Garance and the Mitochondries + The Swamp Stomp String Band + Guests

Doors: 7pm till Midnight
Entry Price: £8 / £6 advance
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Here’s a Saturday cracker at the pop-up, welcoming Garance and the Mitochondries to the pop-up on the back of their ace new LP, Balance l’aurore, with support from country swing duo The Swamp Stomp String Band.

A spellbinding dirty-tango band that haunt the margins between Tom Waits, Edith Piaf and 60s French Pop, Garance and the Mitochondries are an electric yet softly-cinematic sway, informed by charming burlesque and cabaret flourishes and some sublime Gypsy accordion, violin and clarinet touches. The band have recently released ace second album, ‘Balance L’aurore’

Garance came to London to learn English in 2009, becoming a darling saleswoman, gardener and florist as her music brought romance to the streets, before finding her band to give her music full voice – an all-star cast of Jamboree favourites including Ewan Bleach, Alistair Caplin, Mirabelle Gillis, Leander Lyons and Adam Beattie, topped off by ace musicians Harry Deacon and Barny Rockford. Let them dance into your dreams.

Jake Watson and The Swamp Stomp String Band are not your average Americana band. Twangy Banjos, driving Guitars and a thudding Double Bass sit behind anything from drinking songs that’ll have the room stomping there feet and shooting tequila to ballads that’l break even the most toughest folks, to ragtime songs of bar fights and gambling. The London based duo can often be found busking by the side of Thames in the day and performing in any haunt from high end cocktails joints to dimly lit Irish bars at night.

Taking a mixture of Jazz, Country, Swing, Blues and Ragtime – it is safe to say there music is there to be enjoyed by people young and old, rich or poor, or who just love to stamp there feet and have a ho-down.”