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Fri 30th Not The Same Old Blue Crap & Loose Records presents Nashville Babylon, with THE FELICE BROTHERS ALAN TYLER & THE LOST SONS OF LITTLEFIELD + Hey Negrita + Nashville Babylon DJs
Doors 7.30 Not The Same Old Blue Crap & Loose Records join forces and reignite the Nashville Babylon club night. While delving deep into the traditional country themes of pathos, humour, women, whiskey, murder, death, disease and destitution, Nashville Babylon will once again stretch the genre to breaking point. The Felice Brothers are Simone, Ian and James Felice, born along the Hudson River in upstate New York plus an adopted runaway dice thrower called Christmas. Unschooled illegal street/subway musicians from the start, their distinct brand of songwriting and the lawless sound they've forged has earned them comparisons to Woodie Guthrie, Neil Young, Walt Whitman, Bob Dylan and James Brown. They now all live, tour, sing, write and gamble together in a 1987 special education bus and tour the endless highways of the United States. Their debut album, 'Tonight at The Arizona' is out now on Loose Records. "Music that slowly ferments until morning, by which time you are ashen and weary and your thoughts grown fuzzy with whiskey. Barnstorming and brilliant." [The Guardian] “The Felice Brothers capture lightning and spin it into harvest gold.” [Vice Magazine] “Scruffy and scratched Americana that recalls Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark and early Springsteen." [Time Out] "Evoking The Band and Dylan holed up at Big Pink - this is a gripping intro for these shores." [Rob Hughes, Uncut] Co-headliners, Alan Tyler, wrote the UK country music book. First with his band The Rockingbirds in the early nineties who trail blazed a path for credible UK country, then with his Sunday club Come Down Meet The Folks, which set the standard for the many Country clubs that followed in its wake and now with his current band, Alan Tyler & The Lost Sons of Littlefield . Alan still draws musical inspiration from his heroes George Jones, Merle Haggard and Waylon Jennings (from whose birthplace, Alan’s band take their name) and interweaves it with stories from Middle England and suburbia, creating a quintessentially English take on country. This show celebrates the release of Alan’s new album, 'So Far”' on Hanky Panky Records which features a fine and mighty collection of acoustic versions of Alan’s own material and country favourites.
Hey Negrita blend country, rockabilly and honky tonk into a heady sour mash cocktail. They have featured in a Channel 4 documentary, 'The Hum Below' and toured with Alabama 3. They have a new record lined up for release in 2008 to follow the critically acclaimed 'The Buzz Above' and 'We Are Catfish'. |
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