The Wonderful Sound of the Cinema Organ, with Pete Greenwood, Fundraising gig for Tidal
This Friday 5th July the Live At All Hallows team are excited to be able to support Tidal with a fundraising gig featuring some of the city’s finest live musicians: The Wonderful Sound of The Cinema Organ, with support from Pete Greenwood.
The Wonderful Sound of the Cinema Organ present a unique sonic and visual experience, bringing the nostalgic warmth of vintage jazz influences and archive footage projections right up to date with a captivating and highly danceable contemporary edge. With an all-live setup comprising string, vocal, horn and rhythm sections, the band delivers haunting melodies through to hypnotic, floor-shaking drum and bass and dubstep grooves, in an infectious display of musicianship and imagination.
Described as “fresh and alive” and weaving “a magical spell” by God Is In The TV, their “fluid arrangements draw upon the more traditional aspects of manouche jazz, Afro-American gospel and southern soul” whilst “harnessing these influences to the beat of an altogether more different, more modern drum” above which floats the voice of Nick Rasle, “a hybrid of Anthony Hegarty and Tim Buckley”.
In support is Pete Greenwood, Headingley-based singersongwriter whose 2008 debut Sirens has been described as “less of an album, more of a sort of musical trellis; twelve songs of structure and rigidity and lush lyrical sprawl, including Greenwoods attempts at writing ‘a really really crappy ITV drama’, tales about taxi drivers on the Westway, Victorian gin, Charles Manson and the search for a pair of decent shoes, all told in his soft, earthy tones.”
Currently writing and recording his sophomore album (including doing some recording with LAAH’s very own sound engineer!), and playing live throughout the UK, Pete’s new single is “The 88”: listen here: https://soundcloud.com/bobsfolkshow/pete-greenwood-on-bobs-folk-1#play
Tidal is a campaigning group that works to support, coordinate and grow global activism in Leeds.
Debt, trade, pollution, biodiversity, resource depletion, water scarcity, food security, poverty, climate change… The number of big issues just keeps on growing, threatening our children’s futures and the lives of the most vulnerable people on the planet. That’s why we’re here.
The Live At All Hallows Team and All Hallows Church are keen supporters of Tidal and are delighted to be able to support their good work.
Tickets £6 in advance via Eventbrite or Jumbo; £7 on the door. Doors 745pm