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Penny Serenade
| 'Lamentable news from the Admiralty'. The full origins of PennySerenade have been lost in the mists of poorly insulated windows (although a full biography is rumoured to exist in the pages of a loose-leaf ring binder somewhere beneath the British Museum). Suffice to remark, there are six of them - Stout-hearted Men and Women of questionable temper with impeccable manners. They play an array (hooray) of musical instruments. All their songs are adapted from the works of Angela Spinnet, a late-Victorian poet whose meditations on life as a Coster-Monger on the streets of Bermondsey have fallen into undeserved obscurity. Their first collection ('Spinnet, Like A Record Baby - a tribute and salute to Angela Spinnet') should be finished in March (not this March though).
"The band have an original sound, whilst drawing on traditional forms. They are experimental in a subtle way rather than for the sake of experimentation. The singer's voice and the song writing is distinctive and unusual. They don't sound particularly trendy or like they are trying to rip anyone off, just following their own road, and that is appealing. They are hard to pin-down stylistically but also melodically strong.” - Hot Chip (Saturday evening Kinecroft Big Stage concert, Sunday afternoon Portcullis Club concert) |
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