Charlie Dore

Tickets: £14 advance or £17 on the door

Doors and bar open @ 7.00pm
Show starts @ 7.45pm

Multi award-winning Charlie will be performing with muti-instrumentalist Julian Littman of Steeleye Span and together they bring a night of eclectic, contemporary folk as the pair swap guitars, piano, mandolin, harmonium, & ukulele plus a fresh take on her iconic hit ‘Pilot of the Airwaves’.

The new album, Dark Matter promises a cocktail of the metaphysical and the miniature, big themes and tiny dramas both sad and funny, served in a beautiful but cracked glass. With titles like 2000 Hour Light Bulb, Fifteen Minutes with Danny Kaye and Personal Hell, Charlie raids the instrument cupboard and shines an eclectic light on some of her darkest material yet.

With nine albums’ worth of songs to mine now, no two nights are the same and the array of instruments - guitars, piano, mandolin, harmonium, autoharp & ukulele is constantly swapped as they dip into last year’s Milk Roulette album, followed perhaps by a couple from 2011’s award-winning Cheapskate Lullabyes, their version of Charlie’s first ever single, Fear of Flying (covered by George Harrison).

Charlie Dore’s own music is hard to label, but eclectic, contemporary folk is the nearest-accurate description - and Julian Littman, fresh from touring with his ‘other’ band, Steeleye Span, is always up for an improvised solo or two. Charlie is a multi-award-winning writer and although she has written for the great and the good, her live show reveals that actually she keeps the best songs for herself.

‘A gift for melody, brave, poignant, entertaining, original' Guardian ★★★★
‘Beatific of voice, fragrant of melody and lyrically fearless’ MOJO ★★★★
‘Still stretching boundries’ - Telegraph/Featured in Telegraph’s Best Albums of 2014 ★★★★
‘Charlie Dore has made the album of her life’ - Ricky Ross. Deacon Blue/BBC Radio Scotland

www.charliedore.com