Robin Gillan’s music recalls the timeless old field recordings of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s and early, commercial country recordings from the 1920s. Described as a polymath musician, he delivers songs with power and sensitivity. Equally adept at five-string banjo, fiddle, harmonica, guitar and melodeon, he draws upon the music of the British Isles and the USA, and his playing has rawness, balanced by technical ability, producing an archaic sound rarely achieved in the 21st century.
The club meets on Mondays from 8pm to 10.45pm, upstairs at the Alpaca, 84-86 Essex Road, N1 8LU, between Pickering Street and Popham Street (www.thealpaca.co.uk). The pub is about a 10-minute walk from the Angel tube and a shorter walk from Essex Road railway station; several buses go up and down that road to and from the Angel. As before, no tickets are needed for any of the nights listed here: people just pay on the door – in cash only (though we can still take cheques from those who still use those). Comments are closed.
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