Hi everyone, sorry we’re a bit late bringing you our August exclusive! Those of you who are keen will have noticed it was up on the club portal but we got swept up in catching up post holiday and suddenly September was upon us! Huge apologies for the lateness but hope you enjoy this one, a hark back to the end of festival season 2013 with the 2nd part of ‘Bright Phoebus Sings Tom Waits’.
Whilst quiet for a while, Bright Phoebus are a group of friends and musicians based in Sheffield, headed up by Kit Bailey, Martin Simpson, Jon Boden & Fay Hield. The first concerts were held at the legendary Boardwalk and later moved to the Backroom of the Greystones, Bright Phoebus evenings were legendary for having one of the best house folk bands you could hope for. Back in 2013 we decided to do a show of Tom Waits covers, which led to an invite to headline the afternoon concert at Shrewsbury Folk Festival. The show was produced by me (Andy Bell) and Jon Boden jumped in as Musical Director (he could barely contain his excitement to be honest, being one of Waits’ biggest fans). This is just a stereo recording from my live desk mix, so it’s a warts and all bootleg of the afternoon.
We normally pay artists for these Hudson Club Exclusives, but as there are so many people involved we decided it’d be more appropriate to donate the cash to a local Sheffield weekend music school.
Jess Arrowsmith, Roy Bailey, Jon Boden, Andy Cutting, James Fagan, Fay Hield, Rob Harbron, Nancy Kerr, Sharron Kraus, Neil McSweeney, Rowan Rheingans, Andy Seward, Martin Simpson, Sam Sweeney
BRIGHT PHOEBUS SINGS TOM WAITS - PART 2
LIVE AT SHREWSBURY FOLK FESTIVAL 2013
Nancy Kerr, Bright Phoebus - Whistle Down the Wind
Roy Bailey, Bright Phoebus - I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
Jess Arrowsmith, Bright Phoebus - You Can Never Hold Back Spring
Jon Boden, Bright Phoebus - Jersey Girl
Neil McSweeney, Bright Phoebus - Take It With Me
