Judee Sill Fion Regan Forest Espers Rolling Stones The Seeds Love The Byrds Gram Parsons Will Oldham Tortoise Aphex twin Autechre Primal Scream Palace Brothers Ornette Coleman The Pop Group The Libertines Royal Trux Prince Fari and the Arabs The Stooges Stone Roses Trex Happy Mondays Chemical Brothers Jay z Metalheads Hawkwind Can Forest Anne Briggs Pink Floyd Underworld Bob Dylan Slaughter and the Dogs Slint Wutang Clan Chic Sandy Denny Scott Walker Pulp Human League Joy Division Sonic Youth Boards of Canada Felix da Housecat Choclate Watch Band My Bloody Valentine Broadcast Electric Prunes joseph muller Brockham Prinzhorn dance school Fairport Convention, Pentangle, Jackson C. Frank, Bread Love & Dreams, Bert Jansch, Incredible String Band, Saint Just, Catherine Ribiero & Alpes, C.O.B., Shirley Collins, JackKerouac, Brian Jonestown massecre, Eagles of death metal
Spooked folk rock, psych, alt country and baroque pop mesh to create McDowell's exotic kaleidoscope of sound. Visual support comes in the form of vintage lighting effects and moving collage inspired by the music. The band have just released a new acoustic album 'The Gap in the Curtain'
SAT 31ST OCTOBER - 5TH ANNIVERSARY & HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
COUNTRYSUDE, McDOWELL and one more tbc
A night celebrating loads of great bands/performers and loads of great nights over the last five years at Gimme Shelter! It's Halloween too so got to town !!
COUNTRYSIDE - Previous Venue magazine 'Band of the Year' winners and rightly so, serving up a fine mix of Indie Rock with shades of 60's Psychedelia.Countryside deliver WARPED POP loveliness with favourable comparisons to bands like Grandaddy and Flaming Lips !!
McDOWELL - Amazing SPOOKED Folk, Rock, PSYCH and Baroque Pop outfit with Ken Pustelnik of legendary 60's/70's outfit The Groundhogs on drums. Expect material from new album ' The gap in the curtain' and more.
With the Gimme Shelter! club night , John The Mod and guests spinning 60’s Garage & Psych, Northern Soul, Freakbeat, Punk, Rock & Roll and Go Go! against a backdrop of vintage lights, films and projections.
With the Gimme Shelter! club night , John The Mod and guests spinning 60..s Garage & Psych, Northern Soul, Freakbeat, Punk, Rock & Roll and Go Go! against a backdrop of vintage lights, films and projections.
Tantrika (Tuesday nights at Porter myspace.com/tantrikamusic) is planning a gig for the autumnal equinox 22nd September - would be good to have McDowell play if you can do it!
Thanks for the add :) You were great at Tantrika a few weeks ago - not many bands I want to listen to all night - but you're one of them - psychedelic bliss! Thank you xx
The Mighty Stef [AKA Stefan Murphy] is a singer and songwriter from Dublin Ireland, celebrated for the storytelling nature of his songs and his passionate live shows. He and his band are a veritable band of rock n roll Pirates, sailing a sea of influences that include everything from The Rolling Stones to the Pogues, Nick Cave To the Clash and Johnny Thunders to Johnny Cash.
Howlin' Lord - 'Galloping raw country blues. It's terrific, entirely in keeping with the spirit of Hank Williams, whining, urgent and desperate.
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