What’s On at The Acorn
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Saturday, February 25th
Lemon Soul presents
Penzance Hearts Club
TICKETS £3 on the door. 8pm till late. Bar from 7.30
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Sunday, March 4th
Stiff Productions present
Rosie Vanier
on her ‘NEON NIGHTMARE TOUR’
TICKETS: £6 in advance, £7 on the door.
From Cornish Riviera Box Office CLICK HERE or tel 01726 879500
and from Mounts Bay Music, Causewayhead, Penzance.
Or £6 plus £1 booking fee per ticket from Seetickets – CLICK HERE.
Performance 7.30pm. Bar from 7pm.
Cornish girl Rosie Vanier’s early love of glitter and theatrical make-up had an unusual source – The Cure were her babysitters. Teenage band line-ups ebbed and flowed until Rosie’s first modest taste of fame and fortune arrived whilst fronting Rosie and The Goldbug.
Press, radio and TV followed, culminating in international tour shows with one of Rosie’s childhood heroes, Cyndi Lauper.
‘The Neon Nightmare Tour’ in spring 2012 sees Rosie embark on a new, exciting solo adventure armed only with a keyboard, a guitar amp and a microphone.
“Rosie Vanier has a voice that leaps from sugary pop to operatic whoops, her ivories chiming through a repertoire raging from the turbulent to the serene.” – Independent on Sunday
“Kate Bush on crack with Goldfrapp on synths.” – The Guardian
“Soaring melodies, beautifully sung. Rosie is better than ever!” – BBC Introducing Cornwall
“Kicks into a chorus with one heck of a terrific melody. Can’t get enough of this” – Pete Donaldson, Absolute Radio
“As far as EP’s go, this might be one of the best this year… if this is the quality of Vanier’s solo material then there’s definitely room for her eccentric musical prowess and originality in today’s industry. Each year there’s usually a female vocalist newbie that storms the UK charts, and 2012’s slot needs to go to Rosie Vanier” – Will Lavin, Gigwise
www.facebook.com/rosievaniermusic
www.youtube.com/rosievaniermusic
www.soundcloud.com/rosievanier
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Thursday, March 8th
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
Charity Cabaret
Celebrate the 101st anniversary of this auspicious occasion while raising money for Penzance Women’s Aid and Macmillan Nurses!
TICKETS: £5 on the door
Curtain up 8pm. Bar from 7.30pm.
Optional dress theme – come as your favourite heroine!
Enjoy a variety of top acts including:
Stand up comedy
Flamenco dancers
Singer-songwriters
Barbed Choir
Skits and sketches
Spoken word
Quizzes, games and mystical handbag readings
Hosted by the inimitable Helga
With special guest appearances from The Spice Girls and Abba
- and a bit of a knees up with Queens of Pressure!
Not just for women, men are welcome too, so spread the word and hope to see you there!
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Saturday, March 17th
Show + Tell presents
* John Peel’s Shed, by John Osborne *
TICKETS: £10
From Cornish Riviera Box Office CLICK HERE or tel 01726 879500
and from Mounts Bay Music, Causewayhead, Penzance.
Performance 8pm.
Bar from 7pm.
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In 2002, John Osborne won a competition on John Peel’s Radio One show. His prize was a box of records that took eight years to listen to!
This five-star, sell-out smash theatre hit of the Edinburgh Festival, broadcast on BBC Radio Four in December 2011, is an ode to radio, those records and anyone who’s ever sought solace in wireless.
It is inspired by Osborne’s acclaimed book Radio Head (Radio 4′s Book Of The Week) and it features records previously owned by John Peel.
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Friday, March 23rd & Saturday, March 24th
Theatre Damfino presents Tristan Sturrock in
Mayday, Mayday
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Tickets: Standard £9 (Concessions £6, for Students, Over65s, Children 12-18, Benefits)
NB Not suitable for Children under 12 years
From Cornish Riviera Box Office -
CLICK HERE for March 23rd
CLICK HERE for March 24th
or tel 01726 879500
and from Mounts Bay Music, Causewayhead, Penzance.
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Performance 8pm. Running time approx. 63 minutes. (There is no interval.) Bar from 7pm.
Mayday Mayday - ‘a true story told by the man who fell’
Written & performed by Kneehigh veteran, Tristan Sturrock
Directed by Katy Carmichael
The end of April. Padstow, Cornwall.
The death of winter, the birth of summer.
The town is decked in boughs of green, people are singing, dancing, drinking in the streets, and the two Osses fight their way to the Maypole.
A man falls head first off a wall. Years later he tries to remember what happened next.
An extraordinary theatrical adventure that starts witha celebration.
A day where everything changes …
After performing all over the world, most recently on Broadway in Brief Encounter, Kneehigh veteran Tristan Sturrock tells his own story in this haunting one man show.
Click here to see the promotional video
“A life affirming story” – Evening Post ****
“utterly inspiring . . . genuinely moving” – Venue ****
“poignant and wittily inventive . . . ” – Exeunt ****
“‘Horrifying … beautiful … transporting … funny … a true celebration of theatre and the fragility of human life” (audience feedback)
“a great performance by a decapitated man!” - Bristol Evening Post 9/10
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Thursday, March 29th
The Acorn presents
Henning Wehn
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TICKETS: £12 (Concessions £10)
From Cornish Riviera Box Office CLICK HERE or tel 01726 879500
and from Mounts Bay Music, Causewayhead, Penzance.
Performance 8pm.
Bar from 7pm.
Advisory minimum age 16 years
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Henning Wehn is The German Comedy Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
This is not the easiest of jobs because Germans allegedly do not have a sense of humour.
Henning does not find that funny.
He took office in October 2003 after watching an open mic night that left him convinced that he would do better.
Wehn has been performing as the self-styled ‘German Comedy Ambassador’ ever since.
He regularly appears with fellow German performer Otto Kuhnle, and their show 1000 Years of German Humour was nominated for the Barry Award at the 2009 Melbourne Comedy Festival. Wehn also regularly supports Stewart Lee on his tours.
His “beautifully crafted diatribes” (Time Out) are delivered with a passion that seems all too real and his material covers topics from football to the price of second-hand shoes, what the Germans think of our beloved ‘Allo ‘Allo series, to why humour is overrated and stand-up comedy pointless.
“Who said Germans have no sense of humour? Gloriously unreconstructed comedy” Guardian
“Glory lies ahead” Time Out
“Ja. Ja. Das ist gut.” Max Mosley
Click here to see Henning’s website
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Friday, March 30th
Gig Cartel presents
The Larry Miller Band
TICKETS: £10 (In Advance)
From Cornish Riviera Box Office CLICK HERE or tel 01726 879500
and from Mounts Bay Music, Causewayhead, Penzance.
Performance 8pm.
Bar from 7pm.
“Holding his captive audience in a packed out venue hypnotising them into a trance with his guitar skills. A true master at work who many have said fills a void left by the great late Rory Gallagher. Much respected within the music industry by fellow artists who have nothing but good words to say about him and his guitar playing ability” Blues Matters 2011
“As the natural successor to Rory Gallagher and Alvin Lee, Miller with the right backing looks set to commute his way to fortune with ease” The International Encyclopedia of Hard Rock
“Fabulous finesse and feel, modern, fun and inspiring, a real blast!” Guitar Techniques
“A Blues Rock Powerhouse” The Guardian
“The UK’s Stevie Ray Vaughan … and more!” Mojo Magazine
“A big live draw for many years- with stinging riffs dropping like Mortar fire” Classic Rock Magazine UK
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Thursday, April 5th
The Acorn presents
* A Curious Evening of Trance and Rap *
with The Ogden Sisters
TICKETS: Standard: £8.50 Concessions: £6.50 (Over 60s, Under 16s, Full-time Students, Unemployed)
From Cornish Riviera Box Office CLICK HERE or tel 01726 879500 and from Mounts Bay Music, Causewayhead, Penzance.
Performance 8pm.
Bar from 7pm.
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Is there anybody not quite there?
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, step into our parlour. We welcome those who have trodden this earth before and we welcome those who are treading it for the first time.
But what, I ask, have you come to see? You don’t know. We don’t know. But what we do know is that nobody knows.
The Celebrated Ogden Sisters invite you to quench your lust . . . for the Truth.
After huge success with the Charity Shop Cabaret, Trifle Gathering Productions bring you their new show… direct from the other side.
A new play by Nick Whitby (Smack the Pony, Eddie Izzard, C4 , Sam Mendes and the Donmar Warehouse) and Kyla Goodey (Kneehigh, Miracle, Trifle Gathering, Red Ladder, Cube and Hoodwink).
This original piece of work is an intimate theatrical experience looking into the fascinating world of mediums and the origins of the spiritualist movement. Travelling back in time to a darkened room set in 1892, hand picked brave observers will dress in victorian bonnets or facial hair and join the world famous Ogden sisters at their table as they present the MARVELLOUS, the MYSTERIOUS and the SPIRITUALLY PECULIAR.
Spirit seekers will watch on as the whole room embarks on a surprising journey where they will feast on cottage pie, get shot at by an Anatolian and witness the powers of trance dance.
A dark tale of three broken sisters unveil as an audience voyage to the physical realm, through the etheric region and right up to the brass knocker of a portal door.
”Tonight spirit seekers we shall embark on a journey into the unknown and we shall only get there if you open your minds, hearts and eyes.”
These three hilarious Victorian medium-sisters will be touring the length and breadth of the country. Drawing together clowning, choreography, magic, animation and deeply tragic comical characters. This show is an absurd and all-embracing experience laced together by a wild yet poignant story.
Sit back, grasp your neighbour firmly in the darkness… and prepare yourself for a ride!
“Fantasically funny and surreally absurd from start to finish. Go see, and prepare to fall in love.” Western Morning News
“Side-splittingly funny theatre-a high-quality, highly original, hilarious show.” The Cornishman
‘”‘The belly laughs from the audience are testament to the potential of this daft bunch.” Crackerjack
“One of best shows on the Free Fringe.” Fest Magazine
“This is a unique blend of sketch show and cabaret underpinned by a truly funny and engaging theme.” Total Theatre
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Saturday, April 14th
Gig Cartel presents
Wilko Johnson
TICKETS: £17.50 (In Advance)
From Cornish Riviera Box Office CLICK HERE or tel 01726 879500
and from Mounts Bay Music, Causewayhead, Penzance.
Performance 8pm. Bar from 7pm.
Following his recent TV appearance on BBC 2’s Later With Jools Holland, Wilko Johnson, the legendary former guitarist of Dr. Feelgood, who has influenced everyone from Joe Strummer, Mick Jones to Steve Albini, will be appearing at The Acorn as part of an extensive April 2012 tour of the UK.
Appearing with Wilko will be his very special guest Virgil and the Accelerators
In addition to pioneering Dr. Feelgood’s distinctive mid-seventies, pre-punk British R&B sound, in 1980 Johnson went on to play guitar for Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Wilko’s current live band features Blockheads’ Norman Watt-Roy (bass guitar), and Dylan Howe (drums).
In 2009 Johnson featured in Julien Temple’s Oil City Confidential, a fascinating full-length feature film documentary about Dr. Feelgood. The film received many accolades including the MOJO Vision Award at the MOJO Honours List 2010.
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Wednesday, May 2nd
Gig Cartel and Flick Productions present
Trembling Bells & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
SORRY! ALL TICKETS SOLD!
SORRx
TICKETS: £15.00 (In Advance)
From Cornish Riviera Box Office CLICK HERE or tel 01726 879500
and from Mounts Bay Music, Causewayhead, Penzance.
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SORRY! THIS PERFORMANCE IS SOLD OUT. HOWEVER, THERE MAY STILL BE TICKETS AVAILABLE FOR THE EQUIVALENT GIG AT EXETER PHOENIX ON MONDAY, APRIL 30th. TO BOOK, CLICK HERE.
Performance 8pm. Bar from 7pm.
This is a standing event (but there is seating in the balcony).
Trembling Bells are Alex Neilson’s song-based group who seek to reanimate the psychic landscapes of Great Britain and relocate them to some vague, mythic land where basic human crises are encountered and conquered.
The band released their second album for Honest Jon’s in March 2010 called Abandoned Love. This is their most effective synthesis of Earlie Musik modes, Country music’s bathetic romanticism, British Folk’s edenic mystery and the priapic bombast of Classic Rock.
A change in core personnel has seen Mike Hastings replace Ben Reynolds on guitar. Mike has previously played with Lavinia Blackwall (vocals, keyboard, guitar) in Glasgow band The Pendulums.
For an interesting article on this gig in The Cornishman (Jan 5th, 2012) – ‘The Acorn gets Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy’ – CLICK HERE.
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Saturday, May 5th
Gig Cartel presents
Curved Air
TICKETS: £14.
From Cornish Riviera Box Office CLICK HERE or tel 01726 879500
and from Mounts Bay Music, Causewayhead, Penzance.
Performance 8pm.
Bar from 7pm.
Curved Air are a ground-breaking British progressive rock band featuring original members Sonja Kristina on vocals and Florian Pilkington-Miksa on drums.
The band is a unique and powerful combination of a remarkable female vocalist and virtuoso musicians.
They’ll be performing ‘Back Street Luv’, ‘It happened Today’, ‘Vivaldi’, ‘Marie Antoinette’, ‘Phantasmagoria’ and ‘Everdance’.
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Saturday, May 26th
Gig Cartel presents
Peggy Seeger
TICKETS: £15. (This is a fully seated show.)
From Cornish Riviera Box Office CLICK HERE or tel 01726 879500
and from Mounts Bay Music, Causewayhead, Penzance.
Performance 8pm.
Bar from 7pm.
Born in 1935, Peggy is the half-sister of Pete Seeger and daughter of Ruth Crawford Seeger: her life partner was the English songwriter Ewan MacColl, who wrote First Time Ever I Saw Your Face for her and with whom she had three children. Nowadays she is sometimes thought of as the mother of Neill and Calum MacColl but she is very much her own woman. She is probably best known for her feminist song Gonna Be an Engineer and for The Ballad of Springhill, which is rapidly becoming regarded as a traditional song.
After living 35 years in England, she returned to the USA in 1994 and after residing in Asheville, North Carolina, for ten years, she now lives in Boston. She now tours extensively in the USA as a solo concert artist, singing and giving workshops. She has made 21 solo recordings and has participated in over a hundred recordings with other artists.
Her 1998 CD, PERIOD PIECES: WOMEN’S SONGS FOR MEN AND WOMEN, received major attention from Billboard. She records exclusively for Appleseed Recordings. Her latest project is her HOME TRILOGY, three albums in which each disc contains one or two songs of her own composition and the rest traditional USA songs.
Her latest recording is a 2-CD set,‘Three Score and Ten’. This captivating set is a distillation of her 70th birthday concert in London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Peggy has also started a series entitled ‘Timely Productions’, contemporary songs put out … well, whenever she writes them. She has published 149 of her songs in The Peggy Seeger Songbook (Oak Publications,1998) as well as a companion volume of Ewan MacColl’s songs, The Essential Ewan MacColl Songbook (Oak Publications, 2001).
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Friday, June 1st
The Acorn presents
Renzo Spiteri – Silence Sounds and Spaces
TICKETS: Standard in advance £10
From Cornish Riviera Box Office CLICK HERE or tel 01726 879500
and from Mounts Bay Music, Causewayhead, Penzance.
Performance 8pm. Bar from 7pm.
“The improvisational and instrumental delights of Malta’s music master, Renzo Spiteri, are steeped in a creative and groundbreaking pool of talent rarely observed in instrumental world music. Renzo serves up a chilling, mysterious, and forward-thinking musical journey that deserves to be a top spot on the world music/new age charts.” – M. Forss, 5/5 album review rating
“A highly charged evening during which he used a large variety of instruments, with some highly original touches and interpretations.” – The Times
Silence Sounds and Spaces is a multi-faceted and multi-instrumental concept album and solo live performance by Renzo Spiteri, one of Malta’s leading musicians and cultural ambassadors. It defines Renzo’s creative journey across the treasured Neolithic sites of The Maltese Islands (most of which enjoy UNESCO World Heritage Site listing), giving them a contemporary musical identity and resulting in an engaging music performance that draws listeners in to Renzo’s personal musical universe.
Silence Sounds and Spaces is about creating a painting in notes and sounds through a transparent and simple score. The music is a tapestry of sounds overlaying each other, weaving ideas together. Featuring unique on-site recordings that exploit the particular natural sonic timbre of the various archaeological sites, and through the use of his extraordinary world of sounds, Renzo conjures powerful images of these stunning historic sites where time stands still.
“When Renzo Spiteri presents his music it is quite an event. This very versatile and creative musician goes beyond being a highly specialised and accomplished percussionist.” – The Times
“Renowned for his experimental approach to music, Renzo Spiteri is an artiste who constantly surprises.” - The Times
Renzo Spiteri is a creative musician and composer renowned for speaking multiple languages with his hands. He works alongside top-flight names in the music and art scenes, acting as a strong linking point between the music itself and other genres of artistic expression, be it a film, dance choreography, theatre production, literature recital or visual installation.
Renzo’s artistic versatility and passion for the creative use of sound have over the years allowed him to develop fresh musical possibilities and unlimited modes of expression. From collaborative projects that undertake to bring together a wide range of musicians, to solo works where there is a spirit of enquiry, Renzo’s artistic sensitivity and penchant for non-traditional approaches to composition have resulted in innovative, inspiring and dynamic performances.
Renzo Spiteri is an endorsed artiste for Toca Percussion, Paiste Cymbals, Yamaha Drums, Schlagwerk Percussion and Gibraltar Hardware.
Click for Renzo Spiteri’s website
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Saturday, June 23rd
Gig Cartel presents
Mad Dog McRea
plus special guests
Flats And Sharps
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TICKETS: £10. (Mainly standing.)
From Cornish Riviera Box Office CLICK HERE or tel 01726 879500
and from Mounts Bay Music, Causewayhead, Penzance.
Performance 8pm.
Bar from 7pm.
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Jiggery folkery, hokery pokery … Mad Dog Mcrea blend a unique mixture of folk rock, pop, gypsy jazz, bluegrass and ‘shake your ass’ music into their ever bubbling cauldron of kaleidoscopic orchestrations.
From self penned songs of adventure, drinking, love and life to traditional anecdotes referring to gypsies, fairies, legless pirates, black flies and wise old jungle bears the band bring you on an engaging yet sometimes obscure lyrical journey !
With a fresh six piece line-up consisting of guitar/vocals (Michael Mathieson), whistles (Dan Crimp), mandolin/banjo (Graham Anderson), double bass (Damion Scarr) and drums/percussion (Pete Chart) 2011 has seen the band embark on yet another epic road trip on their ‘Happy Bus’ to deliver some infectious entertainment around the country.
Following the success of their self penned studio album ‘Sophisticated Hat Manoeuvres’ the band will be releasing an original studio album. The album will be released on their own label ‘God Dam Records’.
A show not to be missed this band never fail to capture the complete attention of their appreciative toe tapping audience.
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