Bad Timing: Richard Dawson + C Joynes
Monday 16th February 2015
Venue: The Portland Arms
Category: Gigs & Live Music
One Liner: Experimental folk
Price Info: £8 adv
Time Info: 8:30-11:00pm
Following his memorable performance in Cambridge Junction for the Monomania festival last March, he returns to Cambridge for what promises to be an intense and intimate headline show following the release of his acclaimed album 'Nothing Important' in late 2014.
"Nothing Important is a remarkable record - at times deeply, painfully intimate, but also witty, bawdy, surreal, disquieting, nostalgic, brash and fearlessly individual. While Dawson draws loosely on folk traditions, be it from the North East of England, the Appalachian Mountains or the Gulf of Arabia, his sound also brings to mind more modern sources - Beefheart, Earth, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Bill Orcutt, Sun City Girls, tiny glimpses of drone, minimalism, avant-metal, math-rock, psychedelia. It's all of these things and yet none of them."
The Quietus
" Whether it's a masterpiece will become apparent with the passage of time." 5* - The Guardian
"A remarkable record" 4* - MOJO
"Dawson emerges as a talented chronicler of the tiniest, realest details" - NME
"An odyssey of intelligent observation, morose humour and north-eastern magic" 5* - Record Collector
"Weirdly engrossing" 9/10 - Vice
"This is a record that unsettles and subverts" 5* - The Guardian
"madcap, abrasive and, at times, laugh out loud funny" - Q
"Nothing Important is a rhapsody of the material, the messy, and the intensely human" 9/10 - Loud & Quiet
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/306879
http://www.weirdworldrecordco.com/artists/richard-dawson/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQVlNt6DAxY
https://soundcloud.com/weirdworldrecordco/richard-dawson-nothing-impor...
C Joynes
C Joynes's guitar playing is built on heavy thumb-led finger-picking technique that harks back to traditional country-blues and early ragtime, however, he uses this technique to explore alternative melodic traditions and hypnotic music from all sources: the English folk-tune; North and West African music; elements of classical Indian music; as well minimalist composition.
Recent activities include recording with Dead Rat Orchestra and English folk singer Stephanie Hladowski.
http://www.boweavilrecordings.com/joynes.html
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