JEM TURPIN vocals and harmonica, John Ballard, vocals & acoustic guitar, Simon Shaw, vocals and electric guitar, Liam Genockey, drums, Colin Gibson, Fender Bass
Opening Hours Thursday, Friday 10:00 til 15:00 Saturday 10:00 til 13:00.***
Jem Turpin’s latest exhibition at Gill Gallery draws on his work as a musician, particularly within the local music scene.
Working in oil paint but restricting his palette to black and white, he has produced a sequence of portraits of some of the musicians that he has played with over the years.
Not surprisingly any lover of the local musical scene will recognise some of the ‘usual suspects’.
Turpin/Hubbard Band
***The Trio features LOUIS TURPIN with PHIL LAW on keyboards and PETE SHAW on double bass
***The Duo features LOUIS TURPIN with ROGER HUBBARD
***New Release*** STRANGE FAITH AND PRACTICE***
Jeb Loy Nichols finely crafted and sweetly melancholic blend of folk, jazz and blue-eyed soul is the perfect chilled soundtrack to a hazy Summer day& and a surefire cure for Glastonbury hangovers&.
Art and music, sound and vision, it's all the same - ways of trying to make sense of the senseless world in which we live. Jeb Loy Nichols
***** First novel published *****
October 1st 2008 saw the publication of Jeb Loy Nichols' first novel, The Untogether, published by Alcemi Press.
The writer John Williams has had this to say: "This is not a love story. With this haunting, modernist account of lives struck by loss and threatened by love, Jeb Loy Nichols emerges as a singular voice." Iain Sinclair "A spry, welcome voice.'
Jeb Loy says: "I wrote The Untogether slowly, as a patchwork. I stole mornings and minutes from other jobs, filling notebooks a line at a time; I was looking for a form that would allow me to look closely at small things. Small things, and the spaces between them, are what interest me."
Do you think the blurb description of your novel as "a love story" is accurate?
"Not really. There was a song by PIL that began with one of the great lines: This is not a love song. I think that about this book. It's a book about being and not being together - I'm not sure what a love story is anymore. Love is a too tarnished word."
REBECCA HOLLWEG'S LUCKY DIP
***FEBRUARY***
February 8th - (on the river)
Rebecca Hollweg with Andy Hamil, bass and Julian Ferraretto, violin
'Just beautiful sound, great vibe' Janice Long on BBC Radio 2
'Absolutely stunning' Aled Jones on BBC Radio 2
'Akin to an old-school Brill Building songsmith' UNCUT ****
With special guest appearances from:
Singer-songwriter Taz Alexander (of folk chart-topping band Sine)
Comic songs from Peter Brooke-Turner (of The Ukulele Orchestra Of Great Britain
Poetic songstress Victoria Hume
Country soul songwriter Jeb Loy Nichols
Australian songbird Elizabeth McCall
Australian songsmith Sam Willoughby
ADMISSION £8 includes Lucky Dip Prize!
