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Phillip Roebuck
It’s Bank Holiday Sunday so bring your shiny dancing shoes and prepare yourself for possibly the most joyous Calmer* ever...
Sun 27th Aug
Slak
Cheltenham
Doors 7.30
Admission £5 in advance
£6 on the door
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The Wiyos play and compose music inspired by the early American musical idioms of the 1920s and '30s. Gleefully subverting genre distinctions, their music comes from a time before commercial formatting separated blues from country, ragtime from gospel and swing from hillbilly.
With washboard/harmonica/kazoo, resonator guitar/banjo, upright bass and three harmony vocals they create a visual spectacle in the tradition of vaudeville-esque performers such as Fats Waller, the Hoosier Hotshots and Uncle Dave Macon. Their on-stage physical comedy recalls the silent films of Laurel & Hardy, Keaton and Chaplin.
They’ve shared the bill with Gillian Welch & David Rawlins, Foghorn Stringband, Woody Mann and the Old Crow Medicine Show amongst many, many others.
The Wiyos charm everyone from urban hipsters to barefoot hillbillies to your sweet old grandma.
See them here.
www.thewiyos.com
www.myspace.com/thewiyos
Phillip Roebuck
Following a now legendary performance at All Tomorrow's Parties in 2004 and Peel session, we are very excited to have Phillip Roebuck play Calmer* as part of his first full UK tour.
A one man band for the modern age, armed with banjo, bass drum, incredible songs and a frenetic pace, he has entertained the world from the streets of New York City to huge stages sharing the bill with diverse acts such as Shellac, American Music Club , Nina Nastasia and Ralph Stanley.
"He plucks that banjo like a madman, like the devil himself." -New York Press
"Phillip Roebuck put an invigorating twist on the one-man-band set-up. With a mean banjo, and bass drum strapped to his back, he swept away any day-three cobwebs in a terrifically energetic punk-folk style." - The Independent
www.philliproebuck.com
www.myspace.com/philliproebuck
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Entry price (members/NUS): £5 advance, £6 door
Doors open: 7.30pm til Late
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