Friday, April 22, 2016
The Yard, Alderley Edge, United Kingdom
Friday, April 22, 2016
The Yard, Alderley Edge, United Kingdom
Join us for our third Unsigned Supper evening showcasing 4 emerging artists. £15 includes the performances, starter platters, main and dessert.
Timings are pretty strict because of the 4 amazing acts we have lined up! Please arrive at 7pm.
Previous Unsigned Supper Films -
Unsigned Supper 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKbF5-P20qg
Unsigned Supper 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe2JwcOYHos
Acts -
BEN WILLIAMS
A singer-songwriter who moulds the classic songwriting sound of Paul Simon with the laid back nature of Jack Johnson, Ben Williams is a difficult artist to pigeon-hole and all the better for it. His debut album ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ has received airplay on BBC Radio 2, including the Dermot O Leary Show, and was described by Janice Long as ‘so beautiful’. R2 magazine thought the album was ‘guaranteed to bring a smile to your face’. Ben’s Christmas song ‘Too Cold For Snow’ was played on BBC Radio 2 on Christmas Day.
Having started as a busker, Ben Williams’ rise to prominence in the music industry has been truly impressive. Grammy award winning producer Ken Nelson (Coldplay, Paulo Nutini), who knows a great musician when he sees one, describes him as “an excellent guitarist and great to have around on a recording session”, while drummer and producer Steve White (Paul Weller, Style Council, Oasis) called him “great guitarist and top musician”. These are professionals who gained a position in the industry by being able to identify talent, and they see it in Ben Williams.
And finally, if you were in any doubt as to how passionate Williams is about his songwriting, he also runs his own blog about songwriting – http://www.songwriterstalkaboutsongwriting.com/. Having interviewed people like Dan Wilson, Jamie Lawson, Ron Sexsmith, Chris Difford, Frank Turner and more, this is one songwriter who is keen to keep honing and learning his craft.
Twitter - https://twitter.com/benpwilliams
Soundcloud - https://soundcloud.com/benpwilliams
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BenPWilliamsGuitar
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/user/sharpeleventwelve
FUZZY JONES
"Fuzzy Jones is an award winning singer-songwriter, based in Leeds UK. She is a singer in the truest sense of the word, crafting powerful songs, lyrics and arrangements that hark back to the sound of the female vocalists from the sixties. These are delivered with a unique vocal identity – powerful, emotional and fragile. Her songs display narrative many can understand and relate to and no-one can fail to be moved by them. She conjures up vivid urban tales of the everyday and her lyrics draw you in around melamine tables, of kitsch faded orange cafes. One young person recently described her music as “a pillow my soul would like to hug.”
Fuzzy herself likes to describe her music as “a tea party with Joni Mitchell and David Bowie, where Burt Bacharach occasionally pops by for a coffee.” She has cited influence from 60s and 70s musicians, such as Bobbie Gentry, Grace Slick, Julie Driscoll, David Bowie, Serge Gainsbourg, The Beatles, Nancy Priddy, Jimmy Webb, Scott Walker and Dusty Springfield, and Jazz greats like Billie Holiday, all the way to the artists of now like Dawn Landes, St Vincent and Father John Misty.
Fuzzy’s music has been played on Stuart Maconie’s ‘Freak Zone’ BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio Leeds & Lincolnshire, BBC Introducing, Chapel FM and other online shows.
Her greatest achievement to date is winning ‘Best Song’ at the prestigious London Screenwriters’ Festival in February 2014, when her song ‘Swans’ (co-written by Neil Innes) was featured on the end credits of the first crowdsourced feature film ’50 Kisses’.
“Fuzzy’s voice is like something you heard in a dream, truly original.” Corinne Bailey Rae
“It’s gorgeous, well, really beautiful”. Alan Raw (BBC Introducing)
Website ~ http://fuzzyjonesmusic.com
https://twitter.com/fuzzyjonesmusic
https://soundcloud.com/fuzzyjones
https://www.facebook.com/fuzzyjonesmusic
BELLS IN THE BIRCHES
With bluesy vocals, swinging rhythms and poignant lyrics, Bells in the Birches offer a quirky and emotive blend of US and UK musical styles. Think Laura Marling with Johnny Cash’s backing band. Bells in the Birches make music which is at once, both vulnerable and defiant with songs about the tragedies and triumphs of humanity, love and compassion, and of the uncertainty and fragility of life.
Recent support slots for Lady Lamb the Beekeeper and Paper Aeroplanes have brought them to a wider audience and added them to the list of Manchester's 'must-see' female pop-folkies.
Their debut For All Seasons EP was released in June 2013. Their second EP is due out in early 2015.
“Lush, sophisticated arrangements and inventive, genre-swerving musicianship.” Manchester City Life.
https://soundcloud.com/bells-in-the-birches
https://twitter.com/BellsinBirches
THE YELLHOUNDS
"The Yellhounds first tapped the well at The Song Writers And Publishers Festival in Manchester, a hometown gig alongside cowboy poet Steve Earle and British tunesmith Thea Gilmore.
BBC Radio sessions soon followed and the band were asked by the BBC to produce a video for one of their songs, to be played on Manchester's Big Screen.
Self-funded LP Cursed Words was released to critical acclaim, which resulted in Nashville record company interest. The band have recently released their follow-up LP Another Road Someday, a collection of uptempo country-rock, swamp blues and rockabilly. Their sort of Americana music is happy, infectious, recognisable and radio-friendly. "
http://www.theyellhounds.com
https://www.facebook.com/The-Yellhounds-22075167958/?fref=ts
Songs can be heard and purchased through this link;
http://www.theyellhounds.com/#!songs/c1jmr
The Yard
32 South Street, Alderley Edge, Cheshire, SK9 7ES United Kingdom