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PostPosted: Sun Jan 12, 2014 7:41 pm 
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WagonWheel gig #200...

On Saturday February 8th, WagonWheel Presents… heads to The Greystones for the first time in 2014 with a fine double bill featuring The Clench and Bob Collum & The Welfare Mothers to kick off another year there. Support comes from WagonWheel debutant Micky Denny. Advance tickets priced at £4 are available from http://www.wegottickets.com/event/248297 or entry on the night will be £5. Doors open 7.30pm for an 8pm start.


***THE CLENCH***

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The Clench deliver whiskey-fuelled, blues-swamp-funk-country rock, to put it in a not very small nutshell. The six piece band caused a bit of a stir on the Sheffield live circuit since unleashing their debut EP ‘Pain Don’t Hurt’ which they since followed up with the acclaimed album ‘Walking In The Devils Tracks’. They aim to make ‘music to ride horses by’ and their sound conjures up images of Western desert landscapes and cowboys. They’ve recently been in the studio working on their next release.

A brave and uncompromising smirk at cowboy rock – 8/10Toast Magazine

A band out of time with no place in polite society – 9/10Exposed Magazine

Doesn’t so much buck the trend as fit it with spurs and place JR Ewing’s hat on its head.Sheffield Star

A truly stunning swoon that’d make any red-blooded listener want to canter off into the distance. It’s sexy, sultry and visually evocative. The band’s Western-drenched material is intoxicatingly evocative.Sheffield Telegraph

Tight as Wrangler jeans with sounds as big as Tennessee, these boys are ones to watch.The Culture Vulture

http://www.facebook.com/TheClench


***BOB COLLUM & THE WELFARE MOTHERS***

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"Go West, young man", the cry went up of ages past. And they did. Except for one guy, who went East. And that’s Bob Collum, who in trading the prairies for the less fetching plains of Britain’s surly southeast has brought to these shores a tasty, tasteful taste of the music that both he and his native Tulsa, Oklahoma, call home.

In Tulsa, though, where everything is big as all outdoors – even indoors – nothing is done small, so on top of his power-pop influenced take on country music Bob has loaded, in a style akin to that of a pioneer with more cargo than wagon, about every last influence likely to be tried by a feller with a taste for audio adventure.

At the end of the 20th century millions of migrants swarmed America, looking for a better life, freedom, land, that kind of thing. Fast forward a hundred years and some change and one pilgrim name of Collum reverse the trend, arriving on Airstrip One just as the Millennium Bug bites and a troubled but excited world awaited a new hundred and got plenty: a reinvigorated B.C. bent on building upon the fantastic foundation of his first two albums and the formation of a new band.

In 2012, with his band, Bob & Co. – Marianne, Paul, Gareth and Allan to you – released the latest EP CD that will succeed and excel a series of cult hits that began with ‘97’s More Tragic Songs Of Life.

The Ungrateful Depression is a delightful, short collection of rootsy rock and country folk that should find favour with anyoneRhythm & Booze

five tracks of widescreen melancholy including the outstanding ‘Primer Grey’R2 Rock n Reel Magazine

Collum is a lyricist of note, and can turn his hand to heartbreak, pain, love and loss with equal facility, all the time while displaying his penchant for the slightly skewed view of things.” Maverick Magazine

Anyone who wants to hear what Top 40 sounds like in a perfect world should pick up The Boy Most Likely Too… and turn it up!Being There

A turn of phrase to rank with Nick Lowe’s, and an instinct for hook and melody mean you’re thinking of the Byrd’s with a country edge to boot.” Bucketfull Of Brains

http://www.bobcollum.com


***MICKY DENNY***

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Micky Denny stomps out the blues, the reds & the pinks, exhuming Leadbelly, Blind Willie McTell & bootleg Dylan in a one man dynamo. Badass with a banjo & stomp box, Uncle Micky’s Bas-alachian bluegrass belongs in Cecil Sharp’s pantheon, and his original tunes – too new for Mr Sharp’s collection – are not to be missed.

http://www.mickydenny.co.uk/


Facebook Event page:

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Last.fm Event page:

http://www.last.fm/event/3764224

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 3:01 pm 
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Tomorrow night. 200th WagonWheel show. Starts 8pm...

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