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Sunday Knees UP returns with a bang! Stuart Moxham (Young Marble Giants) performs a solo set supported by West Country Tippers (alt-country alt-egos of Charlie Tipper Rebellion).STUART MOXHAM requires little introduction. Few artists arrive as compellingly yet elusively as did Stuart Moxham upon the startling debut of Young Marble Giant’s sole studio album, Colossal Youth (Rough Trade, 1980). Initial excitement was thrust upon the young Alison Statton, who sang songs written by Stuart with a couple of exceptions. The unaffected tone of her voice was in steep contrast to the typical goings-on in that still quite punk time, but it was what she sang that fully sold it.
Moxham’s lyrics were both intensely personal and woefully oblique. There seemed to be a sort of story in there. After those YMG days, Moxham worked on a project called The G!st and released an album and several singles also on Rough Trade.
Since the mid-80s Moxham has focused mainly on solo acoustic work, releasing 17 albums to date, including one by songwriting duo Moxham & Halliday. Stuart Moxham is a composer of the upper echelon of innate talent who combines avant-garde ideas with deceptively forthright personal lyrics, solid hooks, ambience and vaguely off-centre instrumentation which defies the casual marketplace as confoundingly as it ever did to the underground. Last year Tiny Global Productions released Moxham’s most recent album ‘Winter Sun’, to excellent reviews.
WEST COUNTRY TIPPERS are a country-tinged spin off from Bristol indie outfit the Charlie Tipper Rebellion. They play what can only be described as indie-alt country music for 2026. This will be a semi-acoustic set and may be your only chance to see them live.
As always, the Knees UP! are free, but please be generous when the hat is passed.
Doors at 3, over at 6. Home for tea.
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162 Wells Road, BS4 2AG Bristol, United Kingdom, 162 Wells Road, Bristol, BS4 2AG, United Kingdom
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