The Grey Lady Music Lounge, Wednesday 5th May 2010
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Headline Act: Jo Hook
Jo Hook sings songs that will make your neck hair rise. Her soft husky voice soothes and inspires and her quirky style of songwriting is hArd to attribute to any style of music other than her own. she makes you laugh, sometimes she moves you to tears. Jo is a cheeky but soulful performer, self deprecating but underneath all the grins is a songwriter of depth, with great observations about life, love and the world as we know it.
Lights On The Mountain
Lights on the Mountain are a Kent based band who write and perform contemporary folk music. They are a new musical project started up by the band formerly known as Threeforagirl. Lights on the Mountain perform music influenced by traditional British and American folk styles, bluegrass and Americana as well as more contemporary folk, indie and blues bands. As musicians they have together toured the London circuit, the United States and more recently have become prominent on the Scottish music scene, playing at the very first Sofar Sounds Edinburgh. They love playing at the Grey Lady, their favourite home venue.
Lights on the Mountain released their first single 'The Wars' on the 4th January 2014 at a sell-out launch the Borderline in London alongside West London folk collective Stokes, William. The launch was presented by the London based artistic community Bezalel. 'The Wars' is now available for download on iTunes.
To listen to threeforagirl’s last EP, recorded in the summer of 2012, visit http://threeforagirl.bandcamp.com
Visit their website for pictures, music and live dates.
The Paul Dunton Orchestra
Singer-songwriter, Paul Dunton leads his own unique cross-over orchestra providing an atmospheric fusion of alternative and pop with a classical twist. Paul & his Orchestra take influences from varying modern day artists such as Pink Floyd, Elbow, ELO, Turin Brakes, Massive Attack, Damien Rice and contemporary composers such as Samuel Barber, Ludovico Einaudi, John Barry and Hans Zimmerman. The Orchestra performs Paul's own compositions and a varied selection of uniquely arranged standards from a wide range of artists. The line-up of 8 violins, 4 cellos, guitar, flute, bass and percussion accompanies Paul on vocals and piano, joined by his lead vocalists, Charlotte Andrew and Poppy Raine. Paul and his Orchestra regularly perform at concerts, festivals and private events throughout the UK and internationally, including headlining the Theatrium Wilhelmstraße Festival in Wiesbaden, Germany and an 8 state tour of the USA which culminated in a spectacular roof-top performance on top of the New York Strand Hotel. Increased attention and success led to the orchestra being featured on BBC Radio 2 by Joan Armatrading with interviews and airplay of one of Paul's songs, 'Don't Forget'. This led to Paul supporting Joan Armatrading on five occasions during her recent UK tours.
Architect Effect
‘Architect Effect’ are a four piece band based in Tonbridge, Kent. The boys are all in their last year of the 6th form at the Judd School and they are aged between 17 and 18. The band have been together for a year and have been experimenting with their genre, finding that despite doing several gigs at the forum they did not feel at home with the heavier rock sound of the venue. Recently the boys have turned their attention to playing acoustic music with a much more relaxed sound to it. Writing some new songs and also altering some of their old songs to fit the acoustic genre, the band now has a number of original songs and also a selection of covers under their belts.
‘Architect Effect’ are currently in the process of recording a few of their own songs, and hope to get CDs with their music made available to people in the local area. They are also playing as many gigs as they can to increase their experience. After finishing school for the last time in June, the boys hope to focus on recording and doing as many gigs as possible at venues like The Grey Lady so that their music is heard by a wide range of people across the area. The boys have hopes of doing a small tour of Britain later this summer.
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