Lost Horizons Presents Robb Johnson
With Support from Joe Wilkes
Presented by: Lost Horizons Folk and Acoustic Club| 0 | LONDON: Forest Gate Hotel (Function Room) (info) |
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| P | Saturday 26th April, 2025 |
| N | Door time: 7:30pm Start time: 8:30pm |
| . | All ages |
| C | Music - Folk/blues/world |
Event information
Robb Johnson is widely recognized as one of the UK’s finest songwriters. “An English original”, (Robin Denselow, the Guardian) … “one of our best singer-songwriters ever” (Mike Harding). He gigs in the UK, Belgium, Germany & the USA, & his songs are covered by many singers. In 2013 the release of a new, revised version of Gentle Men, Robb’s family history of the First World War, recorded with Roy Bailey & Barb Jungr, again received unanimous critical acclaim – “a wonderful mixture of the political and personal…A really moving piece of work” (Billy Bragg, & “a folk classic” (The Guardian) A review of Robb’s 2014 album Us & Them said “Robb Johnson keeps folk music relevant & thought-provoking. ‘Us & Them’ shows what can be created by one man & a guitar,” (The Living Tradition), while the following year’s band album, Here Goes Nothing, prompted the following review from R2: “Within bars of the opening onslaught. It’s evident that Robb is quite the kamikaze axe man.”
Support comes from South London based Singer/Songwriter Joe Wilkes.
"There is a parallel universe to ours where Lady Gaga is a pub singer and Simon Cowell is a used car salesmen. In that same universe London singer/songwriter Joe Wilkes is a superstar, his records sell by the million.
Meanwhile in this dimension (every now and then), Joe puts out a collection of new songs, no big fanfares, just real music, sung and played by a real musician.".
