Sadie Jemmett & Russell Joslin - SONGWRITER DOUBLE BILL @ Folklore Rooms, Brighton

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Sadie Jemmett and Russell Joslin present two contrasting twists on contemporary Americana songwriting. Forging their idiosyncratic styles after dark, in the folk clubs and small venues of noughties London, they collaborated, earned accolades, and became great friends. While many of the old venues are gone, Brighton's Folklore Rooms thrives, so they head to the sea, offering a double-bill of Jemmett's 'quivering and windswept' anthems and Joslin's biting 'Americana noir'.

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SADIE JEMMETT
 
Sadie Jemmett’s extraordinary songs reflect a remarkable life, from a wildly bohemian
childhood and teenage runaway to her role today as one of the most original singer-
songwriters to excite our ears in many years. 
 
Sadie’s latest album Phoenix was released June 2019 on TwoUpTwoDown
Records/Absolute Universal and produced and recorded by Joby Baker (Cowboy Junkies,
The Waylin’ Jennys) on Vancouver Island, Canada.
 
‘Don’t Silence Me’, the critically acclaimed single and music video from the album has
already made international headline news on both CBS and the BBC and has been hailed
as ‘A powerful anthem for the #metoo movement.’
 
Sadie’s was first discovered and mentored by legendary folk singer Judy Collins, who
immediately signed her to her New York based label Wildflower Records. Her first
album,‘The Blacksmith’s Girl’, was mixed and produced in Los Angeles by Grammy winner
David Bianco (Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash). The album was released in autumn 2011 to critical
acclaim. Sadie then played support for Judy on a major tour of the UK.
 
London Love Songs, Sadie’s second album, was recorded partly at the legendary Abbey
Road Studios, London and was released in 2015, again to critical acclaim, following a four
month tour of the UK and France.
 
In 2018 Sadie released ‘These Days: Live at The Green Note’ earning a four-star review in
Maverick Magazine.
 
2020 has proved to be a creative and productive time for Sadie. She is currently busy writing
songs for both a UK based Musical and a Hollywood film, as well as songs for her next
album, the first single of which will be released in Sept 2020.

'Raw emotional honesty and intricate storytelling.... evocative and deeply personal music that first established her as a distinctive voice in contemporary folk. - Fatea Magazine

'Jemmett's Elizabethan / Folk / Dylan style music was terrific!' - The Observer

‘A powerful record, Jemmett speaks her mind freely and intelligently’ – Maverick
Magazine****

‘Powerful … heartbreakingly beautiful … as eloquently (written) as you could wish for ….
Jemmett has really matured as a songwriter and Phoenix is an intense album’ Rock ‘n’ Reel
Magazine
 
‘An Anthem for our age… Sadie Jemmett speaks volumes with her defiant brand of protest
songs’- Sunday Express Magazine       
 
‘An anthem for survivors’ - CBS News      
 
‘A defiant rallying cry … Not for nothing is the record called Phoenix’ - The National

RUSSELL JOSLIN

With a guitar style reminiscent of a grunge-soaked John Fahey moonlighting with the 13th Floor Elevators, plus vocal aims to mix the gravitas of 16 Horsepower’s David Eugene Edwards with the passionate abandon of The Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser, London-based Russell Joslin vitiates the singer-songwriter tradition until it sounds as splintered as today’s society. His fifth album, ‘O Veisalgia’, is a collection of vivid sonic pictures which twists various forms of duet-led folk-rock, post-punk and
grunge into modern tales of addiction, urban violence, masculinity and digital malaise.

‘Intense and artistically serious mental cinema’ - MangoWave

‘Incredibly dramatic storytelling ... Americana noir’ - American Pancake

‘Living proof of how fresh, vigorous and abrasive an acoustic songwriter can and
should be in the 21st Century’ - BBC 6music

‘Explosive, hard-hitting folk … a much-needed gust of fresh air into the British folk
scene’ - Subba-cultcha

www.russelljoslinmusic.co.uk