TWICKENHAM: Twickfolk @ The Cabbage Patch Pub

Sunday 5th October, 2014

7:45pm

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Reg’s clever and imaginative lyrics have earned him the title of “Master Storyteller”, and led Mike Harding (Mike Harding Folk Show) to introduce him onto the stage of The Royal Albert Hall as “one of the finest singer-songwriters this country has produced”.

Whether it’s a village hall or the Albert Hall, Reg brings to the stage a collection of extremely beautiful songs, performed with humour and depth, and sung with the voice of an angel. Reg has that rare gift of being able to touch people, through his songs and performance, on a really human level. His words and music paint pictures that remain with the listener long after the song has been sung.

Reg first emerged onto the acoustic music scene in the 1980s with The Panic Brothers and has, over the years of touring and playing solo as well as with many other acclaimed artists, developed a style that as Pete Townshend says “allows the listener to embrace the whole breadth of his work over many years without distraction… he sings in the neutral accent of an Englishman who travels the entirety of the British Isles, and tastes all its flavours, influenced by all its most profound national colours. In this he reminds one of Roy Harper or Ewan McColl, recent greats who went before him.”

Reg then went on to form The Flamingos who featured ex Graham Parker guitarist Martin Belmont, Bob Loveday from The Penguin Cafe Orchestra & Bob Geldof’s Band & Alison Jones of The Barely Works They recorded one album called ‘Arrested’.

In 1996 he released his first critically acclaimed solo album ‘The Goodbye Hat’ and was nominated for several music awards, including best song for ‘Ring around the Roses’. It was followed up in 2004 with ‘Short Stories’ and in 2006 by the excellent ‘Still’. In 2008 he released his most successful collection to date, ‘Dragonfly’, followed in 2010 by ‘All this Longing’. ‘The Dreamed and the Drowned’, released in 2011, is a collection of thirteen previously unreleased archive songs. It was commissioned and compiled by Stephen Jordan at The Bodleian Music Library, Oxford, who says “This is Reg Meuross at his most eclectic and inspiring best.”
Reg was invited by Abbey Road, in 2012, to record an album in their world famous studios and he took this opportunity to respond to the many requests for him to make a CD that reflects the warmth intimacy of his live shows. Receiving 5 star reviews across the board, 'Leaves & Feathers' has been hailed by many to be Reg’s most accomplished collection yet.

His latest album, released in July 2014 is 'England Green & England Grey'.
This new work deals with topics such as dementia, with a deep and moving commentary on the subject 'Counting My Footsteps To You'; it commemorates the centenary of WW1, with an unromanticised account of the story of Flora Sandes (the only woman to fight in that war); it tells the tale of the bandleader and his violin both lost in the Titanic disaster, 'The Band Played Sweet Marie'; and it delivers an anthem for our times: 'England Green and England Grey'.
The maturity of Reg’s writing, and the courage with which he deals with some difficult topics, is revealed here. Reg is one of this country’s greatest songwriters at the very top of his game.

67 London Road
Twickenham
Middlesex
TW1 3SZ

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