Nels Andrews

pure sound

Wammer
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West Devon
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Last night I went with Stu (Russ Abbot) Matt (Audio Grail) and a few others to Cafe No8 in Launceston to see Nels Andrews. This outing included a visit to a sit down Fish & Chip restaurant next door beforehand. Some fine nosh in there :^

Cafe No8 has had a series of gigs in their upstairs room over the past 3-4 years with some very high quality people performing. This is the first of these evenings I've been to. It's a nice intimate venue. The guy who has been organising them is about to take a sabbatical but I gather plans are afoot for someone else to take it on.

Nels Andrews is a singer guitarist who appears to have moved around various parts of the US picking up plenty of life experience along the way. The gaps between the self penned songs are interspersed with amusing & thoughtful anecdotes about how the song came about and odd or unusual happenings that he'd run into. He was accompanied by a remarkable mandolin & banjo player Brandon Seabrook with incredible finger speed & dexterity and an unusual technique of sometimes playing either instrument with a violin bow. He could get an amazing range of sounds out of each of them; always intricate, sometimes percussive, sometimes an eerie atmospheric wail. Whatever, the pair of them could summon up a storm at times.

There's plenty of Nels Andrews on Youtube but at one point last night he stepped forward away from the mike and did this song without any pa. It was fabulous.

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A few more dates remaining on this UK tour. Catch them if you can.

Saturday, April 20th, 2013 [h=3]The Chattery[/h][h=4]7:30pm door[/h] 59 Uplands Cres Uplands, Swansea GB SA2OEZ GB 01792

[h=2]Sunday, April 21st, 2013[/h][h=3]Anvil[/h][h=4]The Forge @ The Anvil, Basingstoke[/h] Churchill Way Basingstoke GB RG21 7QR GB 01256 844244

[h=2]Wednesday, April 24th, 2013[/h][h=3]The Musician[/h][h=4]Greenbird Promotions present Nels Andrew @ The Musician, Leicester[/h] Clyde Street Leicester GB LE1 2DE GB 0116 251 0080 Price: 10

[h=2]Thursday, April 25th, 2013[/h][h=3]Admiral Bar[/h][h=4]Fallen Angle Club present Nels Andrews @ The Admiral Bar, Glasgow[/h] Glasgow GB 44 GB

[h=2]Friday, April 26th, 2013[/h][h=3]Abington Masonic Hall[/h][h=4]Abington Masonic Hall by Biggar, Lanarkshire (plus AJ Roach[/h] 8 Carlisle Road Abington, Biggar, Lanarkshire ML12 6SD Price: 12/10

[h=2]Saturday, April 27th, 2013[/h][h=3]House Concert @ 42, Edinburgh (plus AJ Roach as support)[/h] Price: info@douglasinscotland.co.uk

[h=2]Wednesday, May 1st, 2013[/h][h=3]Grateful Fred's[/h][h=4]7:45pm[/h] Royal British Leigon Club Liverpool Uni

 

pmac

Wammer
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Sounds great Guy, shame he's not doing anything in the North East, or I'd give that a try :^

 

Ozexpat

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the brewhouse
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When I saw the THIS is who of thought it was...

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Disappointed :x

 

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