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A Fistful Of Twisted Folk III

• 15th Dec 2010

If you're anything like us and already looking beyond Crimbo into 2011, here's a little treat that's sure to beat the New Year blues thanks to the excellent people behind Twisted Folk…

A Fistful of Twisted Folk III
The Old Vic Tunnels, London, Wednesday 16 February 2011 Special one-off event

On Wednesday 16 February 2011, celebrated promoter Twisted Folk will be staging the third installment of its A Fistful Of Twisted Folk events in a very special venue – London’s Old Vic Tunnels.

Presented in partnership with Magpie’s Nest, Ideas Tap and Old Vic New Voices, this special one-off event will find the cavernous venue deep beneath Waterloo Station filled with a fantastic line-up of modern folk and twisted popular music spread across three performance spaces.

Headlining this event will be folk/hip hop group Dizraeli And The Small Gods, fronted by Dizraeli, the award-winning slam poet and former frontman of hip hop band Bad Science. Their debut album Engurland (City
Shanties) draws on sea shanties, gospel and blues to create a form of hiphop that speaks for the streets and the valleys in equal measures: a folk music for the 21st century, telling English stories of love and grief and defiance. Dizraeli And the Small Gods will also be performing a special collaborative set with folk singer Chris Wood, flautist Philippe Barnes and other Special Guests to be announced.

Supporting Dizraeli are The Black Atlantic, the Groningen, Netherlands-based acoustic chamber-pop group formed around singer-songwriter Geert van der Velde, whose album Reverence For Fallen Trees has been downloaded close to 100,000 times. Expect beautiful, ethereal melodies and rich, wall-to-wall instrumentation.

Other acts to be discovered in the penumbra of the tunnels are London-based bluegrass band Kidnap Alice, who bridge the gap between vintage RnB and Appalachian mountain music, Birmingham’s Americana-tinged Goodnight Lenin, Hackney-based land-locked seafarers The City Shanty Band, and free-improv marvels Firefly.

Over the past five years, Twisted Folk Tours have become known for adventurous, hand picked line-ups representing the best in modern folk.
It’s Twisted Folk who put UK folkies Tunng and Malawian desert bluesmen Tinariwen together, who assembled Nina Nastasia, Jeffrey Lewis and William Elliot Whitmore for an extra-special special tour, sent Howe Gelb and the Voices Of Praise Choir off on a nine-date jaunt around the UK, packaged King Creoste with Jose Gonzalez and Vetiver (then featuring Devendra Banhart) with Micah P Hinson and Vashti Bunyan.

Named BBC Folk Club of 2010, co-curators The Magpie’s Nest are an acoustic folk club that set out to create a platform where traditionally inspired British and World artists and wider folk exponents can be exposed to a contemporary audience and the wider music industry.

A Fistful Of Twisted Folk III is set to be an unmissable evening, not least because it takes place in the stunning Old Vic Tunnels. Scene of Banky’s Exit Through The Gift Shop premiere and numerous cutting-edge art exhibits, installations and performances, this is an underground venue in every sense of the word.

Doors: 7pm
Tickets: £10 adv
Tickets will be available from: link