All programme times & details are subject to alteration.
To make a booking please call the Box Office on 01323 841414.
(between 10.00am and 3.00pm Monday to Friday)
| July |
| SATURDAY 11TH JULY 2009 - from 10am |
OPEN DAY
SPECIAL SCREENING OF ‘MONSTERS VS ALIENS’ (PG)AT 2.15PM — ALL SEATS £1.00All Monies Raised For The Benefit |
| August |
| Monday 24th August - Doors open 7pm Show starts 7.30pm |
LIVE CLAIRVOYANCE EVENTAn evening of clairvoyance with Stephen Holbrook, one of of Britain's most accurate clairvoyant mediums. Tickets only available directly from the Eastbourne Herald on 01323 416004 (9am – 5pm Mon – Fri). £15 pre-booked tickets £16 on the door |
| September |
Sunday 27 September 2009 - 7.30pm
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John Tams & Barry CoopeIt is difficult to pigeon-hole John Tams ....singer, songwriter, actor, musician, recording artist, music producer and he leads the way in creating new music that grows out of traditional roots. He’s been music director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, but is perhaps best known for his work at the National Theatre (from Lark Rise and The Mysteries through to the current run away success, War Horse) He’s a former member of the Albion Band, contributed to, or produced around 50 albums, and was musical director of the acclaimed 2006 Radio Ballads. Barry Coope, who is also part of the acapella trio Coope, Boyes & Simpson and the Waterson Carthy band Blue Murder, has worked on many projects with John over the years and his engaging vocal and keyboard skills make him a perfect partner for Tams....take a listen. They were suitably rewarded when they were voted Best Duo at last years BBC Folk Awards. Seats: £17.50 |
| October |
| Sunday 11 October 2009 - 7.30pm
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Dr FeelgoodFormed on Canvey Island, Essex almost forty years ago Dr Feelgood has become one of the most popular rhythm and blues bands of all time. Their raw and uncompromising style helped to generate this popularity and to achieve a nunber one chart position with the album "Stupidity" There was a string of hit singles, and in many countries, including "Down at the Doctors" (features the line above), "Milk & Alcohol", "Roxette" and the Dave Edmunds produced "See you later Alligator" These days there are no original members in the line-up, but the nucleus of the current band (drummer Kevin Morris and bassist Phil Mitchell) have been there since the early eighties and spent many years alongside founder member Lee Brilleaux, who so tragically died fifteen years ago. Guitarist Steve Walwyn joined them in the late eighties and the "new boy" is vocalist Robert Kane, who came from the reformed Animals band in 1999 and has now done over 1000 shows with Dr Feelgood, who are still regarded as one of the most exciting and dynamic live acts in the world Seats: £18.50 |
| Sunday 25 October 2009 - 7.30pm
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Oysterband, The Oxford Girl and Other Stories TourThe once bad boys of folk and rock, Oysterband (specially chosen to celebrate our Ninth Birthday at the Pavilion) have grown into the role of musical custodians and godfathers of folk. With deep roots in the English folk scene, they are one of the few groups that combine the political and lyrical fire of punk with the melody of traditional music. Recent concerts have given us some of their best-ever vocal work....and unexpected instrumentation, with guitars, accordion, harmonica, violins and cello matched with anything from African mbira to pedal-steel guitar and marching band percussion. The songs are mostly rousing, mostly acoustic, but slicker than ever.....take a listen! Seats: £19.50 |
| November |
| Saturday 07 November 2009 - 8.00pm
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Ralph McTellMention Ralph McTell and undoubtedly "Streets of London" will come into conversation... It is one of the all-time great songs that has stood the test of time, by being recorded by over 200 artistes in three or more decades...... and written in Paris!!!! But if you only know Ralph for Streets of London, you've missed out, for he is arguably our finest songwriter and storyteller, and has an extensive back catalogue of poignant and beautifully crafted songs. He is equally at home playing roots, rock and ragtime and is in his element playing the blues music that inspired him as a young man.... and thankfully he remembers his heroes with songs of Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie featuring prominently in his unforgettable and uninterrupted two hour show Seats: £19.50 |
| Saturday 14 November 2009 - 7.30pm
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Folk Family Giants, Peggy Seeger with Norma Waterson, Martin Carthy and Mike WatersonFolk Family Giants, from both sides of the Atlantic.... Peggy Seeger with Norma Waterson, Martin Carthy and Mike Waterson Peggy Seeger ranks as one of the most important people to grace and shape the folk scene, and her brother Pete Seeger, who has just celebrated his 90th birthday, is seen as the father of the American folk revival. Peggy first came to the UK in 1955 and a year later married Ewan MacColl, who as a token of his love for her wrote the celebrated "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", she sings the song here They were to spend the next three decades writing, recording and performing all over the world, filling such venues as New York’s Carnegie Hall, Milan’s Opera House and the Bolshoi Ballet Stage in Moscow. Ewan died in 1989 and Peggy returned to the States, where she now lives close to her family. Her concerts, only too rare in the UK, unfold a cross section of traditional songs and finely crafted contemporary pieces; songs about ecology, politics, jobs, trade unions, feminism and much, much more. Norma Waterson along with her sister Lal, who tragically died in 1998, and her brother Mike, founded the Watersons, our most influential vocal harmony group in the early sixties. She has one of the truest voices that contemporary folk music has ever produced, and more recently was voted Folk Artist of the Year and received universal acclaim when nominated for a Mercury Music Prize. Mike Waterson has always been one of the great interpreters of English song, and Martin Carthy is widely regarded as one of the most influential guitarists and finest singers and interpreters of traditional music in the British Isles. Twice voted Folk Artist of the Year, he was awarded the MBE in 1998 for his services to folk music. Together these legendary figures are responsible for shaping creating, and inspiring much of the English and North American folk music of the last 50 years. Booking opens 14th July |
| Saturday 21 November 2009 - 7.30pm
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Edward II - For One Year OnlyAfter a 10-year absence Edward II has reformed for selected dates.......for one year only. Throughout the 1990’s Edward II astounded festival audiences around the world with their almighty hyper-active live shows including headlining Glastonbury’s Avalon stage a record four years running. The reunification marks the tenth anniversary of their final sell-out show at DeMontfort Hall, Leicester on 19th November 1999. A full programme of festival appearances is planned, then just a handful of Autumn shows, of which the one at the Pavilion will be amongst the last ever. Expect splicing dance tunes of old England with the sunny sexy grooves of reggae and lovers’ rock. Featuring an eight-piece line up that includes melodeon and saxophone, fiddle and trombone, nestling snugly cheek-by-jowl, their repertoire strolls expansively from reworked folk standards like “Wild Mountain Thyme” to Caribbean classics like Gregory Isaacs “Night Nurse”. They are undoubtedly one of the funkiest acts on the circuit...a self styled “mutant calypso/reggae/African style English dance band”, bringing in dashes of jazz, soul, rap, and Celtic dancing styles, all laced with Glenn Latouche’s seductively honeyed lead vocals. Booking opens 14th July |
| December |
| Saturday 12 December 2009 - 7.30pm
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Eliza CarthyEliza Carthy Booking opens 14th July |