Birmingham’s World Unlimited come towards the end of their 20th year celebrations with another slew of Britain’s finest new and established talent.  This last week of November sees the following acts play around Birmingham and the West Midlands.

24^th November Lou Rhodes + support John Smith : Glee Club 7.30pm

With Beloved One, she took a step back from the electronic intricacies of Lamb and embraced a folk music aesthetic that provided an intimate, unvarnished forum for her voice. It was an album she desperately needed to make, and in the summer of 2006, it was nominated for the UK’s prestigious Mercury Music Prize. Her story continues to unfold on the appropriately titled Bloom, an album that illuminates her creative growth and further examines the fine line between darkness and wonder…..  “John Smith continually swoons audiences with his own strain of nu-folk. It is only a matter of time before he is enormous.” - NME

26^th November Music Room with

The Misers, A Boy Named Crow, Deborah Hodgson: Hare & Hounds 7.30pm £3 on door

Another great Music Room session, The Misers consist of singer/songwriter Neil Ivison and Hammond/Rhodes player Adam Barry. The duo will be performing songs taken from their debut album, Amplified Life Stories. They specialise in the truth. Songs about friends, drinking, brushes with the law, love, broken relationships, fights, jobs. Real songs about rural life and country people played in a simple, stripped down direct and honest way.

A Boy Named Crow are a lyrical indie folk act from Birmingham with a penchant for melody, madness, blag poetry, cello, piano, fine artwork, loops…. a bit of love, life and loss. With influences as diverse as Bob Dylan, Haruki Murakami, Francis Bacon, T.S Eliot, Sibelius, Mercury Rev and Birmingham.

Deborah Hodgson has an emotive voice with a strong emphasis on melody. Her song writing cleaves to the honest confessional values of Laurel Canyon spiced with a little of the mystic energy of the Wales of her birth. As a vocalist there are few styles of music that she cannot bring under the spell of her unique, emotive voice

29^th November

Thea Gilmore + support Rod Clement: Glee Club 7.30pm

A special night of seasonal songs and surprises. And no turkeys. Thea Gilmore presents her very own take on winter and Christmas in a special acoustic evening. Internationally acclaimed, hailed as a favourite by artistes including Bruce Springsteen and Martha Wainwright, and described by the Independent as “the best wordsmith of her generation” Thea Gilmore is back in town with a festive show that bears her own highly individual stamp.

30^th November Chris Difford: Kitchen Garden Café: 7.30pm

First of two intimate nights with Chris at Kitchen Garden Cafe, a venue Chris raved about on Jonathon Ross’s show after his last sold out appearence here. On his own he’s never bored …… The double Ivor Novello Award winning Chris Difford takes to the road again for a unique evening, and a new landmark in his solo career - a one man show. Chris will be performing new versions of solo favorites such as Cowboys Are My Weakness and Lamas Fayre, plus a host of songs from his critically acclaimed album “The Last Temptation of Chris” including Fat As A Fiddle, Battersea Boys and On My Own I’m Never Bored - and of course some new takes on some rare Squeeze classics

Also coming in

December

1st Chris Difford: Kitchen Garden Café: 7.30pm

2^nd Catherine Feeny + support Chris Pureka : Hare & Hounds : 7.30pm

7^th The Unthanks + support Jonny Kearney and Lucy Farrell: Wulfrun Hall 7pm

9^th Seth Lakeman, Wulfrun Hall Doors 7pm

11^th Banco De Gaia + support Dr Trippy + DJ Sam Redmore : Hare & Hounds 8.30pm

13^th Phantom Limb + supports BigBang & Emily Breeze: The Yardbird 7.30pm

And coming in January - Holly Williams

and in February - Francis Dunnery

Venue details

Hare & Hounds, 106 High Street, Kings Heath Birmingham B14 7JZ.
0121 444 2081 Tickets from http://www.wegottickets.com http://www.seetickets.com & at Polar Bear, York Road, Kings Heath 0121 441 5202 & Swordfish (City Centre)

Wulfrun Hall, North Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1RQ Box Office 0870 320 7000 http://www.wolvescivic.co.uk

Glee Club, Hurst Street, Birmingham B5 4td ……. 0871 472 0400. http://www.glee.co.uk/

Kitchen Garden Café, 17 York Road, Kings Heath, Birmingham B14 7SA 0121  443 4725 Tickets from venue or http://www.wegottickets.com http://www.seetickets.com

The Yardbird, Paradise Place, Birmingham,  B3 3HJ

(0121) 212 2524 Tickets from http://www.wegottickets.com http://www.seetickets.com

For World Unlimited or Graham Radley: -

http://www.facebook.com/graham.radley

http://www.worldunlimited.freeuk.com

http://www.myspace.com/worldunlimited

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Nov 23 2009