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Thursday 1st June 2023

Hyde Park Book Club

7:30pm

£10

14+

Line Up Subject To Change

This is a 14+ event

Super Friendz

tinyumbrellas

Fern Veh

Nadia Kadek

Gigs

Leeds

Hyde Park Book Club

“A Poetic Masterpiece” - Afropunk

Joshua Idehen is a British-born Nigerian based in Sweden. A spoken word artist and musician, he has contributed poems to Mercury-nominated albums ‘Channel The Spirits’ by The Comet Is Coming, ‘Your Queen Is A Reptile’ and the Mobo winning "Black Is The Future", both by Sons of Kemet. More recently, he formed Calabashed with Alabaster DePlume, a spiritual jazz crew who were recently named a 2021 one-to-watch by NME, and worked with LA electronic maestro Daedelus on the critically acclaimed mini LP, "Holy Water Over Sons". In 2023, he continues his journey as a solo musical artist, releasing the mixtape “Learn To Swim” produced by Ludvig Parment (Saturday, Monday).

“Idehen’s words are always worth leaning in for” - Q Magazine

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Joshua Idehen

Lois at Hyde Park Book Club.

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Lois

The Way You Are

Hot piece of ass (and acclaimed stand-up) Jack Barry rises from the ashes of the pandemic to heal your soul like a hearty dose of medicinal magic mushrooms. Cry from laughing, laugh from crying, forget that we’re dying

As seen as himself (sort-of) in Mae Martin’s Feel Good, alongside appearances on The Stand Up Sketch Show, Starstruck, The Russell Howard Hour, and Sorry I Didn’t Know.

Tour Support for James Acaster, Joe Lycett, Mae Martin.

"The Finest of British Comedy" ★★★★★ Ed Fest Mag

★★★★ Metro

★★★★ Three Weeks

★★★★ Sunday Times

★★★★ List

This is an 18+ event

Berk's Nest

Jack Barry: Don't Happy Be Worry

Jack Barry

comedy

Comedy

Six months into the pandemic, three-fourths of art-rock four-piece Mamalarky plunged into a new experiment: they moved in together. Guitarist-vocalist Livvy Bennett and keyboardist Michael Hunter drove across the country, decamping from Los Angeles to bassist Noor Khan’s hometown, Atlanta. In September 2020, the trio rented a giant old house with vaulted ceilings, a tire swing, and a bare-bones little studio room. There, the band made its largely home-recorded sophomore full-length, Pocket Fantasy, due September 30 via Fire Talk.

When they needed breaks, the group would take walks to a nearby creek, surrounded by tall trees and a cacophony of birds. On a particularly sublime day of swimming, Bennett and Khan soaked in the sun, watched the light refract the water, and time stood still—a blissed-out moment captured in the purejoy of “Mythical Bonds,” an ode to friendship told through playful grooves and zigzag riffs. “I really needed to write something to accurately show Noor how much her friendship means to me, and our journey as musicians and friends,” Bennett reflects.

Pocket Fantasy is an instant-classic sunny-day record, imaginative and introspective, an enveloping listen of skyhigh hooks and keyboards that soar with joyful abandon. Its twelve  kaleidoscopic tracks shapeshift aesthetically and thematically, through ideas about death and impermanence; love and gratitude; nature and technology; humor and hope.

This is a 14+ event (under 16s must be accompanied by an adult).

FORM Presents

Mamalarky

Meadow

Mamalarky - Hero

Oscar Lang 

A Song About Me

Oscar Lang

Don’t ya know it’s hard to be a god. No reason to sugar coat it, what you’re getting is peak Whitney K, poetry in motion and masterful writing where words, harmony, arrangements all dance in the same direction, flowing through songs about change and memory. A voice as an instrument.

Whitney K is the wandering stalwart Konner Whitney, a Whitehorse Yukon resident who has spent time in Vancouver, Montreal, Burnaby and Los Angeles. We met the character in 2016 through his intoxicating 4-track recorded manifesto ‘Goodnight’, a head on collision into 24 hours of illusioned romance and modern day escapism.

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Whitney K



All ages (U18’s accompanied by an adult 18+)

2nd Grade

The Bevis Frond (guitarist and songwriter extraordinaire Nick Saloman) have ultimately become the UK’s leading underground psychedelic rock band. Their music is an iconoclastic collision of distinctly British psychedelia, space-rock, grunge, slow-burning soulful laments, even grizzled folk and more than occasional moments of sublime pop genius.

Live, the line-up today includes: Paul Simmons (guitar), Adrian Shaw (bass, vocals), Dave Pearce (drums) and Nick Saloman (vocals, guitar and sitar).

This is an 14+ event (under 18's to be accompanied by an adult).

The Bevis Frond

Flying High

The Bevis Frond - Reanimation

Ellie Dixon

An Evening With Honeyblood

You're Standing on My Neck

Honeyblood

Like a lucid Shane MacGowan fronting a frazzled house band, YOWL are a South London based 5 piece of menacing-indie storytellers, swinging from intense proto-punk to swooning balladry. The band have been supported by DIY, NME, Radio 1, 6Music, Apple Music’s Beats 1, CLASH and more as well as playing festivals and showcases across Europe including Pitchfork Avant-Garde, Amsterdam’s London Calling and All Points East.

“all brutal detail and faultless frustration” DIY

“a never-ending thrill” NME

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Yowl

Saturday Drag

EDBL @ Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds

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edbl

EDBL

Every element of Egyptian Blue’s angular and uncompromising sound brings with it an urgency that is both rare and vital. Their duo of critically acclaimed EP’s to date, both released via Yala! Records, have made the Brighton-based band a compelling proposition. Between their jolting, groove-orientated post-punk attack and their polemic lyrical approach, the quartet made moves in all of the right places. The tracks ‘Collateral’ and ‘Nylon Wire’ were playlisted at 6 Music, while further support came from Jack Saunders, Steve Lamacq, Huw Stephens, John Kennedy and artistic peers including Joe Talbot (IDLES) and Yannis Philippakis (Foals).

Lifelong friends Andy Buss and Leith Ambrose formed the band in their hometown of Colchester with bassist Luke Phelps. Initially practicing above a jewellery shop, they were the epitome of a band reacting to the mundanity of their surroundings. Early jams often devolved into marathon sessions of fourteen hours or more, made all the more chaotic by the amount of whisky they’d share as well as the growing attention of the local police.

Relocating to Brighton, a turning point came at a King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard gig. Seeing a band that well-drilled made them rethink the work ethic that their own project required. The addition of drummer Isaac Ide early in 2019 completed the jigsaw, offering a more intense direction for the band, together with a fresh rush of creativity.

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Egyptian Blue

Nylon Wire

Juliette Pearl Davis and Joachim Polack aren’t just musical collaborators – they’re also life partners. As Pearl & the Oysters, they make songs that speak to eclectic tastes in music and pop culture; as Juju and Jojo, they’re kindred spirits. What began as a high-school friendship in Paris blossomed into a creative and personal relationship that has spanned decades and continents.

In another life, Juliette and Joachim made pop music in Paris but when the opportunity arose, the pair skipped town for the U.S. After four years immersed in the open-minded DIY scene of Gainesville, Florida, Pearl & The Oysters headed to Los Angeles, where they connected with local artists and finished up Coast 2 Coast.

Coast 2 Coast draws on this experience for its colorful cocktail of sounds: the swamps of Florida and sandy L.A. beaches under a mirrorball sun; a radio picking up a faraway broadcast before tuning into an oldies pop station; crashing waves that melt into the sound of Juliette’s white noise machine.

Guests on the album include Lætitia Sadier (Stereolab), Riley Geare (Unknown Mortal Orchestra), Alan Palomo (Neon Indian), Dent May, and Alex Brettin (Mild High Club). Coast 2 Coast documents Juliette and Joachim’s move across the U.S. and the unfamiliar feeling of being settled, having found a “sense of ‘home’ in one another.”

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