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Sunday 21st
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Preston Reed
with very special support from Declan Bennett
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Drawing on blues, rock, funk and jazz influences among others Preston Reed's vast range of explosively original music will forever change your expectations of a guitarist. Reed has single handily reinvented acoustic guitar playing. First-time listeners find it impossible to believe that they're hearing just the one musician, in real time.
While never letting his extraordinary technique overshadow the beauty of his music, the multi award winning Reed engages the entire instrument, creating a rock/jazz rhythm section, melody line and chordal accompaniment simultaneously; hauling out an orchestra you never knew was hidden inside. At full tilt, his fingers, thumbs, fists and hands at once suggest a drummer, keyboardist, bassist and several guitarists at work. The word virtuoso doesn't even come close.
Preston Reed is a performer that can change the mood in a room from one song to the next. He riffs with the conviction and guts of a rock band, yet plays with the subtlety of that most delicate of jazz pianists, Bill Evans. There are no fancy gadgets or gimmicky FX - just 6 strings (or occasionally 12), two hands and a daring and innovative musical imagination that crosses all boundaries.
The phrase 'has to be seen to believed' has never been more true!
"…. a major musical talent" Manchester Evening News - "True spellbinding guitar mastery" Guitarist Magazine - "Remarkable…. Mesmerising…" UNCUT - "In a class of his own" London Evening Standard - "Amazing….hypnotic" The Scotsman - "Absolutely unmissable" The Herald - "Heart stopping tour de force" Billboard - "Will drop your jaw" Playboy - "Reed's fiendishly intricate blend of blues, rock, country and metal styles ducks and weaves itself away from measurability" The Irish Times
www.myspace.com/prestonreed
Declan Bennett is a dynamic English acoustic singer-songwriter with a hard-hitting, witty and poetic way with words, unique take on life and unashamed and honest tales of life, love and sexuality, which have already won him a diverse and devoted fan base around the UK, across the US and beyond...
He has recently been starring as Roger in RENT on Broadway New York, as well as gigging around America. Declan released his new album 'An Innocent Evening Of Drinking' earlier this year and it has already received critical acclaim in the press in both Britain and America...
www.myspace.com/declanbennett
£8.00 ticket and £10.00 on the door
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Monday 22nd
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