West End Festival: Curtis Eller's American Circus

+ Scunner + Les Johnson and Me

The Hug and Pint, Glasgow, GB

£8
Entry Requirements: 18+
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Curtis Eller's American Circus: "Curtis Eller is a banjo player, songwriter and rock & roll singer. A twenty-year show business veteran, Eller and his band The American Circus have developed a devoted international following based on dynamic, highly physical stage performances and an catalog of curious phonographic recordings. The iconoclastic musician has spent more than a decade relentlessly touring the club, theatre and festival stages of a dozen countries in North America and Europe.

Eller is a gifted and prolific songwriter who's banjo-driven songs describe a dreamlike vision of American history where all points in time have collapsed into one. This June The American Circus will embark on a tour of the UK in support of their forthcoming, full-length album, "A Poison Melody". This ambitious new recording finds the band augmenting their indelicate, rock & roll rhythms with a tempestuous cloud of horns and an graceless choir of backsliders in their quest to bring Eller's historically evocative compositions to vivid, cinematic life."

Pertinent Websites: Official webiste: http://curtiseller.com Bandcamp: http://curtiseller.bandcamp.com Facebook: http://facebook.com/curtisellermusic Instagram: http://instagram.com/curtisellermusic

Curtis Eller's American Circus "The Murder Barn Session": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0k6m0d0CGRUPnHEA39A-Oh6LI3a91FO8

Scunner: Glasgow electric music hall rapscallions, Scunner have been peddling their sinister fairground wares since 2004. A colourful and energetic bunch, who know how to put on a show! Purveyors of Vaudeville Pop or 'Cabarock', the band are celebrating 15 years of existence with all manner of exciting things, prepare to be Scunnered!

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Les Johnson and Me: "Somewhere between gentleman Jim Reeves, Johnny Cash and Tennessee Ernie Ford with a distinctly Glaswegian twang. LES JOHNSON & ME, THE BRAINCHILD OF ONE KENNY MACDONALD, PERFORM SONGS OF AN EFFORTLESSLY TIMELESS NATURE. OFTEN BACKED BY A SELECTION OF THE WHO'S WHO OF THE WHAT'S WHAT OF GLASGOW'S UNDERGROUND ROOTS SCENE (INCLUDING THE SHIVERIN' SHEIKS, AWKWARD FAMILY PORTRAITS AND HARRY & THE HENDERSONS) AND LED BY KENNY'S UNMISTAKABLE SIGNATURE BARITONE. TAKING INFLUENCE FROM A SPECTRUM OF SOUNDS FROM SUN ROCKABILLY, BLUEGRASS, SCOTTISH TRADITIONAL AND CHURCH HYMNS TO NASHVILLE POP, DOO-WOP, RAGTIME, AMERICANA AND CALYPSO.

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West End Festival: Curtis Eller's American Circus
Scunner
Les Johnson and Me