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Jon Langford & The Men of Gwent play at matinee show on Saturday 7th December. Doors are at 4pm with Jon Langford performing first.
Following on from the matinee performance are Tom Emlyn, Burning Ferns & Joe Kelly and the Royal Pharmacy!
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Jon Langford
Jon Langford has been a legend of the music scene since 1977 when he moved to Leeds to attend University and joined the newly formed band, The Mekons. When Jon moved to Chicago in the late 80’s, he needed a musical project to occupy his frequent visits back to his hometown, Newport in South Wales.
He formed The Men Of Gwent as a four piece with his cousin Smartie and old friends Matt Gray and Julian Hayman who would often met up in the cosy back room of the towns 17th Century Murenger pub and began working on songs based on local stories and characters set adrift on the sea of time. An album of Langford covers and a gig for Jon’s 50th birthday was released by local record label, Country Mile Records.
Owners Ray and Chuck were clearly on the same wavelength as the band and this close partnership has remained since those early days. Their first performances were linked to Jon’s Christmas holiday visits home to Newport at TJ’s, the King Billy pub and Le Pub.
The band slowly graduated to bigger venues and festivals including Glastonbury, Green Man, and Isle of Wight and by 2012 the line up had expanded adding Jon’s old pal from Leeds, Barkley McKay (keys) Cardiff based folk singer & story teller, Guto Dafis (accordion) and Erik Stams, a drummer from the Bronx NYC living in Newport!
Burning Ferns
Hailing from Newport, South Wales, Burning Ferns are a five piece band specialising in finely crafted guitar pop with a healthy side order of Welsh psychedelia.
Tom Emlyn
Tom Emlyn crafts honest, swirling songs; tall tales and dark jokes that cut straight to the bone. His current solo work maps an alternative Southwalian landscape, a hallucinated community drawn from psychogeography and local history.
Joe Kelly & The Royal Pharmacy
Playing live across the UK, Joe Kelly is a chameleonic presence, sometimes showing up to solo sets with just a broken-necked guitar and a battered case full of harmonicas to accompany him.
Mercurial and spellbinding in equal measure, whether playing solo, as part of a trio, or with a full five-piece band, no version of the Joe Kelly live experience should be missed.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
14 High Street, NP20 1FW Newport, United Kingdom, 14 High Street, Newport, NP20 1FW, United Kingdom,Newport, Wales
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