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Sun 28 Sept lunchtime   Monroe’s Revenge
A bit of bluegrass for those of you who wish you had a back-porch big enough. We bring the best of the Didmarton Bluegrass Festival right to your local; you’ve no reason not to indulge.

Mon 29 Sept   Los Albertos
Ripping up dancefloors and blowing the roof off venues (and tents) throughout the country, juts like those Mediaeval Brigands Mrs T used to tell us about, transforming a quiet Monday in a way you know she would never have approved of.

October 08

Wed 1st Oct Cantaloop
Walcot Street faves since far-off Hat & Feather days, over which time they’ve been through rousing Funk & hard HipHop and back again, never forgetting the very old-skool soul & R’n’B feel that endeared them to us in the first place. Monster night in prospect.

Sun 5 lunchtime Hodmadoddery
Catch ‘em when they’re good, we say: recently returned from the annual European Tour and just recently openers for the second day of the prestigious Bristol Festival, don’t’cha know... Folk/acoustic flash and harmony.

Mon 6th
Chicago Music Explosion presents:
A 100% US bill with 100% US music: BUTCH ROSS of Chattanooga, Tennessee “the Bela Fleck of the mountain dulcimer” and MATT O’REE, of New Jersey, dubbed “King of the Blues guitar” by godlike bluesman B.B. King.

Wed 8 World Government
Yer man Chris is particularly pleased by this lineup of the ever-changing eternal funk system, and for a change they’ll actually have been playing another gig not many days before, so will be sharp as a very sharp thing.

Sun 12 lunchtime Rory Ellis
Australian singer/writer with a pleasingly dark side and some complexities in the instrumental department, neither of which the numerous s/s clones in competition have much of. Should be worth your time on a lunchtime.

Mon 13 Pedalmania
John Paul Gard is one of the few in this part of the world to demonstrate that he knows the Hammond is a showman’s instrument, plus he always has the very finest of sidemen on board (lineups featuring Ben Waghorn or Alex Hutchings). Will be the business.

Wed 15 Jump Mama
You’ll have seen all these guys around, you may even have heard some or all of them, but chances are you haven’t yet appreciated how good they’ve got all of a sudden. Slow-groovin’ old-style Rock’n’Soul.

Sun 19 lunchtime Pete Roe Band
There is some danger of Pete gigs getting a good deal more scarce, he’s moved up that Lunnon and is going down well in an ever-wider variety of settings. So if you appreciate blues-based songwriting with character, time you got down and got some.

Mon 20 Vladimir Steamboat
Like many other great bands, Vlad are named after a tune (wonder how that one goes) but it also describes them very well: Eastern-leaning steam-punk with an edge of the esoteric. Stunning players on the widest variety of tunes, even some you’ll know...

Wed 22 Yes Sir Boss
To obey is definitely the only option when presented with a horn-driven funk/ska operation like this one. You may recognise some of the faces and we’re 100% convinced you’re going to enjoy your meeting.

Sun 26 lunchtime Phil King Band
Another whose career is taking something of an upturn in parts of the country other than these, so another good reason to get yourselves down here. This is the songwriter side of Phil, as distinct from all the others: a voice - and, let’s be honest, looks – to die for.

Mon 27 The Mighty Peas
One of the busiest bands in Bath – it’s a fact – have come out (amicably) of the substantial shade of their association with The Mandibles to show us what gets them travelling round Europe on their own. Expect a special presentation with a very special guest.

Wed 29 Bad Science
Dub, Funk & HipHop all got together in a test-tube. There was an explosion. Luckily the fall-out wasn’t all bad. Great faves everywhere from the Big Green, Shambala, Larmer Tree, to their own nights in hometown Brighton. And here too from tonight.