When: 7.30pm on Wednesday 26 March 2025
Where: The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester M4 1LE

We’re delighted to welcome Ruth Lyon to the Castle Hotel!

Newcastle’s Ruth Lyon celebrates strength in vulnerability and the allure of imperfection, challenging societal norms and igniting a journey towards self-acceptance and empowerment – all unravelling through offbeat anti-folk, commanded by her soulful vocals and witty yet raw lyricism; influenced by such acts as Fiona Apple, Aldous Harding and Regina Spektor.

Lyon grew up in North Yorkshire, before moving to Newcastle Upon Tyne to study Fashion Design. Meanwhile, she began fronting the cult folk-rockers Holy Moly & The Crackers, with which she has toured the UK and Europe extensively.

She began developing her solo music in 2020, when she was invited to be artist in residence at The Glasshouse. Soon after came lockdown, and while she was shielding, she slowly built a new musical identity from the confines of her bedroom. For her last release Direct Debit To Vogue (2022), Lyon collaborated with Bristol producer John Parish, who has notably worked with PJ Harvey, Aldous Harding and This Is The Kit.

Another key inspiration came when Lyon made her USA debut at SXSW TX in March 2022. She spoke on a panel and performed at a showcase with fellow Disabled artists Eliza Hull and Lachi, from Australia and the US respectively. Here, she heard brand new perspectives on community and accessibility, and was deeply moved to witness the performances from her fellow artists which spoke to their own experiences. ‘It was almost like a spiritual thing for me,’ she says. ‘I came back and realised this career is so much bigger than myself. I think I have a duty to push this as far as I can and to be as honest as I can.’ She harnessed this in a burst of writing upon her return, completing Direct Debit To Vogue with a new commitment to her authentic voice. She says, ‘I wanted to evoke the feeling of the kinda music that just punches you in the gut — I want to emotionally drag some stuff out of people.’

Since the release Lyon has received accolades from the likes of PRS Women Make Music and has received airplay from BBC Radio 1 and 6 Music, as well as invites to perform at The Great Escape, Latitude Festival, Secret Garden Party, Greenbelt and Glastonbury. She has been nominated and shortlisted for the 2024 Disability Power 100. She has just returned from recording her debut album, again with John Parish, for release in 2025, as well has recording an exclusive BBC live session at Abbey Road.

Over the years, Lyon has established herself as a key and active member of the Newcastle music scene, including in her role on the Board of Trustees at The Glasshouse. ‘Because there isn’t a lot of industry up here, it can feel like you have to move to London to be successful,’ she says. ‘But I’m really proud of the musicians that are trying to make it so we can be established, we can be successful, and we can make good art in the North.’ She has also advocated for the Disabled community in her work as an ambassador for Attitude Is Everything, a charity that aims to improve accessibility for Deaf and Disabled people in live music; Lyon herself has been a wheelchair user since the age of 21.

‘Chamber pop artist and songwriter Ruth Lyon positions herself as a force to be reckoned with in the industry’ – Wonderland Magazine

‘A refreshing slice of leftfield alt-pop that’s full of heart’ – Rhys Buchanan, Glastonbury Emerging Talent

Local support comes from Lindsay Munroe. Lindsay Munroe is an alt-indie artist based in Manchester, bringing her distinctive vocals together with lyrical storytelling reminiscent of Sharon Van Etten, Lucy Dacus and Maggie Rogers. Having left a conservative religious environment in her early 20s, Lindsay’s songwriting became a way to build her own identity, a journey that was captured in her EPs Softest Edge and Our Heaviness. 2025 sees her recording a debut album and returning to live shows across the UK.

This show is a co-promotion with Please Please You and the Brudenell.

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When: 7.30pm on Wednesday 26 March 2025
Where: Band on the Wall, 26 Swan Street, Manchester M4 5JZ

We’re excited to be welcoming The Delines back – this time, to Band on the Wall.

The Delines will return to Manchester in support of their fourth album, scheduled for release in February 2025.

Willy Vlautin and his band The Delines have been touring the UK since 2014 and previously with his former act Richmond Fontaine. The Delines feature the exquisite vocals of Amy Boone with the drummer Sean Oldham and bassist Freddy Trujillo (both also formerly of Richmond Fontaine). The quintet is rounded off by Cory Gray on trumpet and keys.

Their debut record, Colfax, appeared in 2014 and surprised fans and critics alike. Evoking a beat-up Dusty Springfield or a weary Rickie Lee Jones, Colfax made over a dozen top ten year end lists. It was a four-year wait until their sophomore effort, The Imperial was released. Singer Amy Boone spent much of that time in hospital beds recovering from serious injuries sustained in a car accident in Austin, Texas. When she was just strong enough to stand she finished The Imperial – a record that spent two weeks on top of the official UK Americana charts with the band playing sold out shows across the UK and Europe.

The band returned with their cinematic third album The Sea Drift, which Americana UK and BBC 6 Music’s Gideon Coe both made their ‘Album of the Year’.

Vlautin is no stranger to critical acclaim, enjoying cult success and rave reviews from the likes of the New York Times, Washington Post, Uncut, Rolling Stone and Mojo, both as a novelist with seven books under his belt. Two of his books have become major films with another currently in production with Netflix for release in 2025.

Tour support comes from Peter Bruntnell. In an uncertain number of years time, it will be acceptably cool to say that you first got into non-Grammy-winning artist Peter Bruntnell through his classic 2024 album Houdini And The Sucker Punch, before then going back and discovering his back catalogue of yet more ‘classics’. And you were there! You saw him live. You were one of those ’10’ people who saw him play in that modestly-sized room, almost 30 years into his career.

So here we are again. Three years on, another album into Peter’s 13 or 14 album catalogue and shouldering the burden of even more sublime reviews. Every possible positive adjective has been called into play, although it must be noted that the word ‘sublime’ can never be used enough. Not even 2021’s primarily solo, slightly synthy lockdown album succeeded in putting an end to his non-success, despite Mojo echoing the plea that, ‘Somehow, some way, this cult and infinitely class songwriter must get his due wider recognition.’ The Scottish Daily Express with its 5 star review, slightly frustrated, said, or perhaps yelled, ‘I’m getting tired of saying this: He’s brilliant.’ The Irish Times thoughtfully combined two quotes into one, saving us the trouble of going back and getting crushed under the sheer weight of Peter’s archive of press quotes: ‘With Journey To The Sun, the man whose songs NME once noted should be placed on school curriculums has done it again.’ And he continues to do so. But not without a brief foray into dance music, in collaboration with mega pop-hit songwriter Rob Davies. A foray that succeeded in sneaking by, almost completely unnoticed, therefore providing us with no further fresh quotes. If veering off entirely into the dark world of autotune would have increased his chances of hitting the big time, we shall never know. But fortunately Peter’s taking his chances.

This is a 10+ show. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

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When: 7pm on Friday 28 March 2025
Where: Low Four Studio, Deansgate Mews, Great Northern, Manchester M3 4EN

We’re delighted to present this intimate show with Helena Deland

Helena Deland is interested in how songs can hold what eludes everyday language. Her music draws inspiration from reading and walking around.

Her debut album Someone New was released on Luminelle Recording in 2020, introducing a new and resonant voice to the indie music scene. Three years later, she published the acclaimed Goodnight Summerland, with label and longtime collaborators Chivi Chivi. In parallel, she explored new soundscapes with Hildegard, her collaborative project with fellow Montreal musician Ouri. Together, they released two albums, 2021’s Hildegard and 2024’s Jour 1596. She has also worked with other renowned artists, collaborating with Men I Trust, JPEGMAFIA, Jonah Yano and Claire Rousay amongst others.

After opening for the likes of Weyes Blood, Andy Shauf, Connan Mockasin, Soccer Mommy and Iggy Pop, she toured Goodnight Summerland across North America and Europe. In 2025, she will be performing intimate solo concerts, blending existing material with new songs, foreshadowing new music to come out in the near future.

Tour support comes from Olivia Kaplan. Olivia Kaplan (b. 1992, California) is a musician based in Los Angeles. Her songs explore the secret bonds between grief and time, slowness and memory, sadness and sleep. Her latest album, Afterlife, asks how death shapes our deepest-held beliefs and rearranges our sensory experience of the world. Although each song serves as a foothold, no hold is made to last, and in this way, the listener is reminded how patternless loss can be. Made in collaboration with lo-fi innovator and producer Evan Wright, the record lives in the sonics of sparseness but finds its lifeline in Olivia’s voice – blue and sunlit – which serves as a warm anchor.

Following the release of her critically acclaimed debut LP Tonight Turns To Nothing (2021) on Topshelf Records, Olivia toured North America extensively with Billie Marten. She has also shared the stage with The War on Drugs, Miya Folick, Katie Gavin, Buck Meek, Hand Habits, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Helena Deland and Courtney Marie Andrews. Olivia studied voice and ethnomusicology at McGill University and UCLA. Her songwriting is equally inspired by Bill Callahan, Sheryl Crow and Neil Young as it has been compared to Cat Power and Cowboy Junkies.

This show takes place at Low Four – a recording studio situated on Deansgate Mews in the Great Northern warehouse. This intimate venue features a fully stocked Cloudwater bar.

This is a 14+ show. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

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When: 7.30pm on Friday 28 March 2025
Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW

We’re delighted to be welcoming Chris Brain back – this time, to Gullivers!

Yorkshire’s Chris Brain has carved his place firmly into the contemporary folk scene following his highly-regarded first two albums, Bound to Rise (2022) and Steady Away (2023).

Garnering acclaim from the likes of Cerys Matthews (BBC 6 Music) and Mark Radcliffe (BBC Radio 2), he has since shared the stage with iconic acts like Robert Plant, Jacqui McShee and Martin Simpson.

With the release of his third much-anticipated album, New Light, in Spring 2025, he will be embarking on a UK/Ireland solo tour. New Light brings a refreshingly contemporary sound as Chris contemplates transformation, nostalgia and tenderness in times of vulnerability – all woven around his familiar gestures towards the natural world.

From sublimely deployed strings and dappling piano to rhythmic percussion, the album’s arrangements are perfectly wrapped around Brain’s honeyed vocals, anchoring fingerpicked guitar and persuasive melodies.

Recorded in various locations, from his allotment shed to The Nave Studios, New Light embodies the expanded parameters that his sound has reached. Both intimate and expansive, New Light expresses a surety of Chris Brain’s song-writing abilities with the album’s imagery and melodies dwelling long after the music ends.

‘There are shades of the master Ralph Mctell here and I can think of no greater compliment than that. Love it!’ – Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2 Folk Show

Local support comes from Fionnuala Bradbury. Fionnuala Bradbury is a singer-songwriter from Manchester. Her sound is inspired by the local folk scene she grew up in, and the jazz music she found a love for later on. Having been studying archaeology for the past few years, she has returned to Manchester to get re-involved in the music scene.

Her part-Irish heritage meant she plays the fiddle, and had the pleasure of learning traditional folk songs from Ríoghnach Connolly. Her recordings of traditional Irish folk songs, made with the help of Mike McGoldrick, have been played on BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio 2’s Folk Show.

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When: 7.30pm on Tuesday 8 April 2025
Where: The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester M4 1LE

We’re delighted to be working with Index for Working Musik for the first time!

Index for Working Musik emerged from the depths of an East End bunker in 2023 with Dragging the Needlework for the Kids at Uphole (Tough Love), a ‘Heroin Country’ affair, followed by the experimental Indexe’e.

2024 saw the release of Purple Born, an eight-minute track that channels the likes of John Fahey and Polvo — leather boys, leather girls, and silly cuckoo clocks — and served as the first signal of the future to come with the pending release of second album, Which Direction Goes The Beam, out on 4 April via Tough Love.

In this post Sounds world, the boundaries of Post Punk have not only broadened but splintered. And over the course of (now) four releases, Index For Working Musik have seen to using the sprawling boundaries to great effect, flexing a polyglot of styles to convey the language of the moment.

‘Their sound brings to mind John Cale’s drone effects on the early VU albums and the pink noise of the Jesus and Mary Chain‘ – Louder than War

Support comes from e.g Debris. The music of e.g Debris concerns the minutiae of daily refuse and the man-made mundanity of red tape-strewn technology set against a Yorkshire skyline. They are an aggregation of some of the forces behind 6a6y 6, Findom, Plastic Gift and Crisis Actor. The music carries a quality of dismembered garage rock and early new wave, guided under the tutelage of experimental groups such as 39 Clocks and The Fire Engines – albeit with a bluntness and immediacy all their own.

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When: 7.30pm on Thursday 10 April 2025
Where: Hallé St Peter’s, 40 Blossom Street, Ancoats, Manchester, M4 6BF

PLEASE NOTE: Due to exceptional demand, this show has been upgraded to Hallé St Peter’s. All other details are the same and original tickets remain valid.

We’re excited to be working with Heather Nova for the first time!

Heather Nova first hit the airwaves in 1994 when her breakout album, Oyster, was released. The cool, infectious songs of Oyster put her firmly on the indie-pop map, and charted worldwide, and she has been making critically acclaimed albums and touring ever since.

But what really garnered Heather a loyal following has been her live performances; known for a voice that is both incredibly powerful but is also often described as ‘angelic’, she plays major rock festivals with full band as impressively as she captivates audiences in intimate theatres with just a cellist as accompaniment. She has toured consistently in the 30-plus years since starting out, and her shows continue to sell out quickly.

‘Live music transcends the sum of its parts,’ she says. ‘There is a magic that happens that I am not fully in control of; I just let go, open up, and allow the music to come through me. The audience brings their emotions and their energy, and the synergy is born.’

This tour will be an eclectic mix of acoustic, cello driven tracks combined with synths, beats and percussion.

She will perform a combination of brand new material from her forthcoming album, as well as older ‘fan favourites’.

‘Live music has a more significant role than ever these days,’ says Heather. ‘Concerts create a moment of unification, community, and harmony, when there is so much division in the wider world today.’

Tour support comes from Daisy Chute. Scottish/American singer-songwriter Daisy Chute has found a loyal following through her award-winning songwriting and ‘gorgeous’ vocals (Guy Garvey, Elbow). 2024 brought with it a Grammy Award for her involvement in The Birdsong Project and she also has received FATEA’s EP of the year award for Songs of Solace. Collaborations have led to co-release singles/tours with Hollie Rogers, The Dunwells, Ed Blunt, Lady Nade and James Walker in 2024, while an album is due in 2025. Selling out shows across the UK, Europe and US, Daisy can be spotted with a guitar or banjo at top arts venues and festivals like Black Deer and Glastonbury.

This is a 14+ show. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

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When: 7.30pm on Wednesday 30 April 2025
Where: The Yard, 11 Bent St, Cheetham Hill, Manchester M8 8NF

We’re delighted to be working with Bay Bryan for the first time – for our first show at The Yard!

Bay Bryan has spent the past five months writing new songs and jamming them with the band, resulting in a second concept album, BAYARD, to start taking shape. Before the album is officially recorded, Bay’s band invites you into their ‘living room’ (at The Yard) for a single-date hometown performance of the in-progress songs and concept.

Channeling the closeness of an NPR Tiny Desk concert, and brought to life by Bay and brilliant musicians Pete Mitchell (drums), Matthew Campbell (guitar), and Sam Leigh (bass), this experience will be one to remember.

Following the introspective The Meadow, BAYARD introduces new outward energy, with funky grooves and a playful campness more commonly expected from Queen Bayard (Bay’s drag alter ego). Fans of Bay’s recent single Drifting will have an inkling of the new sonic flavour.

Bay’s live shows are an unforgettable mix of stand out vocals, layered songwriting and captivating storytelling with an authentic theatrical flair. If you’ve seen Bay and the band perform before, you know it’s an experience not to miss.

‘Complex songwriting sees arrangements rise and fall with all the drama of the Rockies from whence he came… a deft, fairylike elegance’ – Piccadilly Records

‘Bay’s ability to conjure imaginative, story-led songs… sets them apart from the crowd’ – Fortitude Magazine

Special guest is Ryan Buxton. Ryan Buxton is a Manchester-based singer-songwriter, guitarist, and self-confessed music nerd – makes sense of the world around him through his music. Whether with full band or flying solo, Buxton’s songs often grow from textured folky beginnings into haunting or dreamlike soundscapes to get lost in. He has recently released his EP Other Breaths, which you can check out on all platforms.

The Yard is an accessible and unique creative hub based in a regenerated old school building in North Manchester just a 10-minute speed walk from Shudehill tram stop. They programme an eclectic mix of intimate seated gigs like NQ Jazz, silent film and improvisation nights, dance nights, and more.

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When: 7.30pm on Saturday 26 April 2025
Where: Hallé at St Michael’s, 36-38 George Leigh Street, Ancoats, Manchester M4 5DG

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We’re excited to welcome Mark Eitzel back to Manchester!

Mark Eitzel is coming to Europe for the first time in eight years. In addition to older classics from American Music Club, which will be featured on a new box set due out in 2025, Mark will be playing songs from previous solo albums and a new vinyl EP.

Mark Eitzel has released over 17 albums with American Music Club and as a solo artist. The Guardian has called him ‘America’s greatest living lyricist,’ and Rolling Stone once gave him their Songwriter of the Year award. Originally formed in 1983, AMC released seven albums before breaking up in 1995. The band reunited in 2004 for two full-lengths, Love Songs for Patriots and The Golden Age.

Eitzel released Don’t Be A Stranger in 2012 on décor/Merge which was followed by his strongest solo album since the 90s with Hey Mr Ferryman in 2017. Mark has been spending the last seven years composing music for playwright Simon Stephens as well as working on the American Music Club reissues.

For this first full UK and EU tour in eight years, Mark will be performing solo acoustic.

This concert takes place in Hallé at St Michael’s – a former Roman Catholic church, which was founded in 1859 and became the heart of the Little Italy Community in Ancoats.

This is a 14+ show. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

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When: 7.30pm on Wednesday 30 April 2025
Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW

We’re delighted to be working with Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band for the first time!

At the frayed bottom-edge of Indiana – just a moderate bike ride north of Louisville, Kentucky – multi-instrumentalist, artist and songwriter Ryan Davis’ Americana-noir soundwaves have been emanating for years in a myriad of forms. As driving force for the lauded State Champion, long-running member of Tropical Trash, administrator of the esoteric and excellent Cropped Out festival, and lone proprietor of the Sophomore Lounge label, Davis lays down his first proper ‘solo’ release with Dancing On The Edge – a rich, two-LP tapestry of tunes that absolutely glows over seven expansive cuts. It’s a pure collage of modernity and heritage.

After a period of introspection spent re-immersing himself in his drawing and painting practice, as well as his newfound delvings into instrumental music, Davis’ sea change was imminent. ‘I wasn’t sure I would ever make another record of “song” songs,’ he says, ‘but last year I started writing again and it eventually took the shape of the record at hand. I worked painstakingly hard on the material. It felt virtually impossible to complete for a bulk of the time I spent trying to enter into it, but the process pulled me out of a strange place. I was eventually able to live inside of the songs enough to understand the world within them – to ultimately help shape them into what I understood them to be.’ Indeed, there’s a load of inspiration captured in the grooves with Ryan’s unfiltered, folk-traditioned approach to poetic twists-of-tongue meeting head on with sublime instrumentation.

Recorded in early 2023 with help both in-studio and remotely from peers like Joan Shelley, Catherine Irwin (Freakwater), Will Lawrence (Felice Brothers, Gun Outfit, John Early), Jenny Rose (Giving Up), Christopher May (Mail the Horse), Elisabeth Fuchsia (Footings, Bonnie “Prince” Billy) and Aaron Rosenblum (Son of Earth, Sapat), Dancing on the Edge draws backup perhaps primarily from Davis’ tight-knit drinking buddies-cum-cast of collaborators in Equipment Pointed Ankh (records on Astral Editions, Bruit Direct Disques, Torn Light) – a five-headed hive-mind from which he drew impetus for his own foray into more abstract and improvisational terrain these past few years under the Roadhouse alias. The results herein are melancholic, gentle, minimal yet colourful in mood: a lilting highway accompaniment of crisp instrumentation and a relaxed, amiable approach to vocals with rhapsodic wordsmithery. Fans of the aforementioned artists as well as those of Souled American, David Berman, Kurt Vile and Comes A Time-era Neil should all easily find bounty.

While bare-boned and uncluttered in presentation, many of these pieces track over six minutes allowing a fair amount of expansiveness. Flashes of Orange percolates with synthetic and organic percussion while Davis ruminates on how ‘a steady drip falls from the ceiling to my forehead / a pitter-patter of my past mistakes’ as a Cale-esque violin chatters through impressionistic fields of pedal steel. It’s got an absence of recurring verses, replaced by an ever-unfolding story, words spotlighted by tasteful flanging synths and lovely key shifts as finally the titular hook lifts its proceedings up into the clouds. Other times the humour shines: tales of a jukebox that ‘only plays Sultans of Swing’ in Junk Drawer Heart, ruminations like ‘soon I’ll be seen as a problem for the neighbours / soon I’ll be seen as a trophy for the precinct’ in Free From the Guillotine, and of course the simple proclamation of A Suitable Exit being ‘I never asked to be born / I was only wondering where the door went to.’

Tracked and mixed by Seth Manchester at Machines With Magnets (Pawtucket, RI) and mastered for vinyl by Tohru Kotetsu at Tokyo’s legendary JVC Mastering Center, Dancing On The Edge stares down into the navel of the American Experience underbelly with a fair amount of outward reach. Besides the Kosmische-synth and violin stabs reaching into a European element, stately organ swells build a musical bridge between 1969 Southern California and Felt’s latter era smooth moves, with layers of intelligent gesture taking this well beyond the realm of its archetypal indie troubadour/acoustic songwriter tag. Music and mint juleps never went down so well together.

Local support comes from Secret Admirer. Secret Admirer hope to create music that could have been written any time in the last 60 years. Front facing melodies and warming harmonies that speak as much of West Coast sunshine as they do Stockport rain.

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When: 7.30pm on Thursday 1 May 2025
Where: Gullivers, 109 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LW

We’re delighted to welcome Jeffrey Martin to Gullivers!

As a babe Jeffrey Martin sought out solitude as often as he could find it. He’s always been that way, and he has never understood the whole phenomenon of smiling in pictures, although he is a very happy guy. One night in middle school he stayed up under the covers with a flashlight and a DiscMan, listening to Reba McEntire’s That’s the Night that the Lights Went Out in Georgia on repeat until the DiscMan ran out of batteries. That night he became a songwriter, although he didn’t actually write a song until years later. After high school he spent a few years distracting himself from having to gather up the courage to do what he knew he had to do.

Eventually he found his way to a writing degree, and then a teaching degree. He wrote most days like his life depended on it, all sorts of things, not just songs, but songs too. He fell in love with teaching high school English, which was fantastic because he never thought he’d actually come to truly love it. His students were fierce and unstoppable forces of noise and curiosity, and for all that they took from him in sleep and sense, they gave him a hundred times back in sparks and humility.

All the while he was also playing truckloads of music. There was one weekend where he flew to LA while grading essays on the plane, played two shows, and then flew back home, still grading essays, and woke up to teach at 5am on Monday morning. It was around this time he started wondering if such a life was sustainable.

Alas, music, the tour life, was a constant raccoon scratching at the back door. Jeffrey spent nights on end sitting up in bed, and then sitting on the front porch, staring off into the dark, wondering if he could bear to leave teaching to go on tour full time. Eventually his brain caught up with what his guts had known for months. With tears in his eyes he announced to his students that he wouldn’t be back the following year, and that he didn’t feel right hollering at them to chase their dreams at all cost if he wasn’t going to do the same.

Jeffrey Martin tours full time now. He is always making music, and he is always coming through your town. He misses teaching like you might miss a good old friend who you know you’ll meet again.

‘[In Thank God We Left The Garden,] Martin has delivered one of the finest albums of recent times, which if there is any justice should elevate him to the very forefront of the current crop of confessional singer-songwriters and sit high in all the end of year top ten lists’ – Americana UK

‘Reminiscent of early Nathaniel Rateliff and John Moreland, and prime John Prine, there’s no reason here to doubt that Martin might one day eclipse them all’ – Mojo

Local support comes from Doad. Based in Manchester, Doad dedicates time to writing and recording songs with the aim of bringing even a molecule of peace to people who feel they are living in a world that is deviantly spinning into an accelerated state of entropy. Just kidding: pair these songs with a tired body, they could give you something back.

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