The Sleeves

The Sleeves are the duo of Jack Cooper and Tara Cunningham, both likely known to you as one half of Modern Nature.

Following an all-instrumental Mossy Tapes release last November, Cooper and Cunningham have recorded 10 new songs showcasing their vocal and guitar interplay with only the faintest echoes of prior efforts (individually or collectively), representing a fully realized leap forward from their largely improvised debut.'The Sleeves' is a somewhat counter intuitive take on the guitar/vocal duo formula (provided you think there is such a thing) though it's not nearly as simplistic as "the space between the notes"-- it would be the height of exaggeration to say an album this simultaneously expansive and incandescent is unprecedented.

But it doesn't happen nearly often enough,either.“What I initially found so familiar and exciting about playing guitar with Jack - and continually do - is that our approach to music is pretty much exactly the same.

And that is - to celebrate the space that frames ideas, embraces silence, to play simply, simultaneously championing our respective unembellished guitar sounds, whilst looking for sounds that aren’t like a guitar at all - bells, birds, switching between radio stations etc.

It’s rare to find someone who -whatever this means to you -‘gets it’- and I think when we started playing guitar together, we both knew the other had something of whatever our ‘it’ was.”Presented by Love Thy Neighbour.This is an 18+ event