Wandering Oak: Novelty Island

Name: Wandering Oak: Novelty Island
Start: 2024-12-14T20:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-12-15T00:00:00+01:00
Location: The Cumberland Arms

Schedule

Sat Dec 14 2024 at 08:30 pm to Sun Dec 15 2024 at 12:00 am

UTC+01:00

Location

The Cumberland Arms | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN

Wandering Oak brings you:
Novelty Island
at The Cumberland Arms
Tickets: https://www.seetickets.com/event/novelty-island/the-cumberland-arms/3076698 • https://link.dice.fm/P864b750da75
• Novelty Island •
Novelty Island is the project of Liverpool-based songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, Tom McConnell. McConnell grew up between Newcastle and Liverpool and takes inspiration from the pop music, surrealism and melancholy of the North.
After a series of psychedelic EPs, the debut Novelty Island album How Are You Coping With This Century? was released in Autumn 2021. It led to the Novelty Island live band performing at Glastonbury and supporting Sea Power and The Pale White around the UK. McConnell then turned to recordings he’d made at Abbey Road Studios and Damon Albarn's Studio 13 for the second Novelty Island album, Wallsend Weekend Television. The album was released in March 2023 and followed by a 10-date UK headline tour. Both Novelty Island albums have received five-star reviews from Shindig and R’n’R as well as support from Mojo, BBC Radio 6, BBC Introducing and Absolute Radio.
McConnell also creates the surreal imagery around Novelty Island in the form of papier-mâché props, dreamy animations, claymation videos and a never-ending Instagram account.
FFO Electric Light Orchestra / XTC / Field Music
https://www.novelty-island.com/

Advance tickets available via See Tickets:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/novelty-island/the-cumberland-arms/3076698
And via DICE:
https://link.dice.fm/P864b750da75
The Cumberland Arms
James Place Street
Ouseburn
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE6 1LD
For ages 18+ only, from 7:30pm