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Outline Newport & Le Pub Present:🎸 Joe Kelly & The Royal Pharmacy + Ophelia's Beard
🗓️ Saturday 22nd August
⏰ 19:30
🎟️ IT IS FREE
When writing the bio for the "difficult second album" you are supposed to repeat the trope about having a lifetime to compose your debut LP and a few months to pen the follow-up.
Yet while the vinyl release of Joe Kelly & The Royal Pharmacy's acclaimed debut album World On Fire was less than a year ago, much of the record that follows quickly in its wake is the product of the same prodigious gestation period.
Written and recorded in parallel to World On Fire, Cast Me Down is the other side of the coin. A non-identical and more unruly twin, it takes some of the experimental instincts hinted at on album one and doesn't so much as throw everything but the kitchen sink at the songs as rip the kitchen sink clean off the wall, jump inside it and take flight.
It's a heady ride and although Cast Me Down opens with a welcome reprise of the indie Americana sound that characterised World On Fire, an unsettling loop of backwards guitar heralds the arrival of a sequence of songs that channels sixties psych-pop, the Arctic Monkeys at Rancho De La Luna, late-night West Coast soul, Unkle, The Raconteurs, Father John Misty, and side two of Abbey Road.
And that's just for starters. Backed once again by The Royal Pharmacy and produced and mixed by Jon Greening, Joe Kelly is also joined on Cast Me Down by special guest appearances from the golden larynx of Miss Erin McNamara and Scott McKeon from Welsh folk-rock heroes Rusty Shackle, who brings his formidable violin skills to the psychedelic denouement of Living Daylights.
And if you're wondering what Joe Kelly did next, he has already demoed more than 30 songs for album three...
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Ophelia’s Beard is a genre-fluid four piece which grounds its songwriting in genre stereotypes and sparks a modern twist within, creating familiarity in songs you’ve never heard before. Described as ‘a complete redefinition of the meaning of powerhouse vocals’ this is female fronted folk with a bite.
Named after a legendary witch from Dartmoor, Old Moll catches stories and folklore that fell through the cracks of history. Old Moll has been captivating audiences across Bristol and South Wales with a sound that drifts from dark, smoky folk to bright bursts of uplifting, heady indie, tied together with Moll’s ethereal, searching vocals. FFO Florence + the Machine, Siouxsie and the Banshees and PJ Harvey, prepare to be transported to other realms: from Neolithic grandeur to the mysteries of medieval sleep.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
14 High Street, NP20 1FW Newport, United Kingdom, 14 High Street, Newport, NP20 1FW, United Kingdom
