Kings of The South Seas

Neil McSweeney

Presented by: Neil McSweeney Music

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0	SHEFFIELD: The Greystones
P	Wednesday 21st February, 2018
N	7:30pm

Event information

Hudson Records is proud to present Kings of The South Seas, visiting Sheffield on tour to promote their new album 'Franklin'.

In the last three years, HMS Erebus and Terror, Franklin’s two ships from his ill-fated 1845 voyage to find the NW Passage were discovered at the bottom of the icy seas off Northern Canada. This brought the fateful events back into focus after they’d filled the international headlines in the second half of the 19th Century when all 129 of the crew disappeared without trace in the Arctic wastes. With the ‘Franklin’ album, Kings of The South Seas will bring to life the traditional and written music left by these events and their cultural fallout; from Canadian Voyageur paddling songs, English folk ballads and songs composed onboard ice-bound wintering ships to Victorian parlour pieces.

Kings of The South Seas are, Ben Nicholls-concertina (Full English, Seth Lakeman Band), Richard Warren-guitar (Spiritualized), Evan Jenkins-drums (Neil Cowley Trio).

Opening the evening is a songwriters circle featuring label-mate Neil McSweeney (whose latest album A Coat Worth Wearing was released to critical acclaim in March 2017) with Ash Gray and David J Roch.