open mic
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The Threechurches take Shoreham
A lovely gig at a friendly open mic in Shoreham. The Welly is a pub that quite clearly plays a crucial role in the town’s music ecosystem – here you find local teens (underage, but allowed to play), wizened singer-songwriter hobos, and a backbone of regulars who add percussion, piano, and even flute to anyone Read more
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The Halfchurches Take Shoreham
Due to various types of exhaustion, only two of the band made it to Shoreham this evening for a mooted open mic gig. Thus The Halfchurches was born, to go alongside our other doppelgängers, The Girlchurches (the rest of the band without me), and The Burnchurches (our Norwegian Black Metal side project). [1] The Duke Read more
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Rock gig #2: World’s End, Brighton
In a spirit of comedic exaggeration, I underestimated how many gigs MJ Hibbett has done when writing up our show last week. I said he’d done 873. He emailed me to say he’s since checked his spreadsheet of rock. It’s actually 997. On Tuesday, six days after my debut, I performed my own personal gig Read more
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