16 May @ 93 Feet East

Kartel presents it's monthly live music showcase at 93 Feet East
Entrance is FREE. Venue address: 93 Feet East, 150 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL

Moon Music Orchestra - http://www.myspace.com/theholymoonmusicorchestra
A couple of rooms above a little pub in Borough are the MMO HQ. Something of an East End Big Pink, the Gladstone is where the Moon Music Orchestra has gone from loose knit collective to folk-rock force. Feet firmly on the ground the band run the pub and practice above it. The walls upstairs are lined with banjos, guitars, and mandolins, while a well-worn tape recorder resides on the coffee table, ready to roll. Strictly operating as a six or seven piece, the extended Moon Music family is many and varied- including some time collaborators Findlay Brown and Simon Lord (Simian, Black Ghosts) alongside a gaggle of non-musical creatives. Always inclusive, the resounding Moon Music attitude resides somewhere between the summer of love and a good old-fashioned knees-up...

Moon Music Orchestra at Moseley Folk Festival


Tom Mansi & the Icebreakers (album launch) - http://www.tommansi.com
Centre their unique take on rock n’ roll, country and blues around the steadfast double-bass and, in the words of Time Out recently, “put on quite a show” to boot. Q magazine describes their debut album, Love On The Rails, as a mix of “twisted smoky nightclub balladry and dark funky rockabilly... ideally suited to a David Lynch movie”. Click HERE to buy the album.

Tom Mansi & the Icebreakers "Holly" video


Richard Walters
A name to watch, Richard’s dulcet tones regularly see him compared with vocal greats Thom Yorke and Damien Rice. Inspired by his home towns’, Oxford, burgeoning music scene his songs have been describe as; “simple and stunning” Nightshift magazine, the “most haunting balladry you’ll hear outside of Jeff Buckley or Anthony and the Johnsons” Roomthirteen. In the studio he has worked with Bernard Butler, Guy Sigsworth and David Kosten, most recently completing a single “Brittle Bones” with David Kosten, to be released on Kartel in August. He has supported Imogen Heap and the Dave Matthews band. As well as working on his debut album Richard is recording a side project with Noel Hogan (The Cranberries) called Arkitekt.

Jason McNiff - http://www.jasonmcniff.com
Recent review in Uncut describes Jason as follows; Polish-Irish Yorkshireman Jason McNiff was bitten by wanderlust at an early age. Having busked his way round eastern europe and Egypt in his late teens, he wrote third LP Another Man (WONKY ATLAS) in Spain before landing a job as a Vatican tour guide in 2004. It's suitably weathered too. Hills Of Rome, In our Time and Pilgrims soundtrack his restless travelogue in the vein of a post nashville skyline Dylan. But there are warm echoes of Peter Bruntnell and Martin Stephenson in Mcniff's soft strumming, particularly on Berries.
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