Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express

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Chuck returns to Nottingham to play a great intimate venue with his fantastic band!

Title track from Chuck Prophet's upcoming album Temple Beautiful, out early 2012. Featured on Little Steven's Underground Garage radio show as one of its featured "Coolest Song in the World."
Californian alt-rock hero of ours, Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express makes a most welcome return to the Maze with a brand new record,’Temple Beautiful’ due out this March. A longstanding San Franciscan, in Temple Beautiful Chuck has penned an unflinchingly visceral love letter to his adopted hometown of over three decades. Named after the city’s now defunct notorious punk rock club (located within the ill-fated Jim Jones People’s Temple) where a young Prophet himself cut his teeth watching the likes of the Flamin’ Groovies supported by Black Flag, both the title track and album resonate with tales from America’s most vibrant outpost city. Across the album, Prophet animates his city’s most notorious moments with his characteristic candour and guitar intricacies.

Chuck Prophet's genius lies in assimilating a wide variety of genres into his essentially Stonesy architecture ahead of the standard curve. From the seminal '80s alt-country shimmer of Green on Red to his incredibly diverse solo sonic quilt - early Americana rocker/mid-period electronic folkie/latter-day style hybridist - Prophet has engagingly exemplified his surname. Originality is not easy in the derivative rock world but Chuck Prophet has blazed genre trails for over two decades with no signs of running out of inspiration or desire.

“ In an industry filled with heroin-shaped prima donnas and blood-leeching businessmen, Chuck Prophet is a thorn tree. He's a thorn tree in the gardens of a game that he's played and that's played him; ultimately refusing to give up on what makes him breathe: rock and roll”

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