Music BETWEEN THE SCALES

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Friday, February 7, 2014
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BETWEEN
THE SCALES
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PIOTR
ANDERSZEWSKI
AUDIENCES first took
Piotr Anderszewski,
pictured, to their hearts
in 1990 during the Leeds
International Piano
Competition. His
penetrating
interpretations, infused
with personal insights
and nuance, balance
Anderszewski’s famous
perfectionism with an
intense spirituality that
transcends keyboard
technique.
His recitals around the
globe attract capacity
audiences and regularly
rejuvenate the spirits of
even the most worldweary listeners.
Hear him in action at
the Turner Sims on
Tuesday.
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GIG OF THE WEEK
PENGUIN CAFE
THE DEAN OF
WINCHESTER
HEAR some of the lighter
hearted offerings
Winchester Cathedral’s
musicians and their friends
have to offer in a special
concert tomorrow night.
Hear The Dean of Winchester playing his fairground
organ, enjoy songs from High Society with the Winchester
Musicals and Opera Society, saxaphones of all shapes and
sizes with Saxophony, monologues from a real Lancashire
Lass and all sorts of fun and games from the Cathedral
musicians themselves.
The night, at the Cathedral, is part of the fundraising effort
to support the production costs of this year’s Southern
Cathedrals Festival, which will be held in Winchester in July.
PENGUIN Cafe play
Southampton’s Turner
Sims on Thursday,
ahead of the muchanticipated release of
their new album The
Red Book.
The album, the
sophomore release
from the freshly reimagined Penguin
Café, is the
culmination of two
years’ work that has
seen Arthur Jeffes –
son of original
composer and
Penguin Cafe
Orchestra founder
Simon Jeffes –
investigate whole new
about when Jeffes
worked on a project
with the International
Space Orchestra and
NASA in 2012.
For The Red Book,
Arthur utilised his
current array of
disparate musicians –
a kind of ‘normalsized’ version of The
Time Bandits – to
create collaborative
efforts featuring the
likes of Neil Codling
(Suede), Cass Browne
(Gorillaz) Darren Berry
(Zazou), Rebecca
Waterworth (Bat For
Lashes, Collectress),
Andy Waterworth
(Damian Lazarus), Oli
TOP PICKS OF THE WEEK
TRIVIUM AND KILLSWITCH ENGAGE
METAL overlords and labelmates Trivium and Killswitch
Engage end their string of co-headline dates with a sold
out Southampton show tonight.
Audiences can expect new material from Trivium’s latest
album Vengeance Falls and Killswitch Engage’s last
record Disarm The Descent as well as a string of rocking
hits from the back
catalogues of both
bands.
Trivium frontman
Matt Heafy said:
“There is no
question that
Killswitch Engage
is one of the most
influential bands of
the last decade. It
is an honour to be
able to tour with
one of our personal favourite bands across one of my
favourite places on
Earth: the UK!”
JACKIE OATES
Joel Stroetzel, guitarist
FOLK music phenomenon
for Killswitch Engage,
Jackie Oates will grace the
him up,
backs
Ashcroft Arts Centre stage in
enthusing, “The UK has
Fareham tonight.
been a favourite place to
Originally a member of the
play for both bands over
Mercury-nominated The
so joining
Unthanks, Jackie Oates has the years
forces should make for
since carved out an
some great shows! Very
astonishing solo career.
psyched!”
ALBUM REVIEW
IT doesn’t quite seem 10 years
since Hard To Beat brought
Staines’ greatest export since Ali
G in to the public’s conscience.
But a decade on they bring out a
‘best of’ compilation reminding
us of what their three studio
albums have achieved.
Heavy with feeling, but mixed
with fun, their earlier material in
particular encases some
heartfelt and ultimately true
feelings about the strifes of
modern life, before a more
polished funk and beat crept in
to their music as the band
areas of sound and
vibrancy.
The piece has been
put together with the
help of his eclectic
collection of
musicians and
characters, marking
an ambitious
extension from their
debut A Matter of
Life.
The recording came
Langford
(Paloma Faith,
Florence and the
Machine), Des Murphy
(Delakota), Vincent
Greene (Paul Weller,
Babyshambles), Peter
Radcliffe (Rico
Rodriguez) and
soundtrack artist Tom
Chichester-Clark
(Layer Cake, Kingdom
Of Heaven).
MIKE FENTON
HE’S one of the top autoharp players in the
world – and he’s coming home.
Former 1970s Southampton school teacher
Mike Fenton also happens to be three times
the winner of the international contest for
players.
He returns to the city tonight to perform for the
Fo’c’sle Folk Club in a unique event at the
Richmond Inn in Portswood.
Partly concert, in which Mike and friends will
show that some beautiful and powerful music
can be produced on autoharp, and partly a
workshop, they will sing and play for a while,
teach a little and then the audience can join in
with an assortment of autoharps.
Hard Fi – Best of 2004-2014 HHHHH
evolved. On first listen you forget
just how much material has
gained airplay from their three
full-length releases.
Harking back to their debut
Stars Of CCTV, the hits do keep
on coming to surprise the
doubters over their longevity.
Cash Machine, Tied Up Too
Tight, Hard To Beat, the title
track and Better Do Better are
all heartfelt songs taken from
this record, and still probably
provide the band’s best material
with their everyday troubles laid
down to a mixture of heady
guitars and orchestration.
Later comes the upbeat
numbers, but some are
resounding hits nonetheless.
Like the earlier tracks, some
have gotten fame through advert
soundtracks, while the guitarromantic Bring It On has
become something of an
unofficial anthem for sporting
montages all over television.
“This really shouldn’t have
happened,” says frontman
Richard Archer, but here he is
wrong. The band have
consistently penned
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exceptionally
written
material, and
even if some
of the feeling
and atmosphere has been lost in
the more upbeat recent
offerings, there is still some
evidence of what they can do in
the nicely brooding Move Over.
The lyrics say “I think it’s time
you moved over,” but with the
now-three-piece back in the
studio it doesn’t look like that
will be happening anytime soon.
LEIGH SANDERS
MUSIC
LISTINGS
For the week ahead
TODAY
Yacht Tavern, Woolston –
Black Rose
Fo’c’sle Folk Club @ The
Richmond Inn – Mike Fenton
and Friends
Ashcroft Arts Centre – Jackie
Oates
The Brook – Doors Alive
Concorde Club – Dave Lewis
Trio
Guildhall – Killswitch
Engage/Trivium
The Joiners – Our Last Night +
Secrets + Empires Fade
Railway Inn, Winchester –
Echotape + The Bayonettes +
Sir Sprockett + AJ Denman +
Knotted
Platform Tavern – Tim Payne’s
Platform Posse
The Hobbit – Siberian Noise
The Rockstone – Doghouse
Boat Boys
The Old Mill, Holbury – The
Gun Show
The Lapstone – Ian Rich
Ship Inn, Winchester –
Sketches of Sound
SATURDAY
Yacht Tavern, Woolston –
Bone Idle
King’s Head, Wickham –
Grizzly and the Grasshoppers
The Brook – Guns ‘n’ Roses
Experience
Concorde Club – The Groove
Brothers
Ferneham Hall – Havant
Orchestra
Railway Inn, Winchester –
Eleanor McEvoy + Lucy
Kitchen
Platform Tavern – Jo Long &
The Pure Drop
Hanger Farm Arts Centre –
Beat Bonanza
Chandler’s Ford Central Club
– Headstock
The Rockstone – The Jimmy
Hillbillies
The George, Fair Oak – The
Overkills
The Lapstone – Davy Jones
Locker
The George, Middle Wallop –
The Cover Ups
SUNDAY
The Talking Heads –
Traditional Irish Accoustic
Session
Concorde Club – Chris Pearce
Frenchmen Street Jazz Band
The Joiners – The One
Hundred
MONDAY
The Talking Heads –
Southampton Ukulele Jam
The Joiners – Expire +
Coldburn
TUESDAY
Thornden Hall – Wyvern Vocal
Concert
The Talking Heads – The
Solent City Jazzmen
The Joiners – Ledfree
Turner Sims – Piotr
Anderszewski
Railway Inn, Winchester – The
Deep Dark Woods + Benjamin
Folke-Thomas
WEDNESDAY
Thornden Hall – Thornden
Winter Concert
Concorde Club – 100 years of
jazz in 99 minutes
The Joiners – Slaves + Pup
THURSDAY
The Joiners – Yearbook +
Swim Good
Cellar, Southampton – Royal
Blood
Turner Sims – Penguin Cafe
Railway Inn, Winchester –
Maths and the Moon + Sister
Leona + The Golden Age +
Winters Hill