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The Oxted Sessions are delighted to welcome Luke Haines & Peter Buck (with Scott McCaughey & Linda Pitmon) to St Peter's Church Hall on Friday 17th April 2020.

Peter Buck was the guitarist for the biggest band in the world R.E.M.

Luke Haines was the guitarist for the Auteurs. The Auteurs were not the biggest band in the world. They were pretty good though.

Luke Haines also does paintings of Lou Reed.

One day, Peter Buck bought one of Luke Haines' Lou Reed paintings. They had never met before but decided that the fates had brought them together and they should write some songs together and make an album.

'Beat Poetry For Survivalists' is that album, and will be released by Cherry Red Records on March 6th. With songs about legendary rocket scientist and occultist Jack Parsons, The Enfield Hauntings (of 1978), a post-apocalyptic radio station that only plays Donovan records, Bigfoot, and Pol Pot.

They are embarking on a UK tour next April, which will include a visit to Limpsfield!

And they will be joined on their tour by Scott McCaughey (bass) and Linda Pitmon (drums), who were in Oxted in May as part of Filthy Friends.

There will be a very special guest playing a support slot. We can't announce who this is just yet, but trust us, it's a good one!

AND, opening proceedings will be Wyatt Riot!

Hailing from opposite sides of the county line, 'Wyatt Riot', from the badlands of Old Oxted, and Woody Riot (The Corbynista Kid) from the Dust bowl delta of Bat and Ball, met as lone outlaws riding the trails of the A25 valley. They came together to as vigilantes to fight a common cause. To rid the Home Counties of greed and fascism and to keep the spirit of Woody Guthrie alive. These gunslingers carry the weapons of great songs and a collective voice. The guys played a cracking set at the Folk & Blues Fest, and we are very pleased to be welcoming them back to a Session.

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High Street,

Limpsfield,

Surrey,

England,

RH8 0DG.