Circe's Diner

Event information

The Big Comfy Folk Club featuring 3 fantastic folk/acoustic acts.
Three top class acts performing at our folk club.
Tickets £5.

Luke Whittemore 8.00-8.35
Stevie Jones 8.50-9.30
Circe's Diner 9.45-10.30

Circe's Diner
Circe's Diner are a Bristol-grown acoustic band born in the early months of 2014. Initially set up as a duo dedicated to self-penned, honest, rootsy tunes, Circe's have steadily grown from strength to strength both musically and in numbers in the time they have been performing. While music from the Diner touches base with country, americana, folk and pop traditions the presentation and lyrical content is unique yet relatable, addressing everything from love to loss in their own inimitable way. Already Circe's Diner's tracks have been taken to live radio performances, been played through BBC Introducing, live video sessions, been sync'd to film (HighTide (2015) and done more than the expected share of performances in the Southwest. With their sound constantly developing but maintaining a humanity often lost in today's music Circe's Diner are pushing into 2016 with new material, the new 'October' EP and an insistence to share their music with the UK by inviting more and more pe
ople into the Diner
www.circesdiner.com
https://www.facebook.com/Circesdinerofficial/
www.twitter.com/circesdiner

Stevie Jones
Stevie's songs are layers of honesty and urgency and draw on experiences ranging from abandoning alcohol and becoming "Straight Edge", earning a crust as a professional archaeologist and living life in the modern-day music industry. 'Stratigraphic Heart', is the debut album from his band The Wildfires and over the last 12 months, has been slowly uncovered at Parlour Studios, Kettering with acclaimed producers Neil Haynes & Russ Russell and features an array of guests including New Model Army' lead guitarist, Marshall Gill.
www.StevieJones.com
https://www.facebook.com/steviejonesmusic
www.twitter.com/stevie_jones

Luke Whittemore
Luke was born early into a family of musical mayhem, his first experiences of life a psychedelic road movie most of us can only imagine. He fell in love with Donovan, Kerouac & the Elevators at an age when his contemporaries were bottle-feeding. Luke surrounded himself with musicians, dancers, card sharks, story tellers, dream-weavers, users, diviners and chicken-hypnotisers, so the art of the outsider was no stranger to him; he existed right at the centre, inside the out.
So of course, he travelled. Extensively covering UK & Europe with Daylight Frequencies was a formative, breakaway act; how do you give the required two fingers to an authority so perfectly maladjusted? He just left. Moved. Wrote. Moved some more, picked up the influence of the open sky, wearing out his boots like Django, he roamed the badlands, an outlaw hunting outlaws, a bounty hunter... no, wait that's something else...
When you start so young, when you're handed 'Dixie Chicken' by your father at 13, and you eventually fly yourself, you reap and you sow, what do you do next? The life that burns in your veins so hot, so bright, it will never leave, it can't go out. It's not like other fire. Well, you do exactly what mankind has always done, perhaps was made to do. You bring it on home.
The rich, horse-ridden, wind-swept, wide screen amalgam of influence, tied up by the barn, watering overnight become decades.
Sat on the front porch, gave his children that which was once given to him and became even richer. He took the sound and the feeling and the things he had seen and heard and he wrote it down, and that's where you come in.
Luke's new music peels back the skin on the heart of a man with half a life's worth of stories to tell. Buy the record, if people still buy records when you're reading this, but make sure you see him live because that's where the spark ignites and the truth is laid barest. Luke's guitar, singing, songs weave the barest threads between melodies, his words a tree sawn down by the river.
Sure, you heard this kind of stuff before, but what's new, like all the best things, it's the detail, the focus, the point of view and the subtlety.
Lend Luke your ears, few are as well qualified and you know they'll come back richer
http://www.lukewhittemore.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Lukewhittemoremusic/
www.twitter.com/lukewhittemore

Doors open at 7.00. No entrance once the acts are on stage. If you're late, you'll have to wait til the breaks.

Bookshop bar open serving ale and wine, hot and cold drinks and cake! No other food or drink allowed.

Booking highly recommended. Tickets from the link above or direct from the shop. Not available via phone.