Recommendations – and so she thinks https://andsoshethinks.co.uk CREATE:COMMUNICATE:CONNECT Sat, 12 Jul 2014 16:46:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-FAVICON-90x90-1-32x32.png Recommendations – and so she thinks https://andsoshethinks.co.uk 32 32 Scriggler: Live https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/scriggler-live-2/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/scriggler-live-2/#comments Sat, 12 Jul 2014 16:46:30 +0000 http://andsoshethinks.wordpress.com/?p=3997 Scriggler live for print-final-p18slarnve1m5b1pjt111790a1mg3
A night of creativity and inspiration for the thinking person
Music and words, stories and songs, poetry and performance all come together at The Harrison Bar, London, on Thursday 18th September for Scriggler: Live.
Celebrating the launch of Scriggler, a hub for words, a magazine, social network, publishing and blogging platform for anyone who wants to read, write and discuss any topic in any style, the evening is one of inspiration and imagination.
Scriggler: Live brings the online offline, this night of music, literature and debate continuing in the ethos of allowing stimulating and creative content to be shared. Featuring the best of both established and new spoken word artists, actors, writers, poets, musicians, the live events will enthral and entertain.
And so we have Sam Berkson, the ‘poet thug’, giving us his take on the issues he sees in London, counter balanced by the sweet and gentle yet no less powerful Jo Brandon. See magical work courtesy of Anna Beecher, hear some work submitted to Scriggler, and listen back as lovely and lilting Hannah Scott plays some acoustic tunes.
Thursday 18th September 2014
7.00pm for 7.30pm start
£5 in advance / £8 on the door
Get tickets in advance from We Got Tickets or Eventbrite, and follow Scriggler and me on twitter for more information.

]]> https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/scriggler-live-2/feed/ 1 UnorthodOXJAM – Proud Camden, 7th Oct https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/1458-2/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/1458-2/#respond Sat, 29 Sep 2012 12:36:17 +0000 http://itsallhappeningmusic.blog.com/?p=1458 The Switch, Orlando Seale and the Swell, Killing Fields of Ontario, The Wildes, and Shout Timber

A night of break-though indie acts brought to you by It’s All Happening, taking place at Proud Stables, Camden, all  to raise money for the wonderful work of Oxfam.
Check out the line up…

Orlando Seale and the Swell
http://www.facebook.com/orlandosealeandtheswell

Rousing indie folk – think Arcade Fire and you’re not far off the mark
Killing Fields of Ontario
The Switch

http://www.facebook.com/theswitchlondon
Wrap yourself up in hyped-up beats and bubble-wrap sounds
The Wildes

http://soundcloud.com/thewildes
Pumped up beats from the wilds of Thanet
Shout Timber
Liam Young (XFM Club DJ)
Round off the night with a selection of rockabilly, indie and old soul.
Tickets

£5 in advance, £6 on the door
Available from We Got Tickets:
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/187207

What might your excuses be?
‘It’s a Sunday night’ – exactly, what else are you doing?
‘It’s £5 – that could get me a milky coffee and half a stale pastry on the way to work tomorrow’ – or it could get you a night of excellent music AND help save lives
‘Who are these bands?’ – have a listen to the links, and embrace the joy of discovering something new. It’s what makes us human. That and being unable to hang upside down from a tree.
See you there then!

]]> https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/1458-2/feed/ 0 Live Preview: The Best of Oxford at Buffalo Bar https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/live-preview-the-best-of-oxford-at-buffalo-bar/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/live-preview-the-best-of-oxford-at-buffalo-bar/#respond Mon, 24 Sep 2012 17:25:39 +0000 http://itsallhappeningmusic.blog.com/?p=1444 TOMORROW! Pindrop presents BEST OF OXFORD: Secret Rivals + Deer Chicago + Empty White Circles + John Spira DJing
Regular readers of IAH will know that it’s no secret how much we love the Oxford music scene. We have blown the proverbial trumpet, released records by, or hosted gigs of many an Oxford band including Secret Rivals, We Aeronauts, Spring Offensive, Gunning for Tamar, Stornoway, Gullivers and The Cooling Pearls. Then, of course, there is the marvellous Truck Festival (and record store) and Nightshift Magazine as other examples of why Oxford has a thriving scene.
Luckily for us, Club Fandago and PinDrop Performances have teamed up to bring a ‘Best of Oxford’ night at the Buffalo Bar in Highbury and Islington.  Doors are at 8pm and full stage times can be found below.
Headliners Secret Rivals have just released their new single ‘Everything I’ve Lost’, which is free to download from their website. It’s a great little tune which has been receiving some great reviews and was used for the Premier League goals wrap on Sky’s SoccerAM. A small number of limited edition copies of the single will be available to purchase at the gig.
Here’s the awesome line up:
Secret Rivals – 10pm
Deer Chicago – 9.15pm
Empty White Circles – 8.30pm
And that’s not all! Jon Spira, Director of ‘Anyone Can Play Guitar’ will be DJing between the bands. All that for just £5 OTD or £4 advance/ with a flyer. Advanced tickets can be purchased here.

]]> https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/live-preview-the-best-of-oxford-at-buffalo-bar/feed/ 0 Oxjam Camden – proving music is good for the world! https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/oxjam-camden-proving-music-is-good-for-the-world/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/oxjam-camden-proving-music-is-good-for-the-world/#respond Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:12:21 +0000 http://itsallhappeningmusic.blog.com/?p=1409 Anyone who’s ever asked one of It’s All Happening ‘so how did the gigs start?’ will know that we are indebted to Oxjam, Oxfam’s annual festival fundraiser, and the shove that it gave us. Every year people passionate about music, their local area, and making a difference to the world organise gigs to raise money for Oxfam, and since the first first festival in 2006, Oxjam has raised more than £1.75 million – which is enough to buy 15,000 emergency shelters; 70,000 goats or 1050 classrooms.
And so it is that we’re dead excited about Oxjam Camden, whichlooks to be a London highlight this year, with their line up of folk, electronic and indie artists gracing some of the most legendary venues in the north London music hub.
Folk’sjam is a free gig taking place at the Hawley Arms on Sunday 23 October, and will feature a number of highly skilled song-crafters, as well as some top notch folk. Acts include the loop-pedal meister Chime Hours, dulcet melodies and twisted imagery from lady bards Hannah Curwood and the Good Girls and some Latino gypsy music that makes Beirut sound urban from Los Pelos Rizos, amongst others.
Hannah Curwood & The Good Girls

Next up is Lock’sjam at the…yes, Lock Tavern on Wednesday 10 October. Stick your fingers in the socket for this electronica night, with offerings including the haunting sounds of Sons Between Guns, music with ADHD from Enfant and a trip into the avant garde with Automatic Writing.
Suns Between Guns

Next, head to the stables at Proud Camden on Monday 15 October for an evening of breakthrough indie pop acts, with Arp Attack headlining and further acts to be announced shortly.
Arp Attack

The run of gigs literally ends on a bang with a round of rousing indie at the Bull & Gate on Thursday 18 October from Cinemawave, DEARJOSEPH,Turnpike Glow and the Duracell fuelled Gaoler’s Daughter.
Cinemawave

Here’s an opportunity for one oxjammy so-and-so to win a guestlist +1 for the Oxjam Camden series, plus a free drink for them and a pal at each gig. To enter, click ‘like’ on their Facebook page and cross your fingers that you’ll be the lucky one to be drawn at random from our Facefriends. There will also be runner-up guestlist passes.
Even if you don’t win (and by the laws of mathamatics, most of you won’t), we look forward to seeing you there. Because we know that as a discerning music lover, hip young thing and general good person, there’s nowhere else you’ll be.
OXJAM CAMDEN 2012
Folk’sjam
Sunday 23 October | 4pm | Hawley Arms
Los Pelos Rizos | Hannah Curwood & the Good Girls | Captain Backfire | Chime Hours | Fallingham Fair
Lock’sjam
Wednesday 10 October | 8.30pm | Lock Tavern
Enfant | Sons Between Guns | Automatic Writing | Act TBA
Unorthodoxjam
Monday 15 October | 7.30pm | Proud Camden
Arp Attack | Acts TBA
Rocksjam
Thursday 18 October | 7.45pm | Bull & Gate
Gaoler’s Daughter | Turnpike Glow | DEARJOSEPH | Cinemawave

]]> https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/oxjam-camden-proving-music-is-good-for-the-world/feed/ 0 Electric Eden – rare songs from England's greatest https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/electric-eden-rare-songs-from-englands-greatest/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/electric-eden-rare-songs-from-englands-greatest/#respond Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:03:22 +0000 http://itsallhappeningmusic.blog.com/?p=1388 In 2010 Rob Young published through Faber & Faber Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music,  a narrative survey that mapped out a native British musical voice that reflected the complex relationships between town and country, progress and nostalgia, radicalism and conservatism. To accompany the acclaimed book he has handpicked 36 songs that are ‘designed to follow the flow from acoustic to electric folk in the late 60s and early 70s, a magical time in British music’ to be released on Electric Eden, out now on Universal.
Featuring a mixture of rarities, unheard versions, familiar names and those that slipped by unnoticed, he is ‘particularly proud of including a rare original version of A Sailor’s Life by Fairport Convention, literally the first time a rock drum kit was ever used on a traditional folk song. History in the making!’
The track listing is as follows, and you can hear the offerings from Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, Bill Fay and Traffic now.
CD1
ACOUSTIC EDEN
1. Peter Bellamy – Oak, Ash and Thorn
2. Traffic – John Barleycorn Must Die
3. Bert Jansch – The Waggoners Lad
4. Fairport Convention – Stranger to Himself
5. Archie Fisher – Reynardine
6. Bread, Love and Dreams – Brother John
7. Bill Fay – Garden Song
8. Water Into Wine Band – Stranger in the World
9. Tudor Lodge – Willow Tree
10. Comus – Diana
11. Meic Stevens – Yorric
12. Magic Carpet – The Dream
13. Sweeneys Men – The Pipe on the Hob
14. Tim Hart & Maddy Prior – False Knight on the Road
15. Dr Strangely Strange – Dark-Haired Lady
16. Albion Country Band – I Was a Young Man
17. COB – Music of the Ages
18. Roger Nicholson – The Carmans Whistle
19. Bridget St John – Fly High
20. John Martyn – She Moves Through the Fair
CD 2
ELECTRIC ALBION
1. Richard Thompson – Roll over Vaughn Williams
2. Steeleye Span – The Lark in the Morning
3. Unicorn – Country Road
4. Fairport Convention – A Sailors Life
5. Trees – Glasgerion
6. Fotheringay – Gypsy Davey
7. David Bowie – Black Country Rock
8. John Martyn – Glistening Glyndebourne
9. Mike Cooper – Paper and Smoke
10. Shelagh McDonald – Mirage
11. Spirogyra – Disraelis Problem
12. Mick Softley – Time Machine
13. Shirley Collins & The Albion Country Band – Murder of Maria Marten
14. Pentangle – Jack Orion
15. Incredible String Band – Painted Chariot
16. Nick Drake – Voices

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Fragile Diamond

Released October 15th 2012 on Dockrad Records


Howl Griff, the singer and band, will be releasing their third album Fragile Diamond on October 2012. Their first album was Welsh language only, and therefore unintelligible to 99.9% of the world, but by truly having to let the music and melody do the talking they received critical acclaim and rave reviews, withdescribing their sound as that of a ‘Welsh Brian Wilson.’ Full of blistering riffs, anthemic melodies and lush soundscapes, Fragile Diamond is a great example of the Anglo-American rock that has beguiled fans worldwide. Head to The Albany on Sept 20th for the launch party.

]]> https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/howl-griff/feed/ 0 Endeavours – Thomas https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/endeavours-thomas/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/endeavours-thomas/#respond Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:38:50 +0000 http://itsallhappeningmusic.blog.com/?p=1298
A treat for the weekend. This is Thomas, by Lancashire band Endeavours. Skem’s finest have produced a  heartening song about why music inspires the passion it does, with a great melody, warming vocals and a bouncing rhythm. Awesome.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZKzjWI8bzg]

]]> https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/endeavours-thomas/feed/ 0 The London Folk Fest 2012 https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/the-london-folk-fest-2012/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/the-london-folk-fest-2012/#respond Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:49:07 +0000 http://itsallhappeningmusic.blog.com/?p=1163
It is no secret that the UK is currently in the midst of one of its wettest ‘summers’ in recent memory. A number of festivals have become more reminiscent of Iceland’s mudpools, so we could all do with a nice indoor festival, couldn’t we?
Well, luckily for us, The Bedford in Balham is hosting The London Folk Fest from July 19th-22nd 2012. With the line up including It’s All Happening favourites Alessi’s Ark, Emily and the Woods and Indigo Earth, as well as a whole lot more, this will be a festival not to miss.
In addition to the stellar line up, there will also be interactive panels, creative master classes and community initiatives over the four days. Music will take place across three stages: The Theatre, The Ballroom and The Tavistock.
Headlining the shows are Brother & Bones (“Devastatingly pure… Arena sized soul…” – IlikeMusic), Fossil Collective, Marcus Foster, Luke Concannon (formerly of Nizlopi) (“Political, intense, angular and beautiful’, Colin Murray BBC Radio 1) and the highly praised Alessi’s Ark (“A bewitching stage presence and an angelic vocal make Alessi’s Ark very easy to love”, Clash) as well as BBC Radio 2 favourite Megan Henwood.

Many of you may well have seen Alessi’s Ark at our very own all-dayer at the Gallery Cafe back on June 23rd, so you will know that she should not be missed! The London Folk Fest is set to be a great event, and it’s quite possibly the only festival you will go to this summer where you won’t have to worry about getting soaked..
Tickets are still available online and on the door. Three day tickets are available for just £30 here. For more information check out http://thelondonfolkfest.com/

]]> https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/the-london-folk-fest-2012/feed/ 0 Introducing…Arbeia https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/introducing-arbeia/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/introducing-arbeia/#respond Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:04:17 +0000 http://itsallhappeningmusic.blog.com/?p=1134 Sharing their name with a Roman Fort in South Shields, Arbeia make the kind of music that feels like a light wind on your neck…accompanied by a knotty rush of adrenalin. Slow and dreamy melodies are underpinned by syncopated beats that build into almost pop music refrains before the sharp shock of the chorus and its rappelling riffs. Watch the video to Elements here. It meanders, it builds, it dazzles, it shifts, and its brilliant.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neBxN-FOZaI]

]]> https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/introducing-arbeia/feed/ 0 All We Are – Cardhouse // Free Download! https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/all-we-are-cardhouse-free-download/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/all-we-are-cardhouse-free-download/#respond Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:59:07 +0000 http://itsallhappeningmusic.blog.com/?p=1129 The world wide web is saturated with.. stuff. Cool stuff, funny stuff, boring stuff, secret stuff.. the list goes on. However, every now and then you stumble across a real find. One that makes you smile, or stops you in your tracks.
‘Cardhouse’ from Liverpool band All We Are feels like one of these. It’s a three and a half minute tune packed with twisting harmonies and a real dreamy feel about it. Check out the tune, and the video, below:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa3EEgTqg-8&w=560&h=315]
This wonderful track is available as a free download from here. The track is also available on the trio’s ‘We Hunt’ EP, which is available now through Payper Tiger Records.

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