Free Entry

Part gig, part auction, the Dawsons guitar night is a must for Guitar players and enthusiasts alike. The Dawsons demo band will be joined by some very special guests, playing a mix of Blues, Funk and Rock to showcase some of the finest electric and acoustic guitars on the market, including several custom built one-off models created for Frankfurt’s Musikmesse show. A fantastic opportunity not only to see and hear some unique instruments, but also to bag an unbelievable bargain.

Free Entry Before 9pm, £4 Thereafter

Shy and the Fight are a 7 piece alternative folk/pop collaborative based in and around Chester and North Wales.

Michael Deponeo (Guitar, Vocals), Christopher Done (Bass, Vocals), Thomas Hyndman (Guitar, Vocals), Carrie Anderson (Violin, Glockenspiel, Vocals), Jackson Almond (Keys, Electronics, Banjo), Tom Wootton (Drums) and Samuel Williams (Drums, Percussion, accordian) have been together since late 2009 and within their short time together, have gotten off to a fantastic start playing at a wide range of venues from local bars and touring venues to larger events including the first ‘Stop Making Sense’ festival at the ‘Garden’ festival site in Croatia, Chester rocks festival and focus wales.

Regularly performing across the UK, alongside many reputable acts, they have built up a substantial live fan base and have made frequent appearances on the Adam Walton show on BBC Radio Wales having also recorded a live session for the show. this has led to interest elsewhere including being a top pick on montreal’s cism radio station. And even more recently the band were surprised to hear their song had been played a couple of times on Jen longs introducing show on BBC radio 1.

Their track ‘How to stop an imploding man’ was used in the controversial Jack Wills advertising campaign for their Easter catalogue earlier this year, petitioned against by the daily mail.

Shy and the Fight are a dynamic group and their energetic performances are definitely not something to be missed!

Saturday 6th October -

Free Before 9pm, £4.oo Thereafter

From the post-industrial valleys that lie between Manchester and Leeds emerged a 3-piece outfit called “Pepperjam” to perform their first gig in early 2005. Their first incarnations mixed the songs of ex-Little Chief frontman, Lorry Dowling with fretless bassist/cellist Nigel and percussion from Hebden Bridge’s Paul Dear. Over the last two years they have developed and grown into a 5-piece band with the addition of drums, extra vocals and keys.

The combined past histories of the members include Black, The Ukrainians, Little Chief and Tetchi to name a few. Music encompassing a wide range of styles and influence which when added to Nige’s classical and eclectic tastes leave a vibrant musical palette.

Pepperjam are currently putting the finishing touches to their first studio album which should be available to buy/download early in 2008.

Free Entry

Andy Hickie is a roaming singer songwriter from the mountains of North Wales. Spending the last three years touring the UK and Ireland, Andy has established a firm reputation on the touring circuit, built on the quality of his songs and the high energy of his live performances. Living out on the road in his trusty camper van ‘Dean’, Andy has been earning his troubadour stripes gigging, collecting stories and sharing his songs the old fashioned way. Join in the fun with your own stories and songs starting at 9pm.

Tickets £5 adv / £6 on the door

CRACKLING VINYL present GULP / ZERVAS & PEPPER

Tuesday 9th October 2012, Telford’s Warehouse, Chester

On Tuesday 9^th October, Crackling Vinyl is proud to present another night of brilliant live music and superlative vinyl excellence at Telford’s Warehouse in Chester.

Tickets for Gulp and Zervas & Pepper are £5 in advance from the venue itself (01244 390090) / £5+ booking fee from SeeTickets.com, or £6 on the door.

More information on this event’s artists follows:

Gulp

(featuring Guto Pryce from Super Furry Animals)

Debut E.P. ‘Game Love’ out now on E.L.K. Records

‘Game Love’ video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=2jBMAPx_Pdo

Gulp are Guto Pryce , Lindsey Leven and a Roland MC-505 box donated to them by a kind yogi. They are joined by Gid Goundrey on guitar to enrich a sound which has been described as cinematic, dazzling and hypnotic.

Guto is bass player in Super Furry Animals and more recently toured with Sonic Boom’s Spectrum and psych-folk legend Mark Fry. Lindsey came from Scotland to Wales to study art and creates images, music and songs. She has previously played solo song and guitar based shows. The Roland MC-505 makes beats and bleeps. Not much is known about its past.

Gulp’s musical journey stemmed from Guto and Lindsey’s travels through the Scottish Highlands, Wild West Wales and the Californian Desert. They found themselves inspired by landscapes and camaraderie, acoustic and electronic grooves, filmic sounds and sweet melodies.

June 2012 saw the release of their debut single, Game Love, which featured Guto’s SFA bandmates Dafydd Ieuan on drums and Cian Ciaran on the mix plus special guest Gareth Bonello (The Gentle Good) providing acoustic guitar and cello.

“a thing of eyeball popping beauty that deserves to have psychotropic palm leaves wafted at its feet (and then, ideally, eaten)”  Artrocker 5 stars *****

“It’s an amalgam of 21st-century electronic squiggles and vintage airy psych-folk, as contemporary as video games and as old as the hills” Spin.com

“(Game Love’s) spooked demeanour suggests The Wicker Man getting fresh with Nancy Sinatra. That’s Gulp: easy to swallow, hard to forget” Guardian Guide Pick of the Week

http://www.gulpgulp.co.uk

http://twitter.com/gulpworld

Please credit the attached photos to Mary Wycherley where possible.

http://www.twocatsintheyard.co.uk

ZERVAS & PEPPER

Debut L.P. ‘Somewhere In The City’ out now on Zerodeo Recordings.

‘One Man Show’ video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=f4hgWjLsicA

Formed late 2007 ‘Zervas & Pepper’ were born from Cardiff-based singer/songwriters Paul Zervas and Kathryn Pepper’s shared love of harmony-heavy folk rock music of the 1970′s West-coast/ Laurel Canyon scene.

After 2 successful introductory EPs released on their own independent Zerodeo Recordings label Zervas & Pepper released their long awaited debut album ‘Somewhere in the City’ in spring 2011. The debut album gained critical acclaim and strong radio support from the UK’s national stations. However that was only a foretaste of what was to come in 2012.

The first couple of singles from their imminent 2nd album have earned support and effusive praise from the likes of Radcliffe and Maconie on 6Music. At the start of September 2012, the band performed live in session for Sir Terry Wogan on BBC Radio 2.

The band list some of their influences as CSN&Y, Joni Mitchell, Fleet Foxes, John Martyn, Fairport Convention, James Taylor, The Beach Boys, Paul Simon, Fleetwood Mac, Midlake, Judee Sill, Matthews Southern Comfort.

http://www.zervaspepper.co.uk

https://twitter.com/zervaspepper

Chester’s excellent 2nd hand vinyl emporium, Grey ‘n’ Pink Records join us in the top room. Cash back available over the bar.

Previous live guests at Crackling Vinyl have included: Cate Le Bon, Euros Childs, The Wellgreen, Laura J. Martin, Y Niwl, Colorama, Richard James, Toy Horses, T.G. Elias, Georgia Ruth, Chris T-T, She Makes War, Sam Airey, Houdini Dax, Trwbador, The Gentle Good, Golden Fable, Pulco, Harry Keyworth, Greta Isaac, Atlas Twins, Sophie Ballamy.

Free Entry

Folk, Roots and Blues provided by Mark Henderson & Co. on Telford’s intimate Window Stage. See some of the best acoustic acts from the Northwest up close and personal. This week Mark features Steve Poltz.

Friday October the 12th and Saturday October the 13th see the return of Telford’s October Beer festival for a second outing!

With over 30 regional and national real ales and ciders on offer over the course of the weekend, as well as our usual selection of national and international beers, it promises to be a fantastic weekend. Throw in a selection of the best Live Music acts from Chester and the surrounding areas, including the likes of The Rusty Cadillacs, Rusty Mahone, The Jake Leg Jug Band and Fellerband and the party is already in full swing. To finish off the mix we will also be serving an extended range of snacks including an outside marquee with a hog roast.

Entry is based on our usual weekend club night, free before 9pm and £4 on the door after with the event running from 6 pm on the Friday until close at 2 am, from 12 noon on Saturday until close at 2am. If there’s anything left unsold after the Saturday we will have the bars open again Sunday so come down for our Open Mic session hosted by The Glendale Family, where it will be free entry all evening!

Plenty of great real ales left for Sunday, now being sold at £2.50 a pint!

Friday October the 12th and Saturday October the 13th see the return of Telford’s October Beer festival for a second outing!

With over 30 regional and national real ales and ciders on offer over the course of the weekend, as well as our usual selection of national and international beers, it promises to be a fantastic weekend. Throw in a selection of the best Live Music acts from Chester and the surrounding areas, including the likes of The Rusty Cadillacs, Rusty Mahone, The Jake Leg Jug Band and Fellerband and the party is already in full swing. To finish off the mix we will also be serving an extended range of snacks including an outside marquee with a hog roast.

Entry is based on our usual weekend club night, free before 9pm and £4 on the door after with the event running from 6 pm on the Friday until close at 2 am, from 12 noon on Saturday until close at 2am. If there’s anything left unsold after the Saturday we will have the bars open again Sunday evening so come down for our Open Mic session hosted by The Glendale Family, where it will be free entry all evening!

Free Entry

More open mic mahem with Chris and Co. Plus if there’s anything left unsold after the Saturday Beer Festival we will have the bars open again Sunday evening so come down. Its Free Entry… no excuses.

Monday October 15th – Tickets £16.00

Kathryn Williams is excited to announce that Neill MacColl will be joining herself and Simon Edwards alongside Jonny Enright (Keys + Trombone + Vox) and Richard Marcangelo (Drums + Electronic Percussion) for The Pond’s fully electric forthcoming UK dates, replacing Ginny Clee who has had to drop out of live activity for personal reasons.

Fans will already be familiar with Neill from his and Kathryn’s stunning 2008 album, Two, and some songs from that album will be getting The Pond’s otherworldly make-over on these dates. On their performing chemistry The Independent noted ‘They draw the best out of each other … Their telepathic understanding and vocals blend are breath taking.’

Says Kathryn, “We will also be ‘ponding up’ some older songs, like Just Leave from  The Quickening, All Apologies-  the Nirvana track from Relations – and even a couple of songs from the first record, Dog Leap Stairs.”

Kathryn has also announced herself as solo support for The Pond’s shows. This part of the show “Will be the quieter end of my spectrum” she reveals. “Mostly solo, and a bit with Neill MacColl. So there is a real juxtaposition between the two sets. I’ll be using tape echo and loops with my vocal – I’ve never messed so much with pedals and my voice before. Should be fun!”

During the tour the band will play a series of gigs in houses across the country. If you would like the chance to host a mini gig in your living room for you and your friends then listen up!

On each date of the tour the band will be available to play a short show before the main gig starts. To host a gig you need to live in the same city that the band are playing in and, ideally, live a convenient distance from the venue.

Drop One Little Indian Records an email at oli-social@indian.co.uk if you fit the bill.

Tuesday 16th October – Tickets £12

Two of the giants of the British folk blues golden era join forces for a gig at Telford’s Warehouse in Chester, on Tuesday, 16th October.

Wizz Jones began his musical career at the age of 18 leading a country and skiffle band called The Wranglers. Having learned most of his blues licks from Long John Baldry and Davy Graham whilst playing in the coffee bars of  Soho, Wizz followed the time honoured trail – busking throughout Europe with many different musicians including at one time a budding young bluesman named Rod Stewart.

John Renbourn is a musician of an exceptional kind, combining an insight into the techniques of musical structure with an instrumental command and a sense of aesthetic adventurism, which together make him one of the most refreshing, not to say skilled and tasteful guitarists, to grace our ears today.

Free Entry

Wilson Minds, Liverpool’s prodigal son, mixes the sound of dark edgy alternative rock with some of the biggest songs and one of the greatest voices you will ever hear. Album to be released later this year produced by Brit award winning producer of the Verve. Get on board early! www.wilsonminds.com

Free Entry Before 9pm, £4 Thereafter

The most exciting harmony-infused Americana/Pop outfit to emerge on the scene since Mumford & Sons.

Outstanding songs, a huge sound and an unrivalled stage presence – with the looks to top it off! ahab had a truly incredible 2011 – which saw them playing at over 20 festivals throughout the UK & Europe, releasing their 2nd EP ‘KMVT’ and a tour support with the mighty Bellowhead.

With 2 hugely popular EP’s under their belt, an album in the pipeline, a sold out headline gig at HMV’s Next Big Thing Festival and rave support (& frequent airplay) from Bob Harris & Simon Mayo, ahab continue their climb to the top. Highly, highly recommended.

“They are blistering live – alt-country edge and sheer class.”  Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2

“East London’s ahab could be the alt-country’s Mumford & Sons…” Q

“when it comes to delivering a high energy show there are few their equal” Americana UK

Free Before 9pm, £4 Thereafter

We likes to write a good tune & to make sure when you come see us you remember Lou Lu & the Boy from that time you had a bloody good night…

http://louluandtheboy.bandcamp.com

Free Entry

Stacey Cohen’s music is part folk, part storytelling, part metaphor, part mountain-stream. Her sound is part urban but flows with the poetics of the North Wales mountains where she lives.

Stacey’s debut album ‘Butterfly Kisses’ (2009) showcased a woman loud, proud and unafraid to speak her mind. Described as, “off-beat and quirky, haunting and poignant” and, “unique, dark, earthy”, Stacey is continually pushing the boundaries of her writing both lyrically and musically to produce tracks that have to be listened to again and again.

May 2011 will see the release of Stacey’s latest offering, an ep recorded in Feb 2011, during a short visit to her family in Uruguay.Brought together by Stacey’s Uncle, folk singer Juan Pendás. The songs are stripped down, embracing Stacey’s UK folk roots; whilst offering the perfect space for her authentic, unforgettable vocals.

Singing live, Stacey has captivated audiences across the UK and beyond with intense, inspiring performances that effuse with love, intimacy and the energy of a woman who knows how to own the stage. Stacey’s vibrancy and spirit are engaging a fan base that is growing along with her musical accomplishments, guaranteeing a stunning show whenever she performs.

Tickets £12.00

http://www.noisetrade.com/julietturner

A compelling performer. Underestimate her at your cost.
Irish Times

Lauded from everyone from Terry Wogan to Niall Stokes.
Hotpress Magazine

Turner is – always has been, in this writers opinion –
one of the most intriguing of Irish female song writers
Tony Clayton-Lea – Irish Times

There’s a pleasing asperity and knowing toughness underpinning the stylistic and
expressive variety of Turner’s singing….confidently cosmopolitan.
Susan Wilson – Scottish Sunday Herald

Her stage presence is the type that smoulders, drawing you in and making you
sit forward in your seat rather than dazzling and knocking you back on your heels…
…it’s impossible not to have been thoroughly charmed.
Maurice O’Brien – Hotpress Magazine

Juliet Turners’ music is vibrant, personal and deeply moving…a wonderful thrilling ride of innocent pleasure and carnal delight….frankly gorgeous.
Smyth Harper – BBC Manchester website

Turner is a self-conscious artist of broad vision, whose vocal style is beguiling, then winning….. so obviously you are going to listen, as tonight’s capacity audience did.
Stuart Ferguson – Celtic Connections

Free Entry

The Sett are a 5 piece band from Bolton/Bury/Chester who play folk infused blissed out pop music.

Consisting of Gaz Grady (vocals, guitar), John Lindon (guitar), Jay Dunn (keyboards), Ben Taylor (drums) and Ally Cameron (bass), The Sett have been playing shows all over The Northwest for the past 12 months whilst honing and refining their sound.

Taking the lead from The Great Northern Songbook whilst still trying to look forward, this band are striving for melodic perfection with a presence that cannot be ignored.

Describing their sound as Northern Folk, Soul, Rock and Roll The Sett are a band on a mission and their shows are not to be missed

Free Entry Before 9pm, £4 Thereafter

The fallows return to Chester this autumn with a huge summer coming to a close.
The band have performed along side bands such as the courteeners and cast at this years Chester rocks festival and also completed a barn storming set at this years y not festival again along side some huge bands like the wombats and the view.
The fallows head into this October to record a long awaited follow up to shoot your gun.
With ongoing support from bbc introducing and mounting interest from a number of music quarters, the band are hotly tipped to break into mainstream in 2013, it is urged to see them now while the band are performing more intimate shows.

In February 2012 The Fallows played to a capacity crowd at Telford’s to support the launch of their latest single release ‘Shoot Your Gun’. You can download the track through iTunes

Saturday 27th October – Free entry before 9pm, £4 thereafter

Skinny Lister is a five piece folk act based in London, UK. Started in 2009, the band have just signed to Sunday Best Recordings and will release debut AA side single ‘Plough & Orion’ / ‘If The Gaff Don’t Let Us Down’ on 9th April 2012 with a debut album ‘Forge & Flagon’ due in June 2012. The last two years have seen the band release a handful of self released singles and two EP’s: ‘Grand Union EP’which was recorded on a canal boat as they toured down the Grand Union Canal network and the ‘Homemade Tour EP’recorded at friends and family residences as the band toured their hometowns. Skinny Lister won the title of ‘Hardest Working Band in Britain’ after being named band who had most festival appearances in 2011 by PRS.

Free Entry

A fun night where all can take to the stage and join in. Hosted this week by James McGregor.