Tokyo Tea Room + L. Norton and Imperial Daze at Folkestone Quarterhouse
Canterbury natives, Tokyo Tea Room, play Folkestone Quarterhouse on Friday 29 November, with special guests L. Norton and Imperial Daze.
Tokyo Tea Room
Having graced the Quarterhouse stage at This is Psych earlier this year, the band are back for their first headline show to mark the launch of their as-yet-untitled EP on A Certain Kind Records.
Formed in 2014, Tokyo Tea Room are the psych pop lovechild of Kent-based Daniel Elliott and Ben Marshall. Over the past five years, they have shared bills with the likes of Wolf Alice, The Mystery Jets and Super Furry Animals.
With Daniel on keyboards and Ben on bass, the duo is joined by four of their closest friends and fellow musicians: Beth Plumb on vocals and keys, Sam Teather on drums, Ryan Debling and Graham Nunn on guitars. Expect a meeting of melodic bass lines, hypnotic guitar riffs and dreamy synths, all defining Tokyo Tea Room’s unique honeyed psychedelic sound and personality.
The band have started a new chapter this year, releasing two singles in rapid succession. The response to ‘Forever Out of Time’ and ‘Always Tomorrow’ has been phenomenal, withwidespread support from the likes of BBC Introducing, BBC 6Music and The Line of Best Fit.A third single, ‘Things Are Changing’, is scheduled for release in September.
Tokyo Tea Room will be joined on the bill by special guests L. Norton and Imperial Daze.
L.Norton
Inspired by a new year's resolution in 2018, L. Norton took to writing her own songs and as the year passed developed her own taste for production. Hailing from South East Kent, herfirst EP ‘SKIN’, released by 27:28 Records, combines electro and disco to express a sentiment of ‘doing it your way’, a mantra we should all expect from her coming releases. Her Musical style draws from a variety 70s female disco greats (Candi Staton/Donna Summer) to The Gorillaz and Little Dragon.
Imperial Daze
Imperial Daze are a psych-pop band from South London influenced by the likes of Damon Albarn (Blur), Kevin Parker (Tame Impala) and Soulwax and have shared stages with The Maccabees, Mystery Jets and more. The band spent 2018 building their own studio: Electric Eel Studio in Tower Bridge, London. From there, they scored their first film soundtrack collaborating with Clan Collective on an upcoming collection of video works supporting Imperial Daze's next releases.
In the past two years, Imperial Daze have released five new songs making up their latest release on London/Chicago label Tip Top Recordings: ‘Surfaces Sensibles’. They have received BBC6 Music support, with plays by Amy Lame, Guy Garvey, and Lauren Laverne as well as playlist support from Radio X and Amazing Radio with extra spot plays from John Kennedy and Felix White. In July 2019 the band recorded a new EP that is set for release late 2019-early 2020.
WHERE: Quarterhouse Folkestone
WHEN: Friday 29 November, 7pm
TICKETS: £8
INFO: www.creativefolkestone.org.uk