SAMANTICS - SOLO PERFORMANCE + support CEEJAY

Name: SAMANTICS - SOLO PERFORMANCE + support CEEJAY
Start: 2025-05-17T20:00:00+01:00
Location: The Barrel House Ballroom

Schedule

Sat, 17 May, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

The Barrel House Ballroom | Totnes, EN

Samantics is back out on the road in spring 2025 for the 'What's Next?' Tour! Showcasing never before heard material, dusting off some vintage numbers and mixing it up with some acoustic renditions of firm favourites.
Samantics is a one man machine of honesty, energy, words and noise. Using lyrics to portray his own unique vision of the world we’re all wandering, he speaks and screams from the centre of his erratic heart. Using a trolley full of sounds, ukulele, bass, beats, piano, harmonies, blips and bloops and and wobbly wobbs, all brought together with loop station and sampler to create a hot pot of powerful, noisy poetry. It’s not quite hip-hop, but it’s not quite not.

Samantics grew up listening to punk bands practice in his dads living room, giving him the opportunity to experience the thrill and uppercut of live music while he sat and did his homework. However, being a more reserved, and tirelessly shy young lad back then, his passion really began with words, words he’d keep to himself in his pad, words, and poetry, that helped explain what he couldn’t always say. It wasn’t until years later that he discovered these words could be lyrics, and these lyrics could be life saving.

Challenging himself to stand up on a stage, and say all these things he’d been hiding was no easy feat, but from the second he did, everything changed when he discovered performing. From slam poetry to the eventual one-man wall of noise he’s become today, a Samantics live show is almost indescribable. Performing the same words and melodies you will find across his five self-recorded, produced and mastered albums, but somehow turning them up beyond 11. Imagine a ferret after 9 shots of espresso, with a ukulele, on speed, with less hair.

He’s been described as ‘impossible to stop watching’ and ‘mesmerising’ when he’s performing. Whether a festival tent filled with thousands, or a man and his dog in the local boozer, the live show is always the same: off. the. chain.
+ support CEEJAY
"Making music for misfits"
Ceejay is a unique force of nature and definitely turns heads with his catchy hooks and infectious energy.
His writing style, which has been branded as punky urban folk, takes influence from The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Eminem, Jack white and Bob Marley.
From growing up in Scotland with disability and trauma, surrounded by addiction and hardship, he tells tales of his experiences and his frustration with the trippy world around him. He has a truly unique story to tell and has had one hell of a crazy life to date.
Through his brand ‘The Music Misfit Show’, which has developed into FM Radio and Podcasting, Ceejay has already worked in the industry with acts such as Bliss n Eso, Soom T, Dizraeli, Ugly Duckling and many more.
He feels that now is the right time to share his story with the world and is confident enough to really get out his message of overcoming hardship; of rising up and being an inspiration for others who have been through something difficult in their life.