The Living Room - the Bookshop Band

The Living Room - Upstairs at The Grapes (please note this is upstairs and is accessed by stairs - no lift is available)Friday 13th November 20267.30pm.Tickets 10 (pay more if you can, less if you need to)It's been a long time coming but we've finally successfully coordinated diaries and we are proud to announce we have the fabulous Bookshop Band, playing at The Living Room!The Bookshop Band are the musical offspring of an artistic love-affair between a group of award winning songwriters and an independent bookshop in the UK, Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights. The songs are the musical outpouring of the band's own response to books they have read."A great book intensely fires your imagination over the time it takes to read it. You are living the life of that character or exploring a time or place you've never been to before. As we turn to write, trying to evoke what it was about the book that most resonated with us, what emerges are highly personal songs but from new points of view, inevitably influenced by the different perspectives experienced whilst reading the book."Ben PleaseThe Bookshop Band formed in September 2010, releasing their first album in December that year. They have since released 13 albums each exploring a different theme in their responses to over 100 author's books. They have toured extensively around the UK and abroad, from bookshops to festival main-stages, and have been commissioned by BBC Radio 3, The V&A Museum, The National Portrait Gallery and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, most recently writing two songs for the launch of Philip Pullman's The Book Of Dust. They are currently working with The V&A Museum on a musical series of banned books.Between them Beth Porter and Ben Please bring the books to the stage along with a multitude of instruments, including cello, harmonium, glockenspiel, guitars and ukuleles which, along with their distinct voices, create a cinematic sound that draws the audience right in to a highly intimate performance, at once touching and mesmerizing, heart wrenching and funny.Www.Thebookshopband.Co.UK
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