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Tue 3rd Curious Generation presents ARTISAN + 6 Day Riot + Lily Fraser + Mayor McCa
Doors 7.30 "With pop songs that have a bigger than average dose of intelligence and choruses that lodge in your brain (in a good way), the public at large could do far worse than to choose a band like Artisan over the KT Tunstall's or the now sadly awful Turin Brakes that the record industry seems so keen to foist upon them on a regular basis." Main support from 6 Day Riot. The 6 Day Riot sound is both eclectic and at the same time entirely integrated - harnessing banjos, ukeleles, guitars and accordians with Eastern European folk beats, bluegrass rhythms, distorted guitars and infectious pop melodies to create a style of music utterly their own. Born and bred in Cornwall England, raised in the middle of nowhere, nourished on honey comb, bathed in mud and rinsed in creek water, opening act Lily Fraser seems quite normal in every day life. With a fast-growing following and described as "Beauty unleashed... Lily's songs tread the tightrope between dignity and abandonment abandonment always being the winner, flanked onstage by her wild and wanton girls on harp and cello together with rocking guitars and drums.
Opening, Mayor McCa was previously hailed as, The One-Man-Band Singing Sensation, and now the self-proclaimed, "Hardest Working Man in Show Business". Either way, Mayor McCa is something of an anomaly. When performing live he sits on a kick drum which he pounds with his right foot. With his left foot he drops the bass along with an invention he calls the Tambourine-Machine. With his two remaining appendages he rocks out on the electric guitar, consequently rhythmically jiggling another of his inventions, The Maraca Wrist-Band. When he's not sucking or blowing down harmonicas, kazoos or any other sonic contraption, he is soulfully pushing air over his vocal chords and forming noises that portray his most deep-felt thoughts and emotions. He released his new full-length album 'Cue Are Es Tea You' in September of last year, this is one unique experience you should not miss. |
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