DADADA returns with beloved Oxford indie-pop pioneers Amelia Fletcher and Rob Pursey of legendary pop band Heavenly. They will perform songs from their duo project The Catenary Wires at our bookshop for a rare and intimate Sunday morning performance. Amelia and Rob have been influential figures in the indie-pop scene from their debut band Talulah Gosh, they went on to form Heavenly who have crafted some of the most perfectly formed guitar pop of the past three decades led by Amelia’s distinctive vocals. Amelia and Rob went on to take part in many other musical projects including Tender Trap and, most recently Swansea Sound. Get ready for a magical collision of jangle and genius under the bookshop lights.
This will be an incredibly intimate, acoustic all-ages gig.
Appropriately, coffee and bakery treats from Meersbrook’s finest bakery I Said Bread will be available to perk you up!
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We’re incredibly excited to be hosting DADADA Zine, which will present a pre-matinee solo performance by Pete Dale, of Milky Wimpshake and Knitting Circle fame, fresh from playing Hallamshire House the night before.
This will be an incredibly intimate, acoustic all-ages gig.
Appropriately, coffee and bakery treats from Meersbrook’s finest bakery I Said Bread will be available to perk you up!
About the performer/author:
Pete Dale studied at Sunderland Polytechnic 1989-92. On graduating, he played in several indie/punk underground bands (Pussycat Trash, Red Monkey, Milky Wimpshake) and set up the cult DIY label/distributor Slampt which ran very successfully between 1992 and 2000. Taking up school teaching in 2001, Pete completed an MA in Music (2005) and then a PhD at Newcastle (2010) whilst simultaneously working as a teacher. He took an early career fellowship at Oxford Brookes in 2012, subsequently becoming Senior Lecturer in Music at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2013 (2013-21). He is currently Lecturer in Music Education at University of York. His monographs include Anyone Can Do It: Tradition, Empowerment and the Punk Underground (Ashgate, 2012), Popular Music and the Politics of Novelty (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Engaging Students with Music Education: DJ Decks, Urban Music and Child-centred Learning (2017). A forthcoming monograph on the evolution of indie as a genre across the 1980s is currently near completion. Pete is associate editor of the Punk & Post–Punk journal and a founding member of the Punk Scholars Network.
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