Delta Ladies plus 1

The Delta Ladies Sat July 31st at the Cherry Tree Southgate

Hi all we are at a new venue called the Cherry Tree in Southgate, we are starting quite early at about 19:30 for an evening of  mellow tunes and stuff. Its a hew venture for this pub to have live music  so it would be good to support it. they also do rather nice real ales as well.

The Cherry Tree is at The Green, London, N14 6EN

http://www.vintageinn.co.uk/yeoldecherrytreesouthgate/findus/

Explosive indie soul rockers ‘ The Neutronics’ perform songs from their
upcoming album “This Is Supa Soul Brotha Del”.

30 July 2010 – 333 Mother Club
333 Old Street
EC1V 9LE

nearest tube: Old Street, 9pm -£5 all night

Contact number: 07956907342

The Delta Ladies are at The Cats Back Friday 16th July after their successful mini tour in the Tarn region of France.

Read more on this link  http://www.deltaladies.com/blog/

Delta Ladies at Olivers Jazz Bar

This is a delightful and somewhat eccentric pub  just on the fringes of Putney.
86-88 Point Pleasant
SWI8 1PP
London

Save the Cross Kings from Eviction !

The Cross Kings

Entertainment & Arts – Performing Arts
Description:
This is almost certainly completely pointless. But in case there IS a rich benefactor out there we felt we should at least try.

Being tied to Enterprise Inns has bled us dry and our last ditch attempt to sell to a sympathetic entrepeneur has fallen through.

We’ve been served with a letter of eviction which means we have to leave the venue on Friday 9th July.

If there’s anything anyone can do to save this unique and brilliant venue, do not waste a moment…

Buffalo Star live at ‘Hot Vox Promotions @ Babalou’

Friday, 13 August 2010
St Matthews Church, The Crypt, Brixton Hill, London SW2 1JF

Buffalo Star + Ned Walker
A great night of live music with some of the best up and coming bands in London. Buffalo Star are the stand out
act in a venue located in the crypt of a converted church in Brixton. £5 on the door not only gets you a night of
live music but also DJ’s playing until the early hours. For more info go to: www.myspace.com/buffalostarband

Band-with-booze

Elephant Shelf is about songs, rhythms and entertainment. Their original songs embodying all that is best in Rhythm & Blues, Swing, Blues, Country, the great American songbook, and much else. In the band’s own words: “We draw on the classic well loved sounds from the 60’s 70’s and beyond, add our own touches to make it our own music. We never consciously copy anyone else’s arrangements. We deliberately do it different” and we add a large dash of good humour and a love of entertaining. That is us; Elephant Shelf.”

 

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Round Midnight

13 Liverpool Road, Angel N1 0RW. It is really close to Angel Tube.

Blues Matters issue 55

Larry Miller is launching his latest album “Unfinished Business” at the Bush Hall on 30th June 2010 in London. This is a special event where you will rub shoulders with top journalists, and enjoy a night of fun with Larry.

Larry Miller

Every ticket holder will receive a FREE copy of the new album, and a limited edition golden VIP ticket upon arrival at the venue.

The limited edition golden VIP ticket allows the bearer access to one Larry Miller gig of their choice absolutely free. This ticket will have no end date, so you can use it to get access to any Larry gig at anytime in the future. Once you have used it, it will be yours to keep as a souvenir.

Each ticket will have a unique code that is traceable back to the ticket holder, and to use it, you will have to confirm that you are the original owner of the ticket.

We suggest you hold onto your ticket until Larry plays Wembley!

Tickets are priced at £18.00

Ticket only option: £10.00

There are less than 50 tickets left, so book yours early to avoid disappointment!

The address of the venue is as follows:

The Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge RD, London, W12 7LJ

The doors open at 7:30 pm, and the Album launch will finish at 11pm.

To Get tickets      << click  here >>

Elephant Shelf Radio interview on St FM

 

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Electric Mardiland

Starting 8pm, Thursday 6th of May 2010 at Annie’s Bar, 180 Kentish Town Road, NW5, a high quality open mic with a sense of humour, an opportunity to show off your musical and other talents.

Night kicks off with Rosie Swan, a big fat soul diva hiding in a lil white chick…

electricmardiland@googlemail.com

Evidence has emerged that DCMS use of Alcohol and Entertainment licence statistics has misled respondents to the public consultation on an exemption from entertainment licensing for small gigs. Environmental Protection UK (EPUK), formerly the National Society for Clean Air, has submitted a strongly negative response to the consultation: http://www.environmental-protection.org.uk/assets/library/documents/DCMS_-_Licensing_Act_Reform_(2).pdf It is based in part on a misinterpretation of DCMS Alcohol and Entertainment licence statistics – an almost inevitable result of the way the statistics were presented by DCMS within the consultation. In para 4.3 of the consultation document, published on 31 December 2009, DCMS reported that local authorities and the police believed ‘… there was no statistical evidence that the Act was restricting live music’, and that LACORS believed that ‘very few applications for live music were refused. The Government’s Licensing Statistics bulletin 2008 showed that the number of authorisations for live music had risen by 7% during 2007/8 and although this did not reflect the number of live music events staged in practice, it was nevertheless an indicator that live music was thriving.’

http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/consultations/condoc_exemptsmall_livemusicevents.pdf In para 4.4 DCMS describes these as ‘very serious objections’, and the reason the government had previously deferred this consultation. By this devious means, DCMS avoided making such claims directly but implied misleadingly that they had considerable merit. Thus DCMS gave weight to the ‘live music thriving’ interpretation of the licence statistics, when they knew that no such conclusion could be drawn. DCMS made no attempt within the consultation to prevent such a misinterpretation. Nor did they mention their own evidence that live music was not thriving: the BMRB live music survey of 2007 that found a 5% fall in live gigs since the Licensing Act had come into force. On 28 January 2010, in the report ‘Changes in Live Music 2005-2009′, DCMS acknowledged that the Alcohol and Entertainment licence statistics could not be used to draw conclusions about the state of live music: ‘It is hard to say conclusively that the number of premises with a live music licence indicates more live music venues or more live music gigs…’ [updated March/April 2010, p2]

http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/research/Increases_in_live_music_between_2005_and_2009updated.pdf Unsurprisingly, this escaped the attention of EPUK who took the DCMS bait when responding to the small gigs exemption consultation: ‘The Department’s statistical bulletin suggests that the number of licences granted for live music continues to grow, contradicting the claim that the Act is inhibiting applications’. [response to DCMS Consultation Question 1, p1] It seems EPUK was unaware that the Licensing Act had dramatically increased the scope of entertainment licensing, making increased applications inevitable, or that licence conditions may restrict or even prevent live music. Their response also suggests that in their view live music is doing fine, and this is a key reason for opposing any new exemption. Apparently they were ignorant of the DCMS caveat about licence statistics, and of the DCMS/BMRB survey. Right at the start of their response they state: ‘… there is no evidence that live music performance is in decline’ [EPUK 'Summary View', p1]. Why would DCMS want to influence their own consultation in this underhand way? My own view is that the senior civil servants most closely involved are not acting neutrally, but are in fact active opponents of relaxation of entertainment licensing for live music. There are also good reasons why DCMS might want to exaggerate the success of the music industry and play down the flaws in the Licensing Act. The government is anxious to be perceived as switched on to live music and a friend of the industry – particularly with a general election imminent.

This plays well to younger voters. And senior DCMS licensing team civil servants, on whom ministers rely for briefings about the working of the Licensing Act and the credibility of their live music research, are fighting to preserve their reputations. ENDS

Hamish Birchall

Drum & Monkey are happy to present Quimby’s first ever show in London to you.

Gates open at 6:30 at HUB CLUB, the evening starts soon after with a Hungarian Stand up Comedy, performed by Quimby’s Livius and Edu! (they are planning to do a kind of duel or what)
The recently formed British-Hungarian Mindpilot will take over then, with Andras Simonits in their lines, to warm up the atmosphere. After Quimby, well, it’s Dino!

And of course… QUIMBY! In between and all along…

Early Bird tickets are on sale for £17.50 in Nemesis Tattoo – Camden Town

or for online purchase visit

http://www.dontstayin.com/uk/london/hub-club-formally-sub-club-in-e1/2010/may/23/event-235512

Returning to the places where they had so many great gigs ELEPHANT SHELF returns to Crouch End.

 

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The Maynard is launching a monthly Rhythm & Blues night ‘Rhythm & Blues at the Maynard’, sponsored by BLUES MATTERS magazine – this gig is prelude to what is hoped will become one of the best R&B Blues gigs in North London.

http://www.elephantshelf.com
http://www.bluesmatters.com

BRILLIANT RAW GEMS

Raw Gems

What is RAW GEMS? Scroll and it shall all become clear ;-D
THE ZENITH BaR
125 Packington Street
Angel/Islington N1 7EA

MONDAY 19th of APRIL 8.30pm

After an amazing audience participation and fantastic acts at the March and April RAW Open Mic events; here are this time’s top brilliants:

Ernesto Sarezale
www.myspace.com/sarezale
Causing a literary stir on his travels around stages, a scientist,
published poet, poetry and stand-up performer.
Ernesto is the promoter of yearly Glam Slam UK and will be performing at 2010 Edinburgh Fringe festival.

Black Sparrows
www.facebook.com/theblacksparrows
This is the second time this year that these brilliant post-punky guitar-driven
get-up-and-go guys triumphed with sacks of gems.
Black Sparrows are just polishing and finalizing their forthcoming album.

Katie Keys
www.myspace.com/katie_keys
A brilliantly balanced act of fine songs and witty ‘tiny poems’
She also runs a poetry workshop at the Collective in Camden.
Talk to her on the night or
e-mail katiekeys@myartsmail.com
for more information

David Studdert
www.myspace.com/davidstuddert
Pure rock’n blues man; the boots, the jeans, the guitar and the smoked out voice with brilliant entertaining lyrics – a character of calibre.
David runs a weekly free open mic on Sundays at the Torriano pub in Kentish Town. He also co-organizes ‘Backfire Cool’ – a monthly event at the 12BAR, Denmark St
An event with very special guests.

RAW GEMS
Every first Monday of Every Month there’s a prebooked Open Mic (and poetry workshop before the open mic) event called RAW. At RAW, the audience give 1-5 GEMS (votes) to the acts (both spoken and sung words). Those acts who get most GEMS win a gig at RAW GEMS.

RAW GEMS is every second month at the ZENITH BAR in Angel/Islington
RAW is every month at the CENTRAL STATION in Kings Cross

RAW is organized by CT who also holds poetry workshops and presents RAW on REEL REBELS RADIO.
www.reelrebelsradio.com Every Tuesday 7pm with repeats Every Wednesday 12noon

LINKS & contact
07908 472 908
rawpoetry@rocketmail.com
www.myspace.com/rawpoetry.ct
www.facebook.com/rawpoetry
www.myspace.com/rockyvoodoo

Pass the information on
to everyone who loves music and poetry. ;-D

NAMASTE
CT
xx

This week, due to a long standing private engagement The BLUES ROOM will be on Friday and will feature local favourites ELEPHANT SHELF with a rocking selection of rootsy rhythm and blues.

Elephant Shelf

www.thebluesroom.liveblues.info

www.elephantshelf.com

Entertainment licensing for small gigs has become an election issue. On Tuesday, a Labour party spokesperson suggested that licensing minister Gerry Sutcliffe had already made up his mind to proceed with an entertainment licensing exemption for 100-capacity gigs – even before DCMS had evaluated the 800 exemption consultation responses. Last October Sutcliffe suggested that the figure would be open to negotiation when the DCMS exemption consultation was over (it closed on 26 March).

http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/news.ma/article/86573 Today, both trade papers report renewed Conservative backing for a 200-capacity exemption: http://www.thepublican.com/story.asp?sectioncode=7&storycode=66789 Shadow Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt told The Publican: “We support the campaign to extend the exemption from requiring a licence for live music performances to 200 people. The Licensing Act was meant to support the live music industry, but has turned out to be a disaster. Extending the exemption to 200 people will reduce the burden of bureaucracy on pubs, and provide a much needed boost to the live music industry.”

The Publican itself is among those campaigning for a 200-capacity exemption: http://www.thepublican.com/section.asp?navcode=399 Today’s Morning Advertiser coverage: http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/news.ma/article/86594 Lord Clement-Jones’ live music bill, which made it to the Commons, has now fallen. It was not included in the secretive and undemocratic Parliamentary ‘wash up’ that finishes today. This is where last minute deals are done to get some bills through before an election. An excellent article today by Alex Stevenson of politics.co.uk sheds more light on the wash-up: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/elections/talking-elections-post/post/talking_election/11/lost-in-the-wash-up-behind-closed-doors/ Lib Dem shadow culture secretary Don Foster has suggested that they would consider bringing back a bill after the election.

WORLD PREMIERE

compagnie dernière minute and the Gate Theatre present

MICRO

A Physical Concert by PIERRE RIGAL

7 April – 8 May 2010 | Monday – Saturday 7.30pm

Cymbals storm the stage, a pair of drums fall in love, two musicians tussle to play the same guitar. MICRO

combines the raw power of live music with the delicate beauty of theatre and dance to create an electrifying

physical concert that defies classification.

Following the sell-out success of PRESS, Pierre Rigal returns to Notting Hill to transform the Gate into a

renegade rock venue.

“Laugh-out-loud funny, tragic, breathtaking and hugely uplifting. PRESS seamlessly blends contemporary

dance with physical comedy.” 5 STARS – TIME OUT on Pierre Rigal’s PRESS

TICKETS £16 | £11

£8 GATECRASHER TICKETS – 7/8/9 April

Direction & Choreography Pierre Rigal

Design & Lighting Frédéric Stoll

Cast Mélanie Chartreux, Malik Djoudi, Gwenaël Drapeau, Julien Lepreux

TALKBACKS 20 & 29 April

Bea and the Honeytones whup up three sets of devilishly sassy blues in the centre of town, with Bea Appleby (vocals), Stuart Dixon (guitar), Dave Shannon (harmonica and vocals), Chris Hilliard (drums), Jamie Lawrence (bass) and Janos Bajtala (keyboards).

Bee and The Honey Tones

Take two brilliant entertainers,
add an amazing range of instruments
and a stunning array of songs and
you have the DELTA LADIES.

The Delta Ladies

Delta Ladies

Imagine the high lonesome sound of a mountain fiddle and bluegrass guitar, the knife edge of Delta slide guitar, the fluid jazz violin of Stephan Grapelli, the songs of Hendrix & Dylan with the addition of Gypsy violin and flamenco tinged guitar, using guitars, fiddles, mandolin and the unique chromatic dulcimer…Imagine music that contains all of these magical elements, great songs like Hey Joe, but with Gypsy violin, Night and Day with dark passion…songs about the railway, about the devil and about life…Imagine all of this, then the added spice of startling original tunes..

From Delta blues to Jazz,
From Gershwin to grunge,
From Vaudeville to Voodoo child..

www.deltaladies.com

BRE4TH: The Smell of the Crowd:
Friday 26 February 2010         7 – 8.45pm

Members of the Grand Union Orchestra are playing and illustrating the art of circular breathing on Friday
night – get an insight into the physics and chemistry behind this amazing technique at an evening featuring
live music and new software offering real-time visualisations of the musicians’ exhalations.

There are many advantages to being able to breathe out in this way. But are our lungs getting a shot at
exchanging gases with our blood, or is this way of breathing bypassing them completely? Can this technique
help artistry?

Composer and director Tony Haynes and musicians Claude Deppa, Andy Grappy and Gerry Hunt present a
lively demonstration, discussion and performance event about breathing out for extraordinarily long periods
of time. Try it yourself in this participatory show, and be prepared to get a bit wet!

The evening concludes with a fantastic and unique improvisation with live circular-breathed music for your
pleasure!

Musicians:
Tony Haynes, Composer and Director, Grand Union Orchestra
Claude Deppa, Grand Union Orchestra
Andy Grappy, Grand Union Orchestra
Gerry Hunt, Grand Union Orchestra

Facilitators:
Gabi Braun, Bee Arts CIC
Terry Braun, Bee Arts CIC
Philip Brown, Molecular Physics Group, the University of Birmingham

Event Organised by: Bee Arts CIC and supported by the Wellcome Trust

There is a charge of £6.50 (£4.50 students and other concessions) for this event. Please go to
www.thesmellofthecrowd.eventbrite.com to book and pay.

Dana Centre Address:
The Science Museum’s Dana Centre is located at165 Queen’s Gate, South Kensington, London, SW7 5HD
Telephone – 0207 942 4040

Think as a musician you may be the victim of a closed shop?
Done a really good show at  a good London venue and find that you can’t get your band booked again?
You are not alone…. Is there a closed inner circle?

Dave Blues Smith thinks there is.

Article coming soon

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Take two brilliant entertainers,
add an amazing range of instruments
and a stunning array of songs and
you have the DELTA LADIES.

The Delta Ladies

Delta Ladies

Imagine the high lonesome sound of a mountain fiddle and bluegrass guitar, the knife edge of Delta slide guitar, the fluid jazz violin of Stephan Grapelli, the songs of Hendrix & Dylan with the addition of Gypsy violin and flamenco tinged guitar, using guitars, fiddles, mandolin and the unique chromatic dulcimer…Imagine music that contains all of these magical elements, great songs like Hey Joe, but with Gypsy violin, Night and Day with dark passion…songs about the railway, about the devil and about life…Imagine all of this, then the added spice of startling original tunes..

From Delta blues to Jazz,
From Gershwin to grunge,
From Vaudeville to Voodoo child..

www.deltaladies.com

The Delta Ladies playing at:

The Cat’s Back Pub and Restaurant

86-88 Point Pleasant SW18 1NN

02088770818

Wandsworth / Putney

East Putney

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If you fancy a weekend out of London then why not

The Blues Bonanza at Lakeside, Hayling Island, Hants

Friday 22 Jan – 25 Jan 2010, £139 pp half board.  Code RNB10

A fab weekend of blues and R&B in the friendly atmosphere of Lakeside, Hayling Island.   Headlined by Eugene ‘Hideaway’ Bridges with the fabulous King King featuring superb guitarist Alan Nimmo, plus the ever-popular Spikedrivers,the all-danceable Swamp Cats, new to Boogaloo the extremely entertaining and lively Elephant Shelf, plus up-and-coming young and talented guitarist Ben Poole and his band.   Sadly Son Henry has been taken ill so is not allowed to fly BUT we have been fortunate to book Trafficker in their place with guitar supremo Tommy Allen.

More details to follow soon!  Live bands every night, acoustic blues session on Saturday and late night jams led by Five Field Holler.  Tony Farinha is MC and DJ for the weekend.  LAST FEW ROOMS LEFT!

For more information about Lakeside, visit:

Lakeside | Warner Breaks

Details on the link below.

Boogaloo Promotions Blues Bonanza weekend

http://www.boogaloopromotions.com/documents/17046LAKBonanzalealfet.pdf

Music Owns The Night is a new live music event featuring unsigned music.

They are being hosted and run by Duane Saul.

The launch show will be at Venue 229, Great Portland Street on Tuesday February 9th 2010.

We will be looking for all varieties of music and talent. We spend many hours sourcing the best acts from many locations including myspace. We have already had many requests from acts wanting to perform at our launch show.
If you would like to perform at any of our shows please e-mail musicownsthenight@hotmail.co.uk with all your details.

For each show we intend to have industry executives present as well as national and local press.

musicownsthenight.blogspot.com

The Blues Room@Harrys bar St Albans.

OK its just a wee bit outside London but may be of interest:

The Blues Room at Harry Smiths Bar St Albans.Sponsored by Europe’s premier Blues & Roots Magazine BLUES MATTERS; the Blues Room Bringing you the very best in Blues & Rhythm & Blues Rock ‘n’ Roll, Swing & Roots Music.

January 16th 2010 opening night with:

Gordon Wride, Simon Gregory, Colin Goldring and Sam GoldringPlaying an electric set of Chicago, Texas and British Blues (with an indie twist), they have performed (and been invited back) at many of the leading UK & European Blues Festivals including the Douro Blues Festival Portugal, Blues On The Farm, Colne, Darlington R/B, Abertillery, Tenby, Blaenau, Chicago Rock Festival Swansea, Mumbles Jazz & Blues Festival and at venues such as The 100 Club (Oxford Street, London), Bath Blues Club, Bristol Blues Club, Cheltenham Blues Club, The Tawe Delta Swansea, The Point Cardiff, The Toucan Club Cardiff, The Devalence Tenby, The Park & Dare Treorchy, The Met Abertillery, The Beaufort Ebbw Vale, The Milkwood Jam Swansea.

Dr. Shade’s Blues Band at Harry Smith’s 23 January

Dr. Shades were formed out of members of the audience to the ‘Shades of Blues’ club at the Maltings St Albans. The band is going from strength to strength following a performance at the Maltings which was greeted by a standing ovation, with re-bookings at every venue. Dr. Shades are a five piece band of experienced local musicians; fronted by sensational female Blues vocalist Chris Lord the band also features Bob ‘Dr Shades’ Ayre on drums.
They present a wide range of Blues influenced music, ranging from well known classics by BB King, Eric Clapton, Howling Wolf and Etta James to less well known songs; all done with a smile ! Come on down to the Docs’, they’re gonna make you feel good all night!
More Gig listings
20th Feb – From the USA Glenn Patrik with Elephant Shelf.
6th Feb Gary Boner’s ROADHOUSE

www.harrysmithsbar.com

Le QuecumBar International Gypsy Swing Guitar Festival concerts and workshops When: Sunday, 17 January 2010 18:00 – 00:00 CST Where: Le QuecumBar & Brasserie 42-44 Battersea High Street London sw113hx

Click here to view the event

Spread the word – tell your friends in London
Thanks Sylvia

- Le QuecumBar

Sounds like its going to be great… and its on my birthday too  (editor)