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Mon 28th Lost Toys Records presents... THE JOHNNY PARRY TRIO + Show Without Punch + The Grubby Mitts
"A piano led thing of beauty." [Timeout] "Beautifully orchestrated." [Plan B] The Johnny Parry Trio celebrate the release of part one of three limited edition EPs.
Doors 7.30 The Johnny Parry Trio are a piano trio. As Johnny growls and whispers over his piano, Ben Milway plays his drums like a one-man orchestral percussion section and Dave Lynch manages to make his fretless bass twist between burlesque jazz to the effect of melodic cello. All this is coupled with a laptop which occasionally unleashes large orchesteral flourishes and visuals form artist Andy Holden. “Songs Without A Purpose is one of the most beautiful records ever made.” [Daily Vault] "Bizarre? Definitely. Beautiful? Absolutely." [The Big Takeover] Show Without Punch are also a piano-led trio, sitting somewhere between Tom Waits and Regina Spektor, creating a somehow homogenous mix of bitter tongue-in-cheek perfect pop-ballads, funk, skiffle and even a little drum 'n' bass. Roger Illingworth provides gruff vocals over percussive piano lines, backed by Adam Jarvis on upright and electric bass, and Raph Saib on drums. Opening the evening are The Grubby Mitts; an electronica outfit incorporating live instruments recently described as "like some clumsy balloon animal - maybe a dog, maybe a monkey - floating around a music room bumping into things, with beards." Samplers, sax, piano, drums, guitar, bass and many other musical trinkets weave though the spiraling compositions. The result bends between moments of intimate sound collage to the joyous roar of the live musicians. |
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