10th March 2016 (SCE #7)

The Details

Date: Thursday, 10th, March 2016

Venue: 176 Whitechapel Road, London, E1 1BJ

Time: 8.30pm

Entry: £5.00

Travel: Whitechapel Tube & London Overground, various buses

The Performers

Jeremy Tuplin

A singer-songwriter from the West Country where he cut his musical teeth at intimate venues and folk clubs around Somerset. Now based in London but gigging all around the UK, his songs explore themes of romance, humour and adventure and more with soul-baring honesty. An insightful lyricist whose truly original story songs are infused with folk, indie and Americana influences to name a few, combining to create a unique sound defined by a distinctive, deep vocal. His debut EP 'Carry The Fire' was released in November 2014. 

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Rob Corcoran

It’s hard to categorize London based Dubliner Rob Corcoran’s music by genre.  He sings and he writes songs but he's not the typical singer-songwriter.  He is clearly influenced by vintage American and Irish folk but he’s in no way a folk singer in the traditional sense.  He cites his father’s old vinyl collection which included the likes of Bob Dylan, Makem and Clancy and Simon and Garfunkel as the early gateway to a life long fascination with songs, and his later obsession with the lyrics of people like Townes Van Zandt and Leonard Cohen as providing him with the tools to explore the inner, often shadowy core of things.

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Mine Host

Simon Hopper is the founder and host of Song Club East. See earlier posts in this blog.

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Duets, solos and songs of love and sorrow

Ady Johnston's day-job is as a guitar teacher and listening to him perform reveals why. His playing provides the fullest accompaniment to his songs. He writes personal songs such as that of his relationship with his furniture-restorer grandfather who taught his grandson his craft.

Ady sings with warmth and conviction and betrays his 1960's song-writing reference-points in his harmonica playing. He has a pop sensibility that places some of his work outside of the pure singer-songwriter genre, but his set is richer for that. If you weren't with us at this gig, search him out. You'll be rewarded.

Blanche Ellis and Maya McCourt (AKA Various Guises) sport deft guitar and shoulder-strung cello, but, especially, stunning harmonies sung with voices whose timbres' sweetly complement each other.

Influenced, also, by writers from just after the middle of the last century, their mixture of English folk, bluegrass/Appalachian and pop-tinged songs is high-modernist in its array of styles, but it's their instrumental blend, their on-stage insouciance, and, especially, the deftness and richness of the harmonies that will stay with you.

The club host, Simon Hopper (me), as ever, did his best to perform up to the standard of the guests and ask interesting questions of them about their art and craft for the further elucidation of the audience.

Join us next month for Jeremy Tuplin and Rob Corcoran. March 10th.