Live@The Landmark - Live Music Sessions
Big things are a-happening in 2012! We have an amazing line up and are hugely looking forward to welcoming some acts to North Devon this year!
March 3rd – Auction for the Promise Club (Support TBC) Doors 7.30, Support 8pm, AftPC 9.30pm
Tickets £3 adv - £5 doors.
Female fronted Indie.
'With their fresh slant on indie guitar driven rock, combined with the haunting vocals and stunning good looks of Zoe, word is already out about these guys. So go and catch them live in a small venue soon, while you still have the chance.' - Music News.
By luck and friendship the band has recorded at Abbey Road Studios and been listed in a Marie Claire UK Playlist alongside Florence and the Machine and I Blame Coco. Introduced on BBC 6 Music by Tom Robinson, on XFM by John Kennedy and on Absolute Radio by Sarah Champion as well as regional BBC Radio Show's across the country, the female-fronted rock band have garnered critical acclaim for their unique sound, which channels shoegaze through giant hooks and huge choruses.
2010/2011 saw Auction for the Promise Club play support slots before Paolo Nutini, Martha Wainright and Pendulum at the Eden Sessions and also Reverend and The Makers. The band has racked up performances at some of the country's most renowned venues, including Liverpool's Cavern Club, The Factory/Fac251 in Manchester, Birmingham's Gatecrasher and the ICA in London, as well as headlining a closing show at London Fashion Week, Jalouse, Mayfair.
Website- www.auctionforthepromiseclub.co.uk
March 23rd – CODA (support DJ Richy J) Doors 8pm, Support 8pm, CODA 9.30pm
Tickets £7 adv, £9 doors
A night of live Dubstep from the best in the business.
Coda are a 5-piece live dubstep band from London, and have been producing music together since September 2009, after the members met at the Academy of Contemporary Music.
In the short time they’ve been together, Coda have consistently pushed their own boundaries, raising the bar with each new production. Their sets fuse together the raw energy of a traditional band performance with the flow, excitement and hype of a DJ set.
Coda have already amassed a substantial fan following and generated significant interest in their sound from promoters and labels across the country. With their gigging schedule filling up, releases on the horizon, and a constant flow of new material, their future certainly looks promising
Support from DJ Richy J. DJ Richy J is a Hip Hop, Ghetto Funk, Breaks, Electro and Drum and Bass DJ from North Devon. He’s worked alongside some of the biggest names in the country and will provide the perfect warm up for CODA.
http://www.codamusicuk.com/
http://soundcloud.com/dj-richy-j
June 29th – Yes Sir Boss (support TBC) Doors 7.30pm, Support 8pm YSB 9pm
Tickets £5adv £7 doors
Horn led hooks, offbeat rhythms and epic riffs. Signed by Joss Stone.
YES SIR BOSS presents a truly original, distinct and indefinable sound, created from a multitude of worldly musical and cultural influences. Their heavy blend of horn-led hooks, offbeat rhythms and epic riffs provide the perfect backing for the memorable and catchy lyrics invariably brought to life by the seductively expressive and husky vocals of front man Matt Sellors.
Appealing to wide audiences and captivating them with quirky magnificence and energetic soul, this Bristol based rabble of six perform their live shows with a thrilling charm that is both bold and sincere. Over the last three years they have become one of Bristol’s headline bands playing regularly to packed out venues alongside the likes of Toots & the Maytals, Babyhead and Smerin’s Antisocial Club. Following a short European tour supporting soul singer Joss Stone, they hit the festival circuit with the legendary Chai Wallahs venue performing to 1500+ crowds at many of the UK’s most beloved festivals including Glastonbury, Bestival, Electric Picnic, Green Man, Shambala, Sunrise, Eden & Body & Soul.
Now signed to Joss Stone’s newly established label ‘Stoned Records’ and represented by the ‘Diplomats of Sound’, with their debut album scheduled for release early in 2012, it won’t be long before Yes Sir Boss introduce their unique sound to the mainstream.
www.yessirboss.com
July 14th – Baraka (support TBC) Doors 7.30pm, support 8pm, Baraka 9pm.
Tickets £5 adv, £7 doors
Rhythmic world music with reggae and Caribbean vibes.
Baraka is fronted by Ben Baddoo, Master Drummer and Dancer from Ghana, on Percussion and Balafon, delivering a potent combination of driving rhythms and subtle vocals. Paul Bradley from Northern Ireland adds his unique brand of funky guitar and vocals. Royston Gage from the Commonwealth of Dominica brings in the Caribbean influence on bass. Two other Irishmen complete the line up, Mark Bradley on drums delivers the rhythmic heartbeat, and Brendan Whitmore adds the finishing touches with some explosive Saxophone, Flute and Harmonica. BARAKA is regularly augmented by Special Guest Modou Cissoko from Senegal on Kora and Djembe .
www.barakamusic.co.uk
July 28th - The Delta Kings with The James Froud Band. Doors at 7.30pm. JFB 8pm, DKs 9.30pm
Tickets £3adv £5doors
Southwest Blues at its best.
http://www.thedeltakings.co.uk/#!biography –for more info.
James Froud Band - The noise is wrung out of a Martin beat box, a stand-up bass, folk fiddle and a dobro slide guitar. The band play original material written by James Froud, a Bristol based singer song writer, with unique blend of storytelling and social commentary in his lyrics. The style is centred on alternative country/bluegrass, but drifts across the acoustic spectrum to create a contemporary sound. The band features musicians with a wealth of experience from much loved south west bands, Honey On My Grave and The Knockdown Boys. Sarah Jones is a folk fiddle player immersed in the tradition of the Tyne and a previous finalist in the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards with her band XYZ. Aisha is an excellent singer/songwriter in her own right, her voice adds delicacy akin to Emmylou Harris. James’ songs have recently been heard on Radio Bristol, Glastonbury FM and UK Country Radio and he has featured in the acclaimed acoustic showcase ‘songsfromtheshed’.
August 10th – Kyla Brox Duo (support TBC). Doors 7.30pm, support 8pm, Kyla 9pm.
Tickets £5 adv £7 doors
Beautiful, soulful voice of a modern day blues diva.
Kyla's voice remains a stunning example of the soul singer's art: turning up the heat by degrees, lulling and charming before unleashing emotional catharsis, and blurring the distinction between pleasure and pain like the soul greats of old. Whether fronting the mighty Kyla Brox Band, or harnessing undiluted soul power in a duo with musical and life partner Danny Blomeley, Kyla Brox is without doubt the most authentic UK blues and soul singer of her generation.
Born in Lancashire in 1980, she was exposed to the passion of Afro-American music at first-hand from her blues singing father, Victor. She traces her interest in singing from age three, partly from a desire to be closer to her charismatic but distant dad. She was the late product of the marriage between Victor (Caiaphas in the original cast recording of Jesus Christ Superstar) and Annette (the 'maid by the fire' in the same), and, unlike her elder sisters, gifted but non-professional singers, she didn't spend her formative years in the back of a touring van under a cloud of cannabis smoke.
Kyla joined the family business in 1992, singing with Victor onstage at Band On The Wall at the age of 12, and performing with his regular touring group shortly afterwards
"An authentic soul diva… sensitive, sexy, and with infinite reserves of sassiness" - City Life
"A classic sound pulled off with finesse… classy, impressive…" - Oldham Chronicle
"Great voice, great presence, great songs, great band…" - Leicester Mercury
www.kylabrox.com
