Author Archives: Richard

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre

By Richard |

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre present Post Office Scandal The Musical  Their 13th brand new comedy show, all done in the best possible taste. Honest! An hour of songs, sketches, socks and violence, telling the true story of the Post Office Scandal, and much much more. ★★★★ “A distracting tonic for the times” – The Scotsman […]

Snake Davis & Chris Bannister

By Richard |

Chris is a singer-songwriter-guitarist of immense talent and class. The two met when Chris was invited to play an opening set on a Heather Small tour some years ago. They bonded immediately, socially and musically. Various collaborations followed, including in Snake’s ‘Classic Sax Solos’ show, but now they love to perform as a duo. Like […]

Snake Davis & Gareth Moulton

By Richard |

The Snake Davis Gareth Moulton duo is an established act now not just an occasional thing any more.. The pair reckon Ropery Hall is the ideal venue for them. Mellow music infused with pop, rock, jazz and soul. Gareth Moulton – Manchester born singer-songwriter-guitarist, Snake’s long time friend and collaborator in the Classic Sax Solos […]

Snake Davis with Johnny Thirkell and Mark Creswell

By Richard |

Snake teams up with long time cohort and best buddy Johnny Thirkell and their mutual friend, guitarist Mark Creswell, for an evening of gorgeous mellow music infused with jazz soul and pop. Snake Davis is one of the most in-demand rock jazz and soul sax players in the world, widely known for his solos on […]

Simon Evans- Have we Met?

By Richard |

Completing the Trilogy begun with Genius 2.0 and The Work of the Devil, Have We Met? finds Simon standing, like Ulysses in Tennyson’s famous verse, gazing out over the moaning deep and the twinkling rocks and wondering whether to seek a newer world? To smite the sounding furrows? To strive, to seek, and to find? […]

Sax on Sunday with Sumudu

By Richard |

Snake Davis performs with Sumudu. Raised in Scunthorpe, now London-based, Sumudu has been a natural performer from a young age, singing, playing guitar and piano and writing songs. She made her TV debut on BBCs “Pebble Mill at One” at the age of 15, performing her own composition, accompanied by Snake on sax and flute… […]

Jack Warnock

By Richard |

Jack Warnock is a multi-instrumentalist and singer from Maghera, Co. Derry. Throughout his career, Jack has performed as a soloist, accompanist, and in groups such as TRODA, Cóiriú and The Doc Flock. He has performed at events, festivals, and venues across the world. In recent years Jack has been nominated for the prestigious BBC Young […]

Chopped Liver & Unions

By Richard |

“The world is changed by the women you push too far” It’s 1956.  On the international stage the Suez crisis hits and Soviet tanks roll into Hungary.  In the UK Sara Wesker is writing a letter. Back in the day Sara led the “singing strikers of 1928” to win better working conditions for the female […]

Josienne Clarke & Band

By Richard |

Across the Evening Sky: Josienne Clarke sings the songs of Sandy Denny Josienne Clarke has been hailed as the songwriter-poet of melancholy, as well as a thrilling interpreter of traditional song. In the wake of her acclaimed new album, Parenthesis, I, she is now stepping up to honour Sandy Denny – a singer with whom […]

Mishra

By Richard |

In 2022, global-folk band Mishra met international fusion vocalist Deepa Shakthi (formerly Deepa Nair Rasiya). Out of a blossoming musical friendship, they began a collaborative project that takes the soul-stirring euphoria of Deepa’s sufi singing as a starting point, and weaves in the threads of Mishra’s UK folk and Indian classical influences to create a […]

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