12.09.2010: Diane Cluck, Alessi's Ark,
We team up with the rather splendid Platforms: Live! to present this excellent show.
Tickets here
Diane Cluck
Diane at MySpace
Influential anti-folk songstress Diane Cluck will return to London for a headlining show at The Tabernacle on 12th September 2010. She will be joined by the ever excellent Alessi's Ark, Wig Smith and Anders Griffin.
The Village Voice recently described Diane as "a brilliant idiosyncratic guitarist, a witty and wise lyricist, an imaginative melody writer with a powerful voice; her dark and introspective tunes are utterly captivating, sorta like an earthier Kate Bush.".
Diane at MySpace
Influential anti-folk songstress Diane Cluck will return to London for a headlining show at The Tabernacle on 12th September 2010. She will be joined by the ever excellent Alessi's Ark, Wig Smith and Anders Griffin.
The Village Voice recently described Diane as "a brilliant idiosyncratic guitarist, a witty and wise lyricist, an imaginative melody writer with a powerful voice; her dark and introspective tunes are utterly captivating, sorta like an earthier Kate Bush.".
Alessi's Ark
Alessi at MySpace
She's not all cutesy doe-eyed Disney-esque innocence. She's not from Wookie Hole or Nether Wallop or somesuch rural idyll full of fairies and elves, she's from Hammersmith. Much of her inspiration, she says, comes from authors like JD Salinger and Edward Gorey and films such as Harold and Maude. She created her own fanzine, Brain Bulletin, when she was at secondary school, and proceeded to distribute it in a launderette on Shepherd's Bush Road. And she describes what she does as "a new take on psychedelic folk music, very British, a little like Syd Barrett, who was very childlike in his own way".
"Alessi blows away any lazy comparisons to Newsom or Feist."
Alessi at MySpace
She's not all cutesy doe-eyed Disney-esque innocence. She's not from Wookie Hole or Nether Wallop or somesuch rural idyll full of fairies and elves, she's from Hammersmith. Much of her inspiration, she says, comes from authors like JD Salinger and Edward Gorey and films such as Harold and Maude. She created her own fanzine, Brain Bulletin, when she was at secondary school, and proceeded to distribute it in a launderette on Shepherd's Bush Road. And she describes what she does as "a new take on psychedelic folk music, very British, a little like Syd Barrett, who was very childlike in his own way".
"Alessi blows away any lazy comparisons to Newsom or Feist."