Bernard Butler
+ Teenage Waitress

Bernard Butler has been noted as one of Britain's most original and influential musicians. In 1989 he formed Suede releasing the Mercury winning No.1 debut “Suede” and the era-defining “Dog Man Star”, a sprawling concept of rare ambition. His collaboration with David McAlmont on the anthemic ”Yes" provided an intriguing footprint across Britpop’s otherwise jingoist landscape culminating in 2 albums and a sell out at London's Roundhouse in 2015.

He released two solo albums on Creation, the acclaimed "People Move On" yielding the hit single "Stay", and "Friends and Lovers” and a Brit nomination before moving into a celebrated period as producer and songwriter including seminal releases by The Libertines, Tricky, Black Kids, Kate Nash, Nerina Pallot, Teleman, The Cribs, James Morrison, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Frankie & The Heartstrings, Texas, Mark Eitzel, Mull Historical Society, Sam Lee, Oscar Lang and Paloma Faith.

In 2005 he began a collaboration with Duffy spawning her five million-selling, Grammy and Brit Award winning debut Rockferry, whilst Butler won the Producer's Award at the 2009 BRIT Awards.

He has played guitar live or on records by Pet Shop Boys, Bryan Ferry, Roy Orbison, Bert Jansch, The Libertines, Neneh Cherry, Robert Plant and Ben Watt with whom he toured extensively. Butler's group Trans released a series of EPs featuring tracks grown out of improvisational recordings made at Butler's own Studio 355.

Butler acts as proud Patron to the Bert Jansch Foundation, hosts a radio show "BB & The King" on Boogaloo Radio, and is a Lecturer at BIMM London developing students through their BA in Songwriting. He composed the original score to BBC Horizons documentary "Back From The Dead" and collaborated in songwriting camps and sessions for Warner-Chappell Publishing. He conducts audience-led PreProduction events around the country for the Musicians Union and is a Patron of the Music Venue Trust.

He is currently working on a new collaboration alongside his first solo material in 20 years.

Teenage Waitress

In Ash's own words Teenage Waitress is "a collection of short stories set to what I hope are some instantly hummable tunes. Then once a song feels pretty enough, I'll drown it all out with fuzzy, obnoxious guitars and synths that sound a bit poorly. And as for the Waitress? Well, that's the eavesdropping listener!"

The creative guise of Jamie Irrepressible, Northern composer and singer-songwriter, will be embarking on a UK tour of beautiful churches and concert hall venues throughout October performing his acclaimed chamber-pop and indie orchestral songs and instrumentals in settings that match the ambience and acoustics of these pieces and which also happen to be some of the UK's most intimate and beautiful venues.

A 7 piece band of strings, percussion & folk musicians will surround Jamie’s emotionally intense & ‘sky scraping’ crooner counter-tenor voice for performances of a collection of new songs oriented around the piano as well as his compositions taken from The Irrepressibles previous albums including the now international hits ‘Two Men in Love’ & ‘In This Shirt’

The Irrepressibles is the creative guise of Yorkshire composer, singer & songwriter Jamie Irrepressible. He formed the band initially in London back in 2002. Over the past two decades he has earned international acclaim for his cathartic orchestral-pop compositions, collaborations with other artists, and sensory heightening live shows.

Currently based in Manchester Jamie is creating an EP of brand new material due for release ahead of the upcoming live dates this Autumn. Standby for further details on the release very soon.

“The magic of the sound is overwhelming” - The Guardian

Plus Nova Soon

Nova Soon is a space-folk artist from Worthing. The storytelling songs of Noah de Grunwald can be hilarious, heartbreaking, euphoric, or disturbing — often all at once — but are always somehow informed by humanity’s cosmic smallness. Musically, reverb-laced nylon fingerpicking meets jazz-blues eccentricity meets propulsive, poem-influenced vocal delivery: this is folk like no other, a hyper-modern version for the 21st Century music landscape

So an Afro-funk ensemble and a synth-pop band walk into a studio…

Ibibio Sound Machine and Hot Chip—fixtures of the London music scene, bound by a love for electronic dance music—recently recorded a new Ibibio Sound Machine single called “Electricity” at Hot Chip’s studio. The track debuted earlier today on Lauren Laverne's BBC 6Music show and comes alongside news of a run of UK shows in 2022, their first tour since 2019.

Watch & share the lyric video for “Electricity” by Ibibio Sound Machine now

Ibibio Sound Machine’s Eno Williams on “Electricity”:

Even in trying times, “without love, there’s no electricity.” This one started out as an idea to mix Afrobeat with Giorgio Moroder–style synth vibes. The end section with Alfred’s korego (Ghanaian 2-stringed folk guitar) solo was already there when we got into the studio, but then we added the big kick drum that happens underneath and Owen from Hot Chip’s crazy drum machine percussion at the end, which gave it a futuristic Afro feel when mixed with the more talking drum parts.

Ibibio Sound Machine was founded by Williams and Max Grunhard in 2013 with the idea of combining the unique sound of the Ibibio language that Eno spoke growing up in Nigeria with both traditional West African and more modern electronic musical elements. They linked up with Merge Records in 2017 for Uyai and returned with Doko Mien in 2019.

Tickets for Ibibio Sound Machine’s UK shows go on sale Friday at 10am GMT!

“a groove-driven melange of styles which also takes in gospel, funk, post- and electro-punk and contemporary R&B, alongside African polyrhythms, horns and guitar” —Guardian

“Led by singer Eno Williams, Uyai becomes a wildly diverse mix of global sounds whose focus this time has turned to themes of liberation, power, and beauty—specifically that of women.” —Pitchfork

Bernard Butler
+ Special Guests

VENUE UPGRADE DUE TO DEMAND | Please Note the show will now take place at The Venue (formerly St. Paul’s), 55b Chapel Rd, Worthing, BN11 1EE | 100 More Tickets On Sale Now

Bernard Butler has been noted as one of Britain's most original and influential musicians. In 1989 he formed Suede releasing the Mercury winning No.1 debut “Suede” and the era-defining “Dog Man Star”, a sprawling concept of rare ambition. His collaboration with David McAlmont on the anthemic ”Yes" provided an intriguing footprint across Britpop’s otherwise jingoist landscape culminating in 2 albums and a sell out at London's Roundhouse in 2015.

He released two solo albums on Creation, the acclaimed "People Move On" yielding the hit single "Stay", and "Friends and Lovers” and a Brit nomination before moving into a celebrated period as producer and songwriter including seminal releases by The Libertines, Tricky, Black Kids, Kate Nash, Nerina Pallot, Teleman, The Cribs, James Morrison, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Frankie & The Heartstrings, Texas, Mark Eitzel, Mull Historical Society, Sam Lee, Oscar Lang and Paloma Faith.

In 2005 he began a collaboration with Duffy spawning her five million-selling, Grammy and Brit Award winning debut Rockferry, whilst Butler won the Producer's Award at the 2009 BRIT Awards.

He has played guitar live or on records by Pet Shop Boys, Bryan Ferry, Roy Orbison, Bert Jansch, The Libertines, Neneh Cherry, Robert Plant and Ben Watt with whom he toured extensively. Butler's group Trans released a series of EPs featuring tracks grown out of improvisational recordings made at Butler's own Studio 355.

Butler acts as proud Patron to the Bert Jansch Foundation, hosts a radio show "BB & The King" on Boogaloo Radio, and is a Lecturer at BIMM London developing students through their BA in Songwriting. He composed the original score to BBC Horizons documentary "Back From The Dead" and collaborated in songwriting camps and sessions for Warner-Chappell Publishing. He conducts audience-led PreProduction events around the country for the Musicians Union and is a Patron of the Music Venue Trust.

He is currently working on a new collaboration alongside his first solo material in 20 years.