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Upcoming Event: A Bawdy Evening of Swilling Songs and Shanties

Thursday 19th November, 8pm - Thursday 19th November, 11pm

Blue Cat Cafe, Heaton Moor, Stockport

Guilt-Free-Entertainment presents A Bawdy Evening of Swilling Songs and Shanties with Black Jack Barnet (Support Dan Melrose). In aid of Macmillan Cancer Support. So donate generously else ye be sleepin’ with the fishes!!

Black Jack Barnet (www.myspace.com/blackjackbarnet)

Poet-singer and storytelling songwriter BLACK JACK BARNET performs self-penned witty-ditty’s, naughty nursery rhymes, torrid tales, tongue-twisters and verses of vice and villainy sung to a suitcase stompin’, tambourine tappin’, banjo pluckin’, uke strummin’ soundtrack. Bringing to life a cartoon world of prostitutes, pirates, perverts, strippers, witches, and various other comical unsavoury characters, Black Jack Barnet casts his whimsical eye upon society and makes light of its many ills. Black Jack Barnet’s unique performances are uplifting, laugh out loud, sing-a-long’s for grown up boys and girls of all ages to enjoy.

Dan Melrose (www.myspace.com/danmelrose)

Dan Melrose is a musician based in Manchester. He writes, records and performs original material that, if it had to be pigeonholed, would be called Furniture Steele.

“Blending the romance of folk music with the grim realities of the blues… create(s) a sound that balances the traditional with modern life.”

– Chris Long, BBC Great Unheard.

When performing and recording, Dan has a wealth of peers with whom to play. The core of his band consists of double bass, cello and violin, who come along and perform at the larger gigs. The full band gigs have previously gone under the band name “The Green Tree Riot,” AKA, “The Urban Folk Collective,” though more recently, the decision was made to axe the name and continue to perform billed as a solo artist, despite the larger line-up being the same and consisting of some of the original material:

“Well as it’s Sunday, I was under the illusion I was writing about a chilled out folk band. With the use of acoustic guitars, harmonica, double bass, fiddle and washboard I expected a sombre relaxing piece of music. What The Green Tree Riot delivered was a gutsy, raw and powerful mixture of Irish influenced blues. Singer Dan Melrose’s voice is razor sharp and he sings with a twinge of Americana in there too. On track Blood And Rust Blues, the song begins as if two cowboys are taking 5 paces ready to draw their pistols in a shootout. When Melrose hits the first roar, it’s their signal to shoot their barrels clean.”

- Ross @ http://unearthedtreasures.blogspot.com

“Something magical could come of this.”

- Chris Long, BBC Great Unheard.