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Maverick LIVe Maidstone Al Perkins' with Brady Blaine & Chris Donohue plus Special Guest Brigette DeMayer - THE LOFT Monday 6th July. Seats available 01622 744481
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Rod Picott & Amanda Shires - 15/6/09
Chris Farlowe Band - 29/6/09
Eve Selis - 20/7/09
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Dear friends,
Chris Farlowe was simply superb - thanks to those who came and helped make this such a wonderful night - as promised his band were every bit as good as it gets in this genre - and what an atmosphere! The Loft is certainly proving to have something extra in this department. We had a very enthusiastic crowd and the overall feedback was 'more gigs like this please!'
The recent change of venue has not helped us with pre sales however - we should really have made money on Chris Farlowe - we did not quite cover it. This I must admit was the only disappointment about the evening.
We also hope to see many of you at the Maverick Festival in Suffolk over the coming weekend 3/4/5th July. We will be bringing one of the headline acts from the festival to The Loft on Monday 6th July in the form of Al Perkins.
Dan Turner & Alan Cackett
Location
The Loft is 5 minutes walk from The Zebra Bar and King Street Multi Story Car Park. See directions and map at foot of email. There is also parking at the nearby Palace Avenue and Carriage Museum (Mill Street) Car Parks. This building was once a Victorian grain store, although it has been used as a nightclub for some years and has recently come under new management. The venue is undergoing renovation in coming months but serves our purpose well and actually is a great live music venue for Maidstone. The gigs will take place upstairs where there is more space. Here there is a full size stage with dedicated sound system. The room has more in common with the old Soul Café in terms of shape and layout - but has a professional stage. I am confident that if we receive strong enough support from our past customers/supporters that the venue management will allow us to stay beyond the next few weeks until we know where we will continue on a permanent basis.
We will be able to seat about 60 people at The Loft so seats are limited as they were before. There is however more standing room than at Zebra Bar, and the view of the stage is excellent throughout the room.
No food is served at The Loft but obviously the bar will be open and it needs to do well at each gig to ensure that we remain welcome at this venue. Regrettably there is no wheelchair access to the upstairs for these gigs.
For full directions to the venue scroll to the very foot of this section. This Map should help you find us!
Tickets
Remember there are now just 60 seats for each gig so get in fast! We need to sell these seats & also some standing tickets to cover the cost of these gigs. Tickets for our shows are available online Here through We Got Tickets. Or simply call 01622 744481 with your credit card (no fees) - Please don't call late at night - this number is at Alan's home.
Forthcoming Events For 2009
MONDAY July 6th - £12 Adv (£14 Door)
The Return The Man Who Has Played With Them All!
Al Perkins' Big Dog 3
feat Brady Blaine & Chris Donohue
Plus Special Guest Brigette DeMayer
We urge you to support this show in particular which is selling rather poorly considering this is most of Emmylou Harris's band!.
The legendary Al Perkins can be found on recordings by among others - The Eagles and Emmylou Harris. Al has also worked with The Rolling Stones! Don't miss a true legend of American music!
MONDAY July 20th - £15 Seats (limited) £13 Standing
The Return of the Hugely Popular West Coast Fireball
Eve Selis
Plus Support
Eve Selis isn’t just a “singer” - she’s an emotion transducer who converts country, R&B, blues, folk, and rock ‘n’ roll signals into a megawatt zap that galvanizes everyone in its path. And as with fellow femme-furnace frontwomen Bonnie Raitt, Joan Osborne, Maria McKee, Melissa Etheridge, and Lydia Pense, the cauterizing power of Selis’s voice can arc-weld material from almost any genre into a personal manifesto. As always Eve's Maidstone show promises to be one hell of a blast! Book early!
“One of the best shows I've ever seen in the U.K.” - Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2
MONDAY July 27th - £15 Adv (£17 Door)
Two Amazing American Singer Songwriters!
Mary Gauthier & Jason Ringenberg
“With songwriting as powerful as hers, there's no need to go looking for qualifiers…She's a unique, intrinsically valuable musical voice. And there's never a surplus of those.” - Los Angeles Times
In 2001 the late John Peel played THE LAST RIDE on his prestigious BBC Radio show which effectively launched Jason Ringenberg's UK solo career. The TIMES (London): has this to say about Ringenberg "One of the most overlooked country rock pioneers still in the business… Ringenberg has gained the reputation as one of the most dynamic performers of his generation!”
SUNDAY Aug 30th - £10 Adv (£12 Door)
The Finest Harmonies In British Country Music
The Haley Sisters
Plus Support
Almost two years to the day since we launched Maverick @ Zebra in the presence of The Haley Sisters - Jo-Ann and Becky return for a show of true, natural and at times very raw talent - their singing is to be witnessed to believe, and their songs cover contemporary country, ballads, blues and even some classics from the likes of Elvis & Emmylou Harris. As their fan base continues to grow, you can expect all of the above and more this evening plus some great Yorkshire honesty and humour from the sisters of country.
MONDAY Sep 7th - £12 Adv (£14 Door)
One Of America's Most Acclaimed, Yet Best Kept Secrets
Kim Richey
Plus Support
Kim Richey is one of the greatest living female singer/songwriters - and certainly one of America's most acclaimed yet best kept secrets. Kim has refined her own distinctive version of Americana to draw together strands of rock, country and folk - and comparisons have been drawn with K.D Lang, Lucinda Williams and Joni Mitchell. On the verge of major success for several years, Kim co-wrote Trisha Yearwood's hit "Believe Me, Baby (I Lied)". Kim's Grammy nominated songs have also been recorded by The Dixie Chicks, Patty Loveless, Suzy Bogguss and many others. Her own 1995 self-titled debut album provided her first country hit, "Just My Luck", as well as the follow-up "Those Words We Said" (which Trisha Yearwood also recorded). Kim's latest release "Chinese Boxes" is produced by Giles Martin who recently won a Grammy for his work on the Beatles "Love" album with his father George. Catch Kim's beautiful voice and mesmerising songs as she stops off in Maidstone on her short UK tour.
MONDAY Sep 14th - £10 Adv (£12 Door)
Another Maidstone Debut
Sam Baker
With Tim Lorsch
Plus Madison Violet aka 'MadViolet'
In 1986, at age 32, Sam Baker was traveling in Peru when, as he says, “I got in the
middle of somebody else’s war.” A terrorist bomb (the Sendero Luminoso or “Shining Path” Maoist group) blew up the train he and some friends were riding on. Several passengers died, including a German boy and his parents, who were sitting next to Baker. Though he nearly bled to death, Sam survived but suffered a constellation of injuries and aftereffects—shrapnel in his leg, renal failure, brain damage, even gangrene.
“Right now, the loudest thing I hear is the ringing in my head,” he says of the Tinnitus, which will never go away. The other obvious reminder of the blast is his left hand, the fingers of which are permanently scrunched and twisted. Fortunately, he has enough dexterity to grip a pick—after re-learning to play guitar left-handed (fretting with the less-injured right hand)—so that he can sing and play some of the most vivid, compelling, truly original songs of any artist working today. The brain damage he initially suffered affected mainly the part of the brain where words are stored. Which is ironic, since it’s the stories and images he paints with words that brought him acclaim—first with his 2004 debut, Mercy, and
now with its 2007 follow-up, Pretty World (both self released). Of forging a career out of writing and singing his own songs, Baker beams, “To start this at this age is a real interesting thing. I’m 53—a great age. It’s a fabulous age. Just to be, as they say, ‘walking the face of the earth’ is a miracle—no matter what age you are. I’ll take it every day.”
MONDAY Oct 5th - £TBC Adv (£TBC Door)
The Distinctive Retro Sound Of An Americana Pioneer
Eilen Jewell Band
Plus Lisa O'Kane
Eilen Jewell’s third album, Sea of Tears, is a recording that fills in a vital, hitherto missing element of her musical persona. “Before I discovered Woody Guthrie and folk music,” she explains, “I was listening to Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, and, later on, the Animals and the Kinks. I love that stuff, and I love to play it.”
With Sea of Tears, Jewell and her longtime band of Jason Beek (drums, harmony vocals), Jerry Miller (electric, acoustic, and steel guitars), and Johnny Sciascia (upright bass) wed her elegantly unflinching songwriting with a rustic, pre-Beatles swagger that encapsulates vintage R&B, Midwestern garage rock, Chicago blues, and early rock and rockabilly, while maintaining the haunting, folk-inspired purity that first made her an artist to watch.
MONDAY Oct 19th - £14 Adv (£16 Door)
Texas Based Songwriting Legend Returns To Maidstone
Slaid Cleaves
Plus Support
"Cleaves tells gorgeously compact stories in a voice packed with Texas trail dust." - Entertainment Weekly
"One of the finest singer-songwriters in Texas." - Neil Strauss, The New York Times.
MONDAY Nov 16th - £12 Adv (£14 Door)
For the first time ever in the UK the unique pairing of
Hugh Moffatt & Katy Moffatt
Two of America's very best singer-songwriters
Detailed Directions
From Junction 7 M20 – Follow A249 towards Maidstone. You’ll be travelling down a hill (Sittingbourne Road) – at the bottom follow the road round some office blocks towards the Town Centre (you’ll go through three sets of traffic lights). After the last set – take the second road on the right (Queen Anne Road). Then take first left (Marsham Street). At the end of this road take a left turn into Church Street (one-way road), keep to the left-hand lane and you’ll see signs to multi-storey car park. The Loft is located 5 minutes walk away on Gabiels Hill (Behind Strawberry Moons).
From Junction 6 M20 - Follow the signs to A229 Maidstone which will take you round a roundabout, back under the Motorway onto a slip road to the A229 - follow this road toward Maidstone - at second roundabout take first exit to the left (signed to County Hall), across roundabout with the Prison Wall on your right, at top of this road there is a mini roundabout, turn right (with Prison Wall still on your right). Continue along this road to the very end you’ll pass through two sets of traffic lights. At T-junction turn right towards Town Centre. You’ll be travelling down a hill (Sittingbourne Road) – at the bottom follow the road round some office blocks towards the Town Centre (you’ll go through three sets of traffic lights). After the last set – take the second road on the right (Queen Anne Road). Then take first left (Marsham Street). At the end of this road take a left turn into Church Street (one-way road), keep to the left-hand lane and you’ll see signs to multi-storey car park. The Loft is located 5 minutes walk away on Gabiels Hill (Behind Strawberry Moons).
This Map should help you find us!
Directions to King Street Car Park – 5 Minutes Walk From The Loft.
From Junction 7 M20 – Follow A249 towards Maidstone. You’ll be travelling down a hill (Sittingbourne Road) – at the bottom following the road round some office blocks towards the Town Centre (you’ll go through three sets of traffic lights). After the last set – take the second road on the right (Queen Anne Road). Then take first left (Marsham Street). At the end of this road take left turn into Church Street (one-way road), keep to the left-hand lane and you’ll see signs to multi-storey car park.
Directions to Palace Avenue & Carriage Museum (Mill Street) Car Parks – 5 Minutes Walk From The Loft.
From Junction 6 M20 - Follow the signs to A229 Maidstone which will take round a roundabout, back under the Motorway onto a slip road to the A229 - follow this road toward Maidstone Town Centre (signposted A229 Hastings) This will take you along Fairmeadow past Fremlin Walk Shopping Centre on your left (River to your right) Follow road round Bishops Way and keep in the right-hand lane after second set of lights after the River, turn right into Palace Avenue Car Park. If this is full, return to A229 and follow the one-way system towards Hastings (keeping in right hand lane), 60 yards after pedestrian crossing lights, in Lower Stone Street, you’ll come to another set of lights, turn right (very old building on corner) into Knightrider Street, next set of lights keep in right hand lane and after 20 yards turn right intro car park (Mill Street). Please note charges apply for evening parking.
Please Note the Loft is in a pedestrian only zone therefore Post Code won’t help with directions for vehicles.
Small Print
Where we are unable to avoid doing so we reserve the right to make minor changes to a billed performance. When a performance is cancelled, or headline artist is completely changed - all tickets purchased through 'We Got Tickets' will be refunded automatically. Holders of tickets purchased by telephone or at gigs will be offered ticket exchanges for other shows - this is regrettably due to high bank charges.
Special Thanks
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SOUNDS @ THE LOFT
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Gold Heart
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Kimmie Rhodes
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Al Perkins
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Charlie Dore
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Henry Priestman
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Joan Coffey
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Two Fingers Of Firewater
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Wheeler Street
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Lotte Mullan
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Maverick
Maverick Country
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Kevin Montgomery
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Kim Richey
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Steve Balsamo
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Hot Club of Cowtown
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The Paperboys
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Luke Jackson
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The Haley Sisters
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The Storys
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The Mercurymen
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terra naomi
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Mike Nash: Illustration…
Mike Nash
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THE WILDERS
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Kendel
Comments
Jun 20 2009 4:16 PM
Jun 14 2009 9:59 PM
See this video clip and comments from Mark Olson and The Hotseats at Maverick Festival's MySpace page…
Jun 7 2009 4:26 PM
cool to see u again and thanx for such a wicked sound even if it was for only 2 songs...lol...could have played for ages...:)
hope all is good at the loft and hope to see u soon when i can get let in again
luke x
Jun 5 2009 3:35 PM
So sorry to hear of your problems at Zebra, but I'm pleased that you've got a new (temporary for the time being at least) new home venue at The Loft.
Keep on keepin' on, you're all doing a fantastic job for great live music.
Roger
May 30 2009 12:42 PM
May 9 2009 10:02 AM
have a great weekend...im off to the stables soon to open for Rachel Harrington tonight..:)
see you soon
luke x