Red Balloon Music presents... MARTY O'REILLY & THE OLD SOUL ORCHESTRA / ROBBIE CAVANAGH / NICK ELLIS

0	MANCHESTER: The Castle Hotel
P	Tuesday 24th April, 2018
N	7:30pm

MANCHESTER: The Castle Hotel

Tuesday 24th April, 2018

7:30pm

Event information

Red Balloon Music presents... MARTY O'REILLY & THE OLD SOUL ORCHESTRA

Support comes from ROBBIE CAVANAGH and NICK ELLIS.

MARTY O'REILLY & THE OLD SOUL ORCHESTRA:
www.martyoreilly.com

Explaining Marty O’Reilly and the Old Soul Orchestra’s music is like describing a remembered dream. It feels familiar, but at the same time it feels new. It's blues but not blues, folk but not folk, soulful but not soul.

Marty’s voice is beautiful and distinctive,his lyrics stark yet lush over gritty electrified guitar. Chris Lynch's violin, Matt Goff's percussion and Ben Berry's rich bass meld beautifully. The chemistry of these friends is obvious. But one can also hear an urgency in the songs, expressing something elemental and perhaps contradictory: love and anger, joy and pain.

The live performance is at the core of this project: the band enters a trance and the music is born again as something new every night. They go from raw gospel blues to cinematic epics, from heavy driving grooves to delicately arranged folk songs. They leave the stage out of breath, the ground littered with broken strings and bow hairs. It's hard to describe, impossible to categorize. Yet people who know the music will try to explain it to you, just as you might struggle to explain a dream in the morning. The visions might slip away as you recount them, but the feeling remains.

The band formed in Santa Cruz California in 2012 and has been touring relentlessly ever since, from San Francisco to New Orleans to London to Seattle. They invite you to join them.

"A band true to its name: soulful" - NPR
"Delightful... well crafted music" - SF Weekly
"Raw musical excellence... guitar, fiddle and double bass played to within an inch of their inanimate lives." - 4000 Miles to Nashville
"Definitely on the top of the Americana list penned by any serious connoisseur of roots music this year." - Portland Tribune

ROBBIE CAVANAGH:
https://www.facebook.com/robbiecavanaghmusic/

Robbie Cavanagh writes and performs with stark honesty and passion.

His beautiful lyrics and flawless, soulful vocals, along with his incredible live performances never fail to turn heads.

Robbie's latest album release 'To Leave / To Be Left' is out now.

NICK ELLIS:
https://soundcloud.com/nick-ellis

Nick Ellis is dedicated to the concept of “Song” and “Melody”. Some people call it folk, some just call it good old fashioned song craft.

Currently based in Liverpool, Ellis blends streetscape narrative-noir with a classic British acoustic approach. Using a blend of rhythmic attack and finger-quick lucidity, his sound has been described as “a conversation between Elvis Costello and John Martyn.”

Nick's latest album release 'Daylight Ghosts' is out now.