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A new monthly folk and roots club presented by Artree music, this month featuring Tinderbox plus guest to be announced.
Tinderbox are an acoustic duo featuring Monique Houraghan with a distinctive ‘honey-like’ vocal, and Dan Tucker with an intricate finger style guitar technique.
After four creative years living in Dublin between 1997 and 2001 the duo spent two years travelling the world playing their music. On their return to the UK in late 2004 Monique and Dan settled in Bournemouth.
2007 to 2010 have seen Tinderbox perform a number of headline shows to capacity crowds. Additionally, they have played support sets for high profile acts including Cara Dillon, Jon Allen, Corinne West, Kris Drever, Ben’s Brother, Ralph McTell, Emily Maguire, Uiscedwr, Chris Difford and Megson.
May 2008 saw the release of Tinderbox’s second studio album. ‘Golden’ was launched at Centre Stage in Bournemouth, with the band performing to a record-breaking audience.
Maverick Magazine recently described ‘Golden’ as “Quite inspirational really…a masterpiece”. Maverick went on to describe Tinderbox as being “Poised to ignite the acoustic…world”. Acoustic Magazine featured a review of ‘Golden’ in their August 09 edition labelling the music ‘Lovely, hooky and mellow’