Dorset Music - June 2015

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WELCOME

Thanks for picking up the June 2015 issue of Dorset Music Magazine and second of our annual bumper festival specials!

This month is all about harmony, vocal harmony to be precise, as we chat to the The Overtones and The Staves; two very different voice driven groups who are both headed to Bournemouth. We also chat to local prog-rock legends Galahad who celebrate their 30th anniversary with a celebratory show at Mr Kyps in Poole next month.

All this plus previews, listings and announcements from all of the best venues and events in the Dorset area and don’t miss our three page festival round up bringing you the best of the fests!

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FEATURE

After three consecutive Top 5 albums, 750,000 sales and three sold-out headline tours, you’d have to be living under a rock not to have come across The Overtones as they reboot classic songs, executing their unmistakable doo-wop style through the use of flawless five-part harmonies. Lachie, Darren, Timmy, Mark and Mike are the poster-boys for all things suave, cool and sometimes cheeky as they bring a new and refreshed edge to the classic hits they choose to record and a soulful, funky groove to their original self-penned tunes. Their three albums to date – ‘Good Ol’ Fashioned Love’ (2010), ‘Higher’ (2012) and ‘Saturday Night At The Movies’ (2013) – established their reputation as a group with the unique ability to deliver consistently uplifting music infused with exquisitely crafted vocal harmonies.

Their latest album ‘Sweet Soul Music’ is a tribute to doo-wop and soul pioneers such as The Drifters, Al Green, Marvin Gaye and The Temptations, artists that the chaps grew up listening to and who have influenced them throughout their career.

The Overtones transport their audience back to the heady 1960s with this collection of covers, proving themselves as masters of the current trend for choral singing.

Consistently popular with the crowds, they’re often spotted at super fancy events such as the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Concert, BT London Live and British Summer Time and now they’re back out on the road again, about to embark on an extensive trip round the country to delight fans with their crooning sounds and on point harmonies. Their previous three headline tours have all sold-out, so we jumped at the chance to have a chat with former model and all round nice guy Mike Crawshaw as they got started on preparations for what is sure to be a fantastic show…

You’re not far off heading out on tour now, are you excited?

We are getting excited now yeah. We’ve been having the end of the preliminary meetings of what we’re going to be doing on tour, the songs we’re gonna be performing, how the tour’s gonna look and everything so things are starting to get quite exciting now and we start rehearsals next week.

There’s lots of work to come now, before we head out, but there’s a big challenge and we can’t wait.

You’ve got quite a large back catalogue now, how do you choose which songs to put in the show?

It was a difficult one this time because we’ve got lots of songs now and they’re all timeless classics so it was difficult. We got to a point where we had a list of 40 odd songs and even after being quite firm with what we were cutting, we still ended up with 35 songs! So it’s a nice problem to have but it’s also quite sad because it’s weird to cut songs that were #1 in the charts back in the 50’s/60’s but we have to do it and as a result we think that we’ve got the strongest setlist we’ve ever had.

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Do you have a live band with you out on the road?

We do, yeah. It’s really important to us. You get an energy from a live band playing behind you that not only we feel, but the audience feel as well. And they’re a great band. They’ve played with us ever since we started and the five Overtones always insist that we go out with the same band. It’s really important to us because they know what we like, they know what the audience likes so when we meet up to rehearse we can add energy and flourishes and segues to link the songs. It’s a big creative process and our Musical Director and drummer Ricki Ricardi is incredible at going through how creatively we’re going to make the show bigger and better than the albums they’re emulating.

Do you find it a different challenge singing live compared to recording?

Oh yeah, of course! With this album, it was interesting recording because we went back to the old school way of standing around the mics, all together, singing a song as it is live and as a result of that, an energy was built that I don’t think we’ve achieved in the other albums so we’re really proud of that. Having said that, you sing in a

more intimate way in the studio, you’re closer to the mic, the sound is a lot better in your ear, you can really get to the depth of what you’re singing whereas when you’re in a live situation on stage in front of 2,500 people there has to be an energy and a performance behind it as well. And when we’re on tour, I think we’re doing 30 odd dates this time, you have to look after your voice! It’s an hour and 45 minutes show every night and that’s tough cos we always give it everything we’ve got so you have to look after yourself.

We’ve built this team around us who are all good mates so with the producer this time Jools Hinton, we were able to relax, stand round the mics, knowing what we had to do, being able to just completely focus on the harmonies or the leads and the blend. It’s a lovely thing when you’re stood in the studio and you can see all five guys and you’re looking at each other and you’re giving signs to each other ‘crescendo here’, ‘bit softer here’, ‘let’s go all out here’ and I think you can really hear it when you listen to the record. And a lot of the instruments are recorded in the same way so I think we’ve got that really authentic sound to this album.

But there is a bit of pressure cos every now and then, we’re only human, in 7 months you’re going to record something and just not be able to get your head around a harmony. But we’re all mates and we all support each other through and we’ve come out with this really great sounding album. None of us have any musical training, we always say we learned our trade on the job and in the early days it might have been a bit more frequent the times when you can’t get your head around it but we’ve been in the professional music business for over 5 years now but we’ve been singing in harmony together for over a decade now so you get to a point where the vast majority of times thing sink in really well. The one thing I find, when I struggle to get harmonies, I just let my body do it. Don’t think about it too much and just sing, cos you know it.

Muscle memory is a very strange thing…

You get that on tour – after 20 odd dates on tour, you’re very tired and you’ve done the same song every night so it’s important not to go into auto-pilot. Because everyone’s bought their ticket, everyone deserves the same amount of energy so it gets to the point where you’re concentrating on continuing that performance as opposed to just letting it flow out.

But then you get to the stage where you’ve done 20 shows and nothing else and you find all these new bits in the songs and it all builds…

And that’s one of those really nice things where you even find different melodies to go to and you play around with it. Often we finish a tour and say ‘if only we’d done the tour first’ then the album would have all those little flourishes in but you don’t get the luxury of that normally.

How do you pick the songs that you cover?

It’s a difficult one. We make no secret of the fact that this time round we got 8 songs in to recording the album and we sat down and thought, individually all these songs are wonderful but as a cohesive, flowing album they’re not working so we scrapped it. We went back to the drawing board and that was a big deal for us. The thing with picking songs is they not only have to be great songs from the era, classics that stand on their own as wonderful songs, but they have to work within the concept of the album. Part of our challenge as a modern group covering these songs is to not just simply carbon copy one of these tracks. It has to be our own stamp, it has to be our own flavour and as a result of that we feel we can breathe a new lease of

life into these songs in a better way. And obviously it’s nice to be a bit creative with it. We’ve been in the business a while now, we’re not puppets, we’ve got ideas and as a result of that we create the album together with the producer. It’s a big long process.

It would be easy to see us as a simple covers band but we don’t see ourselves like that. We see ourselves as actually creatively adding something to these songs, which isn’t to impune what the songs were, because all the songs we cover are wonderful songs, but it would upset me if we were made to do carbon copies of the songs. There are loads of songs that you love, and you try it but you realise it’s not meant to be changed in that way. We’ve got Heard It Through the Grapevine on the album, which is one of my favourite songs on the album. There aren’t any harmonies on the original, so we’ve added all these intricate harmonies throughout but at the end we’ve added this building section. It’s not particularly complex but it layers harmonies and builds it to this thing that changes the song into something slightly different and we feel that it’s not bettered an already incredible song, it’s just changed it a little bit and I think it’s done something different in a really positive way. And you’re in dangerous territory when you take a Marvin Gaye song and say ‘we’re gonna change it up’ but it wouldn’t be creative or worthwhile for us if we didn’t put our own stamp on it.

Do you have a favourite track to sing live?

It changes all the time. I love performing Keep Me Hanging On by Diana Ross and the Supremes. There’s an energy to that that gives me shivers every time we do it. The music in it is insane. For this album Heard it Through the Grapevine is such a cool song but what we’ve done to it allows us to all get into it to a point where you’re just completely lost in the song and I love it.

Is it true that you guys were discovered whilst painting a shop?

Well, yeah. It’s really hard and time consuming and financially draining trying to make an impact in this industry and because there were five of us all having to work part time jobs or whatever to pay rent and put food on the table, it was getting really difficult to find enough time to rehearse. So after one rehearsal we weren’t going to see each other for 3 weeks, which seemed ridiculous, so Darren and myself had the idea to start a painting and decorating company with the idea that if we can get a job big enough, we can all work on it, make some money and it would free up our schedules to spend time together and rehearse. It was our first job, we were painting an office just off Oxford Street and we got there a bit early so we sat on the steps singing Billy Joel’s ‘The Longest Time’ and this woman stopped and she said ‘I work for Warner Bros and I think you guys might be interesting to them’. A few days later we get a call and we go down to meet the president of Warner Bros, have a bit of a sing to them and they give us a demo deal. We recorded those songs, they went down really well and we got given a five album deal and the rest is history really. It was a bit of a whirlwind in the end.

So it was a mixture of lots of hard work, and then fate stepped in…

It’s funny isn’t it? We know that we’re lucky boys, we’ve always said it, we won’t deny that, but we’ve always put ourselves in front of that luck. We sang everywhere! Bus stops, on the tube, street corners, we feel like we put ourselves in the way of that luck and it was only a matter of time before somebody who could help us walked by.

Words: Zan Lawther

SEE THE OVERTONES @ Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre | JUNE 14

THE OVERTONES

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Sat 13th Jun • 4.30pm

Phoenix Fight Night 26 Sun 14th Jun • £20 adv.

Tony Visconti and Woody Woodmansey with Glenn Gregory

Fri 25th Sep • £9/£12 w. T-Shirt adv.

10pm - 5am • over 18s only

It’s Freshers

Wed 25th Nov • £16.50 adv.

Fuse ODG

Thu 1st Oct • £22 adv.

Bullet For My Valentine Thu 17th Dec • £25 adv.

perform David Bowie’s ‘The Man Who Sold The World’

The Darkness

Tue 30th Jun • £22.50 adv.

Sat 5th Mar 2016 • £18 adv.

The Cat Empire Andreya Triana

Blast Of Our Kind Tour 2015

Sun 4th Oct • £20 adv.

Hawkwind

Classic Rock Live!

Hells/Bells (AC/DC), Black Rose (Thin Lizzy), State of Quo (Status Quo)

Mon 26th Oct • £23.50 adv.

Ella Henderson Sun 8th Nov • £16 adv.

Fri 3rd Jul • £12.50 +/£25 VIP adv.

The Staves

Sat 12th Mar 2016 • £22 adv.

Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox

9pm - 5am • over 18s only

One Nation The Summer Smasher

Fri 23rd Oct • £12 adv.

The Smyths

DJ Hype, IC3, Hazard, Eksman

Fri 6th Nov • £11 adv.

Sat 4th Jul • 7pm

Independence Day: Professional Boxing Wed 8th Jul • £33 adv.

Wu-Tang Clan Live in Concert with the Full Crew

Tue 14th Jul • £15 adv.

Jake Quickenden

6.30pm

Definitely Mightbe (Oasis Tribute)

Tue 8th Sep • £18 adv.

The English Beat Starring Dave Wakeling

Fri 13th Nov • £20 adv.

Secret Affair My World Tour

Fri 9th Oct • £10 adv.

6.30pm

Knotslip (A Tribute To Slipknot) Joda Cema

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FESTIVAL ROUND UP

So it’s that time of year again, time to brush off the trusty tent, dig out the wellies and head to the fields or if camping isn’t your bag, maybe grab some real ale and take in an all-dayer at the local. Whatever your bag, we seek out the best of the fests in our 2015 FESTIVAL ROUND UP!

vicarage farm, woodmancott, nr. winchester july 3 - 4 Hampshire’s longest running, award winning, and incredibly intimate boutique music, comedy and arts festival. A beautiful setting, with a spacious campsite, excellent food and booze including plenty of real ales, a large family area, very late night licence and loads to do for all ages – this year’s theme is Somewhere in Time as the Blissfields team celebrate 15 years in the festival business.

Highlights include The Horrors, John Grant, Simian Mobile Disco, Public Service Broadcasting, Glass Animals, Ghostpoet, Grandmaster Flash, The Correspondents, Dub Pistols, Rhodes, Beans on Toast, Eton Messy, Cosmo Sheldrake, Matthew and Me, Shorebitch DJ’s and Subgiant .

A weekend ticket will set you back £95 for an adult or £69 for a youth ticket (under 17). Kids under 10 go FREE!

ashley cross july 11 - 12 Dorset’s community focussed two day shindig is back, raising money for Diverse Abilities Plus by throwing a huge bash in Ashley Cross.With its own food beer and food festival supported by a host of local producers it showcases the best local talent going.

Saturday’s Main Stage is topped by Bournemouth-based funk groove machineThe Baker Brothers with slinky jazz/d&b fusionists G13, Afro-Cubanoreggae mixers AfroTallawah, south coast funk folk Sunstone Collective, jazz-soulblues chanteuse Kaia and local busking favourites Krista Green & the Bees also appearing.

Sunday’s headliner MutantVinyl is playing his only local show of the year at Grooves as he readies his Paul McCartney/ Tricky-endorsed sound for the summer festivals. He’ll be appearing with indie pop classicists Duveaux, Southampton math-pop quartet Signals, Afrobeat indie pop merchants Not Made In China, long standing Bournemouth outfit Fearne and performance folkoristsWikkaman.

larmer tree gardens, nr. salisbury july 14 - 19 After a whopping 25 fabulous years Larmer Tree once again returns to the fabled gardens this July. An all out family favourite they remain totally independent and sponsor-free, an intimate and extraordinary event with cracking bands, fancy dress, kid’s activities, comedians and loads more all wrapped up in a beautifully decorated environment.

So who’s playing? Returning for a second year, the mighty Tom Jones opens precedings, also announced are Rodrigo y Gariela, Jimmy Cliff, Levellers, Bill Bailey, Bellowhead, The Magic Numbers, The Shires, Show of Hands, The Beat, Molotov Jukebox, Andy Kershaw, Blair Dunlop, Winter Mountain, Pachango, Shlomo’s Beatbox Adventure for Kids and loads more.

See website for group booking deals and day tickets.

Tickets are only £5!

Tickets cost £174 for adults for the weekend, Youth £113, Kids £63. Day tickets also available.

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lulworth castle, dorset july 30 - august 2 Bestival’s Dorset sibling, Camp Bestival is a full on fancy dress filled, family focussed festival with great live music, comedy, crafts and kids’ entertainment organised by husband and wife team Josie & Rob Da Bank. This year they’re focussing on GOING WILD with bushcraft, Bill Oddie’s birdwatch, Michaela Strachan and even the Cat in the Hat making an appearance.

This year’s acts include Underworld, Clean Bandit, Kaiser Chiefs, Professor Green, Wretch 32, Kate Tempest, Bob Geldof, Soul II Soul, Ella Henderson, Level 42, Alison Moyet, Ella Eyre, Cymande, 808 State, Buzzcocks, DJ Yoda, Slaves, The Cuban Brothers, The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Only The Young, George The Poet, Eliza Carthy. There’s comedy from Marcus Brigstocke, Matt Richardson, Rob Deering and lots, lots more to come!

matterley estate, nr. winchester august 13 -16

wilkswood farm, nr. swanage august 27 - 30

Split into spell-binding make believe City Districts, there really is something for everyone at BoomTown – with 14 main stages and over 30 inner city mini venues there is so much on offer we suggest you just dive in and get lost in the beauty of it all. With a heavy focus on fancy dress and the weird and wonderful expect a full on sensation explosion!

Situated on a 600-acre working sheep farm in the heart of the beautiful Isle of Purbeck, this festival is a reminder of way festivals used to be. Families are welcome, there’s lots of space for camping, loads of things for children of all ages to do, it really is a place to go and feel free in the countryside. Apart from the music there’s on-site cinema programme, art interventions and workshops, a fancy dress parade, a poetry slam, kids’activity pen and a beer festival with 40 local real ales, 20 ciders, a Dorset pils lager and this year there’s a BEARD OFF, so get growing your facial fuzz.

So who’s playing? Less than Jake, Streetlight Manifesto, King Prawn, Gogol Bordello, Squarepusher, Flogging Molly, John Butler Trio, Stephen ‘Ragga’ Marley, Soja, Matisyahu, DJ EZ, Kate Tempest, Goldie Lookin Chain, Dreadzone, Noisia, Capdown, Infected Mushroom (old school live) and more DJ’s than you can possibly handle.

Richard Thompson, Justin Currie, Stornoway, Philip Henry & Hannah Martin, Martha Tilston & the Scientists, Chris Difford, Kathryn Tickell & the Side, Moulettes and more

How much? An adult weekend ticket is £195 with camping from Thursday.

Check the website for teens and kids prices

A weekend ticket will set you back £155 – 12 and Under £20 under 6’s go free!

Weekend tickets (Fri-Sun) include free camping are on sale from £100 (£50 1217 years, £20 4-11 years, under 4s free).

Day camping is available on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at £10 a night on arrival. A limited number of Festival day tickets will also be available.

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purbeckfolk.co.uk

Did you know the first Glastonbury festival, originally called Glastonbury Fayre, was held in 1970? It cost one whole pound (with free milk included) and was held the day after Jimi Hendrix died. Around 1500 people attended, and it was headlined by T-Rex - stepping in for the Kinks who failed to show up!

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FESTIVAL ROUND UP

Every year an estimated 15million loo rolls are used overall by festival goers and festival staff. That’s about 5,000 miles or the distance between London and Rome! Lovely!

Organised by the TUC, Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival runs 17 - 19 July. The event offers seminars, and talks during the day and music in the evenings.

17/18 July sees Jurassic Rocks Music Festival at Grove Farm, Portland. Acts appear across two stages, with the second stage showcasing mainly new up and coming local bands.

Get down to Poole 24/25 July for the Beer and Bluegrass Festival being held in St Aldhelms Hall.

This year’s Gaunts Summer Gathering returns over five days from 6 - 9 August at the tranquil Dorset country house setting of Gaunts House, near Wimborne.

7 - 9 August sees Corfe jump On the Bus– 3 days, 3 stages and a whole heap of live acts and DJ’s.

ON THE BUS

Also over the August Bank Holiday weekend, Reading Festival marks its territory with an absolutely stonking line up - prepare to get messy!

Victorious Festival is back with a bang at Southsea Seafront 29 & 30 August with a stellar music line up, kids deck, real ale festival and boutique market for only £25 a day early bird.

Laura Marling, Future Islands, Tame Impala and more head up The End of the Road Festival in Salisbury. With 4 stages, a cinema tent, comedy, workshops a healing field, art installations, literature talks, a hidden library and piano in the woods and a games area there’s lots to enjoy, 4 – 6 September.

Swanage Blues & Roots Festival will be held from 3 - 5 October. This festival features over 50 different gigs with 100+ performers at 20 indoor venues around Swanage.

The 3rd North Dorset Folk Festival takes place in the Dorset village of Marnhull’s Village Hall on Saturday 25 October. The first acts announced are Megan Henwood + Band, Phillip Henry and Hannah Martin along with

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FEATURE

Now legendary in these here parts, progtronica heroes Galahad celebrate their 30 year milestone this year. Having formed in 1985, just for fun, playing roughly half covers (Genesis, Zeppelin, Rush, Sabbath, Focus, Marillion etc) and half original material, Galahad went on to support a few fairly well known progressive bands that were coming up at the time including IQ, Pendragon, Haze and later Pallas and Magnum.

This early success prompted Galahad to forge ahead more seriously and they began playing only original material, resulting in the release of their first proper album in 1991.

‘Nothing Is Written’ was purely self -financed and released independently and went on to sell several thousand copies.

The success of ‘Nothing Is Written’ was helped by the fact that the band received substantial air play on BBC Radio One, especially on the Radio One Rock Show hosted by the late, great Tommy Vance. The band then landed themselves with deals in the UK, Japan and Germany.

Fast forward to the present day and the band has now released a whopping fifteen albums, including albums by main band offshoots such as Galahad Electric Company and the Galahad Acoustic Quintet. They’ve played hundreds of gigs in the UK, Europe and America over the last few years, at times appearing in some very unusual venues!

How exactly does it feel to reach the enormous milestone of 30 years as a band?

It feels quite strange to think that we’ve kept going, constantly performing, writing, recording etc. without a break for 30 years. I don’t feel as if I’m actually old enough to have been in a single band that long and the time has flown by so quickly, it’s quite scary when you think about it! When we started, as

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To celebrate their 30th anniversary, the band have a variety of treats in store for their loyal following including a special anniversary show at Mr Kyps on Saturday 4th July. To start the ball rolling in this most important of years, a remixed version of ‘Empires Never Last’ was released in January. Released in 2007, Empires took the band in a heavier, more muscular, guitar orientated direction and was a great success, both commercially and critically, resulting in them winning album of the year at the 2007 Classic Rock Society awards.

The band will also be releasing a double retrospective compilation album ‘When Worlds Collide’ which will include ten brand new recordings of old songs, some of which date back to 1985 and one track which has never been recorded before, as well as a selection of tracks from their last three studio albums AND they’re mixing a live album/DVD recorded at Konin in Poland in 2013 during the Battle Scars/Euphoria tour which will be released some time towards the end of the year which should be enough to keep even the most ardent fan happy.

Obviously, we couldn’t let this milestone pass without chatting to the band themselves about what it feels like to reach 30 years and still be going strong…

is the way with these things when you are young, we had no grand plan, we just bumbled along and somehow it just kept on going despite all the various mishaps and difficult times. I didn’t expect to be still doing this ‘crazy rock and roll thing’ when I was 50 plus years old, it just happened and it’s now ingrained as part of our lives and will probably remain so for as long as we can still do it and come up with new

ideas, music and get up on that stage! I have to say that I’m also very proud of the fact that we’ve managed to sustain ourselves for this long as it hasn’t been easy at times!

You re-released Empires in January, what was the reaction like from fans about the re-mixed tracks?

We were a little worried, as people don’t always like you to tamper with recordings that they know and love but I think we did a good a job in breathing new life in to the recording and the overall reaction has been very positive. There were a few subtle changes in the arrangements and the album was completely re-mixed, thankfully it worked!

How did you pick the songs to be included on When Worlds Collide?

I just asked everyone in the band which songs they’d like to re-visit, we made a list and took it from there. A few songs were dropped as they didn’t seem to work in a more up to date context and it will be interesting to hear how the new versions of old songs, some of which are actually more than 30 years old, stand up and compare against the original versions.

The whole point was to try and finally record the songs how we wanted and envisaged them to be in the first place but were restricted in the old days due to budget, time and technological limitations and of course our limited experience in recording studios at the time.

To put it in context as to how long ago some of these tracks were written, three of the band were still teenagers when we started recording our first proper studio album, so we were a very young band once!

What can we expect from the big anniversary live show?

We’ll be playing a longer show than normal and resurrecting, albeit with slightly revised arrangements, quite a few old songs, some of which haven’t been performed live by the band for over 20 years, plus there will be a few guests and hopefully the 30th anniversary album ‘When Worlds Collide’ will be available too. Hopefully, it’ll be a great night and a celebration of all that we’ve achieved over the years.

What do you see as some of your most significant achievements over the past 30 years?

I think the biggest achievement is the fact that we are still going, are still writing and being creative and still get on with each other, yes we have our moments as with any ‘relationship’ but the band and even some of the old members is just one big ‘happy’ family …most of the time!

For me the most poignant time which we will never forget was when we played at a festival in 2010 at Loreley in Germany which is an amazing outdoor amphitheatre, built

by Adolf Hitler(!), set in beautiful countryside. The weather was sunny and warm, it was a perfect gig but it was also a bitter sweet occasion as it was also the last show that Neil Pepper, our long term bassist, played with the band as he was suffering from Oesophageal Cancer and sadly died a year later almost to the day in 2011. However he did manage to record all his parts for our two 2012 studio albums ‘Battle

Scars’ and ‘Beyond the Realms of Euphoria’ despite having to sit down to play most of the time as the bass was just too heavy for him. He will also feature in our 30th anniversary show which will partly be a tribute to Neil.

What is it that keeps you all doing what you do?

I can’t speak for the others but personally I just love the whole band set up even after all these years, the camaraderie, the creative process, writing, rehearsing, recording and the feeling you get when you have a finished album in your hand after slaving away in the studios for weeks on end, even more so with Vinyl which seems to be back in vogue in a big way again, and then getting up on stage and performing, it’s a very special feeling which is unique and something that is difficult to appreciate unless you actually do it!

I’d say that being in the band has definitely enriched all of our lives, we’ve had so many different experiences, been to places and met so many interesting people over the years, things that just wouldn’t have happened in our ‘normal’ lives, it is a bit of a schizophrenic, Jekyll and Hyde existence, but I wouldn’t have missed it for the world and would do it all over again if I could!

What advice do you have for musicians just starting out?

I’m not one for giving advice as I believe in letting people find their own path, but what I would say is just enjoy it, have fun as you never know how long it’s going to last. The moment you start thinking and worrying too much about ‘making it’ or becoming ‘famous’, all that does is create additional pressure and stress which, unless you are very, very lucky, invariably will end in tears!

However, if you work hard, put the hours in and persevere you will gain a certain amount of success and credibility, which is relative anyway. I know it’s a cliché, but it really is about the journey, the experiences and the memories that matter not all the hollow material stuff.

What’s next for Galahad?

We’ve plenty going on. As well as our 30th anniversary retrospective double CD ‘When Worlds Collide’ due for release this summer, we also have a double live CD/DVD ‘Solidarity – Live in Konin’ recorded in Poland in 2013 which will be released later in the year. Our ‘Sleepers’ album from 1995 will also be re-released on its 20th anniversary including a couple of extra tracks, and of course we are working on new material in readiness for our next studio album which we hope to record next year and release in late 2016/early 2017.

We will then play a few European dates towards the end of the year. For as long as we can we certainly won’t slow down even after 30 years, it’s in the blood…although I think I need a rest now…

Words: Zan Lawther

Catch galahad live @ Mr Kyps – july 4

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MONDAY > THURSDAY from 5.00pm - a great place to meet up for drinks & a meal FRIDAY & SATURDAY: Open from 11.00am, serving lunch and supper SUNDAY: Open from 11.00am > 3.00pm serving Jazz brunch HAPPY HOUR EVERY WEEKDAY: Two for one cocktails from 5.00pm > 7.00pm

JUNE 2015 Thursday: Friday: Saturday: Sunday:

Open mic night with 2 for 1 pizzas until 9.00pm Live Funk, Soul, Disco & Retro-Pop with a “grown-up” DJ & disco Live Blues, Acoustic, Jazz or whatever . . . we’ll try to be a bit different Live Jazz with Sunday Brunch - very chilled with great food - nice!

UNMISSABLE EVENTS THIS MONTH Groovemeister Funk, Soul & Disco 5th & 12th June Momo Tempo Album & Press Launch 6th June Harry Skinner & David Marchant Jazz Brunch 7th June

Derek Nash Acclaimed British Saxophonist 17th June Mark Harrison Band Blues & Folk 20th June Djangobeat Bournemouth Jazz Festival 21st June

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FEATURE Do you work collectively when you write, or does one of you tend to take the lead?

It actually varies from song to song. On this album it was kind of more individual writing than we’d done before but there was also more fully collaborative writing so, for instance, Horizons we really just had that kind of repetitive riff and we just looped it and all three of us went into the studio together and just improvised all kinds of things, melodies, lyric ideas, stuff like that and we built the song up from there and what was really interesting is that we all came up with similar ideas and the melody had evoked similar feelings and themes so that was a really cool song to write. And songs like You’ve just got back from the States, how was that?

Yeah awesome, awesome. We got to play a gig at Rough Trade in New No Me No You No More which Jess wrote, and I mean we couldn’t York which was sort of our album launch party over there, although a touch that song. That’s what she needed to say and it’s very much her song and we’re just supporting her and singing it with her. So bit belated but it was great. It’s awesome out there. yeah, it’s really different song by song and I think we tried really hard on this album to give each other musical space to be free and do It must feel like a home from home now, you seem to have spent what you want. It doesn’t have to be something that all of us feel, it’s quite a lot of time out there… still a Staves song if we’re all singing it. That’s kind of quite cool, new Yeah you start to pick up little pockets of friends all over the place. territory for us.

It’s one of the nice things about touring so much, now I’ve got a little crew in Berlin and Dublin, New York and it’s really nice.

It’s interesting that you all took the same direction with Horizon, So your album If I Was came out in March, how have you found the that connection often comes through being in a band but do you feel it’s even stronger because you’re siblings? reception to it so far?

Good I think! No one’s said anything horrible to my face so that’s been Oh yeah, I’m sure. There’s obviously a shared musical history and a good. Our local record shop in Watford, in fact the only record shop in kind of musical language I suppose that we’ve developed over many, many, many years but there’s a relationship between the three of us Watford, was selling it so that felt nice. I think people write stuff and I don’t really read it because then you have to go down that wormhole which goes even deeper than that and you know, it’s like with your best friend when you’re across the room at a party and just a slight of reading everything or nothing, and what does it mean and all that stuff so I kind of ignore it. But we can definitely tell when we play live. raise of the eyebrow and you know exactly what the other person’s Even before the album came out we were playing a lot of new songs thinking and it’s kind of like that times three. We’re very in tune with and it’s like oh God, people don’t wanna hear new songs, they wanna each other and often there’ll be some lyrics or a song that someone’s hear old songs but our fan’s reaction has just been great. Better than I brought to the table and we don’t ask each other ‘what’s that about?’ could ever have hoped for really, so it’s just been a pleasure to play the because we just know. Actually, we don’t really talk that much haha!

The three Staveley-Taylor sisters have been making waves in the recent UK folk uprising for a while now. Born in Watford they’ve literally been singing together their whole lives and their beautiful crafted harmonies come across to the listener with an effortlessness that can only be borne from being part of the same family. They’re bloomin’ gorgeous as well. If their music wasn’t so darn enchanting, you might find it fairly easy to hate them! But, that’s genuinely impossible, as we found out when we spent some time catching up with eldest sister Emily, who couldn’t have been more lovely or engaging…

new stuff for them.

You recorded the album in Wisconsin. Do you think that your surroundings have an effect on the record?

I think they must do, although I’m not sure if I could measure how great an effect it’s had. There’s something about being locked away and feeling like you’re in the middle of nowhere doing something very secret and magical and wonderful. I think that it’s difficult to create that kind of feeling if you’re at a rent by the hour studio in London.

You’re just so aware that just up the stairs is the hustle and bustle of an enormous city. And I personally just love being anywhere that’s got greenery or nature or mountains or sea or some sort of expanse of something beautiful. It was quite an inspiring place to be, and the people y’know, they’re such a great bunch so it was awesome.

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When did you start singing together as a family, has it just always been?

It has actually. I remember getting to about 10 or 12 and I realised that that wasn’t what everyone else was doing…I thought that was very strange. Y’know I went to someone’s house and there was NO music on in ANY of the rooms ALL NIGHT and no one sang, it was really weird. There was just music on all the time and we just sang all the time, our poor neighbours! It wasn’t like, right, this is singing hour, come round the piano children and learn this song, it was just making up joke lyrics to Beatles songs. It was just a laugh making up harmonies to jingles on telly and stuff and it just went from there.

What kind of music were you brought up on?

Abba, Queen, a load of Beatles (best band in the world) and then

there was Elton John and Roy Orbison and the Travelling Wilberries.

A lot of Motown and 60’s pop, The Kinks, James Taylor and Carole King, The Eagles and Mamas & Papas and I think as we got older we started to delve into that era of music and we found Joni Mitchell and Crosby, Stills & Nash and all that theme. But I knew those songs from my parents singing them but it wasn’t until I was older that I heard the actual versions and I was like ‘what? Did you not write Helplessly Hoping!?!’ I think I probably told my friends that my parents had written this great song called Helplessly Hoping and The Times They Are A Changing haha, so it was all that kind of stuff really.

So you’re supporting Paolo Nutini soon, are you excited?

Yeah he’s ace! He’s a label buddy of ours and all sorts of connections but what a voice! And those eyes! I don’t know how I’m going to be able to control myself haha.

You’ve worked with loads of amazing people, is there anyone you’d like to collaborate with in the future?

Well I definitely foresee more future collaborations with Justin [Vernon – from Bon Iver], that feels like we’re really onto something good with him. I think Feist is an incredibly exciting artist and I’d really like to collaborate more the way she does with teams of artists and people that help with not necessarily just the music but all the rest of it. She’s got a really cool circle of people like that around her so I’ll just be Feist if that’s alright. I’ll just be her.

Festival season is coming up, do you find there’s a big difference between playing open air shows compared to venues?

Yeah, there’s quite a big difference. I think sometimes a room has its own atmosphere, even before an audience gets in when you’re sound checking you can tell the sort of gig that it’s gonna be but outdoors you really have no idea. Because the acoustics, that’s gone so it’s kind of just down to you and the crowd. It just strips everything else away so we’ve got to feel it and then make sure they’re feeling it too. And it’s kind of as simple as that. But generally festival crowds are so up for listening to music and for having a good time so it’s pretty fun really.

In November you’re off on a big headline tour. What can we expect from the live show?

We’ve expanded our live band from a five piece to six now so there’s three lads that play drums and bass and the newest addition plays electric guitar and keys, cos there’s quite a lot of synth stuff on the new record and we really needed to incorporate that into the live stuff as well. So we’re hoping to get some even more special stuff for that tour cos it’s our UK tour and that’s always special for us. And we’re playing in places that we’ve not really played before so we want to make it really special so you’ll have to watch this space. I might buy a new pair of shoes…

Words: Zan Lawther

Catch the staves live @ O2 Academy | november 8

If you were Captain of a Ship, what would you name it?

Serendipity.

What was your best subject at school?

Domestic Science.

If you could live in any place, where would it be?

A lighthouse in the lost city of Atlantis If you had to cover a nursery rhyme, which one would it be?

The Wheels in the “Happy” Bus go round and round...

Where’s the strangest place you’ve ever played a show?

Many… A house made of ice in Northern Sweden, A London Barrister’s luxurious tree house in Devon, A very cramped students attic in Plymouth with only enough room for one audience member. The list is endless…

What colour brick would you rather be and why?

A Gold Brick because according to the ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide To the Galaxy’ the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. It says that the effect of a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.

What’s your favourite tipple?

A triple Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster If you were a pirate, what would your name be?

Captain ‘Daft Dog Craig” because once a very inebriated and confused festival goer thought that was the name of our band after watching us on the same stage as 3 Daft Monkeys at Beautiful Days Festival !

What’s your favourite thing about festival season?

Smiley people covered in mud or dust without a care in the world.

If you could repeatedly say one word and never say another, what word would it be?

Wow. If you could be any creature from Greek mythology, what would you be?

The Teumessian Fox (a gigantic fox destined never to be hunted down) What’s the worst thing about being in a band?

Losing plectrums How many dogs does it take to change a light bulb?

If it were an angry Rottweiler then you just wouldn’t ask !

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THURSDAYS – Open Prize Mic – Hosted by Si Genaro, Matt Black & Chris Payn with a chance to win £50

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Fri 5th - JAX HALL LIVE An absolute belter of a voice. Not to be missed!

Fri 3rd - FERNE LIVE! A unique and brilliant folk, roots and soul band

Sat 6th - SALSA EXPLOSION LATINO FUNK NIGHT Enrique Perez & his Salsa Explosion Team return!

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Sat 4th - HOLD TIGHT PRESENTS: PHIL ASHER AND CRAIG SMITH Two stalwarts of the house scene, Phil Asher and Craig Smith, come to tear up the BriT dance floor.

Tickets £5 early bird £8 on door

Fri 12th - ROD STEWART TRIBUTE Rud Stewart brings a little bit of the gravelly-voiced, tight-trouser wearing Scotsman to Ashley Cross.

Free entry Sat 13th - GHETTO FABULOUSE A night of disco, funk, boogie and soul Fri 19th - SHAUN ESCOFFERY LIVE! Shaun Escoffery is a British soul and R&B singer and actor. His singles ‘Space Rider’ and ‘Days Like This’ turned the greyest of days into pure sunshine!

This guy is massive on Radio 2.

Tickets - £12.50 in advance and £15 on the door 3-course and show - £30 Sat 20th - SAFEHOUSE RADIO PRESENTS MARK ‘RUSH’ PALMER Weds 24th - ‘AN EVENING OF COUNTRY’ Hosted by Ben Rose Thurs 25th - FUNNYBONE PRESENTS: BRIT TICKLERS Comedy Club - Tickets £10 Show/£15 Bar meal & show/£25 3-course and show Fri 26th - THE STROLLING STONES LIVE He looks like Mick, he sounds like Mick. He’s even got the moves like Jagger Ticket £6 in advance and £8 on the door

Fri 10th - LST LIVE! LST created a fresh sound that inspires his personal neo-futuristic take on street music. Inspiring.

Sat 11th -REMEDY SOUNDS LIVE! If you like Ed Sheeran you are going to LOVE this guy.

Fri 17th - ROSE ROYCE’S GWEN DICKIE – LIVE Gwen Dickie is coming to the BriT. Rose Royce had an avalanche of hits, including Car wash, Wishing on a star and Love don’t live here anymore. Tickets £15 in advance or £25 with 2-course dinner Sat 18th - BACK TO HOUSE RICKY MORRISON M&S Live performance by Marie Tweek (The Rurals) Ricky Morrison is one of UK’s most respected House DJ’s and record producers, and smashed the UK charts with M&S Presents: Salsoul Nugget.

Tickets £8 in advance, £10 on door Fri 24th - QUINNS QUINNEY 9 piece skiffle band that create their own unique rural disco Wed 29th – ‘BriT GOES COUNTRY’ Hosted by Ben Rose

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Strut £15 19 Brother Funk & Soul Collective FREE 20 Pronghorn The Kings Of Cowpunk Elvis £12 26 Suspiciously The ultimate full band tribute to Elvis Presley Who Show £10 27 Total Johnny Warman brings his Who tribute to town Flanagan - EP Launch £TBC 28 Tara Homegrown talent with a beautiful voice launches her debut EP. £10 3 Musest The live electric sound of Muse, from Showbiz onwards £12 4 Galahad 30th Anniversary Show From Prog Rock Icons DC £12 11 Dirty The only AC/DC tribute worth your money Doors £10 18 Strange The most authentic and accurate tribute to the doors anywhere £7 19 Sinnerboy The Skill and The Passion of Rory Gallagher reincarnated.

Hideaway Bridges £10 24 Eugene Nomadic, New Orleans Blues Sex Pissed Dolls £12 edgy all girl band, playing songs from Sex Pistols, The Jam, The Clash, Selector, Specials, Sham 69 and 25 sexy, other Punk, Ska & Rock classics. £13 31 Bad Manners & Decatonics before 9pm (£5 after)

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www.rock-regeneration.co.uk May was a momentous month and Poole was very privileged to have a visit by the Rock n’ roll blues superstars to be The Strypes. The four guys graced the Mr Kyps stage with a huge presence and a swagger not seen in this town since Bono bought U2 to Poole Arts Centre in 1983.

The band showcased new tracks from their forth-coming album “Little Victories” including the epic “Scumbag City” and “Queen of the Half Crown”. The reaction from the Poole crowd was just amazing and everyone in the audience I’m sure will remember this gig for a very long time to come.

With the May sun high in the sky I made my way to Cursus Cider & Music Festival in Sixpenny Handley just a short way away from the old Endorset Festival site near Blanford. The festival was right in the middle of the countryside with not a building in sight with just a view of the beautiful rolling hills. The festival is in its first year and though only small at this time with just two stages it has the facilities to grow. The line-up was diverse and has music to suit many different tastes. There were many high-lights including great sets by The Jimmy Hillbillies, Dubheart, Johnny Kowalski & the Sexy Weirdos and Bournemouth’s very own ska/dub experts The Sporadics.

In the Hope FM studio we welcomed a rising star, a young lady by the name of Eve Catling who has been turning heads performing in local music venues recently. Eve came into the studio with Thinker frontman Charlie Bateman to play a few tunes for the listeners. As well as performing a selection of their own songs the duo were persuaded to perform together after only having just met that evening. A hastily arranged version of Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” was delivered with great style.

CHINNERS

Our gigs of the Month

Thu 4th June 21:00- Buffalo Bar, Bournemouth :The Subwave Network UK Fri 5th June 20:00- Litten Tree, Bournemouth : Stand Up To Cancer And Rock: Featuring: Empire Affair + Saints Of Sin + Chris Payn + The Sacre Blues Fri 5th June 20:00- Mr. Kyps, Poole : Lady Winwood’s Maggot + Solarbird Sat 6th June 20:00- Jalarra, Bournemouth : Momo TempoAlbum Launch Sat 13th June 15:00- Taphouse, Wimborne : The Mother Ukers Thu 25th June 21:30- Sixty Million Postcards, Bournemouth : The Franklys + The Remnants

Festivals

14th-15th June - Wimborne Minster Folk Festival www.wimbornefolk.co.uk 20th-21st Jun -, Water Meadows, Wimborne : Hen Fest henfest.org.uk 20th-21st Jun - Cross Keys, Wimborne : Skunkfest: www.facebook.com/groups/1520028318244560 26th-28th June- Vdub at The Pub, Water Meadows, Wimborne www.vdubatthepub.com 27th-28th June Folk On The Quay, Poole Quay folkonthequay.co.uk

Chinners Recommends:

Tom Clements - Roots, Morals & Other Life Choices www.tomclements.co.uk The Freedub Press - Debut EP freedubpress.weebly.com The Blues Machine - Strange Dance thebluesmachine.co.uk The Saw- Burning Bridges www.facebook.com/TheSawBand The Subwave Network UK- The Sound Of My Heartbeat thesubwavenetworkuk.bandcamp.com If you would like to find out more about the gigs and artists mentioned in my blog please go to www.rock-regeneration.co.uk.

If you would like your band or gig featured here or on the Rock Regeneration website contact me: chinners@rock-regeneration.co.uk.

Eve Catling & Charlie Bateman

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Legendary British rockers

The Moody Blues remain one of the most enduring, creative and consistent groups in the world. Their remarkable music has enthralled generations of fans since the 1960’s and their recorded legacy contains some of the most important and ground breaking work in the history of popular music, having generated over 55 million sales throughout the world. Quintessential British rock!

JUN 11 | BIC

FOR FANS OF: PROCUL HARUM / STRAWBS / RICK WAKEMAN

ABBA MANIA

JUNE 13 | POOLE LIGHTHOUSE

Calling all Dancing Queens!

ABBA Mania is now accepted as the world’s number one touring ABBA production. Featuring a special concert presentation, which celebrates the music of ABBA in a respectful and enjoyable way, reviving special memories of when ABBA ruled the airwaves.

If you’re looking for an excuse to party, reminisce or simply be entertained by the best music ever, then ABBA Mania is for you!

FOR FANS OF: Er… ABBA, obviously!

Cowpunk. Nuff said

A more motley collection of bad shirts, prison tattoos, greasy comb-overs, mullets and broken teeth you’d be hard pushed to find outside of a Dale Winton home video. It can only be Pronghorn. Legends of the local and festival circuit this band are a fun riot of raucous country music to make you move your feet.

FOR FANS OF: 3 DAFT MONKEYS / LOS ALBERTOS / MAD DOG MCREA

DJ LUCK & MC NEAT

JUN 26 | HALO Heavy steppin’ roots

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JUN 19 | MR KYPS 1-step, 2-step, PARTY!

Hold onto your glosticks boys and girls, there’s a new UK Garage, Grime & Bass music event launching this Summer at Halo! The London based duo DJ Luck and MC Neat will be kicking things off with their distinctive mix of House Music and Garage Music. They are most recognised for their 1998 release, ‘A Little Bit of Luck’ and debut album ‘Its All Good’ only solidified their wide following.

FOR FANS OF: SO SOLID CREW / THE ARTFUL DODGER / LONYO

DUBHEART

Dubheart started playing out in 99, after various additions and losses to the line up the core players have cemented themselves as one of the UK’s favourite reggae-infused collectives. Having toured extensively with everyone from The Wailer to MDV, Dubheart continues to deliver original live roots music to those who still want to hear heavyweight positive vibes!

FOR FANS OF: THE WAILERS / EASY STAR ALL STARS / TROJAN SOUND SYSTEM

DORSET MUSIC | JUNE 2015

JUN 27 | CHAPLIN’S

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OCT 01| O2 ACADEMY

Melodic, metallic rockers

Since bursting onto the scene in 2003, this Welsh post-hardcore outfit have been taking cues from 80’s metal bands and punk rockers to create their dark, melodic songs. Since then BFMV have established themselves as one of the biggest bands on the planet. There’s not a festival main stage they haven’t graced or an arena they haven’t filled, so don’t miss your chance to catch them at the O2.

FOR FANS OF: TRIVIUM / AVENGED SEVEONFOLD / ASKING ALEXANDRIA

Harmony fuelled indie-electro

Making waves on the electronica indie circuit right now, Jagaara make their way down to Bournemouth this autumn. With a jam packed summer of festivals ahead, these ladies pack their indie pop tunes full of beautiful harmonies and synth-laden rock vibes. Get in with the in crowd and catch them while you can.

OCT 16 | 60 MILLION POSTCARDS

FOR FANS OF: THE XX / BASTILLE / SWANS

ELLA HENDERSON

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X Factor sultry songstress

Despite being dropped out of the series in 6th place, Ella is one of the X Factor successes. Her powerful, sultry voice, confessional lyrics and stylish vintage look struck a chord with the nation and her departure from the show caused huge outrage. However, she’s since broken through with her soulful pop music.

OCT 26 | O2 ACADEMY FOR FANS OF: SAM SMITH / SAM BAILEY / LUCY SPRAGGAN Gorgeous ladies with beautiful harmonies THE STAVES Emily, Jessic and Camilla Staveley-Taylor are three Watford sisters with stunning voices currently leading the pack for the youthful folk revivalists in the UK. Blending the wistful cadences of classic British folk with breezy Laurel Canyon-era Americana their ability to harmonise is engaging and hypnotic.

FOR FANS OF: MARTHA WAINWRIGHT / LAURA MARLING / JONI MITCHELL

THE DARKNESS

OCT 20 | TALKING HEADS Glam rockers are GO

Great news! The Darkness are BACK and they’re coming out on tour!

Their high energy, hard rocking, tongue-in-cheek performances have been sorely missed, as proven by the success of their pop up festival appearances. But they’ve got a new album coming out and we can gurantee a rocking show as The Darkness rip through their repertoire of ruddy great songs with new drummer Rufus Taylor.

DEC 17 | O2 ACADEMY

FOR FANS OF: STEEL PANTHER / AIRBOURNE / WARRANT

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House, 14th June), Henfest (20th June) Six Penny Hanley ‘The Big Session’ (27th June) Do you have any other talents apart from music?

I used to do cartoon drawing and Clay animation, but haven’t done it for years!

What’s coming up for the rest of the year for you?

More gigs, which I love doing and I’ll be working on a collaboration project very soon.

Why should we come check out your live show?

You should come to a live show of mine because every show is different. I never stick to the same set list, in fact I never usually write one. I always interact with the audience so you feel part of the show. I often tell stories so you can connect Since quitting the day job in 2011, Tom has been a man on a with my songs. You also get to witness what my right foot mission, performing over 500 gigs and releasing 2 EP’s and a debut and a loop pedal can do. I’ve often been described by some album. In 2012 he reached the quarter finals of the Dorset Music as a master of a loop pedal. I’m sure there are others out there way better at it than I am, but it is a nice compliment to Awards, and the semi-finals of Bournemouth Unplugged and has been runner up in the Salisbury Music Awards twice (2012 & 2014). have so I’ll take their word for it!

Last year, Tom opened shows for Robbie McIntosh (John Mayer, Tom Jones, Paul McCartney) Dave McPherson (InMe, Centiment) Gaz Brookfield and Hannah Robinson among others and as if all of this musical activity wasn’t enough, in August 2012, Tom opened his own recording studio where he has since recorded, produced and engineered a variety of both solo artists and bands.

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The genre of Tom’s music is hard to define but could perhaps best be described as acoustic rock with hints of folk and country. He has been called a ‘loop master’ for his excellent use of a loop pedal and his guitar playing draws its influences from Mark Knopfler, Seth Lakeman, Paul Weller and Lindsey Buckingham. We caught up with the man himself to find out a little bit more…

Who are your biggest musical influences?

Well quite a few really… I listened to a lot of Beautiful South, Dire Straits & Fleetwood Mac when I was younger. I then started to listen to other artists such as Oasis, Goldfrapp, Django Reinhardt, U2 & Seth Lakeman to name a few more recently.

How would you describe your music to someone who had never heard it before?

I think it could be described as a Folk/Country blend mixed with Indie/Rock. Or you could class it as Alternative, so I’ve been told.

What’s your biggest achievement so far?

Earning a living from music over the last 4 years.

You’ve got a new album out, tell us a little bit about ‘Roots, Morals & Other Life Choices…’

It’s written about employment based scenarios, as well as family & friends who have had a bit of a tough time. It is the first album I’ve done with producer Simon Hester. We were very lucky to get some fantastic musicians to play on it, such as Robbie McIntosh & Scott McKeon. Plus many other great musicians that have played a vital part in the making of the album.

If you could open for any band in the world, who would it be?

That’s a very tough question. I would have to say Oasis, as last time I saw them before the spilt their fans were quite a tough crowd for the support act. I like the idea of a challenge in trying to win them over with my music!

Are you playing any festivals this summer?

Yes! And I’m very excited to be performing at Purbeck Valley Folk Festival (August Bank Holiday weekend), as well as the Gunstone Gathering (31st May), Wimborne Folk Festival (at The Tap

DORSET MUSIC | JUNe 2015

TOM CLEMENTS