What’s On at The Acorn
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Saturday, January 28th
The Acorn presents
Seann Walsh, in the ‘Ying and Young’ Tour
TICKETS: £10 (Standard),
£8 (Concession/Student)
From Cornish Riviera Box Office CLICK HERE or tel 01726 879500, and from Mounts Bay Music, Causewayhead, Penzance.
Performance 8pm.
Bar from 7pm.
Seann Walsh, the star of BBC One’s Live at the Apollo and Channel 4′s Stand up for the week and the new team captain of Argumental (Dave), is taking his all-new hour of razor sharp, observational comedy, ‘Ying and Young’ across the UK.
Charming and charismatic, and a natural observational storyteller, Seann is one of the most frighteningly precocious talents to emerge from the UK comedy circuit in recent years.
Within two years of his first comedy appearance Seann won the title of Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year. Other accolades included ‘Chortle’ Best Breakthrough Act Nominee 2010 and ‘Chortle’ Best Compere Nominee 2011. Seann was also listed as one of Dave’s top 10 stand-up comedy acts to catch in 2011.
Seanns recent TV appearances include Live at the Apollo (BBC One), Never mind the Buzzcocks (BBC Two), Mock the week (BBC Two), 8 out of 10 Cats (Channel 4 ) and Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (BBC One).
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Saturday, February 4th
The Acorn presents
THEBOSTONPLAN
TICKETS: £5
From Cornish Riviera Box Office CLICK HERE or tel 01726 879500 and from Mounts Bay Music, Causewayhead, Penzance.
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Performance 8pm. Bar from 7pm.
TheBostonPlan are a young, fresh and exciting new band from Cornwall, putting a contemporary stamp on some old school Funky/Pop.
After releasing their debut EP and music video at the end of 2010, TheBostonPlan got everyone talking! It instantly won them support slots with chart topping acts such as Professor Green and Ellie Golding. They also received praise from Gavin and Stacey‘s Mat Horne and were invited to play to a sold-out London crowd with the man himself!
On top of these achievements so early on, TheBostonPlan were then invited to play live on the BBC’s Children in Need! At the time of broadcast there were around 330,000 people watching the band getting everyone dancing!
TheBostonPlan were out playing shows last summer with the likes of The Wanted, Alexandra Burke, Aggro Santos, Eliza Doolittle, Stacey Soloman and Tinchy Stryder! They have even bigger plans for 2012, and are midway through recording their debut album.
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Thursday, February 9th
Gig Cartel presents
* The Adventures Of Andy Kershaw *
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TICKETS: £15 (This is a fully seated show.)
From Cornish Riviera Box Office CLICK HERE or tel 01726 879500
and from Mounts Bay Music, C’wayhead, Penzance.
Performance 8pm.
Bar from 7pm.
Andy Kershaw truly has no ‘off switch’. Already he’s lived ten lives to everyone else’s one. He was born in Rochdale in 1959 and was liberated by Bob Dylan. Barely out of his teens, and looking about eleven, he was Billy Bragg’s driver and roadie one day and presenting The Old Grey Whistle Test and Live Aid for the BBC the next. For most of the past twenty-five years he has had a weekly radio show pioneering extraordinary music from all over the world.
A born rebel and a maverick, he has combined his passion for music with a lunatic curiosity and an instinct for frontline journalism, reporting for the BBC and the broadsheets from the world’s most extreme countries – Iraq, North Korea (he’s been four times), Haiti, Angola and Rwanda during the genocide.
Andy is among the UK’s most-decorated broadcasters, working for Radio 4 and, for fifteen years, as a Radio 1 DJ, where he shared an office with John Peel and legendary producer John Walters. It was Andy’s enthusiasms that made him the central figure in the popularisation of world music. More recently a presenter on Radio 3, he has also worked for the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen. His record collection weighs seven tons and he’s seen his own intestines. He’s been knocked down but he’s back up again – as strong as a monkey’s tail!
Whether it applies to foreign adventures, romances, motorcycles, nervous breakdowns or relationships with a piece of music, Andy has always lived by his most reliable maxim: if you’re going to have one, have a big one.
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Friday, February 10th
Mirth Control presents
* Comedy Live at The Acorn *
TICKETS: £8 (Concessions £6)
From Cornish Riviera Box Office CLICK HERE or tel 01726 879500
and from Mounts Bay Music, Causewayhead, Penzance.
Performance 8pm.
Bar from 7pm.
Featuring Taylor Glenn, Matt Dwyer, Damo Clark and compere Iszi Lawrence (pictured)
Our regular stand-up comedy nights every second Friday of every second month are a huge hit – book early to be sure of getting in!
Mirth Control brings a hearty mix of award-winning and up-and-coming acts from the national circuit to perform in our intimate theatre.
Don’t miss the chance to try something completely different – and laugh yourself stupid, of course.
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Saturday, February 11th
The Acorn presents
* Frankland & Sons *
TICKETS: Adults £8. Concessions £6
From Cornish Riviera Box Office CLICK HERE or tel 01726 879500
and from Mounts Bay Music, Causewayhead, Penzance.
Performance 8pm. Bar from 7pm.
A new show created by three generations of the same family about parents, children and falling in love.
When Tom Frankland’s aunt died in 2006, he and his father inherited several suitcases containing letters written by his grandparents across 25 years. They reveal the astonishing life and love of a couple living through two world wars and a recession.
Created and performed by double Fringe First award winner Tom Frankland and his dad, John Frankland, and directed by Fringe First award winner, Jamie Wood, ‘Frankland & Sons’ maps a true story of fathers and sons onto the events of the last 100 years.
Drawing on Tom and John’s Pythonesque sense of humour, the show is playful, moving and surprising; a tale of love won, love lost, and wholly inappropriate girlfriends.
“A brave and surprising rollercoaster at each turn” (Audience member, BAC)
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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 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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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!
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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 ARE STILL 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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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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