SCE changes: new venue; new day; new start-time

Dear Song Club East follower,

As of 2016, we're moving on and up.

New Venue
Our new home is The Urban Bar (formerly The London Hospital Tavern) on Whitechapel Road. It's in a great location, directly opposite Whitechapel Tube and rail station and well-served by buses.

The staff are friendly and music-orientated and have been very positive and supportive about our re-location. We're looking forward to working with them.

It has a dedicated music room complete with stage and lighting and will be a lovely venue for our event. There's great food and booze, there, too!

New day
We will be meeting on the second Thursday of the month - first gig on 14th January (watch this space.)

New start-time
The concert will start at 8.30 pm and will have mid-gig break, finishing around 10.45 pm.

Join us; you'll be welcome and you'll love it.

'Unmissable'

In Adam Beattie and Jack Harris, Song Club East was host last night to two exceptional song-writing and guitar-playing talents. If you weren't there, you passed on a special song-based musical treat interlaced with intelligent and informed discussion on the art and craft of the songwriter.

We had extinct birds, a 100-year-old man, 'stealth misery', songs that should have been sung in Welsh, some that were misunderstood, some that were comprehended and much banter.

Jack was moved to song-writing by the delta blues of Mississippi John Hurt, whereas Adam remembers Tom Waits' influence. Both have strong ideas about how songs should be written and both back them up with material of the very highest quality.

The Same Boat, a Beattie song, proposes that we see things from the point of view of a refugee. His piece The Man Who Loves Too Much considers the social position of a man with too great a capacity for affection.

In Vanished Birds and The Oldest Man Jack demonstrates his breadth of song-writing vision and a profound interest in this world and the lives we lead.

The host (me) also waded in with material from his back catalogue, always pulled hither and thither in his choice of song by the powerful material produced by two first-rate writer-performers on the top of their games.


NOTE: NEW VENUE - THE URBAN BAR, WHITECHAPEL ROAD 
Please note that from January we will be in a new venue;

Next concert: Thursday, 14th January, 2016

Venue: The Urban Bar, 176, Whitechapel Road, E1 1BJ
Web: www.theurbanbar.co.uk
Time: 8.30pm

Entry: £5.00

Travel: Whitechapel Tube/London Overground
            Buses, 254, 25, 205 and others