Brixton Hill Studios Christmas Carol Concert w/ Spratleys Japs

The annual Christmas Carol Concert brought to you by South London's premier creative music hub, Brixton Hill Studios. This year is a very, VERY special gig as it features a special headliner.

SPRATLEY'S JAPS
As part of their Wonderful WInter Wonderland tour this enegmatic side project of Cardiac's Tim Smith have demmed the stage of our Christmas Carol Concert worthy.

A rare chance to catch this awesome band featuring original lead vocalist Joanne Spratley and a line up made up of loved ones close to both Tim & Jo. A tribute this ain't, a loving recreatiion, a second wave driven with love and devotion - hooray!

The Japs (as the Kids call them) willplay selections from the wonderful Pony record and the Hazel E.P. along with one or two special "treats".

http://cardiacs.com

STEPHEN EVENS
Stephen EvEns (aka Stephen Gilchrist) has mis-spent the good years gifted him by touring the world and elsewhere as an auxiliary cog in the machinery of major “indie-stardom”. A sideman. A player, if you will. A sticks-man, a foil perhaps but never a “session musician.”

No such thing. Look it up.

Lucky enough to have stood for some years behind the likes of **Graham Coxon**, **The Damned,** **Charlotte Hatherley** and, for one brief week, **Cardiacs**, he has decided to shun the tourbus life and take a walk through his own songbook for a change.

Putting down the drums sticks and arming himself with a battered guitar and a casiotone he decided to channel all his bitterness & resentment into songs rather than bottling it up. Breeding some kind of abnormal growth or canker. An album that took far too long to surface has now been coaxed out by the sympathetic ears of **Onomatopoeia Records**.

The result is the album **Bonjour Poulet**. A 43 minute song book that mixes the spirit of **Yo La Tengo **and **Ivor Cutler** with broken friendships and human error. The songs are beautiful and the words are horrible. I don't know why you don't think that's a good thing.

https://www.facebook.com/stephenevensmusic
https://stephenevens.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/stephenevens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8DhiJjnkng

BLACK MIDI
Purveyors of the darkest dreamscapes.

https://soundcloud.com/blackmidimess
https://www.facebook.com/blackmidi/

THE DISPLAY TEAM
The Display Team, statistically speaking, should not exist. In the minds of the majority of the general public, they effectively don’t. But to a very niche group of an elite section of three people, they not only exist but are the best band in the world, and it is for that devoted coterie that they play and obstinately refuse to go away. Combining the frantic, unpredictable energy of Cardiacs, the belligerent wit of NoMeansNo and the pop smarts of They Might Be Giants, it is no surprise that they remain a minority concern.
https://thedisplayteam.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/pg/TheDisplayTeam