{"id":170,"date":"2017-02-13T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T12:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesflint.net\/?p=170"},"modified":"2017-02-13T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T12:20:00","slug":"2017-2-13-midland-benefit-gig-saturday-4th-march-the-full-sp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesflint.net\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Midland Benefit Gig, Saturday 4th March: The Full SP"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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This picture is from the cover of Will Phipps\u2019 wonderful new album  Fly Away, Crazy Days<\/a>. It would also make a pretty good cover for Midland, given the book\u2019s themes of flying, loss and escape.<\/p>\n

Fitting then, that Will is going to playing the Midland benefit gig at the excellent  Ryan\u2019s Bar<\/a>  in Stoke Newington on Saturday March 4th.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just Will. He\u2019ll be joined by singer-songwriter Jeremy Tuplin<\/a>, described by the Telegraph Culture section as having “a distinctive, deep vocal that has hints of Leonard Cohen and Bill Callahan… Stunningly candid.”<\/p>\n

Also performing will be father\/daughter Anglo-Irish folk singing duo Stephen and Hannah O\u2019Driscoll, who don\u2019t have a website but whom I\u2019m assured are absolutely amazing.<\/p>\n

Top of the bill (and I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m writing this, I\u2019m that excited about it) will be Paul Maddog McGuinness, long-time collaborator of  Shane MacGowan in The Popes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll be doing a reading from Midland (that’s a picture of Paul McGuinness, not me, by the way); we\u2019ll be holding a classy little raffle (oh yeah) to raise some extra dosh; and the whole evening will be hosted by Nora Mulready and Molly Mulready-Jones from the superlative Hackney School of Folk<\/a>, who have also put the whole thing together and to whom I owe an enormous debt of thanks (as I do all the participating musicians – thank you!).<\/p>\n

Come, have a drink or three, hear some great music, maybe win a prize, and show these wonderful performers that it\u2019s all been worth it. One hundred percent of the proceeds will of course go towards paying down the costs of publishing Midland. The arrow on our fund-o-meter is currently pointing at 54% – that\u2019s \u00a36,169 raised so far, only another \u00a35,224 to go! If we have enough of a knees-up on the 4th, we could easily push the needle a fair few degrees further on.<\/p>\n

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MIDLAND BENEFIT GIG<\/strong>
Featuring performances by: Paul Maddog McGuiness, Stephen and Hannah O\u2019Driscoll, Jeremy Tuplin, Will Phipps & James Flint<\/em><\/p>\n