Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection with Erin Rae & Sean Thompson and support Roscoe Roscoe

Presented by: Squash Blossom

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0	IPSWICH: SPILL Think Tank
P	Monday 14th August, 2023
N	6:30pm

Event information

Squash Blossom presents Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection with Erin Rae & Sean Thompson at SPILL Think Tank on Monday 14th August 2023. Support comes from Roscoe Roscoe, playing special stripped-back set performing new songs from their upcoming record accompanied with strings.

Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection 2, sees the Nashville-based musician step further from the pedal steel and towards center stage. Released on the evergreen Full Time Hobby label, this new collection of tracks is a kaleidoscopic collection of folk, jazz, and pop, cut though with immaculately-rendered songwriting.

Romford to Nashville is hardly the most well-trodden of paths, but for Spencer Cullum it was a way of getting to the essential heart of pedal steel, what was then and remains to this day his musical raison d'être. Growing up in the large East London town brought him early exposure to classic pub rock by way of his father such as Dr. Feelgood and Thin Lizzy, and farther-flung music by way of his mother, such as Talking Heads and Lou Reed. However, it was learning pedal steel from legendary English player B. J. Cole that set him on the path he still walks today. After touring with Nashville-based groups and hearing tales of “seasoned Nashville steel players”, the young musician upped sticks and found a “nice little crowd of weirdos” in his chosen city.

Cullum has always maintained a somewhat silent presence - even now saying “I still want to hide behind my pedal steel in fear” - but 2020 saw him release his debut solo effort, Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection. Despite his project with Jeremy Fetzer, Steelism, showing off more of his talents, never before had he felt the limelight so firmly on him.

Although …Coin Collection’s modus operandi was "a very quintessential English folk record, but with really good Nashville players”, Cullum says of ...Coin Collection 2 that “I wanted to be different. I wanted to try and pull away from wearing my influences on my sleeve… I was trying to pick out ideas that were new to me. You can never escape your musical influences but I wanted them to be more hidden sub-consciously than upfront.” Though you can pick out the odd similarity to other things here and there - The Beach Boys’ Friends LP, perhaps, or The Incredible String Band, or Joni Mitchell - the thing is decidedly Cullum’s own. What’s also reassuring is that there hasn’t been some giant sonic leap from …Coin Collection, rather that the beautifully sun-kissed, English country garden, bees-buzzing-round-lager atmosphere has remained, but complicated, weirded, deepened.

Roscoe Roscoe are a 6 piece blend of Post-Rock & Shoegaze inspired epics, combined with the acoustic drive of 60s rock and folk. Based in London, Roscoe have been noted for their immersive ‘wall of sound’ live shows, supporting the likes of Tess Parks, The Orielles & Dummy last year.

Squash Blossom DJs from 6.30pm.
Ages 14+, please get in touch with the venue or Squash Blossom to let us know if you're bringing anyone under 14, and they must be accompanied by an adult.