Caramel Jack @ The Prince Albert

Swings & Roundabouts Promotions Presents

Caramel Jack + Sweeney Astray + The Shakespeare Heptet

Saturday 21st March at 8:00pm
£4.50 advance: www.wegottickets.com - £6 on door

Web: www.facebook.com/SwingsandRoundaboutsPromotions

Caramel Jack
There has always been something of the outsider about Caramel Jack. The songs ring out with tales of the marginalised, lovelorn or crushed. They’ve shared stages with some brilliantly oddball characters too over the years, playing on bills with acts as diverse as; The Pernice Brothers, Regina Spektor, Mark Mulcahy, Clem Snide, Jolie Holland, Peter Bruntnell, Sid Griffin and Danny George Wilson. As well as being known as “the English Lambchop” in reviews in publications like Uncut and The Independent, their uncategorizable sound has drawn some intriguing comparisons with figures from the footnotes of pop history: M. Ward, Barclay James Harvest, Graham Parker & The Rumour. It’s with this background that the Jack return to the live arena. A new album, “Pinkerton in Love” beckons too, with the promise of the Velvets backing the Isley Brothers produced by David Guetta. Steelworks get hot, percussion clangs, steam blasts out of manholes, gumshoes smoke on corners and take notes, femme fatales mysteriously disappear. The songs are imbued with a street fighting spirit straight of the Detroit soul clubs. Otis hovers, in the background Michael Gira’s Swans grind out a terrifying industrial noise. Straight to the point, the Jack are calling this sound “industrial soul”. Unfashionable? - Quite probably. Uncompromising? - Yes. Brilliant? - Certainly.

"It's wonderful stuff - imaginative, intelligent and melodic to boot" **** Q
"The diversity is mind-spinning - Country Folk to Chamber Pop to Burlesque with Hip Hop beats.....a genuine find" **** Uncut
"Sublime" **** Independent On Sunday

www.facebook.com/CaramelJackMusic

Sweeney Astray
Hailing from Preston, Lancashire and making their Brighton debut Sweeney Astray are a unique mix of poetic balladry, catchy melody, acoustic songwriter and alt indie folk with every song telling a story whether it's about love, the ocean, backpacking, drinking or fighting in a war. The band are regulars on the club, pub, festival and art café circuit of the north west and have supported the likes of; John Bramwell (I Am Kloot), Dodgy and the Smoke Fairies will be highlighting tracks from their debut single “The Rooks of Kathmandu”/”Sunshine and Swimming”.

www.sweeneyastray.co.uk

The Shakespeare Heptet
With influences ranging from Led Zeppelin, Bert Jansch, Johnny Marr and Howlin Wolf, Brighton based The Shakespeare Heptet are a musical collective who play folk and blues versions of the Bard’s sonnets and have recently been wowing audiences at the Brighton Festival, Brunswick Festival, Steyning Festival and the Shoreham Wordfest.

www.facebook.com/pages/The-Shakespeare-Heptet/202526839792074

For more information visit http://www.wegottickets.com/event/298504