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Upcoming shows: Chris Brain... Mr Ben & the Bens... Daudi Matsiko... Jolie Holland... Christof van der Ven + Niamh Regan... Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom... Giant Sand... Melanie Baker... Sophie Hutchings... Jerron Paxton... Ghostly Kisses... Sounds From The Other City 2024... Francis of Delirium... The Buffalo Skinners... The Handsome Family... Memorial... His Lordship... Florry... Bad Bad Hats... Dana Gavanski... Caoilfhionn Rose... The Lovely Eggs... Rain Parade... Charlie Parr...

When: 7.30pm on Saturday 17 September 2022
Where: The Peer Hat, 14-16 Faraday Street, Manchester M1 1BE

PLEASE NOTE: Due to unforeseen circumstances, this show now takes place at the Peer Hat, rather than the Eagle Inn. Original tickets remain valid and all other details are the same.

We’re delighted to be working with Curtis Eller for the first time!

Curtis Eller is a banjo player, songwriter and rock & roll singer. The twenty-year show business veteran started his career at the age of seven as a juggler and acrobat, but has since turned to the banjo because that’s where the money is. He is a prolific songwriter who’s banjo-driven songs describe a dreamlike vision of American history where all points in time have collapsed into one.

Eller and his band, The American Circus, have developed a devoted international following based on dynamic stage performances that employ a ragged, antique rock & roll sound to bring the historically evocative compositions to vivid, cinematic life. This September, Mr. Eller will embark on a solo, acoustic tour of the UK.

Local support comes from Granfalloon. About to release his as-yet-unnamed fourth album, Granfalloon continues the work of third album, Positive Songs, to focus more on traditional songwriting, and not quite traditional storytelling, to chisel out small, beautiful moments. This new album showcases this non-traditional storytelling with subject matter like… the meta-narrative approach to the dangers to you and the relationships around you that writing can have, expressing love through mathematical formulae, and 8 year old girls catching bees in Tupperware boxes, all with a heavy dose of Richard Lomax’s absurdism.

The first singles from the new album have picked up support from BBC 6 Music, drawing complimentary ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ from both Chris Hawkins and Tom Robinson.

This show is a co-promotion with Shh! Promotions.

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