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Wed 28th Complete Control and Irregular Records are honoured to present ROBB JOHNSON & THE IRREGULARS + Swill & The Swaggerband + Tracey Curtis
Doors 7.30 Robb Johnson [and the Irregulars] is now widely recognised as one of the finest songwriters working in the UK today. His songs feature in the repertoires of a wide variety of musicians, from folk legend Roy Bailey to acclaimed cabaret diva Barb Jungr and he enjoys a similarly diverse spectrum of critical acclaim a modern-day Dostoyevsky said the USs Dirty Linen, Mojo made the double CD 'Gentle Men' Folk Album Of The Month, while The Daily Telegraph made it their Folk Album Of 1998, and Tony Benn says Johnsons 'Winter Turns To Spring' is his favourite song. Such an accoldade. He has played pubs, clubs, pavements, pickets and benefits, arts centres and festivals, local radio, BBC Radio 3 & 4, Belgian Radio 1, Nicaraguan TV & Channel 4, the Albert Hole in Bristol and, as part of Roy Baileys 1998 concert, the Albert Hall in London. Robb has worked with a variety of bands, with friend & fellow songwriter Leon Rosselson, as well as solo. In 1997 Robb wrote the song suite 'Gentle Men', an ambitious family history of the first World War, for the Passendael Peace Concert, and subsequently toured it successfully in Britain too. He also plays extensively in Belgium, Holland and Germany and he has toured Britain supporting Chumbawamba and in the U.S with David Rovics. As Punk celebrates its 30th birthday, the musical trajectories it inspired still continue to criss cross the genres in a most fantastic way. No more so than in the case of this artist and this record. Swill (his original punk name) is Philip Odgers and 28 years ago he stood onstage in an electric blue suit and leopard skin shirt as his first band Catch 22 supported the Clash on the infamous 16 Tons tour. Now, stepping out from the shadows of his other life as one half of the vocal attack in legendary UK folk rockers The Men They Couldnt Hang, Swill has made his own record and infused it with the age old punk ethos of DIY. All of his trademark passions are present; Americana, folk, Celtic rhythm, blue eyed pop and country. Imagine Glen Campbell, Kirsty MacColl and late period Joe Strummer all rolled into one and backed by the best little picking band this side of the bayou. Having previously been a part of pop punk band Shelleys Children, Tracey Curtis' solo career was launched almost by accident when she was encouraged by her children to write a protest song against a planned by-pass that would ruin their local riverside dens and rope swings. Tracey joined Chumbawamba, Attila the Stockbroker and American political singer/songwriter David Rovics on tours of the UK during 2006.
Her new album "Picture Postcards" is one of the finest of it's kind so far this year and we are delighted to have her play some songs from it tonight. |
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