Swansea Sound - With Keiron Phelan & Peace Signs and The Volunteered, The Water Rats, London, 28/10/2023

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published: 30 / 8 / 2023

Swansea Sound - With Keiron Phelan & Peace Signs and The Volunteered, The Water Rats, London, 28/10/2023

We preview our 25th Anniversary gig which will take place with Swansea Sound. Keiron Phelan & Peace Signs and The Volunteered at The Water Rats in London on the 28th October 2023.

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Pennyblackmusic will be presenting our 25th Anniversary gig at The Water Rats in London on Saturday 28th October Tickets for this are available at £8 in advance from www.wegottickets.com and £10 on the door. SWANSEA SOUND 25 years ago the very first live review we published at Penny Black Music was of a show by Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey’s then band Marine Research. The review has been lost in the passages of time, but since then we have talked to Amelia and Rob many times about their bands since then, Tender Trap and more recently The Catenary Wires, and also their bands prior to Marine Research, the infamous Tallulah Gosh and Heavenly. It seems appropriate and fitting that their latest group, Swansea Sound, should be headlining our 25th Anniversary gig. An indie pop supergroup, Swansea Sound, as well as Amelia (vocals, keyboards) and Rob (guitars), also features Hue Williams (The Pooh Sticks) on vocals, Bob Collins (The Dentists) on bass and Ian Button (Death in Vegas, Papernut Cambridge) on drums. They specialise in urgent, infectious guitar riffs, whiplash vocals and harmonies, and irreverent, hilarious lyrics about indie bands, failed pseudo punks and disastrous online romances. Formed during lockdown, the band recorded three singles without actually meeting each other. Their debut album, ‘Live At The Rum Puncheon’, was released in 2011 on Rob and Amelia’s own label Skep Wax to considerable critical acclaim, and they are following this up with the equally spiky ‘Twentieth Century’, their second album, in September. Our show will be the final gig on an eleven-date tour to promote ‘Twentieth Century’. KEIRON PHELAN & PEACE SIGNS After eighteen years of recording largely instrumental music with bands such as State River Wakening and Smile Down Upon Us, Keiron Phelan has won increasing attention as a singer-songwriter for his unique blend of 70’s glam-tinged, acoustic pop. He has recorded three well-received albums including last year’s Bubblegum Boogie’, and his band Peace Signs includes a clarinet player, an electric pianist and a pedal steel player. We are expecting a sublime set of wistful pop from Keiron & Peace Signs in what will be their first London show in some months. THE VOLUNTEERED The Volunteered is the project of London-based indie musician and ex-Partisan Waves frontman Mark Rowland. Originally conceived as a solo project, it has now expanded to include Partisan Waves guitarist Paul Webber, a keyboardist, a bassist and a drummer. The Volunteered’s music ranges from skewed pop to sinister Americana to anti-folk, and they have released two EPs to date, ‘We Don’t Listen’ and ‘We Fall Apart’. 'We Fall Apart’ has been expanded into a ten track album with the addition of four new songs and was released as a vinyl only release on London-based indie label Scratchy Records last year. We were so impressed with them as a live force when they played a gig for us last year that we have invited them back for this gig. Pennyblackmusic Live at The Water Rats, 328 Grays Inn Road, Kings Cross, London, WC1X. 8BZ Saturday 28th October 2023. Doors 7.30 p.m. First band on 7.45 p.m. Tickets £8 in advance and £10 on door from https://www.wegottickets.com/event/584414 www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk