Club Something: July 20th

Subject: Club Something: July 20th
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jul 08 - 01:13 PM

CLUB SOMETHING
Sunday July 20th at The Grosvenor, London, SW9 0TP

A new monthly folk(ish) night in sarf landan.

Live sets from Spoono, Vixen Mews, Citizen Helene and Matt Milton.

SPOONO
Solo guitar instrumentalist Spoono is a young man following the threads of John Fahey, Davy Graham, Loren Connors, Jack Rose and the rest. Global folk-blues, east-meets-west blues-folk. Call it what you want – he does extremely interesting things with an acoustic guitar.
Www.myspace.com/spoonowoolfe

VIXEN MEWS
Vixen Mews is the vehicle of Dublin singer Laura Hyland and her floating pool of musicians (who feature several musicians from London's free improv and sound art scene). If you can imagine Joni Mitchell jamming with AMM… well, actually that would probably be awful and sound nothing like the electroacoustic tunes and textures of Vixen Mews. Lazy music hacks would probably call it "folktronica" ...
www.myspace.com/vixenmews

CITIZEN HELENE
Citizen Helene will be first against the wall when the Revolution comes. That is, only if a future Robespierre declares that boundless Brian Wilson obsessions are crimes against the Republic.
Her songs are pure 60s West Coast pop, with some Spector and Motown influences chucked in. She sings sardonic songs about STDs, Stephen Fry, climate change and Tina Turner.
www.myspace.com/citizenhelene

MATT MILTON
Spiritedly inept attempts to play original blues and folk songs, which have strange cut-n-paste lyrics that don't make sense. Often compared to Robyn Hitchcock.
www.myspace.com/matthewradmoremilton

Doors 7.30pm; entrance £4.
The Grosvenor: 17 Sidney Road, SW9 0TP,
tel: [phone]

(couple of roads down from Brixton Academy, which we pointedly REFUSE to EVER refer to as Carling Academy)

Brixton or Stockwell tubes.

Subject: RE: Club Something: July 20th
From: Lord Batman's Kitchener
Date: 10 Jul 08 - 01:15 PM

Just show's you how far behind I am, I thought it was still called The Brixton Academy. Like you I'll still refer to it as such!

Subject: RE: Club Something: July 20th
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 10 Jul 08 - 01:20 PM

You'd think someone with such apparently good news, would use a name.

G

Subject: RE: Club Something: July 20th
From: Mr Happy
Date: 10 Jul 08 - 03:32 PM

I don't want to Club Something - I'm a pacifist!

Subject: RE: Club Something: July 20th
From: matt milton
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 05:38 AM

'Twas I who posted that message. Haven't been on to mudcat in a while and I'd forgotten that I needed to log-in. (And people say computers are clever, eh!)

Re. Brixton Academy, I think it's proper name now is "Carling Academy Brixton", or something equally horrible, and has been for about two or three years. Hasn't really changed much – still puts on the kind of middleweight chart bands du jour. Although they had David Icke doing an afternoon lecture the other weekend – strangest looking queue I've ever seen outside the place.

Yes I realize the club name could potentially sound like a rather violent command. Thought it might be more memorable. Was initially thinking The Something Club, the point being that even though the music policy will lean towards the folky, we'll be putting on all sorts of music and not rule out any genre ("good" being the sole criteria).

Subject: RE: Club Something: July 20th
From: matt milton
Date: 11 Jul 08 - 06:36 AM

Oh, I'll just also add that, while I realize it's unlikely you'll have heard of the musicians on the bill, I heartily urge you to check out their myspace pages. Helene's got some gorgeous harmonies, for one thing. It's a strong and varied bill.

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