Dear Nesters.
We have 3 massive shows coming up in the next week that will be some of the highlights of the Magpie's Nest's Year. So remember despite the cold, the economy and rampant plagues of sickness, you're never happier than when listening to wonderful music and dancing to infectious rhythms. Go on, splash out, come and celebrate, pack up your troubles in your old handbag and join us at some of these huge, amazing nights we have put on for you!
Thursday
27th November: The Long Notes _at_ The Old Queen's Head 7.30pm -12pm + Open
Mic
Friday 28th November: Bodega + The Worm + DJ's _at_ Dalston's Old Boys Hall - 8pm - 2am
Details Below... hope to see you all there
Sam, Joe & Lauren
www.themagpiesnest.co.uk
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Friday 29th November 8pm - 2am £10
: Tickets here
Bodega + The Worm + DJs + Cocktail Bar
Old
Boys Hall, 68 Boleyn Road, Dalston, London, N16 8JG
Come join us for a very special Magpie's Nest at an exciting
secret music hall come ballroom in the East End. It's also the closing night of
our Scottish month of acts! Performing LIVE will be:
Bodega, the most unruly and hotly tipped band
to emerge from the Scottish islands; funk infused dance tunes performed on Bag
pipes and Ross Couper's Firebranding Lightning quick Shetland Fiddle by the
current young pretenders to the Crown of acoustic dance bands. Winners of
the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award 2005/06
The Worm: the
latest local sensation from the Dalston hinterlands, proving that it ain't just
the Scots that can make you dance till dawn! More than just a band, The Worm are
busy things, scheduling festival stages, running packed to the rafters nights
round Dalston, and still finding the time to smash it up as a live performance
all over the summer festivals! They meld an acoustic Afro pulse with an electro
melodic sing along vibe that will infect your soul.
Hosted in the glorious Old Boys Hall, an enchanting, secret Victorian ballroom complete with Grand Piano, Chandeliers, deco furniture and fireplace! Set in the back streets of Dalston behind the Vortex, East London. Forget about the Mustache bar, this venue is the place to be!!
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Thursday 4th December 8pm - 11pm : £14
Tickets here
Christmas Champions
Chris Wood,
Hugh Lupton + English Acoustic Collective & Olivia Ross
Cecil
Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London NW1 7AY
Christmas Champions was originally written for BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction first performed in 2007 at The Barbican, it's now a live multimedia show commissioned by The Sage Gateshead . BBC Folk Award winning duo Chris Wood and Hugh Lupton are joined by The English Acoustic Collective and Olivia Ross in a performance that mixes the recorded voices of past generations with ritual theatre, seasonal song, storytelling and music in a celebration of England’s most enduring midwinter custom: The Mummers Play.
The show combines the music of midwinter, both choral and instrumental, with new songs and re-workings of established carols, worked into field recordings of Herbie Smith's reminiscences of mumming in the Medway valley at the turn of the last century. Hugh Lupton's narrative constantly contextualises the music and the singers reciprocate, weaving and compounding imagery, parable and drama. It is the true, native, vernacular mystery play and this performance, directed by Tim Dalling, brings it vividly to life.
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Thursday 27th November 7.30pm - 12am + Open Mic : £6
Tickets here
The Long Notes
The Old Queen's Head, 44 Essex Rd, Angel
Described by the Scotsman in a five-star review as ‘truly something else’, The Long Notes unite the revered talents of accordionist Colette O’Leary, fiddler Jamie Smith and banjo and mandolin player Brian Kelly. All three musicians have a wealth of touring experience and came together as a group through north London’s ever-vibrant folk scene.
The Long Notes' ensemble synergy magically surpasses the sum of its parts, with captivating arrangements of Scottish, Irish, French, Galician, contemporary and original tunes, their playing "nothing short of sublime, the dance sets implausibly quick yet immaculately detailed, brilliantly intense yet utterly supple, silkily dovetailed in a thrilling panoply of colour, texture and taut-sprung rhythms". (The Scotsman)
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Friday December 5th 5.30pm - 11.30pm : Free
The
Magpie's Nest at The South Bank : QEH foyer
Ewan Mclennan, Magic
Lantern, Rún, Mawkin, Alex Reuben DJ & Doc Rowe VJ
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Wednesday 17th December 7.30pm - 12am: £8
Tickets here
The Young Coppers & The Orchard Family
The Old Queen's Head, 44 Essex Rd, Angel
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