The Grey Lady Music Lounge, Sunday 4th November 2012

Quentin Holway, otherwise known as Alfie Noakes for reasons no-one can recall, is a local type who writes songs and then plays them to people.

He was in the Moonshot Blues Band, later called the Moonshots, who did quite a lot of stuff a while back, playing all over the UK and Europe to great acclaim. They stopped and Quentin went solo, playing all over the UK and Europe to great acclaim. He also formed the band Sevenscore, playing all his own songs, and recorded the album Safe and Dry, which has become something of a rarity due to there never being that many copies of it in the first place.

There is talk of a new album, due for release about four years ago, and maybe a T-shirt. His influences include Christopher Hitchens, Neil Sedaka and roast chicken, in that order. If you rolled John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Thom Yorke and Nick Drake into one, you'd end up with a very peculiar looking person.

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Castor Fiber combines the talents of Chris Sergeant and Guy Osborn.  With divers influences ranging from Jeff Buckley to Miles Davis to Debussy they jump recklessly between mellow acousti-jazz-folk and heavy acousti-blues-rock and every acousti-thing in between. The idea was to combine a vehicle for Guy's songs with an opportunity for the pair to musically stretch out a bit.  They are currently looking for a percussionist with a view to doing some recording and just generally getting serious about it. I mean, definitely in the next few weeks, months. By summer for certain.  Watch this space.

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Code: Marla is a musical project based completely around a love of sound. Led by CJ Thorpe (Bass, Beats, Synths + Production) and featuring new vocalist Millie Davis, Code: Marla combine elements of live electronic music and organic bass tones with complex textures and harmonies. Influenced by a mixture of ambient trip-hop and dubstep, Code: Marla fuse elements of genres to create a dark, hypnotising atmosphere. Signed to online record label Bitnormal Records, and with a new EP (Press X To Jason) now available, Code: Marla are setting out to shake the foundations of every venue they play.

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One time solo singer/songwriter Charlie Rivers has witnessed a truly organic growth in his music which has slowly but surely taken on a full band sound, spurred on by Steve McCormack (guitar), Steve Bassett (bass) and Ash Rushman (drums). In the space of only 16 months, The Charlie Rivers Band has morphed from the 'hear-a-pin-drop' sounds of one man and his guitar, to an uncompromising full band musical experience. 2009 saw the guys play at the "Busking Cancer" launch event alongside "Madness," and attained duo slots at Hyde Park and Wireless festival. Last year the band launched their much anticipated debut album 'Tender Chaos,' playing a host of sell out shows both in the UK and abroad including a storming headline set at the the Local & Live Music festival. Their single "Crazy" received a great deal of local radio play and recent support sets have included Newton Faulkner, Matt Berry and Toploader. The band are currently working on their follow up album, having previewed some of their new material throughout the course of 2011, set for a release in early 2012.

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