Assembling many of the musicians who feature on his current album ‘The Spinning Top’ (Transgressive Records), Graham Coxon has expanded his power trio into The Graham Coxon Power Acoustic Ensemble, and together with guest appearances from fellow exponents of the British folk scene, they will be playing the record in it’s entirety plus some of the songs that inspired it’s creation at this series of special concerts.
Telling the story of one man’s journey from birth to death, ‘The Spinning Top’ is somewhat of a departure from Graham’s previous solo work, featuring the talents of Robyn Hitchcock and Danny Thompson, and sees Graham exploring his love of British folk music.
In Graham’s own words: “The album is mainly an acoustic journey although there is, of course, some explosive electric guitar action. I wanted to show how exciting acoustic instruments can be, how dynamic and rich and heart-thumpingly raw they can sound at a time when acoustic music seems either too cute or too soppy. Obvious influences here are the amazing Martin Carthy, the late, great Davey Graham and the late, great John Martyn”.
For the Manchester (Nov 11) and Edinburgh (Nov 12) shows, the Ensemble will be joined by Robyn Hitchcock plus more guests to be announced.
On Nov 28 at The Barbican show The Graham Coxon Power Acoustic Ensemble will be joined by Robyn Hitchcock, Martin Carthy, Natasha Marsh and Max Eastley plus more guests to be announced. For this date only, the show will also feature projected visuals and films by Chris Hopewell, who is known for his previous work with Radiohead, as wellworking with Graham on the video for ‘In The Morning’ and the current video for ‘Dead Bees’.
The Graham Coxon Power Ensemble are: Graham Coxon (vocals, guitar),Graham Fox (drums), Gareth Huw Davies (bass), Lucy Parnell (vocals) and Jen Macro (vocals) plus additional guitars, dilrubas and keyboards.
11th November Manchester, Royal Academy of Music
12th November Edinburgh, Queens Hall
28th November London, Barbican Hall
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