Rough Trade bring you a specialist night of music featuring the musical talents of...
Richard Swift. "In short, Swift achieves things in roughly 20 minutes that today's balladeers haven't even begun to touch..." - Zack Adcock, POPMATTERS. "Richard Swift's Collection, Vol. 1 is not for the naïve or successful. It is for the lonely, the weak, the unpublished novelist; it's for the signatures on bounced checks..." - Justin A. Stover, STOPSMILING. "Earnestness may be Swift's stock in trade... this qualifies as emotional investment of the highest order." - Jon Caramanica, SPIN magazine
Eamonn McNamee “I have fallen in love with Eamonn’s songs almost immediately.” Steve Lamacq, BBC 6 Music. Eamonn McNamee comes from Belfast. He plays songs about girls he loves and girls who left him. He has the bite of Lou Reed and lyrical snap of Alex Turner. He is 23. He left Belfast just as he was being vaunted as the act most likely to break-through. But he won’t say why he left. He has played with Paul Weller, John Squire and Luke Haines. He lives in London where he was been frightening and hooking audiences for the last three months. “With his acute lyrics, and rolling baritone Eamonn McNamee is a severely twisted troubadour.” Stuart Bailie, BBC Across The Line Red Cassette
the music Andrew makes as Red Cassette is quite personal and very honest, but he doesn't take himself too seriously either. Influences include Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Beatles to name the obvious! and other artists such as Rogue Wave, The Shins, Devendra Banhart and the list goes on and on.... So, now whilst studying Music Composition at university all he does and wants to do is make music. Due to the honest nature of his music he has only now found the 'guts' to put his music into the public space. His philosophy behind his approach is that without people hearing his music it cannot be mutated in anyway by the opinion of others. This basically means that the music stays as pure as possible to Andrew. But now he has decided to put it out there and see if anyone else likes the music Red Cassette makes for himself.
Listen Lisse
Listen Lisse (aka Lisa McKendrick) grew up somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere. An island in the Pacific Ocean, a small place that is right next to a comparatively large place often mistaken for each other. Lisse started out by braving the stage alone with only a guitar and voice for company this proved successful as the crowds were swayed from left to right with her music that felt a bit like a storm at times and at other times like a desert. The music was lonely, powerful, timeless and hard to forget. Now things have moved on and after almost 2 years of gigs as a solo performer Listen Lisse now has band members (Eddie Darko and Manuel as drummer) which add a further layer to the music. Lisse has independently released 2 EPs featuring the song Its Not You and Raise Me and is now in the process of recording an album. Lisse is very prolific in her song writing and has been known to play for up to 2 hours if given the opportunity. Some songs are rarely played at gigs while others are favourites like Fabricate the timeless pulsating song that seems to stop time when played live. Lisses plans for the future are to continue to gig either doing solo gigs or with the band and heading to places other than London, cities in Europe or if persuaded other parts of the world. Lisses plans for the music are to keep the songs coming, stay grounded and take the music to where the audience want to hear it live and keep it on CD.