Tom Emlyn Band / Dark & Twisties / No Thee No Ess / Cai Llewellyn-Jones

Name: Tom Emlyn Band / Dark & Twisties / No Thee No Ess / Cai Llewellyn-Jones
Start: 2024-10-10T19:00:00+01:00
Location: The Bunkhouse Swansea

Schedule

Thu Oct 10 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

The Bunkhouse Swansea | Swansea, WA

A night of exciting live music from some of South Wales' best musicians.
Tom Emlyn crafts honest, swirling evocative songs; tall tales, and dark jokes that cut straight to the bone. His current solo work maps an alternative Southwalian landscape, a hallucinated community drawn from psychogeography and local history. Written on foot and by bus, his observational, poetic lyrics and simple 60s-folk-influenced melodies to explore what it means to belong to a place – the bitterness, the love, and the humour. Compared to songwriters like Bob Dylan and Elliott Smith, Tom Emlyn’s captivating songs explore the particularity and peculiarity of human experience. His sound, while rooted in garage rock, is tinged with psychedelia, folk, jazz, and blues overtones – including a recent adoption of the harmonica as a lead instrument.
In summer 2022, Tom released his debut solo album ‘News From Nowhere’, a bittersweet love letter to his hometown of Swansea, described by Adam Walton (BBC Radio Wales) as a record of “undoubted brilliance, eloquence and energy”. It has been positively received, with airplay and support from Radio Wales, BBC Horizons, R.E.P.E.A.T. fanzine, God Is In The TV, and Joyzine, among others. Tom’s second album ‘I’ve Seen You In Town’ followed hot on the heels of the first – a more mellow, acoustic affair which was also well received. He also released the ‘Scounger EP’ on Bandcamp this February. He is currently promoting these records with intimately explosive solo and band performances across Wales and beyond. His new album Rehearsal For The Rain is his fourth in two years and continues his idiosyncratic production and songwriting style.
"peripatetic music genius"- Adam Walton - BBC Radio Wales
Dark and Twisties are; Sarah Birch, Kate Ronconi, Sarah Passmore, Danny Kilbride and Huw Rees, a collective made up of members of Lost Tuesday Society, Rag Foundation, and Sarah and the Creepy Uncles.
They have received a rapturous reception since bursting into the scene just months ago, weaving stories old and new into strange and beautiful songs with glorious harmonies and skilful musicianship.
No Thee No Ess are a Cardiff band based around songwriting & vocals of Andy Fung & Paul Battenbough.
Since 2008 they've released five albums and an EP, lately on the independent Folkwit label.
An enticing live sound, rich with harmonies and sophisticated song structure. The band produce an immersive uplifting experience. Expect a melodic journey with psychedelic scenery.
Cai Llewellyn Jones also plays with post-punk pranksters Monet. Expect a more mellow, soothing sound from his solo set!