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Doors 7pm
Tickets also available from Old Cinema Launderette for £13 or £15 on the door.
Mix of seating (limited) and standing.
Liz Green's debut album, O, Devotion! was released by Play It Again Sam to critical acclaim across Europe. Liz's music owes a debt to a wide range of influences: musicals; gospel and blues and country; interwar Weimar cabaret; Bugsy Malone’s dancehall; Marlon Brando’s brilliant turn in Guys and Dolls; Johnny Cash; Dolly Parton; Son House; Blind Willie McTell; the inimitable Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Her world features shadow puppetry and contraptions designed to ease her way into performance. She owes as much to a tradition of shape-shifting feminist artists from Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, Lee Miller and Frida Kahlo to Cindy Sherman and Tracey Emin as to musicians from Lily Allen to Bessie Smith.
The first single from the album, Displacement Song, featured an animated video directed by Kate Anderson, which went on to win the British Animation Awards 2012 "Best Music Video". Two further animation videos were completed for songs on the album: Bad Medicine, directed by Joseph Brett & Simon Taffe from End of the Road Films, a stunning achievement in stop motion, with sets and characters made entirely from cardboard; and Luis, directed by Tamzin Forster, a beautiful paper-cut animation for Liz's song about an inveterate Mexican funeral-goer.
Liz is currently writing and arranging songs for her next album.
“A sensational debut” Sunday Times ‘Album of the Week’
“To call Liz Green a one-off talent is something of a drastic under-statement”Esquire
“Eccentric and rather magical” 4/5 The Guardian live review
“O, Devotion! finally fulfils expectations” 4/5 Daily Telegraph
“Her USP is her extraordinary voice 4/5 Metro
“O, Devotion! brims with depth, detail and fleet drama” The Independent
“a surfeit of simple yet beautifully crafted songs” 8/10 Drowned in Sound
Venue information
DURHAM: Old Cinema Launderette| 0 | 38 Marshall Terrace Gilesgate Moor Durham DH1 2HX |
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| > | www.oldcinemalaunderette.uk/retro-gig-venue |
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