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NINE BELOW ZERO, LITTLE JOHNNY ENGLAND & SARAH GILLESPIE to headline Foxstock 2011.
Posted: 16th May 2011 by Foxstock in foxstockTags: foxstock, foxstock 2011, foxstock festival, Little johnny England, nine below zero, Sarah Gillespie
We’ve got three fantastic bands to headline this years’ festival. Alongside these, you’ll also see plenty of fabulous music from artists such as Adrian Byron Burns, The Herbaceous Borders, Maurice Dickson, Johnny Dickinson, Tinker’s Cuss and Ferguson.
NINE BELOW ZERO
For three decades Nine Below Zero have delivered an explosive mix of blues & rock in live performances that never fail to leave their audiences illuminated and exhausted.
The definitive line-up of this tightest of live bands has been in place for eighteen years, and they play with a discipline that only experience & confidence brings. After thousands of shows together, this incendiary on-stage chemistry has enabled Nine Below Zero to sell-out venues all over Europe.
Having traditionally been a ’media shy’ band, the release of their new studio album, ’It’s Never Too Late’, announces Nine Below Zero as a band no longer content to fly below the radar.
LISTEN TO SOME OF THEIR SONGS:
Ridin’ on The L & N
Sugar Mama
On The Road Again
Previous tours with The Who, The Kinks, Eric Clapton, Sting and Chuck Berry, amongst many others, have left their indelible mark, and these eclectic influences are hinted at on several of the tracks heard on ’It’s Never Too Late’.
www.ninebelowzero.com
LITTLE JOHNNY ENGLAND
Review from The Times.
Little Johnny England are a unique outfit. Five of the most gifted musicians on the folk/ rock circuit, they have pooled their collective talents and experience to come up with a unique and rousing ensemble. They bring an energy and dynamic to their live work not often seen – “they put the rock back into folk rock”!
Little Johnny England are a unique outfit. Five of the most gifted musicians on the folk/ rock circuit, they have pooled their collective talents and experience to come up with a unique and rousing ensemble. They bring an energy and dynamic to their live work not often seen – “they put the rock back into folk rock”!
As individuals they have it covered. Gareth Turner takes melodeons and vocals, PJ Wright, guitars and vocals; Guy Fletcher, fiddle and vocals; Hugh Bunker, bass and vocals; and Mark Stevens, drums and vocals.
LISTEN TO SOME OF THEIR SONGS :
Welcome To The Sparrow Club
Steel Town
Jack’s Polka
In the last 10 years Little Johnny England have aimed to take traditional and contemporary folk music to a wider audience and they’ve attracted significant praise from the mainstream National press along the way.
LISTEN TO SOME OF THEIR SONGS :
Welcome To The Sparrow Club
Steel Town
Jack’s Polka
In the last 10 years Little Johnny England have aimed to take traditional and contemporary folk music to a wider audience and they’ve attracted significant praise from the mainstream National press along the way.
Their new album ‘Tournament Of Shadows’ has just been released on the Talking Elephant label and comprises their sixth studio CD to date. It follows the June 2009 release of a 10 year retrospective double album ‘10 Years On’ documenting the band’s journey so far.
www.littlejohnnyengland.co.uk
www.littlejohnnyengland.co.uk
Review from The Press, York. February 2011.
A REVIEW shouldn’t start by quoting a rival assessment, but never mind – “Brilliant, the bee’s knees” is the view of Robert Wyatt, who knows all about music’s more remote shores.
A REVIEW shouldn’t start by quoting a rival assessment, but never mind – “Brilliant, the bee’s knees” is the view of Robert Wyatt, who knows all about music’s more remote shores.
Singer-songwriter Gillespie combines Bob Dylan’s laidback delivery and opaque poetry with strident touches of Joni Mitchell, throws in Arabic-infused jazz, thanks to her collaboration with beautifully blustering saxophonist Atzmon, and also manages a spot of beat poetry and a flurry of rap.
LISTEN TO SOME OF HER SONGS :
How The Mighty Fall
In The Current Climate
Houdini Of The Heart
The opening title track provides a winning introduction to an album of too many highlights to mention, but those to cherish include Lucifer’s High Chair, Cinematic Nectar (with its touches of Kurt Weill), the politically charged How The West Was Won and The Bolsheviks And The Alamo, all angry defiance meets poppy chorus.
LISTEN TO SOME OF HER SONGS :
How The Mighty Fall
In The Current Climate
Houdini Of The Heart
The opening title track provides a winning introduction to an album of too many highlights to mention, but those to cherish include Lucifer’s High Chair, Cinematic Nectar (with its touches of Kurt Weill), the politically charged How The West Was Won and The Bolsheviks And The Alamo, all angry defiance meets poppy chorus.
Is this jazz, folk or whatever? When music is this good, this lyrical, this unusually angry and politically strident, we should abandon attempts at classification.
Perhaps there is almost too much in Gillespie’s music mixer – but if we hear anything finer this year, it will be a miracle.
www.sarahgillespie.com