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Launch party for Stephen Evens' new album "Employee of the Month"
**STEPHEN EVENS**
Stephen Evens is a songwriter who spent most of his days touring here and there with minor indie celebrities. He has for now shunned the tourbus lifestyle for a wander through his own songbook for a change. Armed with a battered guitar, a casiotone and a few pedals Stephen presents songs that mix the likes of Yo La Tengo & Ivor Cutler with broken friendships and human error.
He also finds himself lucky enough to be accompanied by these fine musicians when they stars aline and the cards are favourable.
Jon Clayton - Keyboards & Drums
Nick Howiantz Jnr. - Bass & Drums
The songs are beautiful and the words are horrible. I don't know why you don't think that's a good thing.
https://www.facebook.com/stephenevensmusic/
**JEMMA FREEMAN AND THE COSMIC SOMETHING**
South London band The Cosmic Something is the joint mission of multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Jemma Freeman, bass player and producer Mark Estall and drummer Hamid Mantu (Furniture, Transglobal Underground)
Known previously for their song writing and guitar work with dreamy psych band Landshapes (Bella Union) and new wave art band The Fcks (who were fcking great), Jemma has taken these two approaches and tinged them with energetic glam rock.
Lush guitar tones and introspective psychedelic lyrics brought together with unbounded energy and urgency. The music presents their own unique strength and pulls together themes of secret worlds, hidden agendas, apathy and anxiety. Jemma's sonorous voice tells the story of unravelling completely and tying yourself back up again.
https://www.facebook.com/cosmicsomething/
VONHORN
https://www.facebook.com/VonhornMusic/
SGT DUKE
https://www.facebook.com/SGT.DUKE.BAND/
Independent live music venue in south London. The 3rd best venue in all of London according to TIME OUT readers. Home of Roof Dog.
We didn’t set out to be a venue as such but live music at the Windmill Brixton, just kinda evolved. Late night sessions at this bar revealed that the regulars carried a wealth of experience in musicianship, sound engineering and promoting, and since we drank there anyway we decided that we should get a good band down now and again to listen to.
Brixton Windmill logo
The bands came. They loved the informality and the fact that we bothered to pay them, and, some five years later the Windmill is known far beyond the backstreet in Brixton where it’s situated.
Although we’re just a little backstreet place, Windmill Brixton has gotten a glowing “Ace Place” review in Time Out, was called “your new favourite venue” by Drownedinsound.com and has been name-checked over the airwaves by the likes of XFM’s John Kennedy and Radios 1’s Steve Lamacq. Gigs have been reviewed in NME, Kerrang! and other mags and The Independent newspaper named us one of the TOP TEN VENUES IN THE UK (the only other London venues to make the cut were Brixton Academy and Cargo).
We feel we get these accolades for a number of reasons. Entry is cheap. Beer at pub prices. There’s a nice candlelit atmosphere, friendly staff and (less friendly) dogs on the roof. But most important of all is the quality of music – it’s no good telling us that you’ll ran the place with your mates; if your music sucks we aren’t interested.
We book and cheerlead bands we like and many have played several times.
Well that’s more or less the history, cos we’re more concerned about the great bands that will be playing in the future.
22 Blenheim Gardens,
Brixton,
Greater London,
England,
SW2 5BZ.
020 8671 0700
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