The Night We Kept For Seething Wells
This event on 4th December 2009 at 20:00 has past.
Contact: 020 8692 4446/ www.thealbany.org.uk
Steven ‘Swells’ Wells, who died of cancer on 24 June this year, was a roaring, radical, iconoclastic motormouth, a verbal timebomb permanently primed and aching to explode. As a journalist for the likes of the NME and, after his move to the States, The Philadelphia Weekly, he systematically demolished everything Middle England held dear and then dynamited the rubble, while simultaneously immolating whiny indie bands, pompous rock stars and Morrissey. Before that, in the early to mid ‘80s, as the ranting poet Seething Wells, he did the same thing, only even louder because he was on stage – headlining one of the earliest Apples & Snakes gigs in November 1982. Tonight, some old mates and collaborators celebrate his loud, defiant, wonderful life. Book early!
Featuring
Melodic punk trailblazers The Newtown Neurotics
Innovative journo/broadcaster David Quantick
Gothic poetry-pioneer Joolz Denby
New Model Army frontman Justin Sullivan
Speccy troubadour John Hegley
Livewire anarcho-poet Nick Toczek
Nightingales singer Robert Lloyd
Southern Death Cult/Fun-Da-Mental’s Aki Nawaz
Vintage Bradford ranter Little Brother
Music-video innovator Nick Small
With compere Attila the Stockbroker (who shared an EP, a book and countless memorable gigs with Swells)
There will be a collection for Cancer Research after the show
Price: £8.00 / £5.00
Time: 8:00pm
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