these guys have graced the calmer* stage over the years: Curtis Eller's American Circus, Marissa Nadler, Charlie Parr, Edd Donovan, Devon Sproule, Paul Curreri, James Blackshaw, Mi and L'au, Josephine Foster, Thomas Truax, Rachael Dadd, Richard James, Soft Hearted Scientists, Sam Beer, Scott Matthews, Danny Schmidt, Carolina Herrera, Pete Bruntnell, Nathan Filer, Rivulets, Annalies Monsere, Men Diamler, Annette Buckley, Rose Kemp, Chris Collins, MPE Band, The Corn Fed Girls, Lianne Hall, Mario Vendredi, Caroline Martin, Jamie Lawson, Amy Wadge, Miles Mann, 90 Degrees South, Longstone, Fruitbat, Symon Bye, Rogue, Lorna, Earnest Cox, Bodixa, Sam Holmes, Jim Bob, Applecraft, Pony Club, Pete Bruntnell, Inkubus Sukkubus, Susanna Waters, Steve Franks, Black Flowers, Wonderful Wednesdays, Halflight, Dik Cadbury, Jeff Martinez, Bela Emerson, Jon Gomm, Knowledge of Bugs, Richard Walters, Mat Gibson, Pronefoal, Urban Space Epics, Family Machine, John Smith, Chloe Poems, Danny Schmidt, Cajita, John Harris, Chris Cundy, Alex Ward, Smokehand, Jana Hunter, Andrew Hockey, Chris T-T, Jim Lockey, Safetyword, Vialka, Liz Green, George Thomas, Sam Holmes
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Bookings...it's usually by invite only but if you'd like to play please send us a message to calmercheltenham @ googlemail dot com!
About me: Calmer* is a DIY promotion team. We put on shows packed full of the best sounds, experiences and performers in the whole wide world. Articulate acoustic angels, back porch drawlers, melancholic folk sirens, hungover hillbillies, smoking jazz queens, experimental electronicas, burlesque beauties, whisky drinking bluesmen, piccolo playing pixies, circus whores and so much love it's sometimes quite painful.
Calmer* is somewhere articulate with new and innovative acts, somewhere reflective that dare not follow the mainstream. Somewhere that takes a chance of the two.
Here to bring the antidote; a real alternative. Here to bring acts that we truly love to the most wonderful, respectful audience. Here to put Cheltenham on the map. Here to promote independent promoting, where beauty and belief outweigh cash and all its dirty madness.
Experimental, acoustic, alternative and always, entertaining acts.
www.calmermusic.co.uk.
30% Of The Profit From This CD Goes Directly To Children's Homes And Orphanages All Over The World!
The new CD "Dr.Jones, Songs 1987-2009” is available now! 16 songs taking you through the highlights of 22 years of Dr. Jones's recordings. Rock, blues, pop, unplugged and beautiful ballads, there's a song for everybody! Visit the "DR. JONES GANG" on myspace
Price £4.99 / $7.11 / EUR 4.76 (plus P+P) You won't get a 16 track CD any cheaper and at the same time, YOU'LL BE DOING SOMETHING GOOD!!!
30% of the profit from this CD goes directly to "Wake Up - Stop Child Abuse"! And from there it will be donated to Children's Homes and Orphanages all over the world!
For more information, please spare some time and read the blog on our profile!
I'm happy to announce that my new album "Songs From The Films Of David Lynch" is out now.
"Truly unsettling and perplexingly brilliant... testament to both the quality of Lynch’s soundtracks and Truax’s talents" - The Skinny
"Truax is paying homage to a kindred spirit with this album. It's the best kind of tribute – affectionate and respectful, but with its own quirks and imaginative leaps and its own distinct identity." -The Scotsman
'Stunning...this is the best singer / songwriter debut I have heard in a long while'- 5/5 *****- Maverick
'Outstanding debut...pastoral, romantic and lit musically by summer rays...this album is no routine singer- songwriter offering but some-thing totally engaging in melody and lyric'- **** 4/5- MOJO
Also available from HMV, Amazon, Play.com and all other good retailers.
Featuring Fyfe Dangerfield (from Guillemots), Gannets posit an alternative jazz history in which 30's swing developed straight into a combined form of the free jazz and fusion movements, without any of the intervening decades.
Fyfe Dangerfield - keyboards + electronics
Alex J Ward - clarinet
Christopher Cundy - bass clarinet
Dominic Lash - double bass
Steve Noble - drums
