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John Grant

plus Teddy Thompson

John Grant

John Grant

plus Teddy Thompson

RESCHEDULED date from Wednesday 19 May 2021. (from Sunday 13 September 2020 originally Wednesday 13 May)

All tickets remain valid for the new date.

Sage One

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John Grant

Reaching the Top 10 with his latest album Boy From Michigan, John Grant has received across-the-board acclaim and a much-talked-about in-conversation feature with Elton John which can be read here. At one end of his musical rainbow, he is the battle-scarred piano-man, at the other, a robust electronic auteur.

“Boy From Michigan affirms John Grant as one of the great singer-songwriters of our time. If there’s a centre ground between the songcraft of Elton John and the sonic experimentalism of Kraftwerk then Grant claims for his own. His fifth solo album is a work of great power and beauty.” Daily Telegraph – 4 stars **** (Album Of The Week)

“Boy From Michigan is Grant’s futuristic vision of his past, filtered through his bleak, witty, lacerating worldview. And it is a delight.” The Times – 4 stars **** (Album Of The Week)

“Boy From Michigan is Grant in panoramic mode, looking back and looking forward to create his biggest picture yet.” MOJO – 4 stars ****

johngrantmusic.com | Facebook | Twitter

Teddy Thompson

Called “one of the most gifted singer-songwriters of his generation,” by The New York Times, singer-songwriter Teddy Thompson is a native Englishman who has adopted New York City as his home; famously the son of singer-songwriters Richard and Linda Thompson, he emigrated to the States almost twenty years ago, barely out of his teens, to embark on a career of his own.

He was heavily influenced not by folk music but by such artists as Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, and the Everly Brothers. As NPR reported, “He has said he didn’t listen to any music made after 1959 until he was 16. As a kid, he listened to early rock ‘n’ roll and country music exclusively.” This resulted in a unique voice that is at once rock and country, then pop and folk.

While music is in his DNA, Thompson sings with his own voice, a powerfully understated, emotional, echoey croon. (The Guardian)

Since arriving in the United States, he has released five albums to critical acclaim and has contributed to many works, including his solo “I Don’t Want to Say Goodbye” and duet “King of the Road,” with Rufus Wainwright, from the soundtrack to the Golden Globe- and Bafta-winning film Brokeback Mountain. He has also collaborated on projects with Rufus and Martha Wainwright, Jenni Muldaur, and others.

Teddy’s newest album, entitled Heartbreaker Please, will be released thru Thirty Tigers in the spring of 2020, with the first single ‘Heartbreaker’ to be released on Valentine’s Day.

teddythompson.net | Facebook | Twitter

Timings

5.30pm: Bars Open
7pm: Doors to Sage One
8pm – 8.30pm: Teddy Thompson
9pm – 10.45pm: John Grant
11.15pm: Last orders at the bar
Please note timings are subject to change