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Thu 27th

The Luminaire presents
JAMES APOLLO
+ Ed Laurie
+ Dana Immanuel & The Greeks
+ Elisabeth Yndestad

£5 advance via WeGotTickets /
£6 on the door
Doors 7.30

A Tumbleweed. A hapless dreamer. A savage purveyor of roots eccentricity. James Apollo is the drifting soul that has been swindling the stout hearted compendium of urban hipsters and farmer's daughters for years.
Born in Libertyville, Arkansas, then home of a US Post Office and a bar, and currently home of a bar, the Apollo household soon transferred up the great river to Minneapolis, a burgeoning threshold of musical savvy that has launched some of the nations finest musical artists.
Lighting out for the road at legal driving age, James refused the ties of the respectable citizen. Move in, rock out, move on. The experiences have lent all the knowledge of an aging hobo, with all the grace of a slow dance with Fred and Ginger.
Main support from Ed Laurie , who's fast transcending the UK nu-folk scene. Ed paints a haunting and exotic landscape with his unmistakable baritone and Latin-tinged rhythms picked out on a nylon-stringed guitar. Musical magical realism. Think the child of Cesaria Evora if she was involved in a bizarre love-in with Jose Gonzalez, Leonard Cohen and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Before Ed there's Dana Immanuel is a little bit country, and The Greeks are a little bit rock and roll. Drawing on influences from funk to folk, blues to bluegrass, and drawing on years of experience jamming, playing live shows of all kinds and busking on the Underground, Dana Immanuel & The Greeks sound like nothing else on Earth. Sharp, nasty, catchy songs + top-notch musicianship = a glorious noise.
First on is Elisabeth Yndestad whose cross between folk, bluegrass, gypsy and something organic is simple and honest.