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Meschiya Lake & The Little Big Horns

Cluny II Newcastle

Thursday 10th February 2012

      Did you watch the TV series Treme, which was based around the lives of a group of musicians living in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina? If, like me you did, you would have fallen in love with the type of music that Meschiya Lake & The Little Big Horns play.

     The exotically tattooed Ms Lake fronts a five piece band that includes a…

Madison Violet

Cluny II, Newcastle.

January 28th

Alan Harrison

     I shouldn’t have been too surprised to find a queue stretching down three flights of stairs to the basement of Cluny II following Madison Violet’s fantastic performance last year at the tiny Central Bar.

      All of the seats were full and people were still filing in when Rebecca Pronsky and her guitarist Rich Bennett took to the stage, with the New Yorker chatting non-stop as she tuned her…

Tom Russell

Gateshead Old Town Hall

January 20th 2012

Alan Harrison

     It doesn’t seem 5 minutes since Tom Russell was playing the exact same venue to about 100 people and tonight was a complete sell-out which bode well for Roots music in the North East.

      With no support…

Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers

Saltburn Community Theatre, Teesside

Sunday 23rd January

Alan Harrison

       I don’t know if this was meant to be a ‘secret gig’ or not but it certainly felt that way; especially as Saltburn by the Sea is normally off the…