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https://squareandcompasspub.co.uk/what-s-on/1568The Bookshop Band are the musical offspring of an artistic love-affair between a group of award winning folk songwriters, Beth Porter and Ben Please, and an independent bookshop in the UK, Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights. The songs are the musical outpouring of the band’s own response to books they have read, curated by the bookshop. They write and perform songs inspired by books, inspired by hundreds of authors from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman, and have released 14 studio albums featuring many of the authors they have worked with, including their most recent "Emerge, Return" produced by and featuring Pete Townshend. It features songs inspired by books by authors including Philip Pullman, Margaret Atwood, Shaun Bythell, Yann Martel, Carol Birch, Barney Norris, Robert Macfarlane, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, and Aldous Huxley. The cover art is by Stanley Donwood, and it was mixed by Nick Drake's recording engineer, John Wood.
Between them Ben Please and Beth Porter (Lost Words Spell Songs) bring the books to the stage along with a multitude of instruments, including cello, harmonium, glockenspiel, guitars and ukuleles which, along with their distinct voices, create a cinematic sound that draws the audience right in to a highly intimate performance, at once touching and mesmerizing, heart wrenching and funny. No previous knowledge of the books is required as the band guide the audience through the stories behind each song’s inspiration. They are equally at stage on a festival main stage as they are in a bookshop, having toured the UK, Europe and North America many times. Their work has been recognised with nominations from the Ivor Novello Awards, the Oscars and BAFTA’s.
Links:
thebookshopband.co.uk
youtube.com/thebookshopband
facebook.com/TheBookshopBand
twitter.com/TheBookshopBand
instagram.com/bookshopband
tiktok.com/@booktokband
patreon.com/TheBookshopBand
thebookshopband.bandcamp.com
open.spotify.com/artist/4wXIodrpSKXFcG3Y4hlpNV
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Worth Matravers, BH19 3LF Worth Matravers, United Kingdom, Worth Matravers, Swanage, BH19 3, United Kingdom,Swanage, Wareham
