Music @ The Hen - January 2024
Purple Hen Music in January
2024 - it's on again
The first three Fridays in January
Friday 5th January - 6pm start - free entry
Simon Curphy
An Island elder, Simon has been writing and performing solo and in bands forever. He is a classic. For this gig he will be giving us solo acoustic Simon.
Ben Woods
In 2022 Woods released his expansive sophomore LP, Dispeller, through Melted Ice Cream (NZ), Shrimper Records (USA), and Meritorio Records (EU).
Dispeller was recorded throughout a year in Woods’ hometown, Lyttelton, with Ben Edwards (Aldous Harding, Marlon Williams, Julia Jacklin) at the helm of the mixing console and co-producing. Utterings, footsteps, and the rattles of the room linger beneath the album’s dense instrumentation, alluding to the familiar space the songs were captured in. Here, Woods’ songs breathe and flourish into their own worlds. “I found my voice in trying to make atonality croon,” he says. “With Dispeller it was less about harmony — the blend was capturing the songs very honestly in the room, and still making each of them to transport you somewhere different.” The record boasted a diverse cast of Antipodean talent with features from Marlon Williams, Womb, Alastair Galbraith, and Lucy Hunter of Opposite Sex.
The record was widely acclaimed, and saw Woods premiering a short accompanying film with New York magazine The Fader, a feature with Rolling Stone, and a nomination for best alternative album in the AMA’s. The Quietus described Dispeller as “a weirdly accessible, creaky-yet-meticulous marvel that just might remind you of why you loved indie rock in the first place”.
Friday 12th January - 6pm start - free entry
Gary Marr
An Island stalwart, Gary will be doing this one solo.
The Drop Kicks
A young trio from in and around the Island - high energy and a mix of originals and covers
Friday 19th January - 6pm start - ticketed $10
Sand Brothers
Sand Brothers were formed in 2020 by Greg Walker (Machine Translations) and Rick Sands (The Night Party) along with Pete Cook (Yamamoto), Din Roberts (Kutcha Edwards Band) and Glen Scarlett (Oak). The band has spent two years writing and recording a load of original songs for their debut album ‘Too Much Sky’ which was released in 2023.
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