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| The Bookshop Band |
The
Bookshop Band is coming to Dartmouth!
The
Bookshop Band write songs inspired by books and are bringing their
uniquely-inspired and accomplished songs to Dartmouth Library. Since their
first event in September 2010, the band has written 75 songs inspired by 39
books from Andrew Miller’s “Pure” (2011 Costa Novel of the Year) to Rachel
Joyce’s “The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry”, a locally relevant book about
a man’s pilgrimage from Kingsbridge to see his old friend. The Bookshop Band
will be playing between 1pm and 2pm on Saturday May 11th as part of the
Dartmouth Music Festival, at Dartmouth Library, in The Flavel.
The
Bookshop Band are three British musician/songwriters, Ben Please, Poppy Pitt
and Beth Porter. They struck up a friendship whilst playing with their
respective bands at UK music festivals in 2010 and decided to collaborate after
their local bookshop proposed the idea in late 2010. Beth has played with Peter
Gabriel and currently tours with Eliza Carthy. Ben is part of indie-folk band
Urusen, who have recently recorded an album at Peter Gabriel’s Realworld Studio
with platinum-selling producer Steve Osborne. Poppy Pitt is an artist and
sculptor, and tours with her own band, Poppy and Friends. Ben and Beth also
produced the music for a BAFTA winning short animation ‘The Eagleman Stag’.
The
Bookshop Band has received significant radio coverage in the UK. Their first
CD, Travels From Your Armchair, was available only from their local bookshop,
but word soon spread and they were picked up by UK radio DJ Tom Robinson, who
played them on his national show on BBC 6Music. More recently the band had a 10
minute feature on Kirsty Lang’s culture show, BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, and the
band appeared on BBC 1 as part of a news feature on Britain’s independent
bookshops.
Listen
to The Bookshop Band here: http://thebookshopband.bandcamp.com/
For
more information about The Bookshop Band Irish tour, visit
www.thebookshopband.co.uk
CONTACTS:
The
Bookshop Band
Ben
Please
Tel:
0044 7789348165
Email:
benplease@hotmail.com
Note
to Editors
For
biographies, high res photos / album artwork / tour poster, please visit:
http://tinyurl.com/BookshopBandPressPack
10th, 11th & 12th may 2013
www.dartmusicfestival.co.uk
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