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A rare opportunity to see one of America’s greatest folk singers Loudon Wainwright III in a special a solo show at the De La Warr Pavilion.

With a musical career that spans fifty years and includes 26 studio albums, Wainwright has made significant contributions to the folk genre. His songs have captured the hearts and minds of people around the world and earned him multiple Grammy nominations and a win in 2010 (Best Traditional Folk Album for High Wide & Handsome: The Charlie Poole Project).

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Doors 7.30pm
Support, Rob Chaney 8 – 8.30pm
Daniel Bachman 9 – 10.15/10.30pm approx.

In the Cafe Bar

Daniel Bachman is a 6 string and lap steel guitar player from Virginia currently living in North Carolina. Bachman grew up steeped in the traditional music of the Commonwealth, drawing from and expanding on it in his own fingerstyle guitar albums including Seven Pines(Tompkins Square, 2013), Orange County Serenade (Bathetic, 2014), and the new LP River (Three Lobed, 2015).
On record and in person you’re introduced to a veritable landscape of winding guitar with Bachman treating his guitar lines and licks in a way that resembles the earth itself, at its most pristine, delicate, yet also primal and overpowering. Pieces move, ascending and descending in the same way that the clouds roll through blue skies, the same way brooks babble down rocky fronts carving their paths in the land. Solo guitarists come and go and it takes Daniel Bachman, like John Fahey or Jack Rose before him, to completely show you the power in one man and his instrument. You don’t need an ensemble of players and dense layers of dissonance to create a fully realized, and actualized, chunk of music. With every new album Bachman continues to push the boundaries of solo acoustic guitar and shows no sign of stopping anytime soon.

[Bachman has] found new levels of sharpness and confidence in River’s seven masterful songs. Each chord is struck with distinct purpose, and each tune progresses firmly with clear goals ahead. – NPR

2016 is shaping up to be an important year for American songwriter Robert Chaney.  Last year saw the UK self-release of his debut Cracked Picture Frames, which was name-checked on several UK 2015 year-end best-of lists. ‘Cracked Picture Frames’ is a hard-core and stripped-down survey of ballad, blood, and bone. ‘Sharp, intelligent, thoughtful and moving’ (Folk Radio UK), the bristling full-length debut by American songwriter Robert Chaney rings with echoes of Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt, and early Tom Waits, but the exceptional quality of Chaney’s lyrics, as well as his melodic sensibility make for a thoroughly original album that is ‘head and shoulders above its peers’ (Blabber ‘n’ Smoke).

In the Cafe Bar

Currently based in Belgium, Dutch-born Chantal Acda (b. 1978) has worked under the Sleepingdog moniker since 2006, making three acclaimed albums that closed on the ‘With Our Heads in the Clouds and Our Hearts in the Fields’ (2010) album for which she collaborated with Adam Wiltzie (Stars of the Lid, A Winged Victory For The Sullen), and touring extensively both in Europe and North America.

Also playing in various other formations (Isbells, True Bypass, Marble Sounds) had made her conscious of the patterns that we all, as humans, share in. So, she sought out kindred spirits with whom she might record an album filled with freedom and intensity, and who were conscious of the patterns we so often fall back on. One of the first to cross her path was inventive German pianist and producer Nils Frahm. When, shortly thereafter, multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick (known from his solo work on labels such as Bella Union and Erased Tapes and from his work with a.o. Efterklang) and Shahzad Ismaily (regular collaborator of a.o. Lou Reed, Tom Waits and Bonnie Prince Billy) also stumbled into the picture, she instantly knew that these were the people with whom she wanted to record her first real solo record. What began as a journey ended in a wonderful record – one wherein all musicians were able to find their place and, together, with great warmth, tell their nine-song story. ‘Let Your Hands Be My Guide’ (released in 2013).

When it came to touring around this release, the main challenge Chantal was facing was how to bring these songs live. The musicians that helped her record the album were both genius and very specific, and it was hard to recreate that same sound on stage with a different band. So she decided to step away from the album sound and employ the same vision of freedom towards the live set-up, surrounding herself with musicians that were able to bring their own magic to the table and transform her music into a new and refreshing whole by interpreting the songs rather than recreating them, and allowing her and us to experience the songs in a different way. These unique live versions as performed with her touring band –Alan Gevaert (dEUS, Trixie Whitley) on bass, Gaetan Vandewoude (Isbells) on guitar and Eric Thielemans (Jozef Dumoulin Trio, Lidlboi, Tape Cuts Tape) can be savoured on the album ‘Chantal Acda – Live In Dresden’ which appeared as a limited edition in 2014.

After recording ‘Let Your Hands Be My Guide’ Chantal instantly knew that the bond that she experienced with Peter Broderick and Shahzad Ismaily was one to last for a lifetime. So it was compulsive to turn to them again for her new album ‘The Sparkle In Our Flaws’, which she had written in-between touring on the first album, and on which she wanted to further explore the musical freedom she felt while playing with them. Besides Peter and Shahzad, you will also hear contributions from Valgeir Sigurdsson, Heather Woods Broderick, Niels Van Heertum and Eric Thielemans.

“An album of warm textures and mystic atmospheres” – 4 stars
Mojo
“Sweet vulnerabilty…Perfectly flawed” – 8/10
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 £24.50 Adv/ £27 Door

Doors 7.00pm
Hannah Lurati 7.30pm
Television 8.20pm – 10.00pm Approx

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Television were one of the most innovative bands to emerge from New York’s underground scene of the mid-70s, creating an influential new guitar vocabulary. Guitarists Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd didn’t quite follow the accepted rock structures for improvisation – they removed the blues while retaining the raw energy of garage rock, adding complex, lyrical solo lines that recalled both jazz and rock. With its angular rhythms and fluid leads, Television’s music always went in unconventional directions, laying the groundwork for many of the guitar-based post-punk pop groups of the late ’70s and ’80s.

Nearly 14 years after their breakup, Television re-formed in late 1991, recording a new, self titled album for Capitol Records. The reunited band began its comeback with a performance at England’s Glastonbury summer festival in 1992, releasing ‘Television’ a couple of months later. The album received good reviews, as did the tour that followed.   In 2007 Lloyd left the band and they were joined by Jimmy Rip who had played with Tom since 1981 on all his tours and recordings.

This new line-up has since performed in the USA, throughout Europe including the UK and Eire, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand and China

They have recorded a new album which is said to be ‘half-finished’.

Tom Verlaine: guitar & lead vocals
Jimmy Rip: guitar & backing vocal
Fred Smith: bass & backing vocal
Billy Ficca: drums

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SUPPORT ACT: Hannah Lurati

Hannah Lurati (formerly of Trevor Moss & Hannah-Lou) will be supporting Television on Tuesday 14 June.

Hannah has been performing all over the World and released four albums as a duo since 2010. She has played venues from the Royal Albert Hall to the Greek Theatre, LA, and the Ryman Auditorum. Now she is going solo and is due to release her debut album later this year.

www.hannahlurati.com

Just to confirm, trains returning to Brighton/Hastings/northbound are not due to be affected by Southern Rail cancellations. An updated timetable has been posted by Southern Rail showing all late and returning trains running back regularly so travel back after the show should be fine.

There is also free parking available along the seafront. See link for revised timetables and travel information on our website

www.southernrailway.com/your-journey/revised-timetable

It’s been the most spectacular of journeys, from a place in time when John Grant feared he’d never make music again or escape a life of addiction, to winning awards, accolades and Top 20 chart positions, and collaborating with Sinead O’Connor, Goldfrapp, Elton John and Hercules & Love Affair. The fact he subsequently won a Best International Male Solo Artist nomination at the 2014 BRITS alongside Eminem, Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars and Drake, seemed like some fantasy dreamt up in a moment of outrageo us hubris. Just months later, the BBC’s request for a session with symphony orchestra provided (subsequently released by Bella Union as John Grant And The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra: Live in Concert), followed by Grant taking the Royal Northern Sinfonia on a UK tour, confirmed that it was simply the latest spectacular chapter in his personal and artistic renaissance.

SUPPORT ACT: HOLLY MACVE

BELLA UNION have recently signed the exciting talent of Holly Macve. Boss Simon Raymonde says “Little is known of Holly other than she is a 20 year old from Yorkshire who appeared out of nowhere in Brighton late last year. I had a tip-off to go to a basement bar where she was playing. In a room full of beery boys chatting across all the music beforehand, the minute Holly opened her mouth the room fell silent. Hers is a rare gift.”

She is currently writing and recording in the North-East of England with Paul Gregory (Lanterns On The Lake) and is today announced as the Special Guest of Yael Naim’s 2 forthcoming Paris shows, at Théâtre Des Bouffes Du Nord on 26 Oct and at Le Trianon on 30 Nov. In between she will be joining the mighty John Grant who within five minutes of hearing her voice, invited her to open for him on his UK tour! More dates to follow very soon!!

www.facebook.com/HollyMacveMusic
www.hollymacve.com

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Doors 7pm

Bo Ningen 8-8.30pm

Savages 9-10.55pm

It’s about change and the power to change. It’s about metamorphosis and evolution. It’s about sticking to your guns and toughing it out. It’s about now, not tomorrow. It’s about recognizing your potential. It’s about self-doubt and inaction. It’s about you. It’s about me. It’s about you and me and the others. It’s about the choices we make. It’s about finding the poetry and avoiding the cliché. It’s about being the solution, not the problem. It’s about showing weakness to be strong. It’s about digging through your dirt to look for diamonds. It’s about claiming your right to think unacceptable thoughts. It’s about boredom and the things we do to drive it away.It’s about being on your own so you can be with people.It’s about knowing what it means to be humanand what it might mean one day. It’s about the parts and the sum of the parts. It’s about the music and the message: together, one and the same. It’s about bass, guitars, drums and vocals.It’s about opening-out and never, ever dying.But most of all it’sabout love, every kind of love. Love is the answer.

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Under 14s need to be accompanied with an adult

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This menu is subject to change on the day
Freshly made to order

Main – £9.95

Char grilled steak burger with melted mozzarella, chunky chips and onion rings

Deep fried local fish filet sandwich with tartare sauce, mange tout salad and chunky chips

Grilled chicken tikka served in toasted tasca bread with a yogurt, mango and mint dip

Roasted vegetables, halloumi sandwich served with chips and salad V

Home-made hotdog with red cabbage coleslaw, tomatoes and jalapeños with a side of onion rings

Sides – £3.00

Mixed leaf and crunchy vegetables with French mustard dressing

Seasoned chunky chips

Onion rings

No booking required. Please order & pay for food at the bar

Food service finishes 45 minutes before the main act.

All our dishes are freshly prepared and cooked to order in our kitchen.
Wherever possible we use locally sourced ingredients supporting local suppliers

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A list of B+Bs in Bexhill and Hastings can be found here www.discoverbexhill.com

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Train:
We are 5 min walk to Bexhill station for last trains to Brighton/Eastbourne/Hastings/London.
Please check train times for timetable. www.nationalrail.co.uk

Taxi:
For taxi service call Parkhurst Taxis on 01424 733 456
Taxis can take you to Battle (15 mins drive) for fast train from Battle to Waterloo East or Charing Cross.

Car:
Free parking along the sea front and in the Rother District Council car park next to the Pavilion after 8pm.

Bus:
There is a bus stop located outside the front of the Pavilion.
Please check train times for timetable. www.stagecoachbus.com

In Cafe Bar

Timings:

Doors 7.30pm

Otti Albietz 8.00pm – 8.30pm

Wave Pictures 9.00pm – 10.30pm approx.

The Wave Pictures return with a brand new, vinyl only album called A Season in Hull, due out on 12 February on their own label Wymeswold Records. The album was recorded on acoustic guitars in one room, with a bunch of their friends, live in to one microphone on singer Dave Tattersall’s birthday, January 28th, 2015. The songs were written as quickly as possible and the recording captures that specific moment in all its spontaneous, thrilling and immediate glory. As Tattersall elaborates: “That’s what this is – a one-microphone happy birthday recording.”

Support act:

Otti And The Voices

Singer and writer Otti Albietz’ music explores neglected and forgotten emotions, reminding the listener of the importance they can hold. Crafting a path through a turbulent life, he creates a fruitful relationship between this present, an historical past, and an intriguing future.
An inspired contemporary songwriter and performer, Otti was born in Malaga, Spain, and grew up traveling through Europe, and Morocco. When recording his songs he collaborates with musicians from many disciplines and backgrounds, and as well as performing live with a core band & solo, will often have guest musicians join him on stage, helping create a collective of individually celebrated musicians, and artists.
A prolific creator, Otti has released three albums in as many years, Otti’s third full length being released in 2014, just over a year after its BBE released predecessor Bubbytone II. Recorded over two days in August 2013, ‘And The Voices’ forms the culminating piece in a musical trilogy which he describes as an initial statement; helping to identify and establish a musical persona as well as providing a plane from which future work will evolve.

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Train:
We are 5 min walk to Bexhill station for last trains to Brighton/Eastbourne/Hastings/London.
Please check train times for timetable. www.nationalrail.co.uk

Taxi:
For taxi service call Parkhurst Taxis on 01424 733 456
Taxis can take you to Battle (15 mins drive) for fast train from Battle to Waterloo East or Charing Cross.

Car:
Free parking along the sea front and in the Rother District Council car park next to the Pavilion after 8pm.

Bus:
There is a bus stop located outside the front of the Pavilion.
Please check train times for timetable. www.stagecoachbus.com

In the Cafe Bar

Timings:

Doors 7.30pm

Support 8.00pm – 8.30pm

Joan Shelley 9.00pm – 10.30pm approx.

‘Over And Even’ CD/LP

In stores September 4th

Joan Shelley’s new album, Over And Even, was written in the back of an abandoned beauty parlor on the island of Thessaloniki. The whole thing had something to do with Vashti Bunyan. That’s what Joan told me, but Joan Shelley is a poet, so she makes things up.

In a small, dark room that smells of expired hair-do chemicals, there is talk of hypnosis. All the windows are blacked out. “Look into my eyes.” White walls are blinding in the ancient sunlight. A bowl of oranges shines like solid gold, waiting for you. There is a small classical guitar, a sunburn, and a key that turns a lock, and songs come pouring out.

Maybe the Greek deal was really about Leonard Cohen. That’s Joanie’s jam: songs wide open enough to let the wind blow the curtains around, and solid enough to hang a ton of heartache on. She writes smart, beautiful songs full of poetry, history, mystery and nature. Like all the best sad songs, they will
make you cry. Then they will drag you outside and leave you flat on your back, staring up at the stars.

Joan lands on a note like a laser beam on a diamond. Colors fly around the room, and her voice bends between them. People say her voice reminds them of Sandy Denny. It’s more than the vocal range. It’s a quiet power that draws you in.
Maybe Over And Even wasn’t written last winter on a Greek island. Maybe these songs were written a hundred years ago in a farm house somewhere in Kentucky. That’s where Joan is from, and that’s where she and guitar player Nathan Salsburg recorded all the basic tracks live.

All the people who played on Joan’s new record — and Daniel Martin Moore who recorded and engineered it — are friends. That comes through somehow in the sound of the album. Will Oldham [might prefer to be called Bonnie “Prince” Billy?] and Glen Dettinger are genius harmony singers. They
leave the perfect amount of space for microscopic shifts in Joan’s voice, without sacrificing their own awesome idiosyncrasies. Nathan Salsburg’s guitar follows every twist of the melody. When the song breaks your heart in two, Nathan is there with a high E-string to sew it back together.

Joan Shelley’s voice flows out like a river. It never travels in a straight line. It follows bends and curves carved by history. We are all lucky just to be swept away, and go with her wherever she’s going.

“But it’s not over by half
There’s a gold in your eyes blooming out through the black
And you’re still standing, your hand on the map
No its not over, not over by half”

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Train:
We are 5 min walk to Bexhill station for last trains to Brighton/Eastbourne/Hastings/London.
Please check train times for timetable. www.nationalrail.co.uk

Taxi:
For taxi service call Parkhurst Taxis on 01424 733 456
Taxis can take you to Battle (15 mins drive) for fast train from Battle to Waterloo East or Charing Cross.

Car:
Free parking along the sea front and in the Rother District Council car park next to the Pavilion after 8pm.

Bus:
There is a bus stop located outside the front of the Pavilion.
Please check train times for timetable. www.stagecoachbus.com

SOLD OUT

Timings:

Doors – 7pm
Support – 8-8.30pm
Jack Savoretti – 9-10.30pm approx.

Four years ago, Jack Savoretti quit making music. He’d had enough – of scratching a living as an independent artist, of business bust-ups, of being touted as a soon-to-be star. He’d spent two years (and all of his savings) in legal dispute with a former manager and seen the release of his second album so botched it barely came out. He was 26 and recently married, with a baby on the way. “I thought that was my run, I’d had fun and now it was time to get a proper job,” says Savoretti. “I was done with music and, honestly, I didn’t mind.”

What happened next couldn’t have surprised the singer more. “As soon as I said, ‘screw this’, I couldn’t stop writing,” he recalls. “I wrote out of anger, although the songs were more of a cry for help. It was the best, most personal music I’d ever made. I realised I had really learnt how to write, how to express exactly what was in my head.”

That album, 2011’s critically-acclaimed ‘Before The Storm’, saw Savoretti turn a corner. That he was an exceptional singer was never in dispute – those gorgeous, gritty, soul-soaked vocals that caused such a fuss when he first emerged and saw his DIY debut, 2007’s ‘Between The Minds’, championed by Radio 2 – but by his own admission, his early work was him finding his feet.