Intimate, articulate, experimental, beautiful performances at (usually) Slak and (sometimes) The Exmouth Arms in Cheltenham.

The best new artists, the best new songs, the best voices at the best venues in the area.

You can contact Calmer by emailing calmercheltenham@googlemail.com, visting us at www.myspace.com/calmermusic or go and be our friend on Facebook.

 

NEXT SHOW    

Tues 15th Dec 2009
Slak 
Cheltenham

Doors 8pm
Admission £6 on the door
£5 advance from Badlands

 

 

Calmer* Christmas Spectacular with...

Gannets + AF Harrold
+ Men Diamler + Animal Magic Tricks

   

Gannets

For our Calmer* Christmas spectacular we thought you deserved something very special and with the Gannets, that's what you'll get.

Comprised of the Guillemot's frontman, Fyfe Dangerfield, and the bands old brass section, Chris Cundy and Alex Ward, you'll find a group Mercury nominated musicians playing at their free-form best.

With Dominic Lash, double bass and Steve Noble, tubthumping and drums, Gannets promise to make this a Calmer* to remember.

"The abstract improv version of the Guillemots..." The Guardian

www.myspace.com/gannets

AF Harrold

AF Harrold is an award winning performance poet with a yak fixation - but this is a good thing.

Starting out on the Slam scene, AF has performed for radio and television while working as poet in residence for the Glastonbury Festival in 2008.

Comedic, insightful, elegant and altruistic are just some of the words reviewers haven't yet used to describe the man.

AF Harrold - a man for all seasons (except summer, which is a bit hot on the whole).

We love him and are sure you will too!

"This yak-poet is Spike Milligan and Peter Cook rolled into one..."  Daljit Nagra

www.myspace.com/afharrold

Animal Magic Tricks

Animal Magic Tricks began two years ago when Frances Laura Donnelly fled London, and her own crap art and poetry, to return to the seaside town of Bournemouth, where she finally combined her malformed disciplines in the joy of making noise.

Her musical training took place under the strict regime of an elderly audience demanding Vera Lynn and Billie Holiday in the old folk's home in where she worked. She currently lives in Brighton which is lovely, though the coastline is unspeakably better in Dorset.

"...a sublime voice and tricks aplenty..."  Rebekah Cane

www.myspace.com/animalmagictricks

Men Diamler

Men Diamler is a channel for old thyme ways - footstompin’ blues, two string serenades, backwoods drinking hollers, horse play and pagan folk all get exorcised.


Imagine Roy Orbison with a two punctured lungs and John Fahey with a fractured hand? Well, he sounds better than that.

Following his recent UK tour and sessions on BBC radio, Men returns to Calmer* with a handbag of new songs, strangeness and smiles.


"Men Diamler cannot be ignored. He looks a little like electric-era Bob Dylan..." Fact Magazine

www.myspace.com/mendiamler
 

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