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Drunken Dolly
with: Nick Parker And The False Alarms

Sunday 2 December 2018
8:00 pm - 11:00 pm

£6 in advance £8 on the door

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Nick Parker and the False Alarms

Glastonbury based Nick Parker started gigging in his early teens playing mandolin and singing in folk/rock/skiffle band ‘Why?’, and spent the next 10 years bouncing around on stages at hundreds of venues and festivals around the UK and Europe. In 1998 Nick called it a day with Why? and started guitar band ‘Tobermory’. After various false starts, a few flirtations with industry ‘big’ boys and a few tours in Germany, Tobermory played their last gig in 2004.

In 2010 Nick embarked on a solo career and has since released three full-length albums, 2010’s ‘The King of False Alarms’ and 2014’s ‘Angry Pork and the Occasional Bird’ and last year’s ‘Besta Venya’, tracks from which have been played on various BBC6Music shows.

Over the years Nick has had the pleasure of sharing the stage with The Wedding Present, Bright Eyes, Ben Marwood, Frank Turner, Mike Peters and Mike Scott among others, and he regularly tours with Bristol based Gaz Brookfield (as a separate act, but also playing mandolin in his band).

Nick’s early years as a solo artist were predominantly spent over in Europe, but in the last couple of years he has spent the majority of his time playing festivals and touring in the UK, most notably this year, as tour support for folk punk outfit Ferocious Dog on their Enemy Within tour.

Nick’s songs are often tongue-in-cheek and cheerful, and on the rare occasion when fun IS poked (usually at himself) it is always with a wry smile and an element of satire. The audience are often encouraged to be a part of the show, from holding up lyrics or creating sound effects, to providing basslines or collectively being Nick’s duet partner.

Although primarily a solo effort Nick often plays with his band ‘Nick Parker and the False Alarms’ which is a folky/rocky/country affair using guitars, fiddle, pedal steel, banjo, mandolin, cornet, accordion, keys, whistles, pipes, bass and drums, often with various members switching instruments when space permits. At a recent gig the band were described as ‘A British Arcade Fire’, something that Nick was very pleased about. At that same gig they teamed up with Les ‘Fruitbat’ Carter to perform a 9-piece version of CarterUSM’s Only Living Boy in New Cross, something that now happens whenever Les is in the building.

The False Alarms’ newest member is shared with Ferocious Dog in the shape of multi-instrumentalist John Leonard. John, fiddle player Ben Wain and Nick also regularly gig as a trio and the term ‘beautiful shambles’ springs to mind.

Over the last few years Nick, either solo or with his various line-ups, has played at many festivals including Chagstock, Glastonbury, Beautiful Days, Sweden’s Frivolt and Hannover’s Zytanien among many others.

When Nick’s not gigging he is usually busy making video for his songs which include a very time consuming lyric video made using spaghetti letters, and an even more time consuming stop motion animation of a live gig which has recently been selected for inclusion in the Leeds International Film Festival.

 

 

Drunken Dolly

Work hard, Drink hard! That’s what these guys from Rotterdam do best.

Featuring (ex-)members of The Apers and The Bat Bites, Drunken Dolly’s been partying on Dutch stages for years now.

Drunken Dolly sings of intoxication and hangovers, love and loneliness, life and death, playing solid poppunk with banjo’s and mandolins that’ll make you thirsty. Think of bands like NoFX,Rancid, Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly. With their fast paced punk-rock influenced by folk, they turn every venue into a beer covered dancefloor!

 

 

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