The Highchurches
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The Highchurches (or: The Threechurches) record a live session at BBC Maida Vale
Thanks so much to my very talented friends for making this happen. Maida Vale shuts its doors for good (as a BBC institution, at least) in a few months, so it felt faintly miraculous to get the five of us (three members of the band, my friend the sound engineer, and my friend the photographer) Read more
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The Twochurches at The Brunswick’s Open Mic in Hove
It’s that weird week between Christmas and new year, and I was itching to get out and perform, after a fairly nondescript Christmas in suburban Luton. I usually have choir practice on a Monday, so I’d never quite made it to The Brunswick pub in Hove for their esteemed open mic, which is of a Read more
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The Threechurches at Brighton Folk Choir End-Of-Term Cabaret, and Christmas Panto in Kemptown
A couple of performances to start the week, after a wonderful weekend in Sheffield. First up, The Threechurches – the name of any combination of three members [1] of The Highchurches taking to the stage together – played a short set [2] at the Brighton Folk Choir’s end of term cabaret at The Rose Hill. Read more
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Special guest appearance at Boast In Show: Ultimate Champion, Komedia Brighton
Surprises stress me out. If anyone out there was plotting a surprise birthday for me, with all my friends popping out of various cakes, I would probably look stunned for a few minutes and then leave without a word. So it was with a degree of trepidation that I agreed to be the special guest Read more
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This Machine Kills Wasps with MJ Hibbett & Chris Thorpe-Tracey, The Highchurches, Lilla Multipass, Leslie Bloom and Verity Grebble
This was a special, sweaty little show, which will live long in the memory of all who attended. It was a bit of a last minute job. Chris and Mark have a beautiful project in which they’re doing a new, stripped down album of Hibbett songs accompanied by piano. They’re songs from the sadder end Read more
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James and Anna versus Morris Folk Club
Back in February, myself and Anna, a fellow London exile now in Glasgow, met up at one of our old haunts and sang together at Sharp’s folk club for the first time. This time, we met at Morris Folk Club at another former hangout, The Betsey Trotwood in Farringdon, opposite The Guardian’s former headquarters before Read more
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The Highchurches / The Hognutters Mummers at Rottingdean Windmill
Rottingdean Windmill was host to the Wilde Volk exhibition this weekend – a display of masked, often animalistic figures in folklore. So who better to perform at its opening than the Hognutters Mummers, with their traditional “give us money or booze or we will beat you up” play of death and rebirth, and pig costumes Read more
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Brighton Folk Choir End Of Term Cabaret
Twice a year a lovely thing happens at The Rose Hill, the city’s most interesting music venue and Brighton Folk Choir’s rehearsal space most Mondays during the academic year. After practice, the bar is opened up and we have a little cabaret. Members share whatever they want – a song, a story, a poem, a Read more
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