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AN INDEPENDENT, FREE MONTHLY GUIDE TO MUSIC, ART, THEATRE, ISSUE 40 | JULY 2018 COMEDY, LITERATURE & FILM IN STROUD. WWW.GOODONPAPER.INFO ISSUE #40 Inside: Everyone Penelope Chalfest Sang Kirk Studio + Margaret Hills: Stroud’s Secret Suragist | John Dougherty | Eve Coy Stroud Sacred Music Festival | Yasemin Wigglesworth Cover image by Joe Magee Joe image by Cover MH After Hours A4 Ad:Layout 1 22/06/2018 05:40 Page 1 FREE GIN TASTING ShoppiNG • ReSTaURaNT GaLLeRy • eveNTS AFTER HOURS FRIDAY TH JULY - PM Join us for an evening of music and gin tasting as we launch our gallery space. A unique opportunity to be part of the shop or as a private space. Come and enjoy free gin tasters and music from Pavinyl while you shop for antiques and interiors. View work from Melvyn Warren-Smith who is launching the gallery space with some of his stunning paintings. OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARTISTS... 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The Malthouse Collective, Salmon Springs, Stroud, GL6 6NU WWW.THEMALTHOUSECOLLECTIVE.CO.UK MH After Hours A4 Ad:Layout 1 22/06/2018 05:40 Page 1 #40 | July 2018 EDITOR Advertising/Editorial/Listings: FREE GIN Editor’s Note Alex Hobbis [email protected] DESIGNER Artwork and Design TASTING Welcome to the fortieth issue of Good On Paper – your free Adam Hinks [email protected] monthly guide to music, concerts, art exhibitions, theatre productions, comedy shows, film screenings and literature ONLINE FACEBOOK TWITTER events in Stroud… goodonpaper.info /GoodOnPaperStroud @GoodOnPaper_ ShoppiNG • ReSTaURaNT Since February 2015 we have provided the people of Stroud with this publication which you PRINTED BY: are about to eagerly thumb through to plan your monthly cultural excursions. 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Alex and Adam Chartered Tax Advisers www.chrismattostax.co.uk elcombestoves.co.uk chrismattostax.co.uk FRONT COVER: Joe Magee CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Christopher Taylor, Laura Clark, Lucy White, Paul McLaughlin, Millie Kidson, Leah Grant and Sarah Edmonds CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHY: John Morgan and Katie Jane Watson NEXT MONTH’S ISSUE: Alex Merry, Stroud Block Party, Discover the Artists, The Outer Fringe, Simon McCorry, Chris Head and AFTER HOURS much more… FRIDAY TH JULY - PM Join us for an evening of music and gin tasting as we launch our gallery space. A unique opportunity to be part of the shop or as a private space. Come and enjoy free gin tasters and music from Pavinyl while you shop for antiques and interiors. View work from Melvyn Warren-Smith who is launching the gallery space with some of his stunning paintings. OPPORTUNITIES FOR ARTISTS... (Introductory offers) Gallery hire: Monday - Sunday (shop opening hours plus one evening 6-9pm) £320 plus 10% commission Friday - Sunday individual Dealers and Makers present (shop opening hours plus one evening 6-9pm) a curated collection of antiques and £250 plus 10% commission .interiors at the Malthouse Collective. rent a wall: Come and shop for old treasures 12m2 in the shop for a month for £250 and new creations. 31st July - 11th August 2018 10am - 4pm The Malthouse Collective, Salmon Springs, Stroud, GL6 6NU Lansdown Gallery, Lansdown, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 1BB WWW.THEMALTHOUSECOLLECTIVE.CO.UK 04 Music #40 | July 2018 Image by John Morgan John Image by Everyone Sang Studio By Christopher Taylor On a lovely summers early evening I directly to tape, so that’s a vision to came back here and added extra have a more analogue feel. layers in the studio. wiggled my way down the side streets from L: It’s picking out the things which are For budding musicians out there and Lower St. to meet Emily Barker and Lukas really cool and really awesome and people interested in the industry, is Drinkwater at their newly opened recording sound great and also things that are there anything you can especially viable - and try and find the middle oer for them in this studio? studio ‘Everyone Sang’. Emily Barker is ground in between, we are just trying an award-winning singer-songwriter best to get the best we can get with the E: What Lukas is really great at is that space and resources that we’ve got. many of the people who come along to known as the writer and performer of the We’re quite a practical studio, but we record here are just beginning, so they theme to the hit BBC1 drama Wallander have got some amazing ancient things don’t really have a clear idea of what lying around, old guitars and an 1860’s they want their song to sound like - so starring Kenneth Branagh. Lukas Drinkwater pump harmonium, lovely things like Lukas can sort of step in as producer, is a solo artist and session musician, that. but also play all of the instruments, he can build it up with the people he is half of Jacob & Drinkwater, a variously Who are you aiming the studio at, working with into making something proportioned member of Emily’s band, and a and Lukas, you were saying how you they think sounds amazing. That is a can also help out as an experienced unique quality that he can o¥er as an composer and multi-instrumentalist. session musician? engineer and a musician. L: It’s aimed at everyone and anyone Finally, what sort of feedback have you really, the first few projects that had from people that have recorded happened here were with fairly new here? musicians. As the studio was just being set up it made sense for artists to do L: Well so far everyone who has been their first recordings here, because here has loved it, just because it is such a nice cosy space to work in and it just As I arrive at the studio, I’m welcomed Stroud, it was very good timing! we as owners were doing our first doesn’t feel overwhelming. outside by Lukas, and invited in for recordings here - so we were sort of As two established recording artists, sussing it out together. Then we also a cup of tea. Upon entering we hear E: And from a point of view of a what are the most important aspects have Dan Whitehouse booked in for a Emily practicing her drumming skills woman, this studio is very neutral. in a studio for you? session who is an established singer/ (they are sounding good). Whilst I’ve been to a lot of studios in the past sipping on my hot beverage, in this songwriter from Birmingham. L: For me it’s about being in an where I have felt that they were a very comforting and creative space, Emily environment where you feel E: We just recorded an album with masculine space, and this studio is not informs me that the name of the studio encouraged and free to be yourself. Marry Waterson. Marry and I wrote that at all. comes from a poem by Siegfried A lot of studios I’ve been in can be a bunch of songs together which we Sassoon. I’m intrigued by this space, L: It’s particularly floral - it’s a really intimidating and I think there are are releasing as a duo album next the three of us sit down nursing our warm, lovely comforting space, with some people in the music industry who year. We met in Stroud at the Convent teas and I want to find out more... cushions and throws, its peaceful, it like to project that and be the bigger and Adem was also there on a song- doesn’t have any of the pretenses. person.. It’s important to have a space writing retreat - so the three of us How did the studio come about? It’s an all welcoming space, we try to that is relaxed and cool and you feel decided to make a record and we’d make it inclusive. Lukas (L): Well I had a studio by myself happy and encouraged to work in, set up our studio here. So Marry and in Exeter, which I was using for my own because that’s how you get your best Adem came down, Lukas engineered, E: And for somewhere like Stroud it’s a session recordings. People would send performance.