Street Entertainment – Bermondsey Street Festival

Festival on the wall

April 15, 2017

A new artwork has been unveiled in Southwark. ‘The Eye On The…

The London Mayor Enjoys his visit.

The Tanner Street Park Stage – Hosted by Event Horizon

Jamie Williams & the Roots Collective

Settled into the current super-tight line-up after hundreds of shows the band is on fire, playing their own style of Americana at festivals & venues including a couple of rapturous nights at London’s legendary 100 Club, their ethos is always to have fun and make sure the crowd does too. This is not a band that stands onstage staring at their (red) shoes.

They’ve shared line-ups with likes of Wilko Johnson, The Blockheads, The Darkness, The Pretty Things, The Quireboys, Dr Feelgood, the Yardbirds, Eddi Reeder & the Animals to name a few.

Jamie is a prolific writer of accessible songs; songs good enough to hold their own in a solo acoustic setting, which really light up when the band add their own brand of energy & musicianship to the arrangements.

They are like the classic touring bands of the 70s: almost a travelling circus; a dysfunctional family of a band. They‘re tight without being boringly slick; leaving just enough rough edges to become one of the most exciting and fun ’originals’ live bands on the circuit today.

PolSky

PolSky was formed by Kris Warren, a songwriter and music producer whose career began under the wing of Cocteau Twins’ Robin Guthrie. Paying close attention to production and writing techniques from the likes of Echo and the Bunnymen, Terry Hall, Nick Lowe and others, Kris began to formulate his own unique offering and during the noughties joined agit-pop group BiB on guitar, refining his stage craft on the London live circuit, culminating in a UK tour with The XX Teens, and an NME single of the week.

Halcyon Daze remix - The band made a special collaboration with Film & TV composer Christopher Nicholas Bangs (Apple TV, Netflix) aka ‘CNB’ who remixed Halcyon Daze into a futuristic electronic number, also enlisting the talents of Digital 3D Artists Nelly Kleijer and Zak Silver-Lennard in order to create an exceptional collaborative piece of Audio-Visual art.

The Sitar Service

The love for both Classic Rock music and Hindustani is what brought the pair together and along with virtuoso drummer Anthony Paine, the group kickstarted with a residency at Hackney‘s psyche-delic occult hip spot Helgi’s bar. Surprisingly, their 2nd gig took place at the Royal Opera House fol-lowed by events at the Handel & Hendrix Museum. Since then, The Sitar Service developed a cult fol-lowing in London‘s underground scene and that’s where their paths crossed with legendary psyche-delic musician Twink, celebrated for his work with bands like Tomorrow, The Pretty Things, The Pink Fairies, Syd Barrett’s Stars, and Hawkind.

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Southwark’s Heritage

The Tanner Street Park Stage – Hosted by Event Horizon

Jamie Williams & the Roots Collective

PolSky

The Sitar Service