Waiting Room News
ITS SHOWTIME!
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Matchbox Cabaret Events at The Waiting Room this autumn...
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SIMON MUNNERY A Tuesday night Special (September 6th) tickets £10
What's the chances? when Josie Long came to see us the other week - who should just be walking past our gaf on his way to find a pool table in the heart of the Eaglescliffe badlands - but Lord of The Heartfordshire Manor himself - Simon Munnery! So he came in and had a drink and said hi to Josie. And then arranged this gig.
Simon Munnery is a famous surreal comedian who mostly plays to an alternative audience but has sometimes found his way into the mainstream by performing on the BBC, recently making appearances in Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle and previously in his own BBC 2 show Attention Scum! Sometimes he has been known as Alan Parker - Urban Warrior and sometimes as The League Against Tedium.
SARABETH TUCEK Sunday Sept 18th tickets £8
“ALL HAIL THE NEW QUEEN OF FOLKY TORCHSONG” – MOJO (4 STARS) “STUNNING DEBUT” – UNCUT (4 STARS) “A DUSKY, DESERT-FOLK GEM” – THE TIMES “ABSOLUTELY AMAZING: 8/10″ - NME “YOU MAY HAVE JUST FOUND YOUR NEW COMEDOWN QUEEN. LET EVERY GENTLE NOTE AND PIERCING WORD MOVE YOU SLOWLY AND SURELY TO TEARS” – TIME OUT “AN EXTREMELY FINE PIECE OF WORK FROM THIS EXTRAORDINARILY PROMISING NEWCOMER” – THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY “AMAZINGLY ACCOMPLISHED” – SUNDAY TIMES “HER RICH, SAD VOICE MAKES HER RISE ABOVE THE PACK” – DAILY TELEGRAPH “SOMETHING FOR YOU – THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SINGL E OF THE YEAR” – NMEWe've unearthed a beautiful gem for y'all to hear first. Newyorker Sarabeth Tucek is here to melt hearts.
STANLEY BRINKS Sunday September 25th tickets £10
Stanley Brinks is the most recent identity of Andre - founding member of Herman Dune. Stanley Brinks plays naked songs in intimate spaces. His version of Bronski Beat's Small Town Boy was a recent hit on the Skins soundtrack.
Freschard is a gorgeous french singer songwriter for who Andre has written songs previously. Expect a beautiful show shaped in Paris and Berlin - now arriving in Stockton.
The Captain's Tower - A tribute to Bob Dylan at 70 - October 2nd - £6
Bob Dylan Night - all tributes and contributions welcome.
Various artists, poets and performers, plus all-comers will bring together a tribute night at the launch of new publication The Captain's Tower, presented by David Wolley:
Seventy poets from seven decades and of seven nationalities - including Simon Armitage, Caroline Bird, Matthew Caley, Jane Draycott, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Mark Ford, Linda France, Peter Finch, Allen Ginsberg, Tony Hoagland, Roddy Lumsden, Michael McClure, Roger McGough, Glyn Maxwell, Robert Minhinnick, Paul Muldoon, Jeremy Reed, Carol Rumens, Matthew Sweeney and Luke Wright - celebrate and pay tribute to Bob Dylan at seventy – acknowledging the evolution of his culturally defining, innova tive and restless fifty year career within the history of recorded sound whilst invoking the canon of the spoken and written word.
The night will include poetry, song performances and film footage.
The Third Police Man - Ergo Phizmiz Sunday October 9th tickets £8
The Waiting Room is delighted to sponsor a new mind-warping operetta by the acclaimed musical absurdist Ergo Phizmiz. A steam-punk-neuropera on Flann O'Brien's absurdist masterpiece "The Third Policeman". Adapted, composed and directed by Ergo Phizmiz ("A musical equivalent to Chris Morris" - BBC Radio 3), and performed by a cast of non-opera singers including comedians, writers and musicians. The Third Policeman is a truly 21st century artwork, a steampunk odyssey through an absurdist hell.
Funny, disturbing, catchy and deeply in the spirit of Dada. Imagine an opera filtered through Frank Sidebottom and Vic Reeves, with music one-foot in Monteverdi and the other in Captain Beefheart.
THE THIRD POLICEMAN?
A classic of absurdist literature by Flann O'Brien. The story is very difficult to summarise, but concerns bicycles, policemen, wooden legs, hanging, pensioner murder, and a strange substance called Omnium. More detail on the novel can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Policeman
ERGO PHIZMIZ
Sonic explorer, experimentalist and wrongwriter, Ergo Phizmiz’s music jumps freely between pop, pranksterism, mutant-electro and just about everything in-between. Described by The Wire magazine as a “one man movement”, and by BBC Radio 3 as “one of the most inventive composers around…a musical equivalent to Chris Morris”, Ergo has developed a reputation as one of the most genuinely innovative composers working today.
Thomas Truax at The Waiting Room
Bon Soir Brassens October 23rd tickets £9 or £24 including a delightful french-themed dinner
Georges Brassens (1921-1981) was known as ‘the man with the famous moustache’. Brassens was one of France’s biggest stars and he was also one of the greatest singers of all time. Brassens wrote and sang songs in the chanson tradition, combining sparse but harmonically complex music with words which were poetic, satirical and lyrical. Brassens was an anarchist and a libertine who despised hypocrisy and any form of oppression of individual freedom or desire. His lyrics are now studied in French schools. Brassens is little know in the UK but his hardcore fans have included singers Jake Thackray and Alex Kapranos (Franz Ferdinand) and writer Julian Barnes. This evening presents a tribu te to Brassens in the anniversary year of both his birth and his death and includes:
Projet Brassens who are the foremost UK exponents of Brassens’ songs.
Local group Rudolf Rocker who have adapted Brassens songs from LanguedocRoussillon to the North East Coast of England.
Legendary DJ/singer Bob Fischer who will perform Brassens in the style of Jake Thackray.
Rare screenings of Brassens in live performance.
The Lovesick Cowboys + Brigid Kaelin October 30th - tickets £8
The Lovesick Cowboys are back in our one horse town for some whoopin and hollerin - and a foot stomping good time paying tribute to Hank Williams and the rock n rollers who followed him.
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Brigid Kaelin:
- Brigid Kaelin is a Kentucky songstress, multi-instrumentalist, and entertainer who has charmed audiences all over the world as a solo/duo act, combining her fun “alt-country cabaret” songs with the accordion, piano, guitar, and musical saw – yes, saw.
Brigid's music: www.brigidkaelin.com - for songs, videos, her WIDELY-read blog/travelogues, photos, etc.www.reverbnation.com/brigidkaelin
Nov and December to follow soon... But here's a special preview announcement:
On November 27th The Matchbox Cabaret proudly presents:
MISTY'S BIG ADVENTURE!
Misty's Big Adventure at The Waiting Room
MISTY'S BIG ADVENTURE ARE BACK! - an 8 piece band from Birmingham led by Grandmaster Gareth, who John Peel once pronounced "The New God". Since 2004, Misty's Big Adventure have released four studio albums to critical acclaim, with the NME calling their last album "a masterpiece". They have toured all over the UK with The Zutons, The Guillemots, The Magic Numbers and others as well as highlighting choice summer festivals over the past 7 years.
It must be 5 years since their last visit to The Waiting Room - a night that ranks in the top 1-3 of most people who were there.
Their latest album release The Family Amusement Centre is a serious work; A sprawl of sound with more hooks than a fishing tackle super store - looking to a post-consumerist world of village green preservation societies and less grumpy fun.
Patrick Moore features on the album - (presumably playing xylophone - (he's a virtuoso don't you know) - we fancied getting Patrick Moore to play a Matchbox Cabaret event one time - under the sky at night in the dark of our conservatory.
Sunday November 27th - Just £10
TICKETS FOR ANY OR ALL OF THESE EVENTS CAN BE GOTTEN ON THE WAITING ROOM WEBSITE - HERE