"Like Poison Ivy and Lux all in one gal, Sadie Morningstar wades her Mudd Club through the garage-billy trash-heap straight to your heart, with added ol’ time Americana from street-tested troubadour Joe Strouzer and the ragtime ragamuffins of Kai Carter's OTT. Can I get a yeeeeehaw FFO: White Stripes, Best Coast, Horrorpops, Tom Waits, Uncle Tupelo?"
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A gig held at The Croft on Friday 19th June. The event starts at 19:30.
BMA (Bristol Music Agency) Presents it's Second Showcase of local talent.
This time around we have the pleasure of providing three of our favourite bands for your listening pleasure.
The Mudd Club:
Delinquent garage rockers with a penchant for all things loud and fuzzy and a drive to provide what they feel the world needs more of nowadays - pure rock n roll in its most primitive and scuzzy glory.
Originally from the distant and ever-exotic land of Lawrence, Kansas, the Mudd Club now find themselves based in Bristol and sometimes Machynlleth, Wales, (depending on their mood. )
The band lineup features Sadie Morningstar who is responsible for dishing out gritty sass-filled vocals and searing guitar licks so hot and trashy it’ll rip ya to shreds.
Julian West thunders away and bashes out the most primitive and energetic beats to ever grace your ears (or deafen them at least,) while Joe Trudgeon propels the whole lot along with impressive yet solid bass lines, while looking like he’s just time traveled from the1930s. (Yes, he’s in the band. No, he’s not a lost jazzer who accidentally ended up at a punk show.)
The Mudd Club are always ready and willing to rock n roll all night with their trashily glamorous action-filled sludge of sonic voodoo.
Joe Strouzer Band:
Joe Strouzer sings songs from his travels from Newcastle to New Orleans and a hell of a lot of places in between. His driving resonator guitar is coupled with true harmonica voodoo and biting songwriting of modern trouble, heartpains, moonlit trysts, drinking and devilment, peppered with a rich history of blues.
On harmonica Joe was picked as London’s best busker by Vice Magazine, has supported the late blues guitar legend Johnny Winter and performed all over the UK, Europe and USA including London’s Royal Festival Hall, Divan Du Monde in Paris, Made In America Festival in Los Angeles and Glastonbury Festival.
2015 saw the release of his studio debut, Bottle Broke, with 9th Ward Tape, a collection of old blues and traditional American songs following in summer 2016, recorded straight to tape in New Orleans, Louisiana.
In 2020 during lockdown Joe Strouzer is releasing a series of self recorded EPs with the support of Arts Council England, May, June & July are out now.
Kai Carter's Old Time Trio:
Old Time Appalachian tunes from Bristol folk session pals. Playing traditional material from across the great American songbook. Expect hypnotic syncopated picking, janky rhythms and stomping tunes. Tastefully building on the foundation of old time music with the influence of ragtime, jazz and Americana.
“Kai Carter’s Old Time Trio made for an amazing kick off. Beguiling guitar, bass and fiddle, foot-stomping magic moments as suggested on the tin, finding time for some facts about pigeons and to delightfully deliver long lost covers, particularly those of Virginia’s country legend Patsy Cline. They made tradition look cool, very cool.” DOCA Street Festival, Devizes
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Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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