Description

Launderette venue information

Venue

Old Cinema Launderette is a 55 capacity venue with bar facilities. It has good wheelchair access and facilities. If you have additional needs, please email mrwishywashypresents@gmail.com to discuss.

The venue is compact and is a mix of seating and standing. Please arrive early to get a seat. This cannot, however be guaranteed as its first come, first served.

Doors are generally 7pm, sometimes a little earlier, sometimes a little later depending on how the soundcheck progresses. Please note there is no access to the launderette before doors open. There is a wee bar just up the street, the Hop Knocker where you can get a drink if you arrive before doors open.

Parking is free and on street. Generally, in the evening the parking availability is good.


Music is generally from 7.50pm and finished by 10.30pm but this is only a guide.

Tickets

Tickets are only available via https://www.wegottickets.com/WishyWashy unless otherwise stated.

There may be tickets available on the night of the show if it is not sold out, however please buy tickets early. This really helps us plan the show better.


MARK MORRISS
Mark Morriss is a singer songwriter who famously made his name fronting English indie outfit The Bluetones. Mark fronted the four piece over a successful and fruitful 15 year period, scoring 14 top ten singles and 3 top ten albums, whilst touring the UK, Europe and Japan, before temporarily disbanding in 2011.

After releasing ?Memory Muscle? in 2008, Mark banded together The Mummys and hit the road. He spent the best part of that year touring Memory Muscle while The Bluetones took a short sabbatical, often with his bandmates in tow, either sharing touring duties or joining him in the studio for the odd overdub.

After returning to The Bluetones to record their ?A New Athens? swan song, Mark re-focused his attention on his solo career. In 2013 he recorded ?A Flash of Darkness?, raising the recording funds via a successful Pledge Music campaign.

The album was then given a general release by Acid Jazz Records the following year, whilst Mark continued to tour both as a solo acoustic artist and with an ever changing line up behind him. The various members of The Magical Sex Band.

In the summer of 2015 Mark recorded and released ?The Taste of Mark Morriss? for Acid Jazz. Intended as a companion to ?A Flash of Darkness?, the album comprised a collection of cover versions of songs that had informed the writing of its predecessor.

At the same time as producing and touring his own solo material, Mark has produced Theme and Chapter music for the audio versions of David Walliams? successful series of children?s books, from ?The Boy in the Dress? right through to his latest, ?The Midnight Gang?, all released on Harper Collins.

Since 2013 Mark has also been a member of Acid Jazz label-mate Matt Berry?s touring band The Maypoles. When in 2015 The Bluetones announced that they would be returning to play a series of anniversary shows it started to look like there was never going to be time to start work on solo record #4, but in December 2016 a new Pledge Music campaign was launched to raise a budget to do just that. Titled ?Look Up?, and with an April release in mind it looks like 2017 is going to be another busy year.

Description

Marshall Terrace, 38 Sunderland Road,

Durham,

County Durham,

England,

DH1 2HX.