Description

Launderette venue information


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 7.45pm 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.


Martin Carthy

Lifetime Achievement Award ? BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2014

For more than 50 years Martin Carthy has been one of folk music's greatest innovators, one of its best loved, most enthusiastic and, at times, most quietly controversial of figures. His skill, stage presence and natural charm have won him many admirers, not only from within the folk scene, but also far beyond it.
Trailblazing musical partnerships with, amongst others, Steeleye Span, Dave Swarbrick and his award-winning wife (Norma Waterson) and daughter Eliza Carthy have resulted in more than 40 albums, but Martin has only recorded 10 solo albums, of which the much anticipated Waiting for Angels (Topic TSCD527) was the latest. Whether in the folk clubs (which he continues to champion), on the concert stage or making TV appearances (he was the subject of the acclaimed `Originals' music documentary strand on BBC 2) - there are few roles that Martin Carthy hasn't played.

He's a ballad singer, a ground-breaking acoustic and electric-guitarist and an authoritative interpreter of newly composed material. He always prefers to follow an insatiable musical curiosity rather than cash in on his unrivalled position. Perhaps, most significant of all, are his settings of traditional songs with guitar, which have influenced a generation of artists, including Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, on both sides of the Atlantic.

`Arguably the greatest English folk song performer, writer, collector and editor of them all' Q Magazine

?Carthy is a master of the ballad of substance, songs that tell stories, whether they are traditional, his own or from contemporary writers.? The Telegraph

Description

Marshall Terrace, 38 Sunderland Road,

Durham,

County Durham,

England,

DH1 2HX.