Boo Hewerdine

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Special one off Folk Club with top class acts performing at our folk club.
Tickets £14.

Mister Keith 8.00-8.40.
Boo Hewerdine 9.00-10.10
Times tbc

Boo Hewerdine
I was given a Dansette and a handful of 45s. What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For?, I Remember You, Seven Little Girls. Records from that strange era between Rock & Roll and The Beatles. I would study the labels. The title, the singer, the numbers, Columbia, HMV, the stuff about rights written around the edge and most intriguing - the names in the brackets. It turned out that these people had "written" these songs. Songs could be made up. Conjured out of thin air. I decided then, at the age of seven, that's what I would do. I couldn't sing or play an instrument but I had an internal jukebox going on the whole time.
Putting together this compilation was a peculiar experience. Once I've finished a record I put it away and move on. While I'm writing and recording, though, I'm completely immersed. It's always been about externalising that inner Wurlitzer. Listening to these songs took me back to long unvisited times and places. Nothing sounded as I recalled. In that region between memory and fact is a bitter-sweet world. I liked it.
www.boohewerdine.net

Mister Keith
Record of Wrongs is a charming, bittersweet and darkly romantic collection of life stories from the pen of Mister Keith, (the alias of songwriter Keith Ayling) self-professed originator of 'Victorian Pop'. With a sound that would be at home in a period drama - his style is somewhat eclectic at the same time as being genre-defying.
The album, produced by longtime friend, Dave Izumi (whose credits include Duke Special, Luke Sital-Singh and Ed Harcourt) features a gathered orchestra including clarinettist Ben Castle, drummer Phil Wilkinson and The Eastbourne Salvation Army Band. It has already garnered support from Cousteau's Davey Ray Moor who calls it "A sumptuous, luxurious and lush experience, nestling within a thoroughly convincing set of arrangement textures, which bed the listener into a languid state of reflection." Recorded in Lewes and Eastbourne it inspired the discovery that Mister Keith is related to Victorian hymn-writer W G Collins (1854-1931), founder of Guildford Corps and an ironmonger by trade.
This is the 14th album from Keith Ayling, a songwriter with a former Britpop career who has become one of the tenacious shining lights of the UK independent scene, appearing on BBC, iTV, Five, MTV and at Greenbelt Festival for seventeen consecutive years alongside the likes of Martyn Joseph, Bruce Cockburn and Duke Special. More recently he has spoken at The Barbican on songwriting and worked for BBC Education 'Ten Pieces' writing songwriting lesson plans for UK schools.
November 2015 sees Mister Keith as 'Band of the Month' on BBC Introducing following excellent reviews from R2 Magazine and Fatea Magazine
"Poppy and accessible in its acoustic finery, this is an eminently listenable record."
(R2 Magazine)
"With a vocal sound reminiscent of Chris Difford (Squeeze), lilting melodies and warm, very English vocals, it's a little gem!"
(FATEA Magazine)
www.misterkeith.com
https://www.facebook.com/verymisterkeith
https://twitter.com/verymisterkeith

Doors open at 7.00. No entrance once the acts are on stage. If you're late, you'll have to wait til the breaks.

Bookshop bar open serving ale and wine, hot and cold drinks and cake!

Booking highly recommended. Tickets from the link above or direct from the shop. Not available via phone.