Saturday 21st June 12:15 PM
12.15 Fine Crystal
http://www.myspace.com/finecrystal
Fine Crystal is, essentially, just a solo project. In future it may become
something different. Rowan Coupland records songs he writes with guitar, accordion, clarinet, violin, harp, keyboards, glockenspiel, small percussion and home made drumkits (from biscuit tins and desklamps). When he performs live, he tries to do everything at once, so instruments which lend themselves to being played one handed will be done so. Mostly this translates to arrangements of songs involving accordion, glockenspiel and drum, played more or less simultaneously. Other songs require switchovers between harp and guitar, but a deftness is often lacking relative to the stability of the harp when put down in a hurry, so from now on care will be taken.
Rowan can also be found hitting a drum and singing, and playing clarinet, for Brighton's Sons of Noel and Adrian, and doing assorted bits and pieces for the Mary Hampton band. He has played at End of the road festival 2007, Cecil Sharp House's 75th anniversary show, and supported Diane Cluck.
1pm Sons of Noel and Adrian
http://www.myspace.com/sonsofnoelandadrian
Closely resembling a giant centipede in motion Sons of Noel and Adrian grew up in the midlands with many like-minded musical folk. A couple of years ago they moved to Brighton to gather more legs and are now a fully formed outfit with sometimes as many as ten members or as few as five.
The music is acoustic and falls loosely into the progressive folk niche. At the core are Jacob and Toms tumbling guitars, joined by a colourful host of other instruments to create music that ranges from Shanty to Schoenburg, from deep underground to just above the surface and muses on whether excess can make you a better person and what's to do when your credit's all used up and there's nowhere to go.