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Red Balloon Music presents... LEWIS FLOYD HENRY
Tom Metcalfe, Jamie Brewer
Presented by: Red Balloon Music| 0 | MANCHESTER: The Castle Hotel |
|---|---|
| P | Sunday 8th April, 2012 |
| N | 7:30pm |
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Red Balloon Music are proud to present Lewis Floyd Henry for his first major headline tour!
LEWIS FLOYD HENRY - In the age when MySpace and the blogosphere have become the conventional means of achieving rock stardom, this remarkable songwriter and performer has gone the ancient route of taking to the streets to broadcast his music.
For the past few years, like a Mississippi bluesman in the early 20th century, Lewis has pitched up on street corners around London, at Brick Lane, Borough Market and the South Bank, every time trousering a pocket full of loose change, but also gradually spreading the knowledge of his extraordinary genius.
Unlike those Delta entertainers, he arrives armed with a trolley carrying a battery-operated amplifier and diddy custom-made drumkit – hence the title of his mind-blowing debut album, ‘One Man & His 30w Pram’. Even less like them, he has accrued 100,000 hits for a YouTube clip, where he blasts out a block-rockin’ take on The Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘Protect Ya Neck’ outside Tottenham Court Road tube station. Elsewhere on the site, you can see him busting out a Prokofiev tune with his teeth. As one comment thereabouts imaginatively puts it, “When Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix and Ol’ Dirty Bastard died, this guy was born.”
TOM METCALFE - His beautiful blend of flamenco guitar and folk story-telling is one of the best kept secrets on the North West music scene.
JAMIE BREWER - An acoustic guitarist who uses a variety of techniques to recreate a full band effect on one guitar, using a variety of tunings to provide rhythm parts, percussive elements and melodies from one guitar. Recently attended a BBC introducing master class at Abbey Road Studios and supporting Jon Gomm later this year, Jamie is one to look out for in the instrumental acoustic world.
