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The Craufurd Arms and The Pad Presents.....FRIDAY 3rd MAY 2024
A CERTAIN RATIO
+ Special Guest: Ellen Beth Abdi
A CERTAIN RATIO - IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS
Live 2024
A CERTAIN RATIO have announced details of a new album, produced by Dan Carey, and an extensive UK tour for spring 2024.
It All Comes Down To This, their thirteenth studio album, will be released on 19 April 2024.
The new album is the purest distillation of their essential sound ever committed to tape, and the first time they have recorded as just the core trio of principle band members – multi-instrumentalists Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop and Donald Johnson.
The core trio will be joined on bass by Viv Griffin for the live shows, and the band intend to play the album in its glorious entirety, an endeavour they have never previously attempted, underscoring the unrivalled cohesion that this particular body of work possesses. Many jewels from the past will also adorn the set lists too, and, like ever, reworked and remodelled, the band proud of their past, rather than dependent upon It.
As a snapshot of where A Certain Ratio stand in 2024, It All Comes Down to This is a towering testament to their staying power. For a band whose path has intersected with the lives of Joy Division, The Fall, Talking Heads, Madonna and Grace Jones, to now be immersed in their most creative and prolific period since the early 1980s, puts the great majority of their contemporaries to shame. But then again, when you have always been preoccupied with laying the groundwork for your next steps, you’re unlikely ever to derive much satisfaction from standing still.
Special guest support comes from Ellen Beth Abdi
Mancunian music-maker Ellen Beth Abdi uses live loops, pokey drums, undulating synths and quietly subversive lyrics to mold her unique sound.
A graduate from Royal Northern College of Music, Ellen has graced many areas of the Manchester scene, providing backing vocals (& keys) for legendary indie/alternative bands in the city - from playing a support slot for The Stone Roses at Wembley Stadium and most recently touring with band A Certain Ratio (all at the age of 25) Ellen now focuses on her solo music, described as ‘Potent and lyrical electronic soul with a social conscience. For the thinkers and the movers of this dimension and others. - EBA’s enchanting ethereal sound has gained her spots at Manchester International Festival, tours all over Europe with a previous projects Agbeko, and support slots for the likes of Oliva Dean, Oscar Jerome and Allyssa Joy.
£25 Adv from Slide Record Shop, Esquires Bar and online here:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/a-certain-ratio/bedford-esquires/2911169
Further info
www.bedfordesquires.co.uk
Doors 7:30pm
14+
60a Bromham Lane
Bedford
MK40 2QG
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Bedford Esquires, 60a Bromham Road, Bedford, MK40 2, United Kingdom,Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
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