A Spring Symposium

Presented by: Owltextures

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0	SALISBURY: Coombe Bissett Village Hall
P	Saturday 12th May, 2018
N	2:00pm

Event information

Wikipedia: "In ancient Greece, the symposium was when drinking for pleasure was accompanied by music, dancing, recitals, or conversation."

This is a day-long musical celebration, in a beautiful location overlooking the Chalke Valley. Come and join us for fun and frolics - there will be a bar selling local ales and suchlike, and a cafeteria with vegetarian treats and cake.

The hall is 5 miles from Salisbury, and camping is available at Summerlands campsite, which is less than a mile away from the venue, up a leafy lane. You can contact them on 01722 718259, or visit www.summerlandscaravanpark.co.uk to book.

The line-up is as follows:

NOTE, due to things beyond anyone's control, LAKE OF PUPPIES are now cancelled (sob). However, all is not lost, for:

new - SHARRON FORTNAM fills the breach in the absence of Lake of Puppies…ahoy! With accompaniment from Craig Fortnam and James Larcombe, she will sing songs spanning various projects including North Sea Radio Orchestra, Shrubbies and Lake of Puppies. As an extra treat, for discerning listeners here and everywhere, they will perform a handful of songs from On The Dry Land by The Sea Nymphs, too.

new - MUDDY SUZUKI
Solomuzik from Damo Waters, who has played with Spratleys Japs, ZOFFF, The Fiction Aisle, Crayola Lectern, and Field Music, amongst many, many others. Expect exquisitely crafted English pop, with an eye for detail, an ear for a tune, and a nose for melancholy...which makes nearly a whole face, give or take a few features. This is Damo's first live solo performance in over several years, so you lot are privileged to be in the vicinity to witness it.
http://www.muddysuzuki.bandcamp.com/

CRAYOLA LECTERN
Crayola Lectern is Chris Anderson with Al Strachan and Damo Waters. Pastoral, psychedelic, piano-based, heartfelt, dramatic songs and tunes is what they do. Other times they get together with a couple of others and do ZOFFF. Crayola Lectern's second album, Happy Endings, will be out on Onomatopoeia Records in May.
http://www.crayolalectern.com/
https://www.facebook.com/crayolalectern/

ARCH GARRISON
North Sea Radio Orchestra's Craig Fortnam and Janes Larcombe perform songs about old roads, green lanes, barrows and mounds, mental instability etc etc all wrapped up in a psych-folk haze.
http://www.archgarrison.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/Arch-Garrison-436363986400726/

BOB DRAKE
Bob Drake played many instruments in lots of bands and engineered many a record between the 70’s-present, but let’s cut to the chase: since 1994 he has written and recorded 9 solo albums released on Chris Cutler’s Recommended Records label, on which he sings and plays all the instruments himself so it sounds like a band, and in 2015 began doing solo shows just playing guitar and singing. He is currently working on solo album #10.
http://www.bdrak.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Bob-Drake-1556527131344809/

KEMPER NORTON
Kemper Norton uses digital and analogue hardware and software, acoustic instruments, field recordings, and traditional song to explore neglected or original areas of landscape and folklore. Their sound has been mistakenly referred to as “coastal slurtronic folk”.
http://music.kempernorton.com/

LIBBERTINE VALE
The Libbertine sings uncomfortable songs about death, acapella sqwarking that will kill or heal your ears, dependent on your disposition.

EMILY JONES
Emily Jones lives high up on a hill in Wiltshire, among chalk and chickens. She writes strange, melodic pop songs that are no better than they ought to be.
http://www.owltextures.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/Owltextures/
https://owltextures.bandcamp.com/

THERE MAY OR MAY NOT BE OTHER SPECIAL GUESTS MAKING AN APPEARANCE TOO

Some money might go to Tim Smith, if he is a good boy.

[NB This event will contain little or no nudity]