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Mon 2nd Lost Toys Records presents... A celebration of their first release 'Songs without a Purpose' by Johnny Parry with performances by THE JOHNNY PARRY TRIO + Show Without Punch + The Grubby Mitts
Doors 7.30 The first Lost Toys Records sampler CD will be handed out on the night! 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] "drama that would bring an opera house to its feet." [disclaimer] 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 is the electrionic/acoustic/visual world that is The Grubby
Mitts. 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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