Monday November 14 – Jim Lauderdale (support tbc)£10
Friday November 18 - The Fallows, Super-Cannes & Get Back Colquitt £5
Friday December 2 - The South (support tbc) £20
Saturday December 3 - Altered Images (support tbc) £20
Eric’s, Mathew Street, Liverpool
Doors 7.30pm
Tickets are available from the venue www.ericslive.com and www.ticketline.co.uk
On Monday November 14, there will be a special gig from Grammy winner Jim Lauderdale. Jim featured in the Gwyneth Paltrow film, Country Strong, as a member of her band and performed with her as band leader on rhythm guitar at the 2010 Country Music Awards
Recent appearance on Austin City Limits as a member of Elvis Costello's Sugarcanes band, and 2010 performances with Willie Nelson.
When Jim Lauderdale was a North Carolina teenager back in the 1970s, he had a straightforward idea of what he wanted to be when he grew up: a tenorsinging, banjo-playing bluegrass musician. As it turned out, the banjo playing fell by the wayside, and so did much of the tenor singing. But the bluegrass musician part? For the answer, consult any of the half-dozen stellar bluegrass albums Lauderdale's made over the past decade and a half, including 2003's Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album with Ralph Stanley - or, even better, just spin the Americana icon's debut for Sugar Hill Records, Reason And Rhyme.
Friday November 18 sees The Fallows, Super-Cannes and Get Back Colquitt.
The Fallows have been together for around 18 months, bringing together years of experience on the Liverpool scene and a variety of musical influences to their infectious sound. This summer saw them play a blinder at the Chester Rocks Festival on same bill as Iggy Pop & The Stooges.
With a fierce and melodic rock’n roll edge, coupled with catchy riffs and brutally honest vocals, The Fallows explode on stage, building, drawing and electrifying the crowd with a soaring and powerfully delivered sound.
Get Back Colquitt are an Indie four piece from Liverpool, with more tunes than you can shake a glow stick at. With dangerously infectious hooks and beautifully addictive melodies that have the energy of Mona and a nod to Bombay Bicycle Club, the band received airplay on Radio 1 after only a few months of being together. With a triumphant support slot with Life In Film at MOJO earlier in the year, and an up and coming support slot with The Twang in October plus a single release in November, the rest of 2011 looks like being an extremely exciting year for GBC.
Super Cannes, a band in the old school mould, putting the quality and depth of their music before commercial success. Expert musicianship lies behind a beautiful dark and twisted sound, combining psychedelia, epic indie, and art rock. Influenced by everything from Radiohead and Pink Floyd to Aphex Twin and Joy Division their sound is a 'physical and shifting thing' (Liverpool Sound City) and draws you in immediately. These four charming musical troubadours are deserving of the commercial and critical success that is sure to come knocking...
On Friday December 2 it’s The South. After 20 years, ten studio albums, five greatest hits compilations, thirty-four chart singles, 15 million record sales worldwide and performing in front of millions of fans, when time was called on The Beautiful South in 2008, not everyone was ready to leave the party.
Dave Hemingway and Ali Wheeler, lead singers with the band - along with departed songwriter Paul Heaton – were having too much fun to get out the pipe and slippers, and so The South was formed. Armed with a sensational back catalogue of hits such as ‘Song For Whoever’, ‘Perfect Ten’, ‘Rotterdam’, ‘Don't Marry Her’, ‘You Keep It All In’, ‘Old Red Eyes Is Back’ and many others, there is a long way to go on this particular road.
This band has history and pedigree. Dave Hemingway’s musical career stretches back into the Eighties. He became a founder member of The Beautiful South after the demise of The Housemartins.
On Saturday December 3 there’ll be a rare gig from Altered Images. One of the brightest stars in the 80s new wave sky, Altered Images are best remembered for their number one single Happy Birthday' and bubbly lead singer Claire Grogan.
She started her 30 year long career as a schoolgirl popstar. By day she was studying for her A Levels and at night she was touring with Siouxsie and the Banshees, playing festivals alongside Echo And The Bunnymen, The Human League, U2 and recording sessions for legendary DJ, John Peel.
had worldwide success, selling millions of records, which topped the charts in several countries. They recorded three Top 10 Albums – Happy Birthday, Pinky Blue and Bite.
They were voted Best New Group at the NME awards the same year they were invited to play at The Royal Command Performance. After an 18 year gap in performing with Altered Images, Clare was persuaded to sing their hits again. It promises to be a great night.
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