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In Autumn 2006 the Norfolk born singer-songwriter Lewis Garland pressganged
Bradley Blackwell (Double Bass), Drew Coleman (Mandolin, Guitar, Concertina) and Ben Wiffen (Clarinet, Percussion) into his services on board the good ship ‘Kett Rebellion’.
Over the last year the group have shared many an adventure...
The Big Green Gathering/Leamington Peace Festival, support for Nizlopi, Benji Kirkpatrick (Bellowhead), Devon Sproule, and 2006 Mercury Award nominated artist Lou Rhodes... luckily they have all managed to avoid scurvy to date.
Lewis Garland and the Kett Rebellion have been highly acclaimed for their energetic yet intimate performances, the group’s folk tinged sound providing the perfect complement to Lewis’s intricate, often caustic, wordplay.
What others have said...
"energetic folk-klezmer linked with clever wordplay "
The Coventry Evening Telegraph, Oct 2007
"a great voice, a brilliant guitarist and interesting lyrics... Lewis Garland is a singer songwriter with a difference"
BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire
"Really thoughtful lyrics"
Karine Polwart (winner of 2005 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards best album, best emerging artist and best original song)
"These young chancers from Coventry bucked the trend, turned down the PA and the stage and set up right in the middle of the barn!!! The folly of youth I thought - but then they started to play, people hushed and were treated to what in my mind was the best performance the Barn has seen so far. These guys are ridiculously good and gave a flavour to folk that I will want to taste for years to come" Promoter (Henley-on-Thames)
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how was it all? I read somewhere that you'd play in London on the 11th of july... I deeplly hope it's a mistake and that's it's really the 22nd and 23rd... or I might murder you one by one for playing in London for my BD when I'm away!!! Anyway, hope you're well, we're keeping the street teaming with the corrected flyers... erm... and will see u soon!!! Lots of love! xx
"Struggles & Lulls", the brand new album from Joan Coffey, is available now on ITunes
'a voice that can enchant. Coffey's vocal chords deliver liquid gold with a divine Irish lilt.' FATEA Records 'charming and honest'. Time Out 'Joan's music exudes a warmth, humility and truth that is rare to find in singer-songwriters these days'. Thea Gilmore
OxJam @ The Tin This Wed 30 April From 8pm £3 min donation
What a line-up! Al Britten Matt Lakey Garfield Lucy anne Sale Si Hayden Verity Pabla Wes & the dirty band John Wright Richard Hibbs Teresa Stewart Lyndsay & Naomi
what a great set/ gig last night... it was definately worth the trip... Hope you had a great time too... Tired... not slept much in the bus nor after... Finn's gig tonight... gonna die soon... See you soon guys! Take care (and watch the ceiling lamps Ben!!!!)
Hey there Drew+mates! You sound great-what a band Drew-and the mandolin fits in so well.Good luck with those big gigs you've got comin' up + congrats to all. Dave
hey bro,, wow you are supporting nizlopi that is going to be an amazing gig!! i only just discovered them this weekend on the way down to norfolk cos zoe had it.. They are amazing. If you know Fat freddy's drop- i think they are kind of the english version of them. I hear you will be playing at beatherder to. I will see you there.. Congrats on your glastonbury gig also!! you are really going places- am well chuffed for you and of course you totally deserve it. don't really need to write that now do i!! All is good up in Liverpool. Eco Cleaning Fairy has flown off on a wild tangent. I've had so much work i have been giving it out to 3 others also. I have been dabbling in buddhism also. Very interesting and highly beneficial way of looking at life... RumJIg are back together and i have just organised a massive do for charity called BUGSY it is a bugsy Malone fancy dress party in a cool club called Magnet. Rumjig are playing amongst other funky bands and even have mikey and rory doing a back to back set!! I hope you are really well and I send fields and fields of love to you and your family. I'm really sorry i can't see the gig on MOnday. It is gonna be a right cracker i can tell!!!!!!!!!Wuhoooooooooooo**********
what? the folk! are chuffed to host the launch of Dr Butlers Hatstand Medicine Bands album 'Music for Parlours & Promenades' next Wednesday at the deaf institue. Special guests and surprise performaces from 8pm til late with record playing by Chris Long in between and after sets. No need to message back for cheap list cos it's FREE ENTRY, bless! x
Hey, randhir showed me a cd with some your songs on - bring me down, all we have, dont ask me, is this war, and weathergirl. Neways just thort id say i really like them, specially bring me down, and cud u put them up on ur profile sumtime? Cheers Taren x
hey thanks for accepting the request! my mate Taren mentioned you, so i thought i'd have a listen. i neva relly new i wos into folk music, but i am liking you guys!
Will we be seeing ya at this month's Red Eyed & Blue on Tuesday April 8th? We sure hope so! It's taking place at the Hawley Arms' brand spanking new music venue The Wilmington. We've got a crackin' lineup with Curtis Eller, The Cedars, Tom Baxendale and Tenlon Forts. And DJ sets from the Truckin' Lauras and DJ James Steel.
Monday 24th March! Baby Dee W/ The Bellows (Coventry) Taylor John's House Coventry Cv1 4LY £6 adv ~ 024 76 559 958 Baby Dee: Performance artist, songwriter, classically trained harpist, circus sideshow veteran, and transgender street legend Baby Dee was born in 1953 in Cleveland, OH. She spent ten years as music director and organist for a Catholic church in the Bronx before joining the circus as the bilateral hermaphrodite at Coney Island. This landed her a gig as the bandleader for performance art group the Bindlestiff Family Circus and a tour with the Kamikaze Freak Show in Europe. After moving back to New York City, she became a fixture in lower Manhattan with a street act on a high-rise tricycle with a concert harp. She recorded her first record, Little Window, on the Durtro label in 2000, a four-track EP in 2001, and her second full-length, the double-disc Love's Small Song, in 2002. Her latest album, Safe Inside The Day, was released in January.
The Bellows: If you hunger for the dark beauty of Nick Cave's murder ballads, the poetic chaos of Tom Wait's bone machine or the world weary woes of Johnny Cash's rambling characters.... This rag tag bunch of instrument swapping musicians stir a swampy cauldron of folk,country and blues, cooking up Cossack style upbeat to wistful melancholy.
Hey Yeah Randhir's ok thanks he's in manchester at the moment but i'll mention the saranghi for him if you want when he comes back. I think he mentioned that he played the dilruba for you once?
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