The Bookshop Band Irish Tour is Coming to Cloughjordan
The Bookshop Band write songs inspired by books and are bringing their uniquely-inspired and accomplished songs to bookshops throughout Ireland. Since their first event in September 2010, the band has written 49 songs inspired by 29 books from Andrew Miller’s “Pure” (2011 Costa Novel of the Year) to China Mieville’s acclaimed science-fiction novel “Embassytown” and from Edmund De Waal’s multi-award winning “The Hare with the Amber Eyes”. They have recorded extensively, releasing four albums. Their Irish tour this April and May visits Dublin, north Tipperary, Wicklow, Kilkenny, Cork, Kerry and Waterford. They play Sheelagh na Gig bookshop in Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary on Sunday, 28 April at 8pm. Tickets are €5 on the door.
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.
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.bandcam
For more information about The Bookshop Band Irish tour, visit www.thebookshopband.co.uk
