Tom Brosseau + Kristin McClement + Mary Hampton at the One Church, Brighton
(Thursday September 17th 2015 | Tickets £8 adv | Facebook Event | Last.fm Event | Songkick Event | Maps & Directions)
As the working week draws to a close we bring you an evening of three truly unique songwriters;
“North Dakota troubadour brings stark, trembling beauty to folky acoustic pop. The world is better for it.” MOJO Magazine – Danny Eccleston
“No artist possesses the same peculiar qualities as Brosseau…. The power of his performing persona is so strong that he can pervade the whole room with his subjective existence, making time-warped acolytes out of his audience.” – BBC
North Dakota-born, LA-based songwriter and singer, Tom Brosseau learned acoustic guitar from his grandmother. He has toured Japan, Canada, Portugal, Iceland, Australia; performed in bars, backyards, grand halls, subways, theaters, old folks homes; exchanged songs and poetry with many talented folks, including Susan Orlean, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Patrick Marber, and the late Sam Hinton.
“Inventive, weighty pop music which dazzles, shimmers and glows exquisitely in the cold light of the day.” GoldFlakePaint
Born in South Africa, the daughter of a Classics teacher and a carburetor repairman, Kristin spent her early years travelling through both arid and tropical lands as her family looked for work. Kristin moved to England aged thirteen and it was around this time that she picked up her first nylon string guitar and began writing songs. She caught the attention of the local folk scene while studying Fine Art in Brighton and after a handful of early performances was eagerly adopted by The Willkommen Collective (The Leisure Society, Eyes & No Eyes, Sons of Noel & Adrian, etc).
Mary Hampton was born in London in 1977, the second of two daughters, to a distinguished English playwright. She has been a professional whistle-maker and travelling history-book salesman. She is now a writer/singer living in Brighton.
Fetching out old songs from the silent archives of the traditional canon, and winching up new songs from her imagination, she then sets them both to work alongside each other. In this way, she can play with certain dynamic tensions that are perpetually at work in the world: the past and the present, the natural and the civilized, the extraordinary and the familiar, the symbolic and the real, the pillar and the post etc.
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£8 advance, £10 on the door.