We are delighted to welcome Pete Roe back to Brighton after his wonderful set at Stanmer House last year. Tickets are on sale now at www.wegottickets.com/willkommen for just £6.50.

Pete Roe is a gifted singer/songwriter, best known as the pianist and guitarist in Mercury Award nominee Laura Marling’s band. Having toured with Marling several times, opened for Mumford & Sons too many times to remember and worked as guitar tech for the Maccabees, Roe is now stepping in to the limelight and releasing a solo EP through Communion Records in June, the label run by Kev from Cherbourg and Ben from Mumford & Sons.

His sound fuses the keen melodic ear and lyricism of his aforementioned friends with the guitar skills of Bert Jansch and John Martyn. His unique style sees complex melody, bass lines and percussive tapping simultaneously weaving in and out of each other and his soothing voice sits perfectly on top.

www.myspace.com/peteroe

We’re very pleased to announce that the Willkommen Collective will be hitting the road in April. The Leisure Society, Sons of Noel and Adrian and a rotating cast of supports will play the following rather fantastic venues:

April
1 – London – The Tabernacle
3 – Brighton – Corn Exchange
4 – Bristol – Thekla
5 – Leeds – Brudenell Social Club
6 – Manchester – Band on the Wall
7 – Kendal – Brewery Arts Centre

Further details coming very soon.

We were very sad to hear that Jack Rose died on the morning of December 5, 2009 from an apparent heart attack. His Performance at November’s Willkommen night was legendary and Sons of Noel and Adrian were fortunate enough to play with him in Bristol a couple of days later.

A posthumous release of his final recordings for the Thrill Jockey label is anticipated. Our thoughts go out to his family and friends.

I’ve just ended online sales so I can head to the venue, but you can still buy tickets from Resident or on the door at the Komedia. See you there!

SoundCurious is an exciting new event based in Coachwerks, a renovated old garage in Hollingbury, Brighton. The first SoundCurious has an audio visual theme, with live soundtracks from the likes of Collectress, Hamilton Yarns, Robert Stillman and Bela Emerson, and Willkommen’s own Sons of Noel and Adrian. The latter will be performing a live soundtrack to one of Jean Painleve’s remarkable nature documentaries, The Love Life of the Octopus.

SoundCurious runs from 10th to 11th October. More info here.