OXFORD: The Wheatsheaf

FRI 31ST MAY, 2013 8pm

Kinights of Mentis
are an ancient and venerable chivalric order whose origins continue to perplex even the most scholarly of scholars. It s generally agreed that they first appeared somewhere between Memphis and Atlantis at an uncertain point in the thirteenth century. Still more uncertain is the precise moment at which the Knights exchanged their clodpoles, pikes and swords for banjos and mandolins. Their divinely-appointed purpose is to comfort the disturbed, even as they disturb the comfortable, by use of old-time string band music. With two new additions, (drums and keys) to their story.—

Blackthorn came into being when Peter Standing, formerly of Spire and the Larkrise Ranters, met some fellow musicians on May Day of 2012 and on a whim asked them if they would be interested in forming a band that would play mainly traditional music and songs, but with a rock or indie slant.

Superloose ...speak for themselfs x