From: Martin Snodin
[martin_at_snodin_dot_com]
Sent: 01 September 2010 10:06
Subject: Acoustic Sussex
Newsletter 2010-09-01 - Thea Gilmore
Attachments: oledata.mso
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Newsletter 1 September 2010 |
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Tune
into the Roger Day show TONIGHT at 7pm
on BBC Radio Sussex/Surrey/Kent to hear Thea Gilmore interview
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Saturday at Chequer Mead Support: £16 (£14.50 conc) |
If
you've had even half an ear on BBC Radio 2 - not to mention regional radio
including East Grinstead’s MeridianFM - you'll know that Thea
Gilmore's new single You're The Radio (from her forthcoming album Murphy’s
Heart) has been receiving some pretty heavy airplay and big compliments, and
her album – released next week - is already heading up the pre-order Amazon
charts. Returning
to Chequer Mead for the third time, and two years after headlining Crawley
Folk Festival, Thea is a furiously individual singer/songwriter and Brit
Award nominee. She has received acclaim and admiration from her peers such as
Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez and Martha Wainwright. In
an age where artists – male and female – tend to be either hyper-sexualised
or completely neutered, Gilmore is that rare creature, an actual adult with a
heart and a soul, a grown up with an opinion. Thea Gilmore is a real person
tackling the sort of issues real people deal with every day, only, unlike the
rest of us, she tackles those issues with an utterly beautiful voice and
songs that touch on folk, jazz, rock and Americana. "Britain
has spawned very few world class female songwriters, but Gilmore is already
in a league of her own" Q Magazine "The
most coherent, literate and charged British singer-songwriter of her
generation, makes mincemeat of the current propensity for feyness" Mojo Throughout
his career, Louis Eliot has been at the hub of British song-writing
talent, most recently contributing two co-writes to Adventure Man by current
Ivor Novello Songwriter of the Year, Eg White. Having lived the dream of 90s London
Brit-Pop hedonism, Louis snatched his Gretsch Country Gentleman guitar and
headed west, swapping the fetid Thames fug for the fresh air of "Guaranteed
to warm both hearts and feet" **** Mojo "A
pop savvy brain with the lyrical articulacy of a Weller or Costello"
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Don’t forget that as
well as our own shows, the Acoustic Sussex website has a Regional Gig Guide and links to venues and clubs
in the South East that offer folk, roots and acoustic music – and our MySpace site contains over 500 links to a
variety of other MySpace ‘friends’ sites, including musicians, venues,
magazines and lots more. |
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More information can
be found on our website: www.acousticsussex.org.uk. You can also find
us on MySpace (with Playlists of tracks from upcoming artists) at: www.myspace.com/acousticsussex. If you know anyone
who you think may enjoy our events, please forward this email to them. |
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