Brighton

Fri 11 Jun 2027Doors 19:30

Feel

Hope & Ruin · Brighton

FEEL Felt (the past tense of feel) and also the name of the legendary 80s group that recorded ten albums in that decade. Feel (the present tense of felt) is a new group made up of original Felt members Gary Ainge (who played drums on all ten albums), Marco Thomas on bass and Philip King on rhythm guitar. Along with Martin Davies on keys and Andy Wellings on lead guitar, they will be honouring the beauty of Felt’s music - by playing instrumental Felt songs - and Felt songs instrumentally. As it says so accurately on the Felt album sleeves - the songs were “coloured in by the band” - and that’s what they intend to do. As well as showcasing the melodic ingenuity of Maurice Deebank and Martin Duffy, they will also be performing instrumental interpretations of some of the songs of Lawrence. RACHEL LOVE Rachel was a co-founder and guitarist/singer/songwriter of the beloved post-punk and proto-indie pop trio, Dolly Mixture, who blended 1960s girl-group harmonies and melodic pop hooks. Rachel emerged decades later with solo work that channels gentle psychedelia, pastoral textures, and analog warmth. Her latest album, “Lyra,” a tribute to her late husband Steve Lovell, was recor...

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Until Wed 23 Dec8 dates

Christmas Lunch with Tom Seals

Boisdale of Canary Wharf · London

‘One of the UK’s finest boogie woogie pianists and entertainers’ - Jools Holland, Patron of Music, Boisdale Tom Jones compared him to Little Richard. Noddy Holder put him in the top five boogie piano players in the world. Jools Holland, who knows this music better than almost anyone alive, awarded him the Boisdale Boogie Woogie Artist of the Year at the Music Awards and regularly invites him for a duelling pianos session. Tom Seals has played Ronnie Scott’s, Birdland on Broadway, the Blue Note, Glastonbury, Montreux Jazz Festival, Hyde Park supporting Pink Floyd and represented Britain at Expo 2020 Dubai performing solo to 7,000 people with Prince William in the audience. He has a 13-week Sky TV series to his name and performed at the London Palladium in 2025. For the Christmas lunch he leads his trio through a set that moves between boogie woogie classics and festive singalongs without losing the thread. “Great Balls of Fire” and “Blueberry Hill” sit alongside “Jingle Bell Rock”, “Winter Wonderland”, “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” and “Let It Snow”, all played with the wit, warmth and piano technique that make a Tom Seals show work in a room...

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