them. Formed in South London from the ashes of The Rejects who played at the Roxy alongside the Jam, the Damned, and Wire the band changed their name to the Homosexuals in 1978 as a move to break away from the punk scene and its limiting three-chord formula. By 1985, the band officially disbanded and various side projects ensued, including Sara Goes Pop, L. Voag, Amos & Sara, George Harassment, and Nancy Sesay & the Melodaires, and it seemed that the Homosexuals themselves were all but a fading memory. Fortunately, in 2004, Bruno and Anton were united, and, with the help of Vida and Morphius Records, they compiled a complete 81-song overview of their output titled Astral Glamour.
JOANA AND THE WOLF
Joana And The Wolf are a London four piece fronted by Lithuanian singer-songwriter Joana Glaza. Their sound escapes categories. You can hear many things in it, but what would be the name for it? Maybe it doesn’t even exist yet. They are exotic without trying to be exotic. A girl with natural influences of Russian folk and Maria Callas comes to London, falls in love with rock – her forbidden fruit, the music that was banned in the East – embraces it with the passion of first love, finds people who listened in their cradles to the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin instead of lullabies and together they create this strange child…this child is dark epic poetic unique but it definitely has the balls of Rock n Roll. It doesn’t like small rooms, it explodes them. And in the end you stop caring about names and categories, you just admire it.
