a proper dandy show tune chanter.
Bowtie wearing bohemian dandy Josh Weller has a very interesting background, born to a Mauritian mother and british father he spent his formative years living in Borneo (yes, i know this sounds like some sort of fairy-tale, but it says all this in the guardian). Much of his time was spent listening to his Dads Elvis records.
Skip a few years and find Josh studying at Leeds College of Music where he learnt guitar, keyboards and sax. Fast forward a few failed bands and find Josh performing as a one man band performing acoustic showtunes inspired by Mel Torme, Tom Waits and Irving Berlin.
You can catch Josh playing in Londons bar and grill on the 10th of June. By the way thanks Dan Garber for telling me about Josh, and thanks to the guardian for all above which i pretty much plagiarized.
Skip a few years and find Josh studying at Leeds College of Music where he learnt guitar, keyboards and sax. Fast forward a few failed bands and find Josh performing as a one man band performing acoustic showtunes inspired by Mel Torme, Tom Waits and Irving Berlin.
You can catch Josh playing in Londons bar and grill on the 10th of June. By the way thanks Dan Garber for telling me about Josh, and thanks to the guardian for all above which i pretty much plagiarized.
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...the green fields of Albion are but a flick of the off-switch away.
Stornoway describe themselves as ‘a living, breathing Mark Twain novel’. Truly a band of boffins, this one, hailing from Oxford and unashamed about their relentlessly upbeat approach to performance. It is impossible not to be uplifted by their hillbilly-ish celtic folk.
Technically they are immaculate, with enviable vocal harmonies making it entirely believable that at least one of them has had classical choral training. The tracks are tight and never overworked. Approaching their music with wit and a lightness of touch, Stornoway will almost certainly become a favourite on the live circuit with a good number of refreshingly entertaining gigs already behind them.
Just as comfortable sporting a horses’ head costume or farm-boy tweeds and checked shirts, Stornoway are enjoying themselves. This nature-loving scholarly lot make bouncing music, with an effortless melancholy that only the best bands can muster. Telling stories of the everyday these men of letters and music are entirely original, building unashamedly on the long tradition of popular folk. Banjos and bluegrass accompany witty observations of modern life, brilliantly exemplified in ‘We are the battery human’ where they lament office live and their burial ‘under a pile of A4 snowflakes’. Really they just want to get out into nature, and I’m sure that they’ll be pleased that their music makes us feel the same way – this is restorative stuff and the green fields of Albion are but a flick of the off-switch away.
With merry tales of their university days, a musical style which happily leaves acoustic merriment behind for distorted electronics when the feeling takes them, the eccentrically bantering Stornoway rue the day spent in front of a computer when the world is so much more. And it is, too. So get out there. But first, have a listen to ‘Zorbing’, a fine reminiscence with sweet, clear vocals.
Technically they are immaculate, with enviable vocal harmonies making it entirely believable that at least one of them has had classical choral training. The tracks are tight and never overworked. Approaching their music with wit and a lightness of touch, Stornoway will almost certainly become a favourite on the live circuit with a good number of refreshingly entertaining gigs already behind them.
Just as comfortable sporting a horses’ head costume or farm-boy tweeds and checked shirts, Stornoway are enjoying themselves. This nature-loving scholarly lot make bouncing music, with an effortless melancholy that only the best bands can muster. Telling stories of the everyday these men of letters and music are entirely original, building unashamedly on the long tradition of popular folk. Banjos and bluegrass accompany witty observations of modern life, brilliantly exemplified in ‘We are the battery human’ where they lament office live and their burial ‘under a pile of A4 snowflakes’. Really they just want to get out into nature, and I’m sure that they’ll be pleased that their music makes us feel the same way – this is restorative stuff and the green fields of Albion are but a flick of the off-switch away.
With merry tales of their university days, a musical style which happily leaves acoustic merriment behind for distorted electronics when the feeling takes them, the eccentrically bantering Stornoway rue the day spent in front of a computer when the world is so much more. And it is, too. So get out there. But first, have a listen to ‘Zorbing’, a fine reminiscence with sweet, clear vocals.
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Daniel Cross runs Record-Play, he set it up around 7 years ago and thinks music is for hippies.Dan Garber... East London promoter, impresario, general man about town and champion of the world.
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