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"A standout alumnus of cult alt-folk collective Fence, Seamus Fogarty’s noise-laced lamentations are both ramshackle and dreamlike: itchy eruptions of found sound & field recordings married with aching, ancient-feeling balladry. Huge FFO: David Thomas Broughton, King Creosote, Adrian Crowley, Aldous Harding, Aidan Moffat, This is the Kit."
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A gig held at The Cube on Friday 8th November. The event starts at 20:00.
++++Changes to the night support band Rachel Dadd ++++
Seamus Forgarty is an Irish alt-folk and electronica alchemist Seamus Fogarty has released two albums on Domino Records - ‘A Bag Of Eyes’ at the end of 2020 and ‘The Curious Hand’, released in 2017. He released his debut full-length, ‘God Damn You Mountain’, on cult Scottish label Fence Records in 2012. His albums have been universally praised for their fresh approach to song writing and unique fusion of traditional instrumentation and electronics. Expect a live show that dips into numerous genres from krautrock to traditional balladry and everything in between, old songs and new, mixing conventional instrumentation with found sounds and live electronics, all fronted by Fogarty’s plaintive vocal and songwriting.
‘Magical journeys through fable and modern life and back again, often in the same song’ The Guardian. ‘Nestles beautifully at the point where the digital and analogue worlds collide’ The Skinny. ‘By turns gritty and poetic…a real original’ The Observer. ‘That rare thing in folk: original, self-contained and unencumbered by the genre’ Mojo. “The ghostly emotional wallop of the tunes will take your breath away” The Irish Times.
Golden Valley Bench is Daniel Potter, a lock keeper and grunge kid from Reading. Dream to some nightmare to others...expect a few of the many songs, like tropical warmth, billowing from english brackish waters.
Rachael Dadd is a spirited independent songwriter and performer based in Bristol. With songs that disarm and inspire, she has headlined tours around the UK, Europe and Japan and regularly performs with long time friends and collaborators This Is The Kit and Rozi Plain. “folk-pop full of wisdom and instrumental warmth“ MOJO “One of our favourite artists" Lauren Laverne BBC6Music “Rachael Dadd is one of the most talented, wise, prolific and important women of our times" Kate Stables of This Is The Kit
DJ Miss Fishguard will be spinning round music for a square world.
Theres going to be dancing in the end...
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Seamus Forgarty is an Irish alt-folk and electronica alchemist Seamus Fogarty has released two albums on Domino Records - ‘A Bag Of Eyes’ at the end of 2020 and ‘The Curious Hand’, released in 2017. He released his debut full-length, ‘God Damn You Mountain’, on cult Scottish label Fence Records in 2012. His albums have been universally praised for their fresh approach to song writing and unique fusion of traditional instrumentation and electronics. Expect a live show that dips into numerous genres from krautrock to traditional balladry and everything in between, old songs and new, mixing conventional instrumentation with found sounds and live electronics, all fronted by Fogarty’s plaintive vocal and songwriting.
‘Magical journeys through fable and modern life and back again, often in the same song’ The Guardian. ‘Nestles beautifully at the point where the digital and analogue worlds collide’ The Skinny. ‘By turns gritty and poetic…a real original’ The Observer. ‘That rare thing in folk: original, self-contained and unencumbered by the genre’ Mojo. “The ghostly emotional wallop of the tunes will take your breath away” The Irish Times.
Golden Valley Bench is Daniel Potter, a lock keeper and grunge kid from Reading. Dream to some nightmare to others...expect a few of the many songs, like tropical warmth, billowing from english brackish waters.
Rachael Dadd is a spirited independent songwriter and performer based in Bristol. With songs that disarm and inspire, she has headlined tours around the UK, Europe and Japan and regularly performs with long time friends and collaborators This Is The Kit and Rozi Plain. “folk-pop full of wisdom and instrumental warmth“ MOJO “One of our favourite artists" Lauren Laverne BBC6Music “Rachael Dadd is one of the most talented, wise, prolific and important women of our times" Kate Stables of This Is The Kit
DJ Miss Fishguard will be spinning round music for a square world.
Theres going to be dancing in the end...
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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