The fabulous Festoon - festival of lost luggage and found songs - is getting sweaty under the belt.
It kicks of proper on Thursday 26 August with a private view (6pm) followed by musical surprises.
Then on Tuesday 31 August there’s a harp workshop, no less, with superstar harpist Oliver Wass. That’s at 6:30pm.
And as if that weren’t enough, check out Thursday 2 September
Comedian Andrew Bailey Musician and robotmeister Keith Moore Singer Ruth Theodore Songster John Zonn and Her Most Excellent The Good Fairy, accompanied by Diego Brown will sing and things.
From about 6:30.
It’s free to get in.
Stoke Newington Library Gallery, Edwards Lane, London N16.
Yes, the chap who wrote “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”.
The man was fond of Zs.
Some of us will have recently elected a prime minister, or not. A man who will teach us courage, give us brains, a heart and tell us how to get home.
DIEGO BROWN & THE GOOD FAIRY: 10.25 - 10.55pm.
ANTO DUST: 9.45 - 10.15pm. THE YUYA: 9.05 - 9.35pm.
JOSEPH COWARD: 8.25 - 8.55pm. MENTAC: 7.45 - 8.15pm
Doors: 7.30pm. £3 with flyer or concessions. £4 without.
We can tell you a thing or two. Well, not really. We’re not folk. Well, we are sort of. But not in the way you’re thinking. Oh, just come and decide for yourself. We’re playing some of our songs live at The Haverstock Armson Saturday 27 February 2010. At 10ish. £6 to get in. Where’s that then? The Haverstock Arms is a cute little pub at 154 Haverstock Hill NW3 2AY Turn left outside Belsize Park tube. Buses: C11 & 168 There are more bands on before us, so if you want to hear lots of music get there early. If you want to save yourselves for us, we’re on about 10pm.
    Fire behind us, darkness before, inferno within. Crikey.
Mr Brown sneered in the general direction his enemies today by revealing the biggest bangy thump thump of the century.
“An exclusive night of shady deals, cooked-up power chords and unexpected weasel beats,” is how we’ve been asked to describe it. Exclusive in the sense that some things won’t be allowed, presumably. Like expense accounts.
What will be allowed are mighty songs, awesome melodies, nononsense grooves and acres of hula hooping.You will whistle, hum and flap your hands about like a sparrow caught in the slipstrem of a passing high speed train.Â
It will be the meeting of this generation’s brightest musical hopes and darkest fears.
Zwah Remnant King Bearcraft Diego Brown and the Good FairyÂ
Brown, Moore, King, Zonn….Names to run an economy with.
In just a week’s time (26 March) this dream team presents Phase II of the Stimulating Package, in which we turn to an easing of the fisc.
The injured Bearcraft (Dicky Moore) is hoping to make an apparition if his football-sustained injury permits. (He’ll be taking a late fitness test on those tendons.)
But we have strength in depth anyway: Go crazy for the dulcet Remnant Kings and their rolled up chord structures.
Expect an injection of liquidity from Brightonian John Zonn and his peculiar tales.
Buy buy buy the verbal giganticism from the fecund-vowelled Lol Henderson.
And scratch your heads at diego brown and the good fairy.
All this and shedloads of free cash on 26 March 2009 Ryan’s Bar 181 Church Street N16
Doors:8ish til latish Free to listen in, not free to drink in.
So we launched our special Stimulus Package last night. New songs, chocolate and fairy cakes for afters. Yelled a bit, worked up a sweat. Some of the new songs are so new they’re not even on the new album. The people were friendly and made interesting faces at us.
Jules, Davers and Sonia of Remnant King wove a spooky sweet spell from the deep darkness of a seabed somewhere under the rainbow. ‘Event horizon’ is a dead good tune. They’re coming back for more in …
… Phase II, in which we turn the momentum of the stimulus into an easing of the fisc.
And there’ll be an injection of liquidity from John Zonn and, it’s rumoured, Bearcraft. More soon.
diego brown and the good fairy will be playing songs of hope, audacity and goodness with billions of notes poured into a bottomless pit of hearing.
We’ll be joined by a number of wise men, poets such as the darkly barking Lol Henderson, and raving Keynsians hoping to foist our unbelievable theories of everything on an unsuspecting public.
Specially guesty will be the velveteen-voiced Remnant King with their rug of a sound. They will be offering a stripped-down acoustic version of their gorgeously melodic calculator music.
We forecast that the rate of interest will be extremely high so get there early for the best clapping seat in the house. You may be expected to beat time (itself).
Angel
