Clive John and The Spirit Band present ‘The Johnny Cash Roadshow’, the only Johnny Cash show that matters. Delivering all the hits including The Ring of Fire, Boy Named Sue, Folsom Prison Blues, Man In Black, One Piece at a Time, Sunday Morning Coming down, Hurt and many of the duets Johnny and June were famous for including Jackson, Darling Companion, It Ain’t Me Babe, making this the finest celebration of The Man in Black.

From start to finish the band take the audience through the Johnny Cash live show experience. The chemistry of Johnny and June is brought to the stage and with the accompanying video projection, which brings evocative images to each song, all help to complete the story of the life of a ‘legend’. The performance is energetic and entertaining for all to enjoy.

Clive John is also an acclaimed singer/songwriter. In 2010 he released his 7th album ‘The Spirit’ which has seen three tracks released on to the Hot Disc Country Chart, all going to No 1 in the UK & Irish chart whilst the track ‘The Spirit’ has gone to No 1 in the World chart, a feat rarely achieved by English acts.

This is SO much more than just a tribute to Johnny Cash, this is an audio and visual spectacle to entertain. For more information go to www.johnnycashroadshow.com

“With evocative video projections and a fast paced performance throughout, the band confidently deliver a refreshing, and enjoyable, Johnny Cash experience.” (from the Everyman Theatre Cheltenham) Lystra Maisey, Gloucestershire Echo

“The band deliver a high energy performance which everyone seems to enjoy – irrespective of whether you’re an ardent fan of the country legend or not.” Irish World

“…one of the best bands we have had on…” Seen Music Venue, Darlington

“Clive John gave a brilliant, authentic performance as The Man in Black and the audience demanded a return booking!” Artrix Theatre

“The Johnny Cash Roadshow – A Tribute is an excellent show that is a truly fitting compliment to one of country music’s much loved and respected artists…Johnny Cash, ‘The Man In Black’!!!” Graham Lees HWD Radio Yorkshire

Saturday 3rd March, 2012 – The Apex, Bury St Edmunds. Tickets are £17 (£15 concessions), show starts approx 7.30pm

This professional five-piece band has the ability to whip-up any crowd from the word GO! Probably the most sought after, hard working and renowned Madness tribute band in Europe ‘Complete Madness’ expertly cascade all of the nuttiest sounds around onto the excited, expectant audience.

You don’t have to be a Madness fan to enjoy this show, just enjoy being entertained! Complete Madness are now in their 15th year and each year still seem to go from strength to strength despite strengthening competition, but the few things the band have is trust, reliability and always a steady line up of band members.

March 17th
Westgate Ward Social Club

Since she began her legendary residency at Boston’s famed Club 47 and her debut at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival Joan Baez remains a musical force of nature whose influence is incalculable – marching on the front line of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King, singing on the first Amnesty International tour, standing alongside Nelson Mandela when the world celebrated his 90th birthday in London’s Hyde Park.

Her earliest recordings fed a host of traditional ballads into the rock vernacular, before she unselfconsciously introduced Bob Dylan to the world in 1963 and focused awareness on songwriters ranging from Woody Guthrie, Dylan, Phil Ochs, Richard Fariña, and Tim Hardin, to Kris Kristofferson and Mickey Newbury, to Dar Williams, Richard Shindell, Steve Earle and many more.

Premier rock ‘n’ roll legend Joe Brown goes from strength to strength as his contemporary achievements continue to gather momentum. His ‘Very Best Of’ album achieved a Gold Record for a massive100,000 sales and was on the UK charts for eight weeks staying four weeks in the Top 20.

In September the same year his 50th anniversary was celebrated with a wonderful sell-out show at the Royal Albert Hall. He has continued to break box office records and recently received MOJO magazine’s coveted Outstanding Contribution To Music Award as well as a much deserved MBE. You may have seen Joe performing on Later With Jools Holland or at the cinema playing his part closing the show at the Concert For George Harrison. You may have witnessed his critically acclaimed set at Glastonbury Festival or caught him on tour.

If you have you’ll already know just what a terrific live talent he is. Joe, with his five piece band including his son and record producer Pete Brown, will be on stage all evening and the musical styles incorporated into his show are as unique as the man himself. Packed with timeless classics, rockabilly, gospel, country, folk, and rock ‘n’ roll, all interwoven with Joe’s effervescent delivery and humorous reminiscences, this eclectic, sensational show is a musical journey not to be missed.

Ipswich Regent – Tuesday, 28th February, 2012 – 7.30pm

Box Office on 01473 433100

The band’s chart-topping record will be played in its entirety – as initially recorded – for the first time since its original tour in 1972. The original only featured one seamless 45 minutes long track, although it was split to accommodate the album on vinyl and cassette. It reached number 5 in the UK charts.

‘Thick As A Brick – Whatever happened to Gerald Bostock’ promises to be a once-in-a-lifetime musical experience, rediscovering a timeless milestone of progressive rock. The performances will also incorporate video projection and other theatrical elements. Ian Anderson performs some of his finest work with the added maturity and skill acquired across a 44 year-long career.

Anderson says: “I really look forward to this opportunity to bring the wee Gerald Bostock into the new millennium and to explore the ups and downs of his possible life journey.”
Widely recognised as the man who introduced the flute to rock music, Ian also plays ethnic flutes and whistles together with acoustic guitar and the mandolin family of instruments, providing the acoustic textures which have been an integral part of most of the Tull repertoire and his solo material. In recent years, he has toured more and more under his own name in solo concerts with orchestras, string quartets, featured soloists and in his other eclectic acoustic shows.
During the ‘Thick As a Brick’ tour Anderson will be joined by John O’Hara on keyboards, David Goodier on bass, Florian Opahle on guitar and Scott Hammond on drums as well as a guest performer.

Full details are: -

April
14th Perth Concert Hall 01738 621 031 £22.50/£25.50/£28.50
15th Glasgow Theatre Royal 0844 871 7627 £25.50/£28.50
17th Newcastle City Hall 0191 261 2606 £25.50/£28.50
18th Liverpool Philharmonic 0151 709 3789 £25.50/£28.50

19th Sheffield City Hall 0114 2 789 789 £25.50/£28.50
20th Blackburn St George’s Hall 0844 847 1664 £26.50
21st Harrogate Royal Hall 0845 130 8840 £25.50/£28.50
22nd Manchester Opera House 0844 847 2484 £25.50/£28.50
24th Derby Assembly Rooms 01332 255 800 £25.50/£28.50
25th Ipswich Regent Theatre 01473 433100 £25.50/£28.50
27th London Hammersmith Apollo 0843 221 0100 £25/£28.50/£32.50
28th Bristol Colston Hall 0117 922 3686 £25.50/£28.50
29th High Wycombe The Swan Theatre 01494 512 000 £26.50/£29.50
30th Birmingham Symphony Hall 0121 780 3333 £26.50/£29.50

May
2nd Oxford Apollo 0844 847 1588 £25.50/£28.50

3rd Reading Hexagon 0118 960 6060 £25.50/£28.50
4th Guildford G Live 0844 7701 797 £28.50/£31.50
5th Cardiff St David’s Hall 029 2087 8444 £25.50/£28.50
6th Southampton Guildhall 023 8063 2601 £25.50/£28.50

Doors open at 7.30pm except for Southampton – 7pm. Tickets are onsale from http://www.gigantic.com and are subject to booking fee.

After 44 years of leading Tull to 54 countries worldwide and over 60 million albums sold, Ian Anderson celebrates a true progressive rock classic with old and new fans across the UK for a whole three weeks. Anderson is known as the flute and voice of the legendary Jethro Tull, formed in the North of England in 1968 from the amalgamation of blues-based John Evan Band and McGregor’s Engine. Since their first performance at London’s famous Marquee Club in 1968, the band has released 30 studio and live albums and earned a prominent place in rock history.

Beverley will be appearing at Wingfield Barns on Friday March 16. Buy tickets at www.wingfieldbarns.com or call the Box Office on (01379) 384505.

Other acts confirmed for 2012 are as follows, with more to be announced shortly:

March 16 Beverley Craven
May 6 Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
June 6 An Evening with Danny & Ben from Thunder
June 23 Strangeworld
July 28 Richard Digance
August 22 Lucy Ward
November 24 Megson

Their songs “weave whimsy, wit and wisdom through a tapestry of tales, happily skipping across the boundaries of genre to create their own unique style. Hypnotic Klezmer spirals around, romantic Latino vibes flaunt themselves openly, as weird waltzes wander nonchalantly by and a gypsy-jazz vibe wafts through on the breeze” (Green Man Music). Expect all this at a live 3DM gig, delivered with an underlying celtic vibe, and a warm, witty and intimate approach to their audiences.

The release of their latest CD The Antiquated and the Arcane in November 2010 is another landmark in the prolific song writing of the Monkeys, and has been heralded as their best work to date. It is a very personal but very positive and uplifting piece of work which will make the listener think, question, cry, laugh and, of course, dance. It has been described as “a rollercoaster journey via the frenetic, the serene and the surreal” (West Briton)

“A brilliant band… I think this is absolutely amazing” – Mike Harding (Radio 2)

Friday 24th February, 2012. The Apex, Bury St Edmunds. Tickets are £15 (£13 concessions), show starts approx 8pm

Band leader Alejandro Toledo (Argentina) is a superb saxophonist who has toured with the mighty Fanfare Ciocarlia and a charismatic singer and frontman. The line-up also includes double bass, percussion, accordion, mandolin and drums, featuring musicians from Italy, Portugal and Costa Rica weaving together a cohesive, lithe and exuberant sound. Their energetic live shows, have invited comparisons to bands such as Gogol Bordello and Mano Negra (Manu Chao). The Guardian described them as “one of the hottest live bands around”. Peppery’s Martin Burley simply says they are “guaranteed to blow your socks off”.

The Magic Tombolinos – Ipswich Manor Ballroom
Friday March 2nd – doors open 8pm
Tickets are £14.50 from The New Wolsey Theatre Box Office on 01473 295900 and at www.wolseytheatre.co.uk

Weblink www.peppery.co.uk

“Be sure to catch them live, and bring your dancing shoes” Songlines
“Bursting with a contagious happiness” fRoots

Forestry Commission Live Music concerts are renowned for their relaxed atmosphere, and income generated from ticket sales is spent on improving the local forest for both people and wildlife.

Commenting on the shows, Alfie Boe said, “I am delighted to be asked to appear at Westonbirt Arboretum and Thetford Forest as part of Forestry Commission Live Music. It is going to be a real privilege to perform at such prestigious outdoor venues with beautiful trees as backdrops”.

Alfie Boe plus Orchestra and ‘special guest support’ will be performing:
Friday 13th July, Thetford Forest, near Brandon, Suffolk.
Saturday 21st July, Westonbirt Arboretum, near Tetbury, Gloucestershire.

Tickets £35.50 (subject to booking fee) go on sale at 9.00am Friday 20th January from the Forestry
BUY TICKETS FROM FRIDAY 20TH JANUARY AT TICKETMASTER»

Commission box office tel 03000 680400 or buy online at www.forestry.gov.uk/music
Info:
www.alfie-boe.com
www.forestry.gov.uk/music

One of the key guitar bands of the past decade, Razorlight has shifted over 4 million albums, sold out arena tours, headlined numerous festivals and appeared on the cover of magazines from NME to Vogue. Currently working on their fourth album, the previous three; ‘Up All Night’, ‘Razorlight’ and ‘Slipway Fires’ generated hits like ‘Golden Touch’, ‘Rip It Up’, ‘Somewhere Else’, ‘In The Morning’, ‘Wire to Wire’ and the chart-topping ‘America’.

Forestry Commission Live Music concerts are renowned for their safe and relaxed atmosphere in fantastic forest settings. Income generated from Forestry Commission Live Music ticket sales is spent on improving the local forest for both people and wildlife.

Commenting on the announcement, Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell said, ‘We are very pleased to be doing a gig in Thetford Forest. We like the ethos behind these shows and it will be great to perform our hits alongside new material’

Razorlight plus guests will be performing:

Thursday 14th June Thetford Forest, nr Brandon, Suffolk.

BUY TICKETS FROM FRIDAY 10th FEBRUARY AT TICKETMASTER»
Tickets £29.50 (subject to booking fee) go on sale at 9.00am Friday 10th February from the Forestry Commission box office tel 03000 680400 or buy online

BUY TICKETS FROM FRIDAY 10th FEBRUARY AT TICKETMASTER»