Melting Vinyl is teaming up with The Gulbenkian and Folkestone Quarterhouse to bring live music back to Kent with a range of unmissable artists

After a year without live music events, Melting Vinyl are pleased to announce a range of incredible shows across Kent this year. By teaming up with The Gulbenkian and Folkestone Quarterhouse to bring live music back to Kent with a range of unmissable artists.

Melting Vinyl and Creative Folkestone presents The Staves

25th September 2021 @ Folkestone Quarterhouse

Doors: 7.00pm/start 8.00pm

Ticket price: £25 + booking fee / £29 on the door.

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All ages welcome, under 16s to be accompanied by an adult.

Available from: Melting Vinyl: The Staves - Creative Folkestone

The Staves are thrilled to announce a run of live shows for this Autumn, including returning to Kent, in support of their new album ‘Good Woman’, out now on Atlantic Records. Taking a cue from youthful folk revivalists like Laura Marling, Mountain Man, and the Pierces, Watford, England's the Staves blend the wistful cadences of classic British folk with breezy, Laurel Canyon-era Americana. The trio has toured with Florence and the Machine, The Civil Wars, First Aid Kit and worked with Glyn and Ethan Johns, Bon Iver's Justin Vernon on their albums. They have also had appeared at Glastonbury and were booked in for 2020.

Melting Vinyl and Gulbenkian Present: Erland Cooper + Hinako Omori

Sunday 17th October 2021

Doors Open 8pm / Start 8.30pm

£18+ booking fee / £22 on the door

Over 14s welcome, under 16s to be accompanied by an adult

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Available from: https://thegulbenkian.co.uk/.../erland-cooper-and.../

This year will welcome the release of Erland’s new album Holm which features variations, b-sides and reworkings of original songs by fellow artists and friends. Here is the latest video from the first single, the uplifting 'Haar over Hamnavoe' a Bill Ryder-Jones rework:

https://youtu.be/DLuvdUTk5_M

Hailing from the archipelago of Orkney in Scotland, the contemporary composer and multi-instrumentalist has so far explored the birdlife (2018’s Solan Goose), the sea (2019’s Sule Skerry) and, on Hether Blether, his third album, he turned his attention to the land and its people

Named after a hidden island in folklore, said to rise green and fertile from time to time from the foam. Inspired, in essence, by Orcadian poet George Mackay Brown, filmmaker Margaret Tait and composer Peter Maxwell Davies before him, this final album is a celebration of the Islands’ memory held in timeless landscape, community, myth and mythology. The album looks to the past through the stories of the island and to the present and future through its people.

Hinao Omori

We are extremely excited to share that the captivating Japanese musician, producer and synthesist Hinao Omori will be supporting Erland Cooper at his shows with us this Autumn. ‘The London-based synthesist built the EP from four years’ worth of instrumental demos, lyrics and field recordings that she was able to thematically link and mould into songs after experiencing “a strange period of having daily migraines with auras for a month.”

Melting Vinyl Presents: This is The Kit + Special Guests

Wednesday November 3rd 2021 @ Folkestone Quarterhouse

Doors 7pm / Start 8pm

£17.50 + booking fee/ £21.50 on the door

Over 14s welcome, under 16s to be accompanied by an adult

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Available from: Melting Vinyl: This is The Kit - Creative Folkestone

Ten years and five albums deep, the story of This Is The Kit, is one of time and change and careful listening. It has carried Stables from Winchester to Bristol to Paris (where she’s lived for the last ten years), across tours and festivals and the adoration of her peers. This Is The Kit has opened for artists such as The National, Jose Gonzales, and Iron & Wine, and was selected by Sharon Van Etten as her 'Favourite New Artist' in an interview with Pitchfork., they have been long time favourites of BBC Radio's Lauren Laverne, Mac Riley Cerys Matthews and Radcliffe & Maconi and have also recently appeared in BBC One television series Wanderlust.

Melting Vinyl & The Gulbenkian presents: Gruff Rhys + Special Guests

Thursday 4th November 2021 @ The Gulbenkian Theatre

Doors 8.00 pm / Start 8.30pm

£20+ booking fee / £24 on the door

Seated

Over 14s welcome, under 16s to be accompanied by an adult

Available from: Gruff Rhys and Special Guest - Gulbenkian (thegulbenkian.co.uk)

Mercury nominated Welsh singer-songwriter has brought us top selling albums and sold out tours, both as a solo artist as well as with the band Super Furry Animals, during his twenty-plus years music career. A BBC 6 music favourite, Gruff Rhys returns with his new album “Seeking New Gods” due out on Rough Trade records.

“Seeking New Gods” was recorded following a US tour with his band and mixed in LA with superstar producer Mario C (Beastie Boys), it's Gruff’s seventh solo album.

Melting Vinyl & Creative Folkestone present Lau Unplugged

Wednesday 23 February @ Folkestone Quarterhouse

Doors 7pm / Start 8pm

£20 advance / £24 on the door

Over 14s welcome, under 16s to be accompanied by an adult

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Available from: Melting Vinyl: Lau Unplugged - Creative Folkestone

For the first time in over a decade, Lau presents a stripped-back tour, 'Unplugged'. Four times winners of BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Best Group, Lau are regarded as the epicentre of the new folk boom. The pioneering Scottish folk trio have always experimented with a myriad of musical styles and unlikely collaborators including Jack Bruce (Cream), Adem, Karine Polwart, Joan As Police Woman, Northern Sinfonia, Elysian Quartet, Fred Frith, Anais Mitchell, Aoife O’Donovan, Tinariwen, The Unthanks and many more.Now 2020’s 'Unplugged' concert tour sees the folk supergroup strip away their banks of electronics, loops and wild effects. The approach is subtler, less about spectacle, more about close listening. In brash and polarised political times, here is the poetry of real instruments and considerate music-making.

Melting Vinyl & Creative Folkestone present British Sea Power

NEW DATE TBC @ Folkestone Quarterhouse

Doors 7pm / Start 8pm

£16 + booking fee / £ 20 on the door

Over 14s welcome, under 16s to be accompanied by an adult

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Available from: Melting Vinyl: British Sea Power - Creative Folkestone

Known for their theatrical stage antics, Mercury Prize nominees British Sea Power continue to be a vital creative force in the British music scene. Their music has been regularly compared to the likes of The Cure, Joy Division, The Pixies and Arcade Fire, although their particular style of indie-rock is laced with enough strange brilliance to make it pleasingly hard to pigeon hole.