Mike Westbrook-affiliated pastoral Anglo-jazz explorers Billy Bottle & The Multiple have added more dates on their evolving, ongoing ‘The Other Place’ tour.October 28, 2016 1:32 pm
Mike Westbrook-affiliated pastoral Anglo-jazz explorers Billy Bottle & The Multiple have added more dates on their evolving, ongoing ‘The Other Place’ tour.
The show has its roots in a personal odyssey and serious socio-political stunt from band core Billy and Martine, who took advantage of their brief infamy as guests on ‘The Voice’ to run a whistle-stop free busking tour across southern and western England just prior to the 2015 election. In the process, they sounded out a disgruntled, despairing populace about what they thought about democracy and connection. Later, Billy and Martine put together this semi-theatrical vox-pop song-and-music roadshow on what they found, tracing a shadow of disaffection which culminated in the Brexit vote earlier this year.
For the full skinny on ‘The Other Place’, click back a few months. I’ve been slow off the mark again, and missed promoting their Margate and Brighton dates in September; but here are the rest of the dates between now and Christmas… unless they wangle a few more in the interim, which is entirely possible. For now, there are two shows in Cornwall (the first being the 4th November) and one in London.
As before, the band for ‘The Other Place’ consists of Billy Bottle (voice, keyboards, guitar), Martine Waltier (voice, violin, guitar, percussion), Roz Harding (alto saxophone, recorder, percussion), flautist/singer/percussionist Vivien Goodwin-Darke (flute, voice, percussion) and Lee Fletcher (synths, soundscapes, percussion).
Posted by Dann Chinn
Categories: 2016, acoustic music, agit-pop, art rock, crossover, electro-acoustic music, electronic, experimental music, festivals, field recordings, folk music, improvisation, instrumental music, jazz, jazz fusion, jazz rock, performance art, political music, pop, previews, psychedelic pop, psychedelic rock, rock, singer-songwriter, sound collage, soundscapes, spoken word
Tags: activism, All The Right Notes Festival (event), Billie Bottle, Billie Bottle & The Multiple, Falmouth (England), Lee Fletcher, Magic Bus, Martine Waltier, Mike Westbrook, multimedia, Redruth (England), road trips, Roz Harding, Vivien Goodwin-Darke
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