We are excited to be emerging from a little hiatus by bringing two incredible artists to Bristol. Join us upstairs at The Bag of Nails for this intimate night of guitar.

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Dean McPhee

Dean McPhee plays a Fender Telecaster through a valve amp and subwoofer with kick drum and effects, and he is influenced by Dub, Modal Jazz, British Folk, Underground Electronic Music and Psychedelic Rock. A self-taught musician with a fluid technique and an inventive approach to sound, his music is melodic, hypnotic and trance-inducing with a deep sense of space.

Dean has toured the UK and Europe and opened for artists such as Thurston Moore, The Magic Band, Acid Mothers Temple, Michael Chapman, Meg Baird, Michael Hurley, Josephine Foster, Emeralds, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Charalambides and Wolf People. His music has received international radio play and has been acclaimed by the likes of MOJO Magazine, The Wire Magazine, Dusted, Louder than War, Uncut Magazine, Brainwashed and The Quietus.

“At any given time, there are always a handful of visionary guitarists who carve out their own compelling and distinctive niche, as well as many more who exhibit virtuosic technique or write consistently great songs. McPhee’s work checks off all three of those boxes, but his greatest moments reach another plane altogether where it feels like he is channeling something much deeper, more timeless, and almost supernatural" (Anthony D'Amico, Brainwashed)

“Set within an electric ancestry that includes Michael Karoli’s solos in Can, the hymnal rock of Popol Vuh’s Daniel Fichelscher and the sonic spaciousness of dub, as well as the emotional punch of John Martyn’s dawn-lit Echoplex epic, ‘Small Hours’.” (Frances Morgan, The Quietus)

"Definitely one of the leading contemporary guitar stylists in the UK, and in the world" (Steve Barker, BBC ‘On the Wire’)

https://deanmcphee.bandcamp.com/

Joe Hollick

Joe Hollick is best known for wielding a fuzzed-up Gibson Firebird in the cult psychedelic rock band Wolf People. However, his primary love is for the acoustic guitar. Inspired by a session with friend Alex Crispin from Baron/Diagonal, his first solo guitar album “Rest Lessness” has recently been repressed by Cardinal Fuzz/Echodelik Records after the initial edition quickly sold out. Joe effortlessly combines influences from British Folk, Krautrock and Mali Blues and in the words of Dave Cambridge (Cardinal Fuzz) “each of the meticulous notes Joe plays has a feeling of wide open space and exploration – like the flow of a gentle stream as it makes it way up to a waterflow whereupon the echoing growl and twang brings forth a sublime dissonance”.

“Excellent acoustic guitar playing… I’m not sure how the labels let this one get out with such a limited pressing because it needs to be in more hands. It’s that good. This record will take you to other places” (The Ominous Drone)

https://jjhollick.bandcamp.com/album/rest-lessness

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