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.
September 13th, 8pm, at Sanctuary Cafe Cella, Brunswick Road East, Hove
Whalebone Polly is a duo made up of Kate Staples of This is the Kit and Rachael Dadd of The Hand and their music has much in common with those groups – rippling banjos, warm harmonies and odd percussive interludes.
Rozi Plain has played with Francois and the Atlas Mountains and has had records released by the Fence Collective. Her songs are sumptuous and charming.
Rowan Coupland amassed a mini-choir for his last Willkommen show at the Sanctuary – who knows what he’s got in store for us next?
At 3:30pm on Sunday 6th September, Sons of Noel and Adrian play in Northampton Square for bandstandbusking.com. All twelve members will be performing totally acoustically. Peggy Sue are also playing at 3pm. Come on down!
