Hot Vultures

Presented by: West Surrey Folk Consortium

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0	GUILDFORD: Institute
P	Wednesday 6th July, 2016
N	7:30pm

Event information

Southern English duo Hot Vultures – Ian Anderson on guitar, slide guitar and vocals and Maggie Holland on bass guitar, banjo, guitar and vocals – were one of the hardest working and popular outfits on the UK and European folk and college circuits of the 1970s. They mixed up a naturally Anglicised selection of old American roots musics from the 1920s, ’30s and before – early blues, pre-country, old-time music – with UK traditional music, acoustic R&B and a few originals, all played with energy, taste, enthusiasm and a genuine love of the sources.

They worked everywhere from smoky Continental dives to the Copper Family’s monthly Sussex folk nights, from college rock gigs to early Cambridge Folk Festivals, and even had a bit of a following among people from the emerging mid-’70s punk scene as well as adventurous folk fans, possibly because they tended to play things rather fast and (acoustic) loud!

In 2016 they’ll be re-uniting for one summer only, for the first time (apart from a few one-off command performances) since 1984.

Vultures live! Hear a radio broadcast from KPFK Santa Monica in 1980 at soundcloud.com/gftb/hot-vultures-on-kpfk-1980

Vultures on record! Hear tracks from Vulturama at ghostsfromthebasement.bandcamp.com/album/vulturama