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K 04 Festival Guide #37 | Apr 2018 Festival Guide 2018 Following on from the Stroud Wassail and Stroud Film Festival we take a look at the rest of this year’s festivals, fringes, open studios, trails and weekenders across the Stroud District and (slightly) beyond…

FESTIVALS IN STROUD:

Site Festival Americana Music Thurs 5th – Sat 28th Apr Festival and Chilli (Programme) | Sat 5th- Sun 6th / Sat 12th – Sun 13th May Cook Off (Open Studios) Sun 22nd Apr

The Site Festival presents the work of over 150 artists The Annual Americana Music, Beer and Chilli Festival in around 50 sites across the Stroud Valleys during kicks off at 1pm on Sunday 22nd April in the “Gert April and May. The Site Festival creates a platform Yurt” in the pubs garden, with live music all day from for artists and artist collectives to show new work, to some of the best Americana acts this side of the initiate new projects, and work collaboratively with Mississippi…The teams will start cooking the Chillis other artists. SVA, the festival host organisation, will from 2pm and the aromas will start drifting down open its doors for a programme of exhibitions, open Horns Road from then till the Judging starts at 6pm. studios, film, screenings, talks and performances. The winning Chilli will be presented with the cup at Site Festival will feature exhibitions, performances around 6.30pm, after which the public will be able to and live music, films and open studios. There will buy a bowl for a donation to Charity…The Live music also be a series of Resound Radio podcasts online. continues into the evening with headliners the Dusk Open Studios will feature 85 local artists across the Brothers. district for our 22nd annual Open Studios event. You will be able to pick up an Open Studios Directory Ft. Dusk Brothers, Mekon Man and the Cry Babies, Bronnt Industries from beginning of April from SVA, tourist information, Luke Philbrick and Solid Gone Kapital shops and cafes in Stroud so you can plan ahead. The Open Studios Weekend is a great way to meet crownandsceptrestroud.com Site Festival artists, find out more about the ideas behind their work and the techniques they use. Don’t forget, you can also buy art works directly from Open Studios artists too! Select Festival Leading international and emerging artists from the visual arts and the applied arts come together Ft. Graeme Miller, Alabaster DePlume, Bronnt Sat 21st April – Mon 28th May to present their work, engage with the public, to Industries Kapital, Valerie Van Leersum, Project debate and discuss contemporary art. Free Brochure The Select Festival is a month of stimulating, inspiring Adorno, Boss Morris available in venues across the region activities presented by the arts organisation, SIT sva.org.uk select. It takes place in venues across the Stroud Ft. Hannah Waldron, Georgina Bouzyk, Pauline Valleys in the Cotswolds with exhibitions, Master Cullimore, Janet Grist, Sylvia Hammond Classes, workshops, talks, artist led events and the annual Collectives Fair in Lansdown Hall. sitselect.org #37 | Apr 2018 Festival Guide 05

and beyond. With a combination of free daytime events, outstanding evening concerts, late night live sessions and club nights, the weekend should provide The Prince Albert Beer something for everyone. Stroud Festival and Music Festival Ft. Nubya Garcia, Ivo Neame Quartet, Modulus III, of Nature Thurs 3rd – Mon 7th May Dakhla, Ariwo, Anchorsong Sun 8th July

The 11th annual Beer and Music Festival at the Prince jazzstroud.org The Stroud Festival of Nature has been running since Albert is set to be bigger and better than ever with 2008. It takes place among the trees in the arboretum over 40 beers and ciders, live music, street food, kids at the wonderful Stratford Park. This year is their 10th entertainment and much more. The pub will have anniversary so the Big Festival in the Park will be a some of their best bands and performers celebrating with them over the weekend - all of which will be Stroud Shakespeare celebratory extravaganza! There will be stalls, talks, revealed soon… entertainment and activities. There will be delicious Festival food and drink available, but also people are invited theprincealbertstroud.co.uk to bring their own picnic… 31st May – 2nd June stroudnature.org A brand new open-air theatre festival for Stroud and South Gloucestershire, set in the beautiful surroundings Select Trail Open of the Museum in the Park just outside the town centre. Over the course of 3 days the festival will present Studios and Artist a diverse programme of theatrical events to suit theatre goers of all ages, including headline theatre Led Exhibitions performances, workshops, live music and opportunities ‘Making Places’ for all to get involved in the theatre of the great William Shakespeare… Sat 5th – Sun 6th/Sat 12th – Sun 13th May stroudshakespearefestival.weebly.com Visit the studios of over 100 local international and emerging artists and meet and chat to them plus meet their guest artists from all over the UK who all create amazing work. There will be demonstrations to enjoy in many venues such as the Gloucestershire Print Cooperative at Griffin Mill in Thrupp. Visit Nibley Festival Pegasus Art Studios’ Golden Cake Creative Fri 6th – Sat 7th July Refreshments for delicious cakes, coffee and tea on sale during Open Studios, to keep you going as you A friendly, non-profit making festival in a stunning browse. Atelier in Lower Street Stroud, Frogmarsh Cotswold location. Great music, free entertainment Mill Collective in Woodchester and the new Clay for the kids, stalls, local beer, food from around the Loft are all ‘MUST SEES’. New this year is ‘My Nature’ a new exhibition of experimental textiles by Select world – it’s the recipe for a perfect day. Camp on Trail’s Guest Artists from France, Thailand, Taiwan Friday and Saturday to make a weekend of it… and Great Britain for one weekend only taking place in Gallery 2 at Stroud’s iconic Museum in the Park, 5 Ft. the King Blues, the Pigeon Detectives, Example and 6 May. The 2018 Select Trail has been curated by and DJ Wire, Space Emma Neuberg who brings her distinct style to the Basement Jaxx Trail, promising innovation, inspiration and originality. nibleyfestival.co.uk The Select Trail takes place in venues across the Chalfest Five Valleys stretching to Tetbury. A fabulous free collectable brochure available from venues across the region. Stroud Sacred Ft. Emma Neuberg, Nicola Grellier, Susan Early, Mila Music Festival Harris-Mussi, Cleo Mussi Chalfest Fri 6th – Sat 7th July selecttrail.org Sat 21st July A festival which brings together a soulful and eclectic mix of music from many sacred traditions Following the huge success of last year’s first Chalfest – including Christian, Hindu, Muslim and Jewish, as it returns packed to the rafters with over 40 acts Nailsworth well as the music of indigenous people. A vibrant and playing across five great live music stages, heaps heartfelt celebration of difference and diversity within of fab workshops, games & activities for kids, circus Festival the community which is open to all… skills, forest school, delicious street food trucks and gourmet treats all washed down with plenty of Sat 19th – Sun 27th May sacredmusicfestival.org.uk refreshing craft beer & cider…

The Nailsworth Festival aims, for one week of the year, Ft. Basement Jaxx DJ set, the Proclaimers, Dick and to bring something a little different to the cultural life of Dom, Flo and Joan, Tankus the Henge, Ardyn the community, providing something for everyone. As ever, there will be entertainment and a market in the Stroud Children’s chalfest.co.uk town on Festival Saturday (19th May) and then a week of live music, comedy, exhibitions, talks and more… Festival Sat 7th - Sun 8th July Ft. John Furnival Exhibition, The Tippett Quartet, Tony Frocester Vino, Sir Richard Eyre The Children’s Festival returns again in collaboration with the Stroud Festival of Nature. The programme nailsworthfestival.org.uk Beer Festival is currently under development but you can expect to see some familiar faces - the Minpins choir will Fri 24th – Sat 25th Aug delight us again and Michael Loader will return with A cricket field, beer, cider, wine, music and lots more… one of his wackily entertaining shows. The festival For over thirty years the Frocester Beer Festival has Jazz Stroud will aim to cover all the arts forms, including a young been serving the local community and recently the person’s art exhibition plus some creative workshops Fri 25th – Sun 27th May world! It is a fantastic event which attracts nearly six to suit all ages. thousand people over two days on the August bank An artist-led weekend of music that embraces all holiday. The ethos of the festival is for you to enjoy aspects of the jazz spectrum, ranging from the stroudfestival.org a fine selection of ales, whilst raising much needed more traditional forms of swing and gypsy jazz to money for local charities. improvised electronic music, experimental hip-hop frocesterbeerfestival.com 06 Festival Guide #37 | Apr 2018

ACROSS The Outer Fringe GLOUCESTERSHIRE: Fr 24th – Sun 26th Aug / Sat 1st – Sun 2nd Sept

This year the Outer Fringe at the Crown and Sceptre will be on over two weekends at the end of the Hawkesbury Upton summer all in the big tent in the Garden where there will be all manner of events taking place!! Literature Festival Sat 21st Apr crownandsceptrestroud.com A free public event celebrating books and reading. Founded in 2015 by local author Debbie Young, it is now a permanent fixture in the Cotswolds’ cultural Stroud Theatre calendar on the closest Saturday to World Book Night, the global celebration of books and reading that is Festival focused on readers rather than authors.

Fri 14th – Sun 16th Sept Ft. Debbie Young, Caroline Sanderson, John Holland, Shirley Wright For the 6th year running Stroud Theatre Festival will present a wide range of all the best that performers hulitfest.com can offer. There will be more than 20 shows in 6 venues featuring performers and companies from all over the country bringing exciting theatre to Stroud. The programme includes children’s shows, puppetry, street theatre, stand up, new takes on Cheltenham classic works and much much more. Ticket prices will Poetry Festival be kept low to make this a festival for everyone. Weds 18th – Mon 30th April Nubya Garcia stroudtheatrefestival.co.uk The theme of this year’s Cheltenham Poetry Festival Jazz Stroud is power - and this year they will celebrate the power of words in a programme of exciting live literature events, challenge the abuse of power in a series of Wotton Blues Festival outspoken readings, empower lives with inspiring and Fri 21st – Sun 23rd Sept innovative community activities and powder keg your poetry with their potent workshops. The Wotton Blues Festival returns for its third year Chipping offering great live blues music with top-class bands Ft. Murray Lachlan Young, Jacob Polley, Amir from Gloucestershire and the surrounding area Darwish, Adam Horovitz, Miserable Malcolm Campden Literature performing across six venues in the heart of Wotton- Festival under-Edge. A weekend of high-quality music with a cheltenhampoetryfest.co.uk great community-based atmosphere... Tues 8th – Sat 12th May

wottonbluesfest.org The ninth edition of the festival, celebrating Fresh Art Fair Frankenstein’s bicentenary with Fiona Sampson’s 2018 biography of Mary Shelley. Explore new gothic Fri 27th – Sun 29th April novels, rebuilding the gothic Houses of Parliament, ancient woodlands, the ghost, umbrellas, dying, Stroud Folk Weekend The new annual contemporary art fair returns to spying, witches, and houses in fiction. Enjoy a literary Cheltenham Racecourse with 31 of their best galleries Fri 21st – Sun 23rd Sept lunch and WI tea. Get creative at the poetry-writing each bringing new artists and new work. This year and letter-press workshops and much much more… Three days full of song, music and dance with many there will be 15 new galleries, an outdoor sculpture concerts completely free including a day of dance park showing 70 pieces by 20 sculptors, artists Ft. Kazuo Ishiguro, Harriet Walter, Fiona Sampson, on the Saturday throughout Stroud. In addition there working live and plenty of talks. Paul Henry will be ticketed events at the Subscription Rooms and other venues. Throughout the weekend there will be freshartfair.net campdenlitfest.co.uk sessions and sing-arounds open to all comers in the Little Vic and in the Ale House. stroudfolkweekend.com Cheltenham Chipping Jazz Festival Campden Music Stroud Book Festival Weds 2nd – Mon 7th May Festival With over 20,000 music-fans getting in the festival swing Sat 12th – Sat 26th May Weds 7th – Sun 11th Nov every year, and Jamie Cullum and Moira Stuart amongst The first Chipping Campden Music Festival was held Stroud Book Festival celebrates all things books. their biggest fans, Cheltenham has become one of the in 2002, since then it has grown in stature and size Headed up by a team of local authors and literary country’s best-loved jazz festivals. Their trade-mark mix year on year. It is now widely recognised as one of professionals, and with Ian McEwan as patron, the of international jazz icons, up-and-coming new artists the UK’s leading festivals with visitors coming from festival presents a creative programme of high- and unique festival performances has seen them host Europe, America and Australia, as well as from all quality, entertaining and thought-provoking events some of the world’s greatest musicians including the likes over the UK. The venue has become a favourite with to engage this vibrant local community. Packed with of Eartha Kitt, Stephane Grappelli and Ornette Coleman. many of the world’s finest musicians who all look inspiring talks and workshops from authors, poets Ft. Courtney Pine, Randy Crawford, Kamasi forward to returning to this most beautiful of all the and illustrators and writing competitions the festival Washington, Giles Peterson Cotswold towns. will feature home-grown Gloucestershire talent, as well as guests from further afield. cheltenhamfestivals.com Ft. Parham and Goodman, The Nash Ensemble, Tenebrae and the AAM, Ibragimova and Tiberghien stroudbookfestival.org.uk campdenmusicfestival.co.uk #37 | Apr 2018 Festival Guide 07

graced the barn floor in previous years; one can only line-up of International and UK artists. imagine how many future award winners will take to the stage, so don’t miss your chance to catch the didmarton-bluegrass.co.uk Wychwood Festival spark before the wildfire spreads. Fri 1st – Sun 3rd June Ft. Tom Grennan, Mystery Jets, Pale Waves, Tom The UK’s favourite family festival takes place within Walker Tetbury Music Festival the beautiful Gloucestershire countryside, with over 100 acts performing across four stages, plus music, barnonthefarm.co.uk Thurs 4th – Sun 7th Oct dance and arts workshops, a circus school and a The aim of the Tetbury Music Festival is to bring you programme of talks, debates and comedy for all the finest musicians who then perform in Tetbury ages. Amplified Church, one of the most beautiful settings in the Ft. Baxter Dury, Shed Seven, The Go! Team, The South Cotswolds. Previous performers have included Gipsy Kings Fri 6th – Sun 8th July Angela Hewitt, Radu Lupu, Mark Padmore, The Sixteen, Sarah Connolly, Rachel Podger – a veritable wychwoodfestival.com The rock, metal and alternative music festival Who’s Who of musicians and singers… situated among the rolling Cotswold Hills showcasing the most exciting up-and-coming acts alongside tetburymusicfestival.org established chart topping bands from around the Cheltenham Science world. Ft. Therapy?, Soil, Warrior Soul, Evil Scarecrow, Festival Dust Bolt Cheltenham Tues 5th – Sun 10th Jun amplifiedrocks.com Literature Festival How long is a piece of string? What makes the world Fri 5th – Sun 14th Oct turn? And why does chocolate taste so good? From the state of the planet, to the latest stem cell For ten days every Autumn Cheltenham is research, to the secrets of the perfect cup of tea – 2000 Trees Festival transformed into a literary lover’s dream as we nothing is off limits at Cheltenham Science Festival. welcome over 600 of the world’s finest writers, actors, Some of the world’s greatest scientists, big thinkers Thurs 12th – Sat 14th July politicians, poets and leading opinion formers to help and comedy geniuses will be on hand to help answer us celebrate the joy of the written word. Alongside a 2000trees is all about new & underground Music. some pretty big questions... programme of nearly 500 debates, interviews and There are no genre distinctions (although most of workshops, we also host Book It! our festival within cheltenhamfestivals.com the bands do tend to hold guitars), just guaranteed a festival for families and young readers. Where great music in the beautiful Cotswolds. In no else could you see the Gruffalo rub shoulders with particular order, you’ll also get an amazingly friendly an award-winning novelist, or a Hollywood legend atmosphere, the highest quality food traders possible exchange views with political leaders? and locally handcrafted ales, lagers & ciders. Forest Live cheltenhamfestivals.com Ft. At the Drive In, Turbowolf, Enter Shikari, Hell Is For Thurs 14th – Sun 17th June Heroes, Arcane Roots Now in its eighteenth season, Forest Live takes HONOURABLE place at seven fantastic forest locations including twothousandtreesfestival.co.uk MENTIONS: Westonbirt Arboretum. The gigs are well known for their eclectic range of international artists, amazing atmosphere and their stunning locations. Soul Circus Ft. the Script, Paloma Faith, George Ezra, Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott Fri 17th – Sun 19th Aug Cornbury Music forestry.gov.uk/music Spend your days doing hot yoga, indulging in the spa, sipping on juice. Spend your evenings at the counter Festival bar drinking local brews, shaking your booty to live DJ sets, eating locally sourced food at the supper Fri 13th – Sun 15th July Cheltenham Music clubs. Soul Circus have something for everyone and Founded fifteen years ago by Stroud dwelling Hugh everybody. Come and run away to the circus… Phillimore the Cornbury Music Festival is one-of-a- kind: a lovingly crafted, top notch, very English open Festival soulcircus.yoga air party, tailor-made for the whole family. A country Sat 30th Jun – Sun 15th July fair with a rock ‘n’ roll twist; a farmers’ market Established in 1945, Cheltenham Music Festival is with a dancefloor; a local carnival with a classic one of the most prestigious music festivals in the contemporary soundtrack… world. They make the most of their Cotswold setting Phoenix Festival Ft. Alanis Morissette, UB40, Jimmy Cliff, Squeeze, with a programme of show-stopping concerts in Sat 25th – Sun 26th Aug Zucchero Cheltenham Town Hall, intimate musical adventures in Two-day festival featuring eclectic music from the the Pittville Pump Room, and a feast for the senses in cornburyfestival.com cathedrals, abbeys and churches across the region. Cotswolds and the wider area, with a host of stalls, traders, artists, food and drink and charities hosting Ft. Sarah Connolly, Alison Balsom, Steven Isserlis, Sir stalls at the event. The action packed event will also Mark Elder and the Halle feature children’s activities and performance arts. Womad Festival cheltenhamfestivals.com phoenix-festival.co.uk Thurs 26th – Sun 29th July

WOMAD’s UK home is in Charlton Park, Wiltshire, where every year, during the last weekend of July, Barn On The Farm Didmarton Bluegrass you’ll discover a world without borders, a global fiesta of music, food, dance & art, and a place where Thurs 5th – Sun 8th July Festival everyone is welcome. Hear the best music you’ve Barn on the Farm is an independent festival that Fri 31st Aug – Sun 2nd Sept never heard before. Tour the world in 80 hours… focuses on finding the diamonds in the rough and Ft. Amadou and Miriam, Camille, Django Django, giving them a place to shine. Ed Sheeran, James One of the UK’s premier Bluegrass, Americana and Jazzanova live feat Randolph Bay, Ben Howard, Hozier, George Ezra, Bastille, Old-Time music events, held every summer at Kemble Airfield in greenest Gloucestershire. Now in its 30th Catfish and the Bottlemen, Jack Garratt, Rag ‘N’ Bone womad.co.uk Man, Bear’s Den, Wolf Alice and many more have year, Didmarton 2018 is hosting another awesome 08 Music #37 | Apr 2018 Record

If you don’t know what Record Store Day is by now, where you have been? Vinyl is back and better than ever and all the young (and slightly older) people are Store spending their pocket (or pint) money on picking up slabs of wax pressed with the melodic compositions of their favourite artists. This year’s RSD, as all the cool kids call it, takes place on Saturday the 21st of April, and has over five hundred limited edition releases, Day ranging from Abba to the Wu-Tang Clan. By Dan Guthrie For the first time, this year there are not one, not two but three shops in the area where you can pick up Dan Guthrie is a Stroud based writer and your desired releases; Stroud’s stalwart Trading Post, filmmaker. He tweets from @danglefree, he blogs as Black Boy in da Burbs and he now Gloucester Street’s newest resident Sound Records and has a website too - danguthrie.net brand new to Nailsworth, Sanctuary Music. I caught up with all three of them to find out their plans and picks for RSD 2018…

Trading Picks for RSD 2018 Frankie Goes to Post Hollywood The First 48 Inches of Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Compilation 26 Kendrick Street, Stroud of the first four singles released from the group’s debut album facebook.com/tradingpost.stroud Welcome to the Pleasuredome, Following on from the success of last year’s RSD, Gloucestershire’s complete with original b-sides. longest established independent record shop Trading Post are back again with a jam packed day of vinyl goodness. After queueing up in the early hours of the morning to snatch up their favourite of this year’s long list of releases, owner Simon Vincent will be opening up the doors to the punters at 8am. Dubbu (aka Stroud Block Party’s Neil Wilson) will be kicking off the DJ line up on the day, with later sets expected from Andy Edwards, Stroud Calling and Global Beats, with many more to be confirmed (previous years have featured the likes of Keith Allen, Emily Barker and Neil Arthur from Blancmange) . These will be DJ sets with a twist, as all the records played will have to be sourced from the extensive vaults of Trading Post’s second hand record collection - all DJs will be crate digging to find what they want to play, and if you like what you hear, all the records played are of course also available to buy… Goldie Unkle

Goldie Presents: 25 Years Live On The Road: KOKO by of Goldie Unreleased and UNKLE - A triple-LP pressing Remastered - The musician on coloured vinyl of UNKLE’s and DJ releases a collection of headline show recorded last never-heard before tracks on September in the cult London coloured vinyl with an exclusive arena, featuring special guests RSD sleeve. including Dorian Lutz and ESKA. #37 | Apr 2018 Music 09

Picks for RSD 2018 Sound Goat Double Date OST by Goat - The soundtrack to the critically Records acclaimed 2017 British horror film by Swedish experimental rock group Goat, pressed in a Stroud limited run of 500 copies.

24 Gloucester Street, Stroud facebook.com/soundrecordsstroud

Sound Records is a brand new partnership between local DJs and record dealers Sean Roe (JunKroom Records) and Tom Monobrow (Stroud Calling, Stroud Block Party), whose dream of opening a record store only became a reality about six months ago. After snapping up an empty lot at the bottom end of Gloucester Street in Stroud (just round the corner from the exquisite Fat Toni’s) and weeks of crate digging and assembling Ikea furniture, Sound Records is now open for business.

The pair’s markedly different sonic tastes, Sean prefers Jazz and African and Tom’s got a penchant for the dancefloor, give them a deep knowledge of many genres of music and make them the perfect people to help you Led Zeppelin David Sylvian discover something new. They’ve even got a record cleaning machine, Rock and Roll / Friends by Dead Bees On A Cake by David which is open to the public by appointment only if you want to dust the Led Zeppelin - Two previously Sylvian - The former lead singer cobwebs off your wax in the attic and rediscover your own collection! unrelated mixes by the heavy of Japan’s debut album has been Sean and Tom have got a few decks set up in the shop, so there’ll always rock legends, released as a repressed on white vinyl for the be something groovy playing when you walk in, and even though space is yellow 7” single in a printed first time, alongside four non- limited, they’ve got a few special events planned for the coming months. paperboard sleeve. album tracks recorded around the same time

Sanctuary Picks for RSD 2018 The Waterfront Music Normandy (On A Beach) / When The Wind Blows by The 42 Nailsworth Mills, Nailsworth Waterfront - Two tracks recorded by a short lived Manchester facebook.com/sanctuarymusicstore super group from the early 80s, three of whom later became Sanctuary Music’s story began after owner Ashley Hunt suddenly started founder members of The Stone to wonder where all his vinyl records had gone. Spurred on by what Roses. possibly might have been a midlife crisis, he decided to try and rebuild his collection, turning to the internet to try and re-source the misplaced records. He was bitten by the trading bug, and eventually started buying and selling titles online, reaching 8000 trades by the end of 2017. However, he soon realised that flipping records over the internet had lost its fun, and decided that now was the time to open up a physical record store, a place where people could chat about music over a coffee and discover something new.

The physical incarnation of the shop takes its name from a former record store in the town where Ashley grew up, where he bought the LP that changed his relationship with music forever, 1977’s Never Mind The Bollocks by the Sex Pistols, released on his twelfth birthday. Sadly, the original shop no longer exists, but Ashley hopes to try and recreate its The Courteeners Django Django

atmosphere with Sanctuary Music, officially opening this RSD with DJ St Jude by The Courteeners - In Your Beat by Django Django - sets throughout the day. Repress of the band’s certified An exclusive remix EP featuring gold debut album onto double the instrumental version of the red vinyl to mark its tenth year track from the band’s latest anniversary. album, alongside two remixes by Matthias Zimmermann and Body Record Store Day 2018 takes place on Saturday 21st April, Double. follow the record stores above for news and updates and recordstoreday.co.uk for a full list of this year’s releases. 10 Music #37 | Apr 2018

Bandit

By Leah Grant

What do your kids do during the school holidays? Are they glued to their iPhone, their computer, the television? Do you struggle to prise them out of bed in the mornings or are they so full of energy that you can’t keep them entertained for more than fi ve minutes?

Now, if I told you that your musically- there’s loads of people round here…so above, Bandit is also a great way interest in music would be keen to minded youngster could join a band, we took the format and it developed to boost confi dence and make new pick the brains of such a talented learn to write songs and perform live in from there. Now, it’s four days long...” friends: “To some of the students its team and with no previous experience front of two hundred people (School of Performing at a live concert on diffi cult because they don’t really know required on the students’ part (“…it’s Rock style) over the course of four days the fi nal day was Kevin’s idea and it’s us, they haven’t done this before and not a project where you have to be and for a mere £70, what would you clearly a big draw to a project that if you come along on your own ‘what classically trained you just have to be say? Well, in Stroud, school children already has a lot to off er. Though band am I going to get in, is it going to creative…”) and for such a reasonable aged 8-17 can do just that, all thanks to some may fi nd a live performance a be any good, am I going to be good price, it seems that Bandit is the perfect The Bandit Music Projects. potentially daunting prospect, students enough?’ And that’s the hardest thing school holiday solution. It’s worth Launched over ten years ago by spend a whole day at the venue and about the project…so on the Monday mentioning, however, that the project local guitarist and songwriter Kevin are given plenty of rehearsal time morning we do loads of ice breakers.” wouldn’t necessarily run at all without Howlett, Bandit off ers students the in the lead up to the big event: “We In the years since it’s been running, a certain degree of philanthropy: opportunity to learn a multitude literally run the show twice, we teach Bandit has continued to grow and “Maidenhill donate the rooms…and I of musical skills (including song them how to go on stage and there’s develop. As well as introducing a also do it at Tewkesbury school now writing, sound checking, building performance sessions throughout the theme to each course (giving students and they donate the rooms, that’s the riff s and creating melodies) from ten three days at Maidenhill.” a helpful starting point as they begin major reason why the project is still professional musicians and teachers Bandit is now held at both to pen their fi rst tune), Bandit also now going.” during the April, August and October incorporates a VJ As we fi nish our interview, I fi nd I school holidays. The workshop workshop where, am touched by Kevin’s modesty and then concludes with an exciting live It’s not a project where with the help his clear and demonstrative passion performance at a local venue on the you have to be classically of professional for music and inspiring others. fi nal day. When I meet up with Kevin, trained you just have designer Mel Perhaps the project wouldn’t be what he explains that it was his former Rodicq, students it is without the schools’ support, but employer who fi rst suggested the idea: to be creative can create visual it’s his vision that has made Bandit “I used to work at Maidenhill school… displays that such a huge success and I’ve no and I would jam with the students at run alongside doubt that this will continue for many dinnertimes and my boss said to me, Maidenhill and Tewkesbury schools the live show; and Mel’s not the years to come. For more information ‘why don’t you run a project in the yet children from across the county only professional inspiring enrolled about Bandit’s 2018 workshops, visit: holidays?’” and beyond have applied to take part, students with her expertise. Double banditmusicprojects.co.uk Initially Kevin and his boss hired and, once a band has formed, those bass player Dave Ayre (“he’s worked in a team from Dartington who were same students often return year on with Paul McCartney, he’s recorded already running their own ‘Bandit’ year (“…we are one of those families with Gorillaz…”), guitarist Jack Page Leah Grant is a writer and photographer project (“…it was one day in school who have to arrange our holidays (of Stroud-based band Low Chimes with a keen interest in art and literature. and one day at the weekend, that’s around it!” says one happy reviewer whose debut album Illumine is out On her blog, Bellyful of Art, you can fi nd how it started…”), but it soon became on the project’s website). That’s not now) and singer-songwriter Emily reviews of exhibitions, installations, dance performances and literary events as well apparent to Kevin that with the to say that you need to turn up as a Wood as well as John West, Jamie as her own lovingly created pieces of short wealth of creative talent in Stroud, ready-formed band to get the most out Burgess, James Dart, Saff ron Young fi ction mybellyfull.co.uk this outsourced team simply wasn’t of Bandit. As well as off ering students and Jon Green have all contributed to needed: “We did this once or twice with the opportunity to learn the invaluable the projects over the years. BERK’S NEST COMEDY STAGE | THE MAYFLOWER TENT | RIVERSIDE STAGE | COMPLETE CHILDREN’S ZONE Dartington and then I just thought, well musical/performance skills mentioned Surely, any youngster with an EXTENSIVE FAIRGROUND | GOURMET CATERERS AND VILLAGE TEA TENT | BEAUTIFUL CAMPING | GORGEOUS GLAMPING BERK’S NEST COMEDY STAGE | THE MAYFLOWER TENT | RIVERSIDE STAGE | COMPLETE CHILDREN’S ZONE EXTENSIVE FAIRGROUND | GOURMET CATERERS AND VILLAGE TEA TENT | BEAUTIFUL CAMPING | GORGEOUS GLAMPING 12 Music Listings #37 | Apr 2018 Music Listings

ALE HOUSE heavy on the melody, they combine LITTLE VIC FRI 20TH elements of rock, soul, reggae and pop DJ Nutzie: Let’s Go Nutz SAT 7TH to create a distinctive and memorable SUN 8TH sound. 7:30pm Free DJ Nutzie plays an array of different Lewis and Dav Barney’s Live Music with Mike Scott styles of alternative music! If you are Lewis & Dav are part of the new wave SAT 7TH Monthly music club at the Little Vic (at lucky enough to see one of his sets be of instrumental acoustic jazz that the Queen Vic) - the brainchild of a prepared for great mixes and funny Sean Houlihan, John Dalton is taking the world by storm. With group of likeminded individuals keen curve balls, which you wouldn't expect influences from Django Reinhardt Scouse singer songwriter with support to provide a monthly venue for all to hear anywhere else! He's not afraid to Snarky Puppy and Led Zeppelin from John Dalton. 7:30pm Free types of music, from folk to country, to play what YOU the people like…11pm to Dirty Loops, their sound combines blues, pop and beyond. This month’s £5 tight, funky and experimental jazz THURS 12TH guest is folk singer and guitarist Mike chops with ludicrously catchy hooks. Open Mic Scott. Floor spots available if you fancy SAT 21ST 8:30pm Free joining in! 7:30pm Free (suggested Hosted by Stroud’s own Americana Record Store Day donation £4) troubadour the Rev. Stretch…All Presenting the very best of new FRI 13TH welcome! 8pm Free facebook.com/BarnysLiveMusic artists…Line-up announced soon The Velvet Jukes – check website and facebook for Aron Attwood & Robbie Holmes FRI 13TH updates! (formerly of The Human Jukebox) Hot Wires THE MARSHALL ROOMS return as The Velvet Jukes, playing FRI 27TH Original rocky Blues with a slice of some of the greatest songs ever unashamed political comment. 7:30pm FRI 6TH The Turbans written and whatever your 'good taste Free Urban Voodoo Machine International legends The Turbans requests'! 8:30pm Free A collective of shadowy, London bind together music from ‘manywhere’ SUN 22ND with their interstellar live show which THURS 19TH based, ne’er do wells, led by Americana Music Festival and Chilli Norwegian born songwriter/frontman ignites the crowd. It's members have Dave Ayre Trio Cook Off Paul-Ronney Angel. Featuring up to gathered from countries such as Double bass wizard Dave Ayre and Turkey, Bulgaria, Israel, Iran, Greece The return of the Americana Music twelve musicians at any given time, his trio returns to the Ale House for and England to perform in concerts Festival in the Gurt Yurt! Shaggy The ‘Machine’ mashup guitars, twin another jazz evening with special and festivals around the UK, North Dog Raconteurs (1pm), Texas Tic drummers, fiddle, trumpet, tuba, guest (back by popular demand!) – America, Middle-East, Hong Kong, Fever (2pm), Rag Time Jug Orchestra banjo, washboard, upright bass, gong, Dave Newton…8:30pm Free mandolin, accordion, harmonicas, India and Europe. Their aim is to (3pm), Earl (4pm), Mekon Man and bring music to the people, young and the Cry Babies (5pm), Luke Philbrick saxophone, sousaphone and even SAT 21ST empty bottles and tie racks to create old alike, mixing vibrant spontaneity and Solid Gone (6:30pm), Wu Town and authenticity with multi-genre Hotwires Hilbillys (8pm) and headliners the Dusk their unique brand of Bourbon Soaked Gypsy Blues Bop’n’Stroll. 8pm £10adv instrumental and vocal excellence. Rearranged from last month due to Brothers (9pm) 8pm £12 snow. Led by seasoned blues harp FRI 13TH player, vocalist and guitarist Dave THURS 26TH SAT 28TH Purple, Hot Wires deliver a bluesy London Astrobeat Orchestra Rodda’s Hairy Craic Stroud Dub Club & rocky mix of originals and covers Irish acoustic session with Tim Potts. The London Astrobeat Orchestra played with a gritty passion. Dave’s Stroud Dub Club will be bringing the 8pm Free perform songs from the iconic Talking songs cover a wide range of genres Heads' 'Stop Making Sense' movie, finest Reggae Sound Systems and and influences from Blues, funk and bands to Stroud. Watch this space DJ’s FRI 27TH live. Focusing on tracks from the cult rock and content can be unashamedly classic albums ‘Remain In The Light’ live toasting dancing and dub straight political or personal.8:30pm Free Wildwood Jack and ‘Speaking in Tongues’ the LAO are through till 3am…10pm £6 A unique acoustic guitar and ukulele a funky, rhythmic, hypnotic, anthemic, themarshallrooms.co.uk SAT 28TH duo from Kent. Their melodic songs uplifting, groovy, percussive, smack Ken Wood & The Mixers blend the acoustic guitar and ukulele on point, earth-shatteringly tight, live with outstanding fingerstyle playing band…£12adv Red hot rhythm and blues severed up NO 23 drawing influences from folk, country by Ken Wood and his ramshackle troop and world music. 7:30pm Free SAT 14TH of minstrels.8:30pm Free FRI 6TH Tek Gremlin: The Birthday Bash SAT 28TH No 23 Is 6 The Marshall Rooms resident Drum No 23’s six birthday party! Ft. Stroud THE CORNER HOUSE M2D and Bass DJ Tek Gremlin celebrates Calling and Nige from Disco Sucks on his birthday with some of his own The Italian Job…7:3pm Free the decks plus cocktails, tapas and SAT 7TH toons and the best of the crop of fellow more…10pm Free Late Night @ the Corner House crownandsceptrestroud.com Stroud artists and DJs…11pm £6 Classic bar grooves & funk in the facebook.com/ FRI 20TH relaxed setting of The Corner House, KITSCH COFFEE AND WINE BAR No23BarAndBistroStroud come and join in for classy cocktails & The Outkast Band, the Drystones classic grooves with Dubbu (aka Neil FRI 6TH The Outkast Band: intense and original THE PRINCE ALBERT Wilson - Stroud Block Party). 10pm indie folk-rock band hailing from DJ Lounge Free Stroud. Echoes of The Waterboys, New DJ lounge playing eclectic soul music… Model Army and The Levellers, the SUN 1ST facebook.com/thecornerhousestroud DJ tba soon! 5pm Free band produce a huge sound firmly Reggae Roast based in rock and complemented Tasty Caribbean Food from Jamaica FRI 13TH THE CROWN AND SCEPTRE by violin, mandolin and accordion. Inn Kitchen, Stroud Dub Club Sounds, DJ Lounge: Dubbu Support from BBC Radio 2 Young Egg Hunts and Easter Fools Day! 2pm Folk Award 2018 nominees the Classic funk and soul from DJ Dubbu Free FRI 6TH Drystones who combine masterful (aka Neil Wilson – Stroud Block Party) The Nancy Boys musicianship with youthful energy to served up on 45rpm platters. 5pm Free WEDS 4TH give exhilarating performances. 8pm A Stroud based four piece, playing Laucan blissful, melody-driven original tracks facebook.com/KitschCoffeeWineBar £8adv balanced with an eclectic and tasteful Channelling Nick Drake and mix of covers. 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Laucan (aka Laurence Galpin) ft, performances. Spirited, animated and STROUD BREWERY FRI 6TH band members Benjin Pollock on always entertaining, The Drystones The New Jersey Boys cello and Stroud born Tomas Kaspar have a powerful and engaging style SAT 7TH on percussion is poised between which is all their own – and for just two A tribute from the internationally spectral folk, immersive soundscapes people they make a very big sound. Dead Dog Cider acclaimed hit musical that tells the and “sun-dappled pastoral prog” 8pm Free Pru on Bodhran and vocals and Mark incredible story of the rise to fame (Uncut). With Andrew Phillips of Ninja on Guitar and vocals have been of one of the most successful groups Tune’s Grasscut as a key collaborator, performing regularly as Dead Dog in popular music history, including his debut album is rich in cinematic SAT 21ST Cider since 2010 and before that they the true life story of Frankie Valli were members of the legendary Old and the Four Seasons, the Mob, the sweeps and electronic textures. Counters Creek 8:30pm Free Spot Pickers. They play a lively mix of heartaches, the triumphs and of Jigs, reels, grooves from Eastern English, Celtic and American Song - all course the music. 8pm £16.50 Europe & West Africa, catchy melodies powered by Pru's mighty Bodhran! with closely interwoven harmonies 7:30pm Free SAT 7TH allied to a real sense of swing and Andy Bennett dance energy…8pm Free SAT 14TH THURS 5TH Andy Bennett is a singer and musician, David Celia, Marla SUN 22ND Zero Day Jazz best known for his work with Ocean This Bristol-based duo embody classic Colour Scene. In October 2015, Andy Canadian David Celia is an Ma Polaine’s Great Decline innovative singer/songwriter and jazz style, drawing upon the influence Bennett released his solo debut single, astonishing guitar player, known This Spring Ma Polaine’s Great of past masters such as Miles Davis, Hole in the Road, followed in May 2016 for his spontaneously driven live Decline launch their highly anticipated Bill Evans, John Coltrane and many by the single Drift Away. Andy left in performances. His songs have an second album, “The Outsider”. The others. 7:30pm Free 2015 to focus on his solo material. 8pm open alt/folk style that’s also been latest record finds the duo tightening £19adv/£24otd described as “Beatlesque”. Marla their unique sound whilst remaining SAT 21ST decidedly easy and loose with the SUN 8TH is a German and Spanish singer- Bex Jazz songwriter who has previously played range of influences they draw from. Friary Guildford Band Blues, jazz and country feature Possessing an impressive vocal range, with the likes of Jessica Pratt and Rue The London & Southern Counties Royale. 8:30pm Free strongly, but what this duo admire Bex moves seamlessly from big and most in others is individuality, musically powerful to soft and subtle, through Regional Champions for the past three years running, Friary Guildford Band THURS 12TH and in attitude, so Billie Holiday, Tom jazz, Latin and pop with ease. She is Waits, Nina Simone, Hurray for the also an accomplished percussionist. is now the undisputed top band in the Alex Lipinski Riff Raff, and Nick Cave are just a few 7:30pm Free South. 3pm £12/£10concs/£7children Alex Lipinski’s caressing sympathy, examples. 8pm Free 3pm full-throated resentment, and the raw SAT 28TH FRI 13TH rockabilly excitement of earliest Elvis THURS 26TH Spence Cater have grabbed unwary listeners from Jive Dance Hodmadoddery A singer/songwriter based in Stroud, the West Country to Krakow, Berlin and A great atmosphere and great dance New York, since he first left Somerset Steve Henwood booker at the famous playing covers from ‘50s to modern Bell in Bath has his own band and day alongside his own songs. 7:30pm floor, dance the night away to top to become a crucial habitué of Soho’s swing and jive music. 8pm £8 legendary, lost 12-Bar Club. He has this is it.. Distinctive and fascinatingly Free followed in the footsteps of his hero intricate music…Vocalists and guitarists stroudbrewery.co.uk THURS 19TH Dylan to write in the Chelsea Hotel, of much note, great compatibility and and sung Elvis songs in the home of an incredibly intense togetherness yet Megson possessing distinctive and contrasting an admiring Liam Gallagher, who is a SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS Four times nominated in the BBC Radio firm champion. 8pm Free individual playing styles...8:30pm Free 2 Folk Awards and double winners of THURS 5TH the Spiral Earth Awards Megson, aka SAT 14TH SUN 29TH Stu & Debbie Hanna, draw heavily on Bandit 21 The Magnificent AK47, the Lynchpins Lewis Barfoot Trio, Megan Crouse their Teesside heritage to create a truly Students come together to form unique brand of folk music. 7:30pm Rearranged from last month due Voyaging on the tender terrain of bands, write songs and perform in £17.50 to snow! The Magnificent AK47: vocal purity: her music haunts and a professional venue, giving young Unlocking the inner minstrel by heals. Described by Irish Radio lowering the tone with their deep, International as a maker of “Delicious people experience in musicianship, FRI 20TH Georgian-inspired harmonies and music: A massage of the heart, a song writing and performance skills. Complete Madness serious silliness, those Magnificent 7:30pm £16.50/£11.50concs whisper to the soul”, Lewis works The UK’s leading tribute to the Nutty Men of Ashton Keynes and their with an uncomplicated loveliness of multi-hatted singing machine love Boys! Making their debut at Frome’s sound. Lewis is supported by Stroud’s Cheese and Grain, we guarantee taking to the stage to prove they can own Megan Crouse. Originally from truly live up to the claim of perhaps South African and now based in the being the best all bloke singing troupe Cotswolds where she is collaborating ever to escape from the depths of with Rufus Fry to weave a rich and North, North Wiltshire…Lynchpins: A mixed vocal group based in Chalford, textured tapestry of soulful melodies. performing jazz, pop, blues, country 7:30pm £10adv/£12.50otd and musical numbers in ‘a cappella’ OUT NOW barbershop harmony. 8pm Free theprincealbertstroud.co.uk

SUN 15TH ST LAURENCE CHURCH LIVE AT THE SVA Lionel Lodge Lionel keeps a wild, Americana core, SAT 7TH By The Achievers almost Gypsy in ways. His music Thames Head Singers Spring Concert stomps and swoons, howls high then A wonderful selection of music to The debut album by the Achievers captures hovers deep and low. Lionel returns awaken the senses and inspire the soul on a rare visit to his once hometown them expressing their musical philosophy celebrating the long-awaited arrival Stroud...8pm Free of playing 'in the moment' choosing, as of Spring. Featuring works by Allegri, they always have, to shape their sound Rachmaninov, Monteverdi, Britten, THURS 19TH Gastoldi, Byrd, Bruckner, Morley and on stage according to the energy of the Sam Green and the Midnight Heist Shearing, the evening will have a audience instead of the rehearsal room. This high energy infectious four piece multicultural flavour with pieces sung 'Live at The SVA' (ft. cover artwork by Alex bring together Delta Blues, Pacific in Italian, Russian, Latin and German... Merry) includes three R&B tracks from the Northwest Grunge, Hill-Billy Soul and as well as English! £8adv/£10otd/ 50s & early 60s that regularly feature in Californian Punk-Rock to create their under 16’s free their live set, and two traditional songs - all own blend of progressive modern rearranged by the band somewhere down SAT 28TH Roots Music. 8pm Free the line. The band's original tracks move Stroud Choral Society Youth Choir and freely into southern soul, Americana, and FRI 20TH the Minpins: Songs for Spring Time even traditional music (e.g. The Cuckoo), but The Drystones A concert of songs for spring time always return to the roots of R&B and BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award 2018 under the direction of Zoe Hynes gospel… nominees Alex Garden and Ford Collier featuring guest pianist Yuzhe Alex Xu. theachieversuk.com combine masterful musicianship with 6:30pm £10/£2under 16’s youthful energy to give exhilarating stlaurencefuture.org.uk 14 Music Listings #37 | Apr 2018

a memorable night of singing and artist Alabaster DePlume is engaging THE VILLAGE INN NAILSWORTH UNDER THE EDGE ARTS dancing with one of the finest communities in the production of his WOTTON UNDER EDGE tribute bands on the circuit. 8pm 4th album The Corner of a Sphere. SAT 28TH £15.50adv/£17.50otd Instrumentals, songs and words respond to musicians, audience Ken Wood and the Mixers SAT 14TH SAT 21TH and occasion, in celebration of the Ken Wood and The Mixers return to Miranda Sykes offer red-hot rhythm & blues, soul A Romantic Dream individuality of all present. 8pm Miranda Sykes, the acclaimed singer and irresistible dance music to the £8adv/£9otd (Goods Shed) and bassist with ‘Show of Hands’, is Clare Deniz and Alan Brown's good people of Nailsworth. Covers returning to her roots. With a career 'romantic' programme was chosen to and originals ranging from ska to soul THURS 19TH spanning over 20 years (during which show both the beauty and brilliance via Stax and Atlantic-era R'n'B all Introduction to Flamenco Rhythms time she has played with many high- of the music written for their two delivered in the high-energy Ken Wood Workshop + Performance profile folk musicians and singers), she instruments; brilliant piano and style. 8:30pm Free rich, beautiful melodies for cello, A free workshop introducing flamenco will be touring as she started out: one the perfect ‘Romantic Dream’. 2pm rhythms for dancers, guitarists, villageinn-nailsworth.co.uk woman, one bass, and one guitar. 8pm £10/£8concs/£5children percussionists, or anyone interested £13.50 in flamenco music. Workshop subscriptionrooms.org.uk 7pm/Performance 8pm £5otd for ST MARY’S CHURCH PAINSWICK SAT 21ST performance/workshop free (John Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar Street) SAT 14TH SVA Greg Russell and Ciaran Algar Painswick Music Society Presents: joined forces in 2011. Combining FRI 20TH FRI 6TH/13TH/20TH/27TH Raphael Wallfisch and John York Russell’s powerful vocals and driving Site Festival: Laish Raphael Wallfisch is one of the most guitar style with Algar’s All-Ireland John Street Social Club Laish is the musical project of celebrated cellists performing on the winning fiddle playing, the duo have A series of weekly Friday night club Danny Green, Yorkshire born and international stage and alongside become one of the most sought socials hosted by different artists London based songwriter, and his solo career, has a long-standing after acts on the British folk scene. each week with visuals and audio multi-instrumentalist. “Super catchy, and distinguished duo with John York £11.50/£10.50concs 8pm to share. The format: decks, laptop, making for a really interesting and (piano) with whom he has undertaken and a limited number of selected sophisticated and splendid new many international recital tours and SAT 28TH YouTube clips of archive footage discovery.” Chris Hawkins, BBC 6 Music made numerous recordings. The Keith James: The Songs of Leonard and informative curiosities...7pm £1 £8adv/£9otd (John Street) afternoons programme includes Cohen membership on the door works by Beethoven, Miaskovsky With a lifetime reputation of sva.org.uk and Brahms. 3pm £20/£5child and WEDS 4TH/11TH/18TH/25TH performing in this exact way and students an undying love of the ‘pure song’ Funk-In Sessions Keith James gives you a concert of CHRIST CHURCH NAILSWORTH SAT 28TH Live Funk Jam with Will Vick and Alf Cohen’s amazing material in the most Tramontin...FUNK Only...Nothing but SUN 15TH Painswick Music Society Presents: intimate and sensitive way imaginable, the Funk!!! All are welcome to listen or Heath Quartet exposing the solitary inner strength Bristol Ensemble: Tea Time Concerts perform! 8pm Free (John Street) The dynamic and charismatic of his greatest songs in their original The professional musicians of the Heath Quartet have established perfect form. 8pm £15.50 SAT 7TH Bristol Ensemble perform piano trios themselves as one of the most utea.org.uk Site Festival: Mermaid Chunky by Clara Schumann (Piano Trio in G exciting British chamber ensembles Presents – Yama Warashi minor Op.17) and Felix Mendelssohn of our time. Highlights of their 2017/18 (Piano Trio No. Op.49). 3pm £10otd season include tours of the US and Stroud’s Mermaid Chunky host a New Zealand, recitals in Belgium, curated night of experimental sounds bristolensemble.com The Netherlands and Spain, and and performance featuring special a five-concert series at Wigmore guest, Yama Warashi. Fronted by Hall, featuring the quartets of the Yoshino Shigihara her music has THE VAULT NAILSWORTH celebrated young German composer, a dreamy evocative sound with a Jörg Widmann. The afternoons shadow of moon cake, inspired by SUN 1ST programme includes works by Japanese folk dance music, Bon Odori, Lewis & Dav Haydn, Wildmann and Tchaikovsky. free jazz and African music with a £20/£5child and students slice of electric psychedelia. Boss Lewis & Dav are part of the new wave of instrumental acoustic jazz that Morris plus more special guests to painswickmusicsoc.co.uk be announced…8pm £8adv/£9otd is taking the world by storm. With (Goods Shed) influences from Django Reinhardt to Snarky Puppy and Led Zeppelin THURS 12TH to Dirty Loops, their sound combines tight, funky and experimental Stroud Jazz Sessions jazz chops with ludicrously catchy Stroud and its surroundings have a hooks.2:30pm Free great range of jazz players. This night OUT NOW is for their coming together. Each will SUN 8TH feature a performance by the house Bob Porter band and guest, an interval with eclectic jazz records to mull over, and Americana band from Stroud ft. a fine MICHELANGELO a stonkingly energetic jazz jam for blend of mellow Alt Country and gritty all players and singers, aficionados Roots Rock on tap. Often described By The Chromatones and improvers, to participate in. All as music with a ‘growl & twang’ ‘The are welcome, to listen or perform. Project’ offer up a blend of originals Tommy Charles, of Cheltenham- and covers. 2:30pm Free Stroud/Cheltenham based band The based Tetraphonic, shall be leading Chromatones are homing pigeons, years SUN 15TH proceedings on keys, with James Agg ago removed from their loft and separated on bass, Andrew McKenzie on guitar, Steve Ferbrache to all cardinal points of the compass, who and Andy Youell on drums. 8pm £5otd Acoustic covers, blues, soul, jazz one by one have heroically made their way standards and requests-a-plenty! FRI 13TH back to their spiritual home to rejoin their 2:30pm Free brethren. So it is with some excitement, and Site Festival: Alabaster deplume very little expectation, that they have finally SUN 22ND This fluid live music performance released a 10 track cd of finely honed songs reassures with behaviour and sound Spence reflecting their diverse musical experience. while it challenges with thoughts and Laid back acoustic classics. 2:30pm words. The quartet performance The album (ft. artwork by Mike Lumley and Free described as “The best artistic event I sleeve notes by Edward Collier) is available have ever experienced in my life” on SUN 29TH now via bandcamp, spotify, itunes and the Manchester Jazz Festival website amazon. has also toured solo internationally. Bob Bowles Collaborating with a fresh ensemble Superb, versatile Blues and roots thechromatones.bandcamp.com of musicians each month in his East guitarist. 2:30pm Free London development residency ‘Peach’, saxophonist and spoken word thevaultnailsworth.co.uk Molly’s Speakeasy Sat 5th May The Marshall Rooms, Stroud

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Site Festival: Moomins & The Comet

By Christopher Taylor

Do you know your Snufkin from your Snorkmaiden and your Mymble from your Too-Ticky? Are you happy to skip through Moominvalley careful not to trip over Hattifatteners? Then amble down to the SVA on Friday 6th April as part of this year’s Site Festival for what promises to be a Moomin of a night… #37 | Apr 2018 Film 17

Graeme Miller and Steve Shill created our work with little acting jobs and my into a single narrative voice over, all a soundtrack for this magical world, little acting job was with Anne Wood, sort of told through the music, you’ve their music a homemade cauldron and she got to know our work, and never seen that before, it’s always of electro-acoustic, new age, synth she had this project up her sleeve, she been through these short episodes. It’s driven, proto-techno wonderfulness, acquired the rights to these Film Polski made up of original themes and then that fits perfectly with the trippy animations, and came up with the new stuff that I have conjured up 35 modern folk-tales of the Moomins idea of re-sound tracking them, with years later. from the mind of Finnish author Tove new narrative, which was recorded Jansson. by Richard Murdoc, who was sort of What can people expect from the the all-round light entertainer, and performance? The soundtrack produced in 1982 already ancient in 1982, he supplied The biggest pleasure is watching by these two politically driven Leeds the voiceover and she give the music the film, and then casting an eye on locals, will be re-scored by Graeme to these young post-punks from Leeds. myself and Jamie Telford, using a Miller for a special live accompaniment That is how I first read the Moomins. to the screening of ‘Moomins And The kind of fun mixture of instruments, Comet’ How did you and Steve get involved some of which I wisely never threw in the soundtrack, and why did they away. And then we will have loads of I caught up with Graeme, to find out approach you? unusual instruments like ocarinas and how he got involved in the Moomins, bagpipes, harmonicas. There will be his musical background and what to I think it is a bit to do with our minds, a lot of interest for fans to see how expect on this intriguing evening. Steve and I were kind of entranced by these sounds were produced. We’ve how wonkly the music we made came gone back to the kitchen table, we are Tell us about your own and Steve Shills out, and initially we could not control literally sitting at a kitchen table with background in music and theatre… that, but we were sophisticated enough a packet of Corn Flakes on it, with an to know there was something really array of tiny electronic instruments. It Our background was in a performance interesting about that. We were also will be interesting just to see what on company, around in the late 70’s 80’s great fans of pre-existing TV children earth we will pick up next. based in Leeds called the Impact soundtracks, one of our favourites was Theatre Co-operative, Steve and I the theme and incidental music to the Miller and Telford will perform the were members of that, performers, ‘Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe’ a re-score live in the Brunel Goods Shed writers, Steve was a photographer, French import from a series of really on Friday 6th April whilst Moomin troll’s poster maker, and both of us, while fantastic themes, we would drive wild adventure pans out on screen. we were there got into making around the M62, remembering all Tickets cost £10adv from sva.org.uk or soundtracks. We lived in a house with the different themes and sub themes £12 on the door… a 4 track tape recorder that was lent that were in that period, so that really to us, we were experimenting with This is just one highlight of packed chimed with these theme tunes that that, and the soundtracks we made programme for this year’s Site Festival came from eastern Europe. When by with that started to go into the Impact with other events including the return luck we got chosen by Anne, she got theatre productions and became a of Bronnt Industries Kapital this time two people not only producing really type of signature to our work. People performing a live soundtrack to quite quirky music, but also completely weren’t really producing soundtracks Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s silent film steeped in Children’s theme tunes as a for theatre then we were quite unique, from 1929 Arsenal. Presented by Good genre. Then reading the books opened we’d conjure up these soundtracks On Paper the screening and rousing up the pages onto an incredibly overnight. Then end up using them the live score also takes place in the epic charming, but melancholy world, that next day in these performance works. surroundings of the Goods Shed on also suited the times, and us, and our So that’s really how we got into making Thursday 12th April. Tickets cost £8adv sensibilities. For the soundtrack, we music, that was at the time a lot of our or £10 on the door. just sort of attacked it, we were given contemporaries in Leeds in particular, very little time to react to it, and hit the bands like Mekons, Gang Of Four were The rest of the programme features recording studio with a suitcase full bits overlapping with us, the drummer from the likes of Alabaster dePlume, Laish, and bobs. the Gang Of Four was actually in one Yama Warashi, Mermaid Chunky, Project Adorno, Liz Bentley, Jonny in of our first works. We were living this You are doing a live a re-scoring of the Fluffypunk, Sugarsea Catering, Dan miserabilist existence in Leeds, they Moomins and the Comet at the SVA, Rawlings and many more…See the formed bands, we formed a theatre can you tell us how this re-scoring will listings and sva.org.uk for further info. company. be different?

How much did you know about the The rescoring means that instead Moomins, what was your first contact of seeing a 5 minute episode, this with them? is scored for 45 minutes, and it’s a full story, this comet coming to Well I didn’t, the contact really came Christopher Taylor is a creative producer in MoominValley, threatening to destroy through Anne Wood, at the time she the advertising and marketing industry, also Moomin life as we know it. Quite an had a show called the Book Tower, specialising in film and music presenting for apocalyptic tale, it’s all strung together and I was in it, we kind of subsidise TV and Radio. - weareaudiophiles.com 18 Film #37 | Apr 2018 Film Listings

THE MALTHOUSE Wood’s TV adaptations of Film Polski’s A luxurious train journey through have passed without a culprit in her breathtakingly charming animations, Europe turns deadly. Sharing a daughter’s murder case, Mildred MON 2ND – WEDS 11TH all accompanied by a live score which carriage is an eclectic assortment Hayes (Academy Award winner Easter Holidays Cinema Club mixes Casios with ocarinas and the of passengers, amongst whom a Frances McDormand) makes a Kids getting bored during the Easter voices of vintage synthesisers with murdered stalks. A star-studded cast, bold move, commissioning three Holidays? Bring them along to the instruments from around the world. led by Kenneth Branagh as Hercule signs leading into her town with a Malthouse Bar and Kitchen’s movie 7:30pm £10adv/£12otd (Goods Shed) Poirot, adds class to this excellent controversial message directed at remake of the classic Agatha Christie William Willoughby (Academy Award mornings to keep them entertained - THURS 12TH why not treat them to a freakshake as “whodunit”.7:30pm £7 (includes one nominee Woody Harrelson), the town’s Site Festival: Good On Paper Presents well? Mon 2nd Hop, Tues 3rd James drink!) revered chief of police. When his – Bronnt Industries Kapital: Arsenal and the Giant Peach, Weds 4th Boss second-in-command Officer Dixon painswickcentre.com Baby, Mon 9th Inside Out, Tues 10th Following Bronnt Industries Kapital’s (Sam Rockwell), an immature mother’s The Good Dinosaur, Weds 11th Moana. debut Stroud performance of Turksib boy with a penchant for violence, gets 10am Free at Site Festival 2016, Good On Paper ELECTRIC PICTURE HOUSE involved, the battle between Mildred invite them back for the 2018 edition CINEMA WOTTON UNDER EDGE and Ebbing’s law enforcement is only stroudmalthouse.com of the multi-arts festival organised by exacerbated. 7:30pm the Stroud Valley Artspace for their live TUES 3RD soundtrack to Oleksandr Dovzhenko’s SAT 7TH OPEN HOUSE Phantom Thread silent film from 1928 Arsenal... Arsenal The Magic Flute Set in the glamour of 1950’s post- THURS 12TH is a newly commissioned soundtrack As part of the global celebrations of war London, renowned dressmaker for the 1928 film by Oleksandr the centenary of world-renowned Stroud Film Society Presents: Hemma Reynolds Woodcock Daniel Day-Lewis Dovzhenko and was released to Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman The Director gives us a young girl and his sister Cyril Lesley Manville mark the 100-year anniversary of (1918-2007), the BFI is bringing his Lou (Moa Gammel) and her Mother are at the centre of British fashion, the Kiev Uprising, depicted in the adaptation of Mozart’s The Magic Christine, her recently widowed dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, infamous silent film. The soundtrack Flute to cinemas across the UK. Rarely Grandmother (Anita Wall), a 10 year socialites, debutants, and dames was commissioned by the Oleksandr seen after its release in 1975, this old boy (Erik Lundqvist) and Henrik, with the distinct style of The House Dovzhenko National Centre in Kiev, wonderfully warm and effortlessly who falls in love with Lou. A Romantic of Woodcock. Women come and go Ukraine to accompany the recently charming film was shot in colour drama, and subtle comedy, which through Woodcock’s life, providing the restored print, and supported by the by two-time Oscar-winner Sven won 6 international awards, including confirmed bachelor with inspiration British Council. Bronnt Industries Nykvist (Cries and Whispers, Fanny & Best Actor (Erik Lundqvist) and Best and companionship, until he comes Kapital is based around British Alexander) and features some of the Supporting Actress (Anita Wall).7:30pm across a young, strong-willed woman, composer Guy Bartell, who works finest opera singers of the day. 7:30pm £6 in the fields of film soundtrack, Alma Vicky Krieps, who soon becomes electronic music and sound art. 8pm a fixture in his life as his muse and WEDS 11TH stroudfilmsociety.org £8adv/£10otd lover. Once controlled and planned, he RSC Live: Macbeth finds his carefully tailored life disrupted Returning home from battle, the SVA sva.org.uk by love. 7:30pm victorious Macbeth meets three witches on the heath. Driven by their FRI 6TH WEDS 4TH THE ARKELL CENTRE disturbing prophecies, he sets out on Site Festival: Moomins and the Comet The Shape of Water the path to murder. Our contemporary – Live Rescore From master story teller, Guillermo FRI 13TH production of Shakespeare’s darkest del Toro, comes a romantic fable, set Following the album release of the Nailsworth Film Club: Mindhorn psychological thriller marks both acclaimed soundtrack to the UK TV against the backdrop of Cold War era Julian Barrat wrings plenty of laughs Christopher Eccleston’ RSC debut and version of the The Moomins, one of its America circa 1962. In the hidden high- from the world of 1980s TV detectives the return of Niamh Cusack to the original composers, Graeme Miller, security government laboratory where with his bionically enhanced character, Company. 7pm has created a new full re-scoring of she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) Mindhorn, but it is his portrayal of Tove Jansson’s second and almost is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa’s fading actor Richard Thorncroft – who THURS 26TH visionary second Moomins book, life is changed forever when she and played Mindhorn – that really sets English National Ballet: Akram Khan’s Comet in Moominland, featuring co-worker Zelda (Octavia Spencer) this comedy alight. Cameos from Giselle some of the original themes by Leeds discover a secret classified experiment. Steve Coogan and Kenneth Branagh, Hailed as ‘a masterpiece of 21st post-punk duo Graeme Miller and Also starring Michael Shannon, amongst others, add to a thoroughly century dance’ from English National Steve Shill. Miller will be joined by Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg and enjoyable experience.7:30pm £6 Ballet, Akram Khan’s Giselle comes to Doug Jones. 8:30pm Jamie Telford to perform this re-score cinemas for the first time in 2018, giving live in the Brunel Goods Shed with nailsworthfilmclub.co.uk THURS 5TH ballet fans the opportunity to see this the pair using a kitchen table-full of award-winning production on the big small instruments (including a box Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, THE PAINSWICK CENTRE Missouri screen. 7:30pm of cornflakes), whilst Moomin troll’s A darkly comedic drama from wild adventure pans out on screen. FRI 6TH wottoncinema.com This is a rare chance for Moomins Academy Award winner Martin Wick Flix: Murder On the Orient fans old and new to experience Anne McDonagh (IN BRUGES). After months Express

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Tom had his ‘lightbulb moment’ a huge investment – I want people Have you heard about whilst visiting Turning Earth, a to come to The Clay Loft for member ceramics studio in East London, support, access to a huge array the new open access during the fi lming of the Great of equipment and a qualifi ed on- Pottery Throwdown – a seed was site technician who can help and ceramics studio sown....”I thought, I could create advise.” Membership is for anyone that’s popped up at this. There are only a handful of who can work independently (there studios of this kind in the UK and is a compulsory induction for new Inchbrook Mill? very few in a rural environment. It members) and is completely fl exible. became a possibility.” The journey Indeed, members of The Clay Local potter, Tom Knowles-Jackson, to realising The Clay Loft has Loft will have access to nine potters been quick and focused, “It’s all wheels, four kilns - a Paragon Firefl y best known for his success on happened pretty quickly really. I had test kiln, a top loading electric 250 the Great Pottery Throwdown in a strong vision for what I wanted litres, a front loading electric 450 2016, has realised his dream of a to achieve and once we’d found litres, a glaze test kiln and a gas member’s maker space, accessible the location it was a done deal.” It reduction kiln (subject to booking, is now housed in an 18th century additional charges apply – it resides to all, that rivals any other in the dye house on Gyddynap Lane, just at Tom’s home along his other seven country. The open plan studio is outside the busy market town of (yes, seven) kilns. There are six fl ooded with light and calm with Nailsworth, “I liked the building from potter’s wheels, including six Shimpo the outside.....but I loved it from the Whisper wheels, a Cowley training rows of orderly workbenches and inside! The views are stunning.” wheel, an Alsager professional the gentle hum of the potters The impetus for creating The wheel and a Wenger standing wheel. Part time professional Clay Loft was threefold – fi rstly to kick wheel. Not forgetting the create a larger studio for himself, whimsically named Shimpo Whirlers makers, serious hobbyists and secondly to provide studio space and the Griffi n Grip, Pug Mill, slab beginners work side by side in for other enthusiasts who cannot rollers and tools. a community environment. It’s a aff ord to invest in their own and You will be the proud owner of thirdly to provide opportunities for your own personal storage shelf, positive and exciting new venture.... young ceramics graduates in the have access to the communal right on our doorstep! locality. “The more people who kitchen, internet, forty litres of get clay between their fi ngers the kiln space per month at set fi ring better. Setting up your own studio is temperatures and unlimited use of #37 | Apr 2018 Art 21

house clays. It’s a functional, well specialists, studio sales and charity designed place with a hint of zen – initiatives. He’s got the vision and maybe it’s the fi ne Sake cups which drive and is clearly dedicated to Tom uses to serve espresso or the his craft - as he says, “Be warned, ornamental horse hair brushes he once you get clay beneath your collects from the Far East. fi ngernails, it’s there for life…” Not forgetting the glazes – Tom is passionate about using natural, The Clay Loft Grand Opening will be local materials to blend his own on Friday 4th May and will be open glazes – you might catch him to visitors during Select Trail Open scavenging wood ash from bonfi res Studios on 5th, 6th, 12th& 13th May or wood burning stoves, “There’s a from 11am – 6pm (selecttrail.org). real science to glazes, the alchemy There will be ceramics for sale and or magic of changing the molecular a warm welcome. structure of the raw material. The myriad of possibilities at every There are diff erent membership stage of the process is very exciting. packages available and workshops Happy accidents are what we live on off er include: The Friday Club – for!” Glaze Technology is an unusual membership for Fridays only from extra facility on off er, enabling you 9am – 4.30pm and 1-2-1 Throwing to prepare and experiment with tuition, Beginners, Intermediates, your own blends. Introduction to throwing and holiday There are currently two highly workshops for children. The Clay qualifi ed graduates working as part Loft is open six days a week from time technicians at The Clay Loft – 9am – 9pm for members and closed not only can they develop their own on Mondays. Visit theclayloft.co.uk ceramics careers, they are there to for further info… off er expertise to other committed ceramicists and potters. Tom has already created four private studios Sarah Edmonds, aka Word Bird, enjoys next to the main studio and what creative copywriting in the Stroud Valleys and marketing fi ne art materials and is clear is that there is more to workshops for Pegasus Art. @SarahWordBird come....a gallery perhaps, corporate @PegasusArtShop days, talks and masterclasses run by

Be warned, once you get clay beneath your fi ngernails, it’s there for life…

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Exhibition Space As part of last month’s Stroud Film Festival Good On Paper curated an exhibition of prints by Stroud based artists reinterpreting iconic film posters from classic and cult films Film in their own unique style… If you missed the exhibition or the Posters: opportunity to purchase a print (which you can now do by contacting the artists direct) then cast your eyes on the eighteen different Reinterpreted works featured on these pages!

Mark Levy Adam Hinks Joe Magee Rosalie Darien Jones

PANS LABYRINTH METROPOLIS BLUE VELVET LEON (Guillermo del Toro, 2006) (Fritz Lang, 1927) (David Lynch, 1986) (Luc Besson, 1994)

WITHNAIL AND I MOON MULHOLLAND DRIVE HAROLD AND MAUDE (Bruce Robinson, 1987) (Duncan Jones, 2009) (David Lynch, 2001) (Hal Ashby, 1971)

Giclée A2 print £40 Giclée A2 print £40 Giclée A2 print £40 Giclée A2 print £40 Digital print £20 Digital print £20 Digital print £20 Digital print £20

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Marcus Walters

SPIRITED AWAY (Hayao Miyazaki, Kirk Wise, 2001)

MY NEIGHBOUR TOTORO (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)

Screen print A2 £50 marcuswalters.com [email protected]

Andy Lovell Imogen Harvey Lewis Tom Percival Hannah Dyson

PAPILLON TRAINSPOTTING 12 MONKEYS CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1973) (Danny Boyle, 1996) (Terry Gilliam, 1995) FACTORY

THE DAFFODIL KILLER MY LIFE AS A DOG HENRY V PINOCCHIO (Ákos Ráthonyi, 1961) (Lasse Hallström, 1985) (Kenneth Branagh, 1989) (Walt Disney, 1940)

Giclée A2 print £40 Giclée A2 print £40 Giclée A2 print £40 Giclée A2 print £40 Digital print £20 Digital print £20 Digital print £20 Digital print £20 andylovell.co.uk imogenharveylewis.co.uk tom-percival.com hannahdyson.co.uk [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 24 Art Listings #37 | Apr 2018

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AMBERLEY INN The Gallery’s annual exhibition of museuminthepark.org.uk all the senses. She now specialises in sculptors’ prints is this year dedicated designing and creating research-led TUES 27TH FEB – SAT 28TH APR to the work of Marino Marini… Mon-Fri SELECT FESTIVAL printed and woven textiles that have Tony Meeuwissen 10am-6pm/Sat 10am-1pm an emphasis on storytelling. ‘Primary An exhibition of prints and drawings SAT 21ST APR – SAT 19TH MAY Traveller’ is a nomadic modular gallery-pangolin.com structure that will house a new body in the restaurant of the Amberley Hannah Waldron: Primary Traveller of weavings specially created for the Inn. Tony Meeuwissen has designed Hannah began weaving in 2010 after LANSDOWN GALLERY Festival. On Sat 21st Hannah will led a postage stamps for The Royal Mail, an encounter with the weavings of covers for the Radio Times and workshop exploring the fundamentals TUES 17TH – SUN 22ND Gunta Stölzl and Anni Albers at the of weaving using miniature laser cut illustrated feature articles for the Bauhaus archive in Berlin. In the London Sunday Times Magazine. Tony Karen Green: VENUS shaft looms. Experiment with textures learning of her craft, Hannah has often and patterns, learn basic weaving is not just the only illustrator ever to win A celebration of the female through felt it is the process of stories, of place, structures or create your own miniature the D&AD Black pencil award, he’s won flowers, fruits and figures. Oil travelling and narratives that take in tapestry to take home. She will also it twice! paintings, textiles and botanical water- colours. There will be a collection theamberleyinn.co.uk basket for sanitary products in the gallery in aid of The Homeless Period ART OF CLAY Gloucestershire. Please bring along any unwanted pads, towels, tampons Clay Sinclair etc to donate. (karengreenart.com) 10:30am-3:30pm/ Come and enjoy a Provocative post-pop paintings glass of wine and meet the artist on the on Perspex by local/international Opening Night, Monday 16th, 7-9pm artist Clay Sinclair situated at 48 High Street. Plus prints for those TUES 24TH – SAT 28TH on a budget and People’s Republic Barbara Leidl: Personal Affects of Stroud tat for those joining the revolution. Open Mon – Fri 11am-5pm/ An exhibition of oil portraits in a limited Sat 10am-5pm palette of earth colours, accompanied by some personal objects that have claysinclair.com had an affect on the paintings. 10am – 4:30pm ELVERS STUDIO lansdownhall.org WEDS 4TH – SAT 14TH Daniel F Davis MUSEUM IN THE PARK

Framed poems by Daniel F Davis. SAT 10TH MAR – SUN 15TH APR Floating on London and now beyond. Sandra Porter: All Things Being Equal Words of my time for our time, within and without. Grids and stripes feature heavily in Sandra Porter’s work which often SUN 15TH – MON 30TH finds its beginnings in architecture, Coling Heavingham: The Maker usually grand as in St Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow or Siena Cathedral in Exhibitions • Open Studios • Performance Paintings and assembled mixed media Italy. Recently, humble corrugated artworks by Colin Heavingham. Also iron bothans on the Isle of Skye featuring unusual handmade jewellery, Film • Talks • Music • Radio have caught her eye, appearing rainbow wing earrings and crystals by like drawings in the landscape and Tristana. inspiring the new works which are facebook.com/Elversstudio shown in this exhibition. This is Sandra Porter’s first solo museum show and will include large-scale carborundum GALLERY PANGOLIN prints, drawings and paintings. Join the MON 19TH MAR – FRI 18TH MAY Artist for drinks to mark the opening on Saturday 10 March, 1-4pm. Tues-Fri sitefestival.org.uk Marino Marini: A Sculptor’s Prints 10am-4pm/Sat-Sun 11am-4pm

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provide a talk where she will describe SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS works by Kenton Hodges, a self-taught painted directly onto un-fired ceramic. her journey into weaving and how photographer born and raised in she believes the craft to be a relevant SAT 14TH – SAT 21ST Stroud. Inspired by architecture, the prema.org.uk vehicle for an artist exploring the world Lansdown Art Club: Spring Exhibition natural world and people’s interaction today. The Museum in the Park. Tues- For over 50 years Lansdown Art Club with them, his work is exciting and UNDER THE EDGE ARTS Fri 10am-4pm/Sat-Sun 11am-4pm has been encouraging and informing varied. The collection of photographs on display combines his love of urban FRI 20TH – SUN 22ND SAT 21ST APR – JUNE local artists, both amateur and professional, and inspiring them in and natural landscapes with a playful Paul Groom: Bird/Bath Mixed Sculpture Exhibition take on humanistic realism. A larger many aspects of artistic expression. An exciting split exhibition of new collection of his work can be viewed, Ten Artists exhibiting work in the Meetings are held once a month work by local photographer Paul and numbered prints purchased from delightful setting of Miserden Nursery when members and visitors enjoy Groom, revealing work taken over the the thirty5 website – thirty5.co.uk Mon with the herbaceous borders and demonstrations and advice from UK last two years. Half of the exhibition – Sat 9am-3pm/Sun 10am-3pm surrounding countryside giving added artists. In April the club will be holding brings together various shoots taken drama. Miserden Nursery. Tues-Sun its popular annual exhibition and a upperlockcafe.co.uk at Wotton Outdoor Swimming Pool 10am-5pm variety of styles and subjects, ranging featuring subjects using the water to from a traditional approach to more convey feelings. The other half of the TUES 24TH APR – SAT 30TH JUNE innovative use of media, will be on THE OLD PASSAGE ARLINGHAM exhibition shows stunning portraits of Georgina Bouzyk: Flora and Fauna display. Something for everyone. birds of prey taken at The International TUES 28TH NOV – MAY A solo exhibition of oil paintings 10am-5pm Centre for Birds of Prey, taken against exploring the flora and fauna of the Found colour backgrounds and printed large countryside surrounding Stroud by subscriptionrooms.org.uk An exhibition curated by Kel Portman to truly appreciate the beautiful feather Georgina Bouzyk. Georgina’s paintings showing a variety of approaches, detail and majesty of these elegant explore the fragile yet powerful SVA media and techniques; painting, birds. This is also an opportunity to aspects of nature; Studying the innate photography, collage, jewellery and see some of the images from Paul’s shapes and colours that make up the THURS 5TH – SAT 7TH printmaking. The work creatively exhibition OWL, which was exhibited at landscape to create a sense of place. Site Festival: Sugarsea Catering explores the theme through objects the Tobacco Factory, Bristol. Preview The Malthouse Bar and Kitchen. Sun- Presents Flaxen + Relaxin and places, as well as real and Fri 20th ft. jazz singer Lady Nade. Mon 10am-4pm/Tues – Sat 10am-5pm Sugarsea Catering Presents a imagined events. Ft works by Alice 7:30pm Free celebration of flaxen locks and grain- Adams, Anne Bate Williams, Chris SAT 28TH APR – SAT 5TH MAY utea.org.uk work in a happy holiday setting. An Bingle, Carolyn Black, Alexander Three By 3: A Homage to Vivaldi exhibition engendered by their recent Caminada, Valerie Coffin Price, Three textile artists (Pauline Cullimore, holiday-relaxing and the flaxen locks it Alexandra Collins, Debbie Cox, Sabine TETBURY GOODS SHED Janet Grist and Sylvia Hammond) who brought out in them. Artists exhibiting Crittall, Lucy Guenot, Sylvain Guenot, met whilst studying City and Guilds - Jessie D’Evens, Verity Monroe, Moina Patricia Homewood, Valerie Jordan, SUN 1ST APR – SUN 13TH MAY textile courses come together with Leahy, Rowan Kelly. Open Fridays and Susan Kester, Sara Kirby, Penel Kirk, Mark Fairhurst: Brief Encounters Tonia Maddison, Barbara Manzi-fe, new works. Their works are rooted Saturdays 10am-3pm/ Private view: The Goods Shed Tetbury are very Rachel McDonnell, Linn O’Carroll, John in the traditions of patchwork and Thurs 5th 6-9pm proud to be holding an extremely Playfoot, Teresa Poole. Kel Portman, quilting and reflect the origins and special photographic exhibition FRI 13TH – SAT 28TH Vicki Portman, Christine Smith, Angie varied possibilities with in this art form by the renowned Cotswold-based Spencer,Nik Taylor and Melyvn in this collaborative exhibition. The Site Festival: Dan Rawlings – Post-Oil photographer, Mark Fairhurst. Mark Warren-Smith. Subscription Rooms. 10am -4pm A glimpse into a post-oil world, where has photographed some of the most Nature’s busy breaking down the recognised people on the planet. This sitselect.org theoldpassage.com evidence of humanity’s misadventures will be the first time he has shown into self-sabotage. Open Fridays and some of his extensive portraiture STAR ANISE Saturdays 10am-3pm/Private view: PREMA ARTS CENTRE ULEY collection… Friday 13th 6-9pm TUES 6TH MAR – SUN 8TH APR TUES 6TH MAR – SAT 14TH APR shed-arts.co.uk Imagine Therapeutic Arts Meanwhile Space: UP This Way Greg Harris An exhibition of new artwork UP This Way is an outlet within In his paintings, Harris invites the NEW BREWERY ARTS CENTRE from studio members of Imagine Merrywalks highlighting the work of spectator to reconnect with the familiar Therapeutic Arts. furniture and accessory makers within by bringing together both a literal and SAT 17TH MAR – SUN 20TH MAY the broader Stroud area. Open Fri-Sat non-literal interpretation of the people Lucienne Day: Living Design staraniseartscafe.com he depicts and environment around 9am-6pm or by appointment 01453 This exhibition celebrates the life them. Greg achieves this through the 297260 and work of one of most influential use of carefully-considered colour STEVE RUSSELL STUDIOS designers of the post-war generation, combinations and his characteristic Lucienne Day. Lucienne Day: Living Meanwhile Space: Fungusloci painterly style. Studio Tours/Visual Demonstration Design tells the story of Lucienne Day’s Artist and permaculture practitioner Specialist fine art photographers TUES 6TH MAR – SAT 14TH APR design career, unfolding in a sequence Dominic Thomas has designed and of photographs drawn from the with 30 years’ experience working Pam Smy with artists and galleries. Now built a sustainable urban micro-farm in archives of the Robin and Lucienne Day exploring new techniques in high which oyster mushrooms are cultivated Fuelled by a love of literature (for all Foundation. Mon-Sat 9am-5pm/Sun definition photogrammetry, we on spent coffee grounds from local ages) and an over-enthusiasm for 10am-4pm can offer artists beautiful, precise cafes. Fungusloci is a project of ghost stories and period and crime representations of their works in Sustainable Creativity CIC with the help dramas, Pam produces work with an newbreweryarts.org.uk interactive 3D. Studio tours by of Stroud District Food Grants taking atmosphere of romance and mystery appointment. A visual demonstration place at Unit 23, Merrywalks. Open by for publishers. Her first illustrated of the process of capturing appointment [email protected] novel, Thornhill, was published in 2017. sculpture in detailed 3D and virtual sva.org.uk TUES 6TH MAR – SAT 14TH APR reality. By appointment Monday- Martha Opher Friday 9am-5pm. Contact rebekah@ steverussellstudios.com Young artist Martha Opher’s passion UPPER LOCK CAFÉ for painting has inspired her to create steverussellstudios.com a range of ceramic enamel transfers, SUN 25TH FEB – SAT 28TH APR allowing her to create multiples and Kenton Hodges: thirty5 ranges within her work. In addition to the transfer decoration, her porcelain All thirty5 photographs are original thrown pots are washed with oxides Marino Marini A Sculptor’s Prints 19th March - 18th May sitselect.org

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Mark Huband By Caroline Jaine

So often I am reminded of what a special place Stroud is. It would be simplifying matters to state we are a town of creative types. It is, of course, home to creative types and has a rich history of that, but the journey that so many have been on to find their inspiration is wild and diverse.

This week I met Mark Huband, rhyming verse stanza form that he by many of the horrors in the world, to neighbouring Ivory Coast - his an award-winning former foreign says offers a degree of subtlety. His there is space for this new form of eyes sparkled as he recalls it. Mark correspondent, who now intriguingly joy, Mark says, is in using the same story-telling: one which engages on a clearly spends a lot of time in London, runs a company that provides expression as writers did centuries different, emotional level and forces us running his business, and yet lives in a “discreet, timely, and impeccably- ago to record a modern-day issue. It to look and to care. The truth he says, beautiful, ancient home, perched on a resourced” intelligence reports. There is an original fusion. As someone who “is a big five letter word”. Stroud hillside surrounded by objects were so many world events and struggles to watch the news for fear Mark claims to have lost contact and art, no doubt from wild African current affairs hot topics we could of being too moved by the plight of with writing poetry in his teens, but as adventures. Mark clearly has as much have spoken about: we have friends fellow humans, I approached Mark’s many with a deep-rooted creative soul of a tendency to observe tradition and conflicts in common and share book tentatively. Poetry too, draws and a desire to express themselves, as he does to break rules and follow that slightly disconnected look of me into a dance, it involves me in he has rediscovered his poetic voice. his heart. As I was preparing to say people who have seen more than they the rhythm of a story, and it is, well, Driven by a “profound feeling of goodbye, he threw me a curveball: should from this world. Yet instead, emotionally powerful. I wasn’t sure getting to the heart of the human “You know I stood in the last election as over a gently poured cup of tea, Mark at all that I wanted to get too close condition - whether in poetry, in a Labour candidate?” I hadn’t spotted and I discussed poetry - his love of to what happened in Liberia several journalism or in an intelligence report”, that, I said, but then in Stroud nothing traditional prose and his recent poem: decades earlier. I wasn’t sure I wanted Mark says he wants to use language is unusual and the diversity of our The Siege of Monrovia. As the name of to see the “blood and death by the for expression, rather than as a people is not just our strength, but our his book-length poem suggests, Mark roadside” despite Mark’s carefully weapon. He is adamant to point out inspiration. hasn’t entirely escaped his journalistic chosen form - his subject matter is not that poetry is increasing in popularity background in writing this, and subtle. I persevered and for anyone and he sees huge value in sharing his The Siege of although he references Dante when who does - this story goes way beyond poems with other poets - and regularly Monrovia is describing this work - he describes his any news report in evoking the horrors contributes at meetings with other out now and epic work as ‘absolute fact’. of conflict. His “mangrove swamps writers. “More and more people are available 30 years ago Mark experienced where the dead are arranged” and writing poetry, and the standard is very online from first-hand the onset of civil war in “broken pathways” and “blood-eye high”. Having been a wordsmith all his amazon, visit Liberia in West Africa. He says that rage” are not beautiful, but they are life, quality is clearly important - so it’s markhuband. this is the third time he has produced startling and finely written. One line no surprise that The Siege of Monrovia com for further an eye-witness account of some of the stood out to me, “I had seen all that I took two years to craft. Mark believes info. events that unfolded - the first time as should not have seen,” - which poses poetry should always be read out loud a reporter for the Financial Times, the so many quandaries about why and and has enjoyed performing his book second in a work of non-fiction and how to share such things. Mark at the Poetry Cafe in London, which he now, as a poem. Yet it is perhaps the himself concedes, writing about these says takes about 95 minutes. first time that I have encountered such subjects “is a big responsibility” and Presenting himself as a Caroline Jaine is a Stroud-based former a mammoth work of poetry that sets then darkly, “there can be no poetry contradiction, Mark is someone fiercely journalist and author of A Better Basra. She itself up to document an actual event. after Auschwitz,” a reference to a quote traditional in his impeccable approach spent 14 years in the Foreign Service serving in conflict environments. Caroline now Neither of us could think of another from philosopher Theodor Adorno. to words and yet so radically different repairs car bodywork for a living and makes poem that had its root so firmly in fact. This is particularly relevant as Mark in fusing a form of creative expression art in her spare time. Follow her on twitter. For this reason, The Siege of Monrovia is considering another epic poem to record the cold facts of war. The com/caroline_jaine and instagram.com/ is a unique achievement. next, this time about the Rwandan reason he was in Liberia in the first carolinejaine In telling his story through poetry, Genocide. 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ALE HOUSE not safeguard the natural rights of its complex landscape. Start 09.15 from before moving on to whole words. people - in order to defends the French Stonehouse station (catch the 09.07 Emma from Emerald Paper Design MON 16TH Revolution (specifi cally against attacks train from Stroud) Approx 6 hours. will be giving demonstrations each by Edmund Burke). The group will be Mostly footpaths through meadows step of the way, as well as being on Piranha Poetry joined by Stroud resident and distant and farmland and a steep climb via hand for individual guidance. You A brand new open mic night for poets relative Angela Paine. 7:30pm Free a country lane. No need to book. Just will also receive a goodie bag to take hosted by Gary Death (Glastonbury turn up. away. Your goodie bag will contain: Poetry and Words Compare 2009). stroudmicropub.co.uk 1 nib, 1 pen holder, 1 pot of ink and Piranha Poetry was established in guide sheets for you to practice with at Edinburgh back in 2003 and has SVA home. 10am – 12pm £35 played host for lots of performers MUSEUM IN THE PARK including Buddy Wakefi eld the THURS 5TH newbreweryarts.org.uk TUES 12TH two-time Individual World Poetry Stroud Artists Books Slam Champion (2004 and 2005), Poetry Evening: Stroud Poets 9 Rob Gee, Jenny Lindsay, The Poetry A group of practising artists and other In the next poetry evening in the Vandals and many more. This month creative individuals with an interest Stroud Poets series, three poets read it will be headlined by Anna Saunders in Artist Books. An inclusive group, from pamphlet number nine. Jenny the CEO and founder of Cheltenham one which embraces all abilities and Daisley’s poetry, in careful and often Poetry Festival. She has been interests Stroud Artists Books meet at witty refl ection, fi nds deeper truths described as ‘a poet who surely can SVA Johns Street on the fi rst Thursday in the everyday and in the business do anything’ by The North. Anna’s new of each month. It is involved in Open of the contemporary world. Charles book Ghosting for Beginners ( Indigo Studio Events, Artist Book Fairs and Graham writes formal poetry; his idiom Dreams, Spring 2018) will have its fi rst Workshops. You are very welcome to in some ways echoes writers of the outing on the night.7:30pm Free come and see what they are all about! mid-twentieth century, but he writes 11am Free (John Street) with expertise, a smile and a modern WEDS 4TH/11TH/18TH/25TH irony. Sally Whitman’s poetry combines SAT 28TH Rick Vick: Writing Group an immediate narrative appeal Site Festival: Mr Fluff ypunk’s Penny with profound honesty. All three A weekly writing group run by Stroud Gaff with Project Adorno and Liz write poetry which is engaging and Festival’s Rick Vick. Discover your Bentley hidden voice, all welcome! 7-9pm £5 rewarding. They will be joined by the for further information contact Rick on three poets whose work was sampled Hosted by poet and comedian Jonny 07973 225 694 in Stroud Poets One: Adam Horovitz, Fluff ypunk, ‘Mr Fluff ypunk’s Penny who has recently published a fi ne Gaff ’ brings to Stroud some of the collection of poems which follow the best, quirkiest and most interesting BLACK BOOK CAFÉ work of four farms across four seasons; performers from the UK’s comedy, Maria Stadnicka, whose collection spoken word and alternative cabaret OUT NOW WEDS 25TH Imperfect has been very well received; scenes. Special guests will be Project Adorno with their beat poetry and Jay Ramsay: Pilgrimage and Rick Vick, who will be celebrating an important birthday…7:30pm Free understated quirky pop songs. Subject In the Summer of 1990 local poet Jay matter, ranging from the surreal to Ramsay set out on pilgrimage as part museuminthepark.org.uk the downright nonsensical, includes THE of an Interfaith group from London, the smell of second-hand books, love via Ilkley Moor, to Iona. The result, four aff airs with Daleks and photocopiers, STRANGER years later, was his most ambitious NO 23 and poems about old computer games. book length poem, unpublished until Liz Bentley is one of the quirkiest voices By Kate Riordan now. An astonishing tour de force in SUN 29TH on the UK’s spoken word scene. She the tradition of Wordsworth, Milton No 23 Book Club is a sit down comedienne and host, Cornwall, 1940. For decades, and Chaucer Pilgrimage affi rms his entertaining audiences with poetry, Penhallow Hall has stood frozen central belief and aesthetic in poetry This month’s book is How To Stop Time stories, ukulele and casio keyboard. as something synchronistic and by Matt Haig. The No 23 book club 7:30pm £10adv/£8.50otd (John Street) in time, sheltering the secrets of experiential: as he has said: ’poetry is run by Nikki Owen, author of the its isolated inhabitants. But the far critically acclaimed Project Trilogy. is written on the living air all around corners of England are no shelter us; and moment by moment, beyond Stroud bookshop is also off ering 10% Site Festival: Resound Radio from the war, and Penhallow must our knowing’. Come to the launch and discount on the 23 Bookclub books! And Community radio listening with listen to Jay read extracts from the book No 23 will be off ering discounts on the a diff erence…Site Festival will be fi nally open its doors to strangers. published by the Stroud based Awen day to Bookclubers too…4pm Free presenting Resound Radio live to air Three newcomers arrive, each Publications. 7:30pm Free and new podcasts in April and May for facebook.com/ Site Festival. Resound Radio is an open looking to escape their past and blackbookcafe.com No23BarAndBistroStroud ended radio station based here in the start afresh. They adjust easily to town center giving a voice to artists and the routine - nightly blackouts, the non-artists alike. (John Street) LITTLE GEORGE STROUD DISTRICT threat of invasion - but tensions sva.org.uk mount and secrets are forced into FRI 20TH WEDS 25TH the open. For one of them is not Stroud Radical Reading Group: Stroud Radical History: Alternative there by choice. And then, in the Heritage Walk Thomas Paine – The Rights of Man NEW BREWERY ARTS CENTRE hushed hours of deepest night, A circular walk from Stonehouse The Stroud Radical Reading Group a young woman is taken meet every month at the Little George Station to Standish, Haresfi eld, Ring MON 16TH by the sea. and aim to read a variety of articles Hill, Randwick Woods and back Modern Calligraphy with Emma and books on radical issues, feminism, to Stonehouse. Ancient Barrows, Was it simply a tragic accident? mediaeval churches, Romano-British Barnes environmentalism, trade unionism, Or should the inhabitants of politics, and current aff airs. This month farmsteads, a moated stronghold, a Join Emerald Paper Design on a the group will focus on Thomas Paine’s hillfort and old woodland. Throughout beginners guide to modern calligraphy Penhallow have been more the Rights of Man. Published in two the walk the construction of the During the session, key modern careful about whom they parts in March 1791 and February controversial Javelin Park incinerator calligraphy basics will be covered; how invited in? 1792, Paine’s Rights of Man posits will dominate the view to the to use the essential tools, mark making that popular political revolution is west. 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Special effects FRI 27TH THURS 5TH – SAT 7TH FRI 13TH – SAT 14TH and puppetry will ensure that this Site Festival: Elvis Presents Hexagon Theatre Company: story is told in a fresh, innovative and Flies On the Wall Youth Theatre: Stroud’s funkiest chat show... Elvis and Pygmalion exciting way. Guaranteed to challenge, Boom Time inspire and move you. By Pulitzer Dr Shiraz interview well-known Stroud Eliza Doolittle, a young flower An intriguing play with music and song, Prize-winner Marsha Norman and personalities and introduce some of seller, has aspirations to work in a set in 1953 in North West England where Lucy Simon, a family musical based our little town’s quirkiest acts. 7:30pm shop. Henry Higgins is a researcher the first nucleur power station is being on the 1911 novel by Frances Hodgson. £1otd and teacher of phonetics. Colonel built... how do the local community Tues-Sat 7:30pm/Thurs 2:30pm/Sun Pickering, a specialist in languages. respond? Fri 7:30pm/Sat 3:30pm + 12:30pm and 5:30pm See website for SAT 28TH A chance meeting between the three 7:30pm £9/£5under 18’s/£23 family ticket details! characters results in a wager that Site Festival: Mr Fluffypunk’s Penny ticket from trybooking.co.uk/DPG Gaff with Project Adorno and Liz Higgins can teach Eliza and pass barntheatre.org.uk her off as a duchess. Pygmalion Bentley SAT 21ST is an Edwardian study of manners Hosted by poet and comedian Jonny where people’s place in society was Worcester Repertory Company: Fluffypunk, ‘Mr Fluffypunk’s Penny immediately obvious as soon as you Where Is Mrs Christie? Gaff’ brings to Stroud some of the spoke. The men know this and with Comedy Actor Liz Grand presents her new best, quirkiest and most interesting Higgins’ expertise and Pickering’s one-woman show. Did Agatha Christie performers from the UK’s comedy, money (and, of course, Eliza’s hard lie, and if so why? Did she suffer from spoken word and alternative cabaret work) they achieve their aim. They amnesia? Was it a publicity stunt? Or Listings scenes. Special guests will be Project enjoy their game, but where does it was there a darker secret involved Adorno with their beat poetry and leave Eliza? 7:30pm (matinee Sat 7th in this disappearance which was to understated quirky pop songs. at 2:30pm) £12 affect her for the rest of her life? The TETBURY GOODS SHED Subject matter, ranging from the answer to all these questions will, as in surreal to the downright nonsensical, FRI 13TH all good thrillers, be revealed! 7:30pm WEDS 25TH includes the smell of second-hand books, love affairs with Daleks and Our Star Theatre Company: £12adv from Trading Post/£14otd Everyman Theatre Presents: Tapley House photocopiers, and poems about old lansdownhall.org Watching Out computer games. Liz Bentley is one Donnie and Sid are a couple of lazy Hector Bouchard is astounded when a of the quirkiest voices on the UK’s twenty-something’s, thrown together strange woman bursts into his elegant spoken word scene. She is a sit down by fate under the roof of Tapley SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS Paris apartment, demanding that comedienne and host, entertaining House. Landlady, Mrs Tapley keeps he make love to her - but only when audiences with poetry, stories, an unnervingly close eye on them as her husband is watching from the they stumble through life, dreaming THURS 12TH ukulele and casio keyboard. 7:30pm adjoining building. In the same room, £10adv/£8.50otd of an extraordinary business plan Half Moon: Grannylocks and years later, a man waits for visitors on that will get them rich quick without Monstrous Duckling his anniversary. Also inthe same room, sva.org.uk ever having to get off the sofa. When Did you know that the ugly duckling a new tenant arrives, a dark secret is was never ugly? He was truly revealed and all hell breaks loose in monstrous! Or that Goldilocks was the once innocuous House of Tapley. never a tale about a little girl. It 7:30pm £10 was always a tale about a granny SUN 15TH APRIL - 24TH JUNE - a mean, thieving granny who has WEDS 18TH – SUN 22ND plans for something quite nasty. Join Glitter and Twisted Theatre Company: performance poet Joseph Coelho, The Yeomen of the Guard National Poetry Day Ambassador, as he unravels familiar fairytales to It is 1953, and as the country gears up create fresh contemporary classics for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth, in an enchanting performance the cast and crew at Oakridge Film for young and old alike. 11am Studios prepare to film The Yeomen £10/£8concs/£30family of the Guard, Gilbert & Sullivan’s most majestic musical, reimagined as a Technicolor movie set in the first THURS 12TH Elizabethan age. As we meet the Half Moon: Zombie-rella and Blood actors who will play the key roles, life Red Hood starts to imitate art, leading to comedy A mysterious vaudeville storyteller with and tragedy in equal measure. Glitter a magical top-hat and coat unwinds & Twisted will, as always, be respectful the true stories behind the happily of the original piece, while shining ever afters, which are maybe not as an exciting new light on a Victorian charming as you remember! Discover classic. Weds – Sat 7:30pm/Sun 5pm the true tale of Cinderella, where she £12 dies and becomes a zombie and falls in love with a vampire prince. 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