The Grey Lady Music Lounge, Sunday 14th May 2017

Sarah Tonin are an alternative rock band from south east England who are on a musical quest of discovery and self exploration. They indulge in psychedelic and progressive rock with infectious material and fresh hooks, with improvisation and funk an integral aspect of the sound. The music fuses these styles and transcends into an unheard and exciting new sound with songs for a new era.

Front man of the group, Chris Parris, brings together influences from psychedelia and space rock, giving funk driven grooves a darker edge. With lyrics exploring topics of the human condition and the mysteries and surrealness of the universe, the arrangements of the songs often take the listeners to wonderful and unexpected places.

Parris and Marcus Chapman are the creative driving force behind the band, recording and producing their debut album 'Spinning Chaos'. Chapman has been playing piano most of his life and is an experienced music producer. He crafts magical sounds bringing out different colours in various sections of their songs. He has mean organ tones, beautiful piano parts and his hypnotic, progressive synth solos leave audiences breathless.

The band's killer rhythm section is incredibly talented and versatile Jez Palmer on drums and Bouncy Piper on the bass who has an amazing natural talent for plucking, slapping and laying down a solid groove. Their immense, jaw dropping sound gets the crowd moving every time at festival stages and venues across the south. Sarah Tonin are currently working on new material for their second studio album and are psyched about the future ahead, having already performed at the spring Equinox at Stonehenge on 19th March 2018, as well as confirmed slots at Small World, Live on BBC Radio Kent, Summer Stonehenge Free Festival, Sol Party and Green Gathering for this year. After performing to nearly 2000 people at last years Local & Live in Calverley Park and putting on a tremendous show the band are certainly ready for larger audiences.

Show full profile »

Jimmy’s songs are auto-biographical and begin their life as poetry or rants on paper. Influences are from Oasis, The Smiths and The Libertines. Recordings are in the form of home recordings as they are raw and untarnished, without overproduction. There are a series of songs n Soundcloud to download for free. Sharing is the most important part of this music.

Show full profile »

Amber was born and bred in Brighton and now lives in Crowborough (by way of Leamington Spa, London, Crawley, Burgess Hill, Fleet, Germany and Oxford!). By day she is a full time Drama teacher and by night a singer songwriter. She started writing songs at the age of eleven, in between singing along to Kylie Minogue songs. Her musical taste diversified over the years and now she cites her influences as Frank Turner, Beth Orton and The Indigo Girls, among others. Amber has performed in covers bands and musical theatre over the years, but has always come back to her first love, composing and performing her own music. She has been lucky enough to collaborate with some fantastic musicians over the years, most recently with professional composer Trystan Francis and producer Tom Cooper. Amber’s music is best described as Folky, Acoustic Pop and her dream is to play at Cropredy Festival! She has recently relaunched her own music and has already gathered a modest Twitter following, had her video broadcast on a Sussex TV station and been invited to perform at local venues. Amber’s songs are available on iTunes, Spotify and all other good online music retailers.

Show full profile »

Performing from an original 5 piece band to a trio is not a problem for this multi-instrumentalist outfit.

The trio consists of Rob Spiers, vocals, acoustic guitar, banjo.  Linze Maesterosa, vocals, flute, clarinet and saxophone. Kirsteen Bristow, electronic wave drum. 

Described by one record reviewer as ‘Folk’ because they use acoustic guitars and ‘Rock’ because they use electric guitars, FATE THE JUGGLER are happy to occupy the space between…and to stretch those boundaries to follow their muse.

With three albums, one live DVD and two EPs released to date, original music by Fate the Juggler has been captivating audiences since 2010. 

Fate the Juggler are currently in their studio recording a third album which they hope to release later in 2017.

Show full profile »