If it's all about bringing artists and audiences together once again, there was only one venue choice a return to live normality. We are absolutely thrilled to be hosting live music for Omeara’s opening weekend. A venue created from scratch for and by artists and every little detail is perfect - we love you Omeara! Tickets are now on sale via our ticketing partners DICE for The Dunwells, with very special guests Lucy-May Walker and Edmund Jeffery.
Ahead of a planned full re-opening for venues nationally late June we are proud to now be members of the Association of Independent Promoters alongside some of the most important grassroots promoters, music venues and festivals, including Communion, Bird On The Wire, Birmingham Promoters, The Cluny, Manchester Folk Festival, The Boiler Room, Stockton Calling, and many more. It’s great to step up and play our part as live music venue doors re-open! All indications are for greatly increased demand, sold out shows and festivals and a long overdue revival in grassroots music and UK touring.
Now that we are official DICE partners it’s time the exciting bit - announcing and putting those shows on sale! DICE is a global platform that has fast established itself as the identifying brand for indie music gig discovery. Tickets on sale with lineup announcements for our Folklore events later this month!
Finally! We are back on 29th June!
After so much time away it was essential to take the time out to make the right first steps back to create something intimate, special and inclusive. This mini series at the uniquely independent and individual Folklore Hoxton does just that. A Headline Artist, a Special Guest Band plus and some amazing spotlight artists to open the night, with each week a little different, possibly a little unexpected. We are just so buzzed to bring artists and audiences together once again! A really exciting programme of artists is set to be announced and tickets will be on sale through DICE later this month.
We have so missed each other but one bit of good news - we now have our own Club on the hugely trending new audio only social app Clubhouse! Brand spanking new and currently in beta for iPhone users only, its like a conference call get together where people can discuss topics, hold interviews, or generally hang out together for some much needed company. It’s been just lovely to hear all your voices, so Clubhouse users do stop by and join in, take part or just come and say hi at one of our Clubhouse events.
Our Music Events Drop in is every Thursday at midday. Drop us a line if you need a Clubhouse invite.
https://www.joinclubhouse.com/club/music-events-drop-in
Lorraine caught up with London Music Podcasts this month. You can listen to this here:
Daisy Chute & Crawford Mack plus guests
Live from Century Soho 3rd December
Dice Partnership
New Year, new moves.
As we shut the door on 2020 it’s the perfect time to make some cool changes, with a new and exclusive partnership with Dice.
Dice “partner with the best venues and promoters in the world to make the fan experience magical.”
We cannot wait to announce our 2021 live and live-streamed programme, ticketed exclusively with Dice.
Our Artist Learning Zooms Continue
Having artists get together in a very real way, sharing their struggles and helping with solutions has been a true highlight of 2020. We have definitely proved artists can be resourceful and equally successful with zero budget and that we can all help each other a great deal. So inspiring. So far our exclusive artist learning zooms have covered Social Media, DIY PR and last week 8 artists got in the zoom room to discuss live streaming. Twitch verified and livestream regular Daisy Chute talked about using livestream as an artist too our fabulous livestream co-promoter Max at Gotobeat talked us through the tech side. More to be announced.
TV Fun
We never say no to a fun live session and it was a pleasure to have artists join the brand new Stella TV channel, a collaboration between broadcast legend Mike Read and broadcast consultant Andrew Eborn. I’m told it was lots of fun!
Daisy Chute & Crawford Mack at Century
We are so proud to announce that Success Express and Gotobeat have partnered together to launch #homemadelive, a pay to view online platform able to support artists during the outbreak of COVID-19. Whilst our events/hospitality sector and gig venues are effectively closed for business indefinitely, Max and I wanted to do absolutely everything we could to help artists and musicians, so 100% of profits from our online concerts will go directly to support the artists. We have exciting plans to bring some great music into your home, keeping you company and inspiring you during these difficult and isolating times. Check out our first batch of fantastic concerts right here, which includes Eddy Smith Daisy Chute Matt Owens Music TenacityScott McFarnon Cloudy Galvez Andi Pomato. Online ticket from £3, the price of a cup of coffee
Head over now: https://www.gotobeat.com/homemadelive/
We are so proud to invite you to an intimate, unplugged living room concert, hosted and supported by our friends Astor Hostels in aid of CALM. The Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) is leading a movement against suicide, the single biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK and the cause of 18 deaths every day.
Supporting all groups of society at risk of potential suicide, CALM has a free and confidential chat and web line open 7 days a week.
Performing on the night - three unique and wonderful artists:
Harry Pane
Growing up in a crooked old farmhouse in Northamptonshire with his Dad, Harry gained many influences. John Martyn, Bob Dylan, Damien Rice, Richard Thompson, Jose Gonzalez and Bon Iver to name but a few! it was due to having hundreds of gigs under his belt (as well as a few tough life lessons) where his song-writing and finger picking guitar style was honed.
Harry has recanted completed a European and UK tour in support of Marillion.
"His delicate honesty and turn of phrase make him stand well clear of the pack” - Frank Turner
Daisy Chute
Edinburgh-born, half-American, hyphen-loving Daisy Chute is a folk songstress and multi-instrumentalist with a particular penchant for the banjo. Formerly of Decca’s platinum-selling classical group All Angels, she is excited to be working on her début album of original songs with producer and songwriter Tim Baxter (Andy Burrows, Editors, Nick Mulvey, Jasmine Thompson). A regular in the London music scene and an award-winning singer and songwriter having just been awarded first place in the Coffee Music Project singer-songwriter competition, Daisy has been taught and mentored by rock royalty Sir Ray Davies, featured as a vocalist on Radiohead's latest album A Moon Shaped Pool, and even got the thumbs up from Sir Paul McCartney after a performance at the Royal Albert Hall. One of Paul Sexton's 'top music tips' for 2018, Daisy's music has been compared to Simon and Garfunkel and Joni Mitchell (BBC Radio Kent) and her voice has been described as
“Exquisitely delicious. Delicate, like a gossamer-winged creature made out of spun gold." Tony Moore (Soho Radio, The Bedford)
Ed Tattersall
In late November 2016 Ed begun his ascent into the mystical world of the modern day music industry. With a Paulo Nutini/Rod Stewart rasp, intertwined with a whole lotta of energy, Ed caught the attention of hit record producer and songwriter Jamie Petrie. Ed has since recorded his own unique rendition of D'Ream's "Things Can Only Get Better" and recent single "Delicate Mind" was released through CALM in 2019.
As always Astor will be actively supporirtng through their charity breakfast donation collection during the week of the concert.
Door 7.30pm
Show 8pm
BYOB - guests are invited to bring their own wine, beer, snacks etc (cups provided).
Tickets now on sale at £15 inclusive via the link below.
Organised together with Victoria Norris Events.
www.semusic.org
