Like Dylan on amphetamines’ The Financial Times ★★★★ 

‘Haunting tunes and striking lyrics…yearningly pretty and bitter sweet’ The Independent ★★★★★

‘Joni Mitchell with a little rap-like percussiveness thrown in, Gillespie is an original. The Guardian ★★★★

‘Beat poet adventurer strays beyond the boundaries of singer-songwriter’ MOJO ★★★★ 

‘Just beautiful’ Robert Wyatt 

‘Her songs are beautiful, poetic artefacts’ Sunday Times ★★★★ 

In the last 12 years Anglo-American singer songwriter Sarah Gillespie has released 4 critically acclaimed albums, 3 EP’s + a collection of poetry.

Frequently compared by the press to fellow Minnesotan Bob Dylan, she’s toured extensively, headlining leading venues + festivals in Europe and the USA including headline shows at London’s Ronnie Scott’s, the Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room + shows in Sicily, Seattle, NYC, Spain + Germany. She’s twice played live on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’ + was interviewed by Andrew Marr on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Start the Week’ on the role of politics in song. (She has a master’s degree in politics + philosophy).

Tonight, Gillespie will be performing a set with her dynamite band who are internationally renowned jazz musicians – Tom Cawley, James Maddren, Chris Montague and Conor Chaplin.

They will be debuting songs  from Gillespie’s soon to be released album Half Cut” recorded in Berlin’s legendary Hansa studio. The music is a mix of wonky narrative folk, Americana + jazz punctuated by Gillespie’s trademark poetic lyricism.

Details

• Saturday 18 November 2023 | 7:30pm
• Duration: 2 x 45min sets (20 minute interval)
• Tickets:
  • General Admission | £15
  • Concessions | £13

Her witty, free-flowing originals on Wishbones have a beat poet’s eye for observation’ JAZZWISE ★★★★
Like Dylan on amphetamines’ The Financial Times ★★★★
‘Haunting tunes and striking lyrics…yearningly pretty and bitter sweet’ The Independent ★★★★★
‘Joni Mitchell with a little rap-like percussiveness thrown in, Gillespie is an original. The Guardian ★★★★
‘Beat poet adventurer strays beyond the boundaries of singer-songwriter’ MOJO ★★★★
‘Just beautiful’ Robert Wyatt
‘Her songs are beautiful, poetic artefacts’ Sunday Times ★★★★