COATBRIDGE: The Listening Room @ The Georgian Hotel

Thursday 21st September, 2023

7:30pm

Event information

The fantastic Jake Morley returns to 50rpm after last years sell out show.

** Please note we have a no talking policy while the acts are performing. We prefer the music to do the talking. Be a considerate gig goer **

** Please note that the venue for this show is located up stairs and the venue has no lift so is not suitable for those in a wheelchair and may not suit those with walking difficulties **

In a game of Singer-Songwriter Top Trumps, you'd be forgiven for picking Ed Sheeran's streaming figures or Jeff Buckley's voice. But genres get more interesting the deeper you go. Several albums in, Jake Morley is well known as one of the UKs most distinctive and interesting cards to play. Highly accomplished but hard to pin down, he is one of the world's finest lap-style guitarists whose lyrics, stories and live shows have a habit of staying with you long after they're heard.

His third studio album 'Some Things Are Like Other Things' was released on 28th October 2022, picking up Album of the Week on BBC Radio Scotland. It is an extrodinary album filled with his trademark lyrical flair and catchy tunes.

His previous album 'No Drama' was inspired by impending fatherhood. "I felt a desperate longing for our child to be safe in a noisy, fractious, complex world, and this song tumbled out. It's almost like a hymn, I'd sing it to our baby in the womb".

Debut album Many Fish to Fry (2012) brought to mind Paul Simon and Newton Faulkner with its refreshingly unpretentious lyrics, hooky melodies and implausible guitar playing. The richly-layered production of follow-up The Manual (2016) leaned more on Elbow or Gotye before 2018's Xoa-inspired Tell It To Me Straight series. Known for his distinctive and innovative guitar playing (This City, Falter), he combines guitar, piano and drums into one instrument with seemingly impossible dexterity, making him an artist to be seen as well as heard. But it was his incisive songwriting that led to a residency at London's Ronnie Scott's and exposure on Radio 2, BBC 6Music and Radio X. Hundreds of worldwide stages and shows have been clocked up since then, empty to buzzing, Aberystwyth to Zurich, with memorable headline shows at London's Bush Hall, invites to Canada's biggest festivals, and legendary venues like the Hammersmith Apollo and Dublin Olympia.

Venue information

COATBRIDGE: The Listening Room @ The Georgian Hotel

0	26 Lefroy Street Coatbridge ML5 1LZ
>	www.50rpm.co.uk
!	01236 421888
`	Up close and personal intimate gigs in a beautiful Georgian candle lit room with amazing acoustic.