We are delighted to welcome Nick Harper to the The Engine Room in North Sheilds, a new venue for PinDrop. Nick will be supporting the release of his 14th studio album – EARTH DAY BLUE receiving great critical acclaim.
NICK HARPER
https://harperspace.com/home
Accomplished guitarist, songwriter and acoustic performer, Nick got his professional start on the mid-'80s album Whatever Happened to Jugula, a collaboration of his father, Roy Harper, and Jimmy Page. From that time on, Nick toured and recorded regularly with his dad. His own debut as a leader came in 1994 with the EP Light at the End of the Kennel. His first full-length, Seed, followed a year later. Singer, composer, and former Squeeze frontman Glenn Tilbrook heard Harper perform and was impressed enough to sign him to the new label Quixotic Records. After touring around the U.K., North America, and Japan, Harper recorded the first of his albums for Quixotic; the 1998 release, Smithereens, was followed by another tour. His third album Harperspace, came out in 2000. After 11 studio albums, 3 live CDs, 2 EPs and a rockumentary style DVD 'Love is Music', Nick's work is still as fresh and vital as that of his first solo release in 1994 but as evidenced by his highly personal 2020 album Phantastes, he still has time to sing about the most important things in his world – family, friends, love and life.
‘Harper has so much musicianship in him it just leaks out all over the place.’ The Times
‘One of the finest guitarists of his generation, the Bard of Wiltshire’ Mojo
‘He deserves to become a major figure in his own right’ The Guardian
‘Dylan for the iPod generation…Betjeman with a guitar.’ Guitarist
‘My musical discovery of 2016!’ Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music
“Album of the Month: Dubbed 'the acoustic Hendrix' and the 'English Jeff Buckley', with this amount ofmelodic and sonic ingenuity, Nick Harper could be dubbed 'the new Beck' – but that would be a bigger compliment to Mr. Hansen than it would be to Harper.” – Guitar Magazine
“One of the finest guitarists of his generation, his soaring vocal range and propensity for epic song place him somewhere between Rufus Wainwright and Jeff Buckley. Thus far, however, putting his musical freedom before the demands of career, his talents have gone largely unrewarded. Miracles For Beginners, his most focused, warm and triumphant album to date, could right that wrong.” – Mojo
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The Verse Time Forgot' from 'Harperspace' is as close to a perfect song as you are likely to get.” – Edinburgh Evening News
MAIN SUPPORT – Gabriel Moreno
Gabriel Moreno is a Gibraltarian singer-songwriter and poet based in London, known for his irresistibly engaging performances that fuse Latin passion with lyrical depth, drawing comparisons to Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave while remaining distinctly his own voice. His music blends folk, Americana, and poetic storytelling, creating an energetic yet intimate live experience that reflects his unique background and international influences.
The Songwriters Circle is a new event which provides a platform for up and coming and established songwriters to perform their original material to fellow musicians and an appreciative audience interested in supporting original music.
What’s your definition of happiness? Is it acceptance from someone else or of yourself? Is it the feeling that you’re OK with whoever you are at any given time? Maybe it’s the thirst to grow from experience and changes that are on the horizon. Or is it just being able to enjoy being in the moment?These are big questions that, to be addressed with any level of success, need tackling by a special band. Welcome to the new album by Dubinski.A simpler answer to finding happiness could be to just put Dubinski’s album on. In examining the concept of happiness, the brothers have created an album that opens with a synthpop banger about societal injustice, then takes a host of intriguing twists and turns before concluding with the achingly beautiful finale Safety In The Comfort Zone.
Yvonne Lyon and Boo Hewerdine’s new album Things Found in Books is an album of songs written in response to a notice board in Culzean Castle’s second-hand bookshop littered with things that have dropped out of books.
Letters, notes, photographs, old receipts, postcards, fragments of people’s lives which has been lovingly collected and kept on a board on the wall amongst the bookshelves.
Boo and Yvonne have formed an inimitable songwriting partnership weaving these ephemeral stories with their own, creating an album full of nostalgia and beauty, hope and longing.
Boo Hewerdine is an acclaimed award-winning English singer-songwriter now living and working in Glasgow. Eddi Reader enjoyed international success with the hit single Patience of Angels (written by Boo) in 1995.
Yvonne Lyon is among the UK’s brightest and best singer songwriters. Her most recent album Growing Wild is her tenth solo studio album release. Yvonne consistently combines poignant lyrics with strong, creative melodies demonstrating a voice that can be both fragile and intense. She has guested on live sessions with Bob Harris on BBC Radio 2 and recently completed a master’s degree in Songwriting and Performance from the University of West Scotland.
