Chris Wood is an uncompromising writer whose music reveals his love for the un-official history of the English speaking people. With gentle intelligence he weaves the tradition with his own contemporary parables, his writing has been said to share the same timeless quality as Richard Thompson at his best.
Chris Wood received 'Folk Singer of the Year' at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2009 from Rob Brydon and James Taylor. Chris's album 'Trespasser' was named Album of the Year.
The Askew Sisters
Emily and Hazel Askew are a young duo making waves on the folk scene with their energetic brand of English folk music. Using fiddle and melodeon, they play and sing with an infectious enjoyment and love for the music, winning them fans wherever they go. From rhythmic foot stomping tunes to powerful interpretations of songs and ballads, their playing always guarantees to engage and inspire those who hear.
Due to unexpected circumstance The Kate Garrett Band are no longer able to perform. We apologies for any upset this may cause. We will update the programme as soon as a new act is confirmed.
Tofu Love Frogs
In 1989, long before the invention of the clippers and the hair brush, a group of squatters from Hackney started a folk club. This soon morphed into a band. Hours before their first performance, still with no name and no percussionist, they met Chris, who said he would play the percussion only if they performed under the name the “Tofu Love Frogs”, and so the band was born.
Chris “I will only play in a band if it’s called the Tofu Love Frogs”
Alex Roberts
ALEX ROBERTS blends genres from baroque to blues in a host of alternative tunings and with some fine lap-steel playing and stomp-boxing. His style is effortless while his technique is masterful and innovative. But it’s not just outstanding musicianship that drives him; what’s driving this artist is song. The timeless charm of his music is the perfect vehicle for Alex to present his lyrical musings. In the fashion of the troubadour, he crafts stories, love songs, ballads, spirituals, or protests into a mesmerising web of song.
Alex Roberts engages the listener with rapturous allure; the vocal lines ebb and flow around elegant guitar parts and the result is an uplifting and wholesome symbiosis of voice and instrument.
Cash Converted
He may be gone but his songs live on. Mark Carter-Cash has given up his job on the railway and taken over the baton to deliver that unique vocal and guitar style loved by country music fans everywhere. With Paul on lead, Tom on double bass, Toni Viagra on the drums and introducing the lovely June Carter on vocals and autoharp they produce a driving sound covering the rockabilly years of the 50’s right through to the melodic, soulful tunes of recent years. Cash is king, we all know that!
Glowglobes
Glowglobes are a due from the South West who play their own style of melodic gypsy-pop. From the upbeat/quirky to slow and sultry, their songs cover subjects such as life and dreams, encounters with angels and feelings of being watched by aliens.It is the Glowglobes mission to return romance to a world that has fallen out of love with itself.
Hightown Crows
Jack Rabbit Blood
A dynamic live act that mixes the sounds of Robert Johnson through to the MC5, this is a power rawkin' blues duo from Dorset, they play with an edge that goes from raw delta blues, garagebilly, punk and sometimes diving into some deep moments that reminds us of Tom Waits. The whole thing is presented with a combustion of itchy rockin' slide guitar riffs, deep vocals, and stomp rocking drums. Jack Rabbit Blood music come's from the devil's gutbucket.
Language, Timothy!
"Just superb....A melange if you will of off-kilter acoustica, distorted disturbance, twisted cut-and-paste samples and stolen sounds ...File under Bonkers-But-Brilliant"
Gary Smith BBC Radio Bristol Introducing
"Language, Timothy! make me feel like I've wandered into a room at a house party and I should probably leave, but I’m drawn to them and guiltily enjoy their wonderfully “tickety-boo” performance."
Jo Daley The Fly Wessex
"a perfect mix of the weird, the wacky and the beautiful"
Tony Foster bh one
"Language, Timothy! could well be Bournemouth's best non-punk act"
Faren, Bournemouth gig-goer extraordinaire
Toy Throat Alarm Clock
State of Undress
State of Undress are a rocky rootsy 'fiddlesome' band from Dorset playing a distinctive brand of original music. Their guitar-based songs interlaced with violin in addition to drums and bass move from the thought-provoking and evocative to the shamelessly foot-tapping.
' ...Overflowing with spirit and a compelling energy ... a performance that marries verve, power and a lung-busting joie de vivre...the accompanying blend of roots-rock, country, Celtic flavourings and a full-bodied melodic musical assault creates a powerful live combination...'
Rock 'n' Reel November/December 2008 issue