From: jason robbins [tofutastic_at_hotmail_dot_co_dot_uk]
Sent: 31 December 2008 10:19
Subject: Happy New Year!

Hi everyone,
I shall keep this mercifully brief as I finally have fallen victim to the hideous illness going about...hope you all had a good break, and hope to see you all at the ROBB JOHNSON gig! Next year proves to be am exciting one gig wise, with artists such as THE SONS OF NOEL AND ADRIAN (Weds may 22nd), NANCY WALLACE/JASON STEELE (from THE OWL SERVICE), TIM EDEY, KIM THOMPSETT, and THE KITTIWAKES all waiting in the wings...
Thanks for all your support this year, and I hope the 2009 brings you much happiness and success.
Best Wishes,
 Jason .

FRIDAY 30th JANUARY 2009

    TWILIGHT FOLK PRESENTS…
ROBB JOHNSON
PLUS
DROHNE
RELIG ORAN

LIVE AT
ORANGE STREET MUSIC CLUB
CANTERBURY
All gigs £5 8.00 pm Tel: 01227 760801

"the UK’s most consistently strong songwriter"
Sean McGhee, Rock'n'Reel
"creator of some of the most potent songs of the last decade"
fRoots
"Britain's finest songwriter since Richard Thompson"
Venue
"love songs as touching as the political material is sharp."
Red Pepper
"One of Britain's most challenging songwriters."
The Daily Telegraph
"his songs are incisive and clever and witty and you can sing them on your way to work."
Boff, Chumbawamba
"Great song - wish I'd written it!"
Tom Robinson

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 DROHNE-
“In the post-psychedelic London of 1968 an impressionable young Phil Martin encountered the hurdy-gurdy of the first time; yet it was to be 20 years before this life-changing experience would culminate in the finding of a playable instrument.
The 70s and 80s were filled with many diverse musical projects; including, playing guitar with Hawkwind's Robert Calvert and new wave pioneers The Record Players, whose music has recently been re-discovered due to inclusion on the Messthetics compilations from US label Hyped to Death.

Phil then teamed-up with early woodwind player Geoff Huggins {aka Geoff X, Zappa Purcell etc} in The Explorers Club who played a melange of medieval punk and English morris music, before a chance encounter with Radio Tirane opened the floodgates to European influences.
It was while checking-out Albanian music at a festival in France that, the still impressionable, Philip Martin stumbled into hurdy-gurdy heaven. The next few years were spent immersed in the traditional dance music of central France; however, the lure of psychedelia would not go away and in the 90s he played hurdy-gurdy on several dance albums, including the groundbreaking John Barlycorn 2000 by The Knights of the Occasional Table.
In 1994 Philip G Martin put out his 1st solo album Vielle Sauvage, three releases later, Hurdy-Gurdy Mandrohne follows that same eclectic musical path, the seeds of which were originally sown over a quarter of a century earlier. Although, he draws on influences rooted in a bygone age, and uses instruments normally associated with European traditional music, Philip Martin, as Drohne, makes music that is essentially contemporary English”

RELIG ORAN -
“Relig Oran mix the sounds of the African Kalimba, driving percussion, fiddle and bouzouki with the traditional music of England, Ireland and Brittany. With innovation and dynamics they give the music a contemporary and exciting twist, while tipping their battered caps to the long journey from the 60’s and 70’s psychedelic rock / acid folk. They have been described variously as ‘prog-folk’ and ‘goth-folk’. Yet at the same time Relig Oran keep the spirit, drive and depth of the music. A respect for the tradition is always at the very heart of Relig Oran’s music, and though there are some exciting detours on the journey, the Relig Oran sound is always based on a deep love of traditional European music“

www.robbjohnson.co.uk
www.drohne.co.uk
www.myspace.com/religoranband
www.myspace.com/twilightfolkclub


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