WESTON-SUPER-MARE: The Sunfold

Wednesday 11th December, 2019

7:30pm

Event information

The Sunfold Hotel in Weston-Super-Mare plays host to a selection of strange and wonderful musical delights - guaranteed to warm your cockles AND your mussels, no matter how chilly.

For this night only, accommodation is available at the hotel at a reduced price. Contact The Sunfold via Facebook page, website, or on 01934 624700, to book.

https://www.thesunfold.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/The-Sunfold-Hotel-2181788955374803/

READ ON FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE ACTS:

Arch Garrison:
Having garnered much critical acclaim for his larger scale compositions and songs with his 'alternative chamber group' North Sea Radio Orchestra, Craig Fortnam also performs in singer-songwriter mode under the name Arch Garrison. Intricate guitar playing underpins songs about England's ancient landscapes, Roman roads, ditches and mounds, Thames Fluvius......With five NSRO and two Arch Garrison albums under his belt, Fortnam's output remains uniquely beautiful, original, both ancient and modern. Utterly bewitching.

"I Will Be A Pilgrim' is another example of English folk music's ability to update endlessly, folding fleet modernity into a timeless, ever-rejuvenating continuum" The Wire
".....sounds completely natural and unforced, a music quietly ecstatic and transportative, and another minor masterpiece in the Fortnam body of work" Underground Heroes Of Happiness
'An exquisite and understated delight' Folk Radio
"Arch Garrison prove that less can be more, and that our limitations are often the very things that set us free." The Quietus

http://www.archgarrison.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/Arch-Garrison-436363986400726/

We Are Muffy:
From somewhere wild and strange in Cornwall come the idiosyncratic acoustic sounds of We Are Muffy, the happy alliance of Nick Duffy (The Lilac Time, Bait), and Angeline Morrison (Rowan : Morrison, The Mighty Sceptres, The Ambassadors of Sorrow). With influences including The Incredible String Band, Shirley and Dolly Collins, Sam Cooke, Max Romeo and Tyrannosaurus Rex, We Are Muffy spin poetic narratives of remembered and imagined pasts. Their distinctive strain of folk music combines vocal harmonies with unexpected instrumentation (lyre, cutlery, shruti box, music box, bottle tops) in amongst the expected (banjo, guitar, autoharp, double bass).

We Are Muffy have polished up their ocarina and begun work on their sequel to 'The Charcoal Pool". Bringing fresh songs and old favourites, and laden down with more instruments than is suitable for a duo with no roadies, they are ready to provoke gentle bewilderment with their trove of tuneful stories.

"They summon the dust, stillness and daydreams of Saturday afternoons in 1973. Delightful unplugged Brummie hauntology." Stephen Troussé, Uncut
"This isn't hipster cool. This is sincere." Ian Rushbury, Pop matters
"I had to play it now because it’s such a great record." Gideon Coe, BBC 6 Music

https://www.tapeterecords.de/artists/we-are-muffy/
https://wearemuffy.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/wearemuffy/

Emily Jones:
Emily Jones plays surreal, melodic songs, always aiming at beauty, no matter how awkwardly.

Expect to hear about a marsh spirit falling out of love with the enchanter who conjured her, an ice cream seller with terrible personal hygiene, and an inventor who fashions deadly, glittering robot birds. Most of her songs are about dust and bees though.

"Particularly lovely romantic folk narratives with a dark-woods chill of pastoral melancholy." - Andrew Male, MOJO (reviewing the album The Book of the Lost)
"Her roots go through that line of literary Englishness...lost and lovely psych, with Jones’s marvelous voice a wraith-like presence that is both childlike and ageless." - Dave Thompson, Goldmine Magazine (reviewing the album Autumn Eye)

http://www.owltextures.bandcamp.com
http://www.facebook.com/Owltextures

The Steven Morricone Tyranny:
A straw man with a fist of ham. During the course of his stint, Steven will goad your ears with a solo selection of tunes from The Scaramanga Six back catalogue as well as throwing a few musical dead cats on the table along the way. Shrill outbursts may be accompanied by ill-mannered thumping on a knackered old piano and/or the unpalatable dirge of his vile proboscis.