Event overview
In this talk The Bookshop Band will take questions on their songwriting techniques and strategies, as well as discuss their unusual cross-disciplinary engagement with the music and publishing industries.
Formed in late September 2010, The Bookshop Band write songs inspired by books, and play them in bookshops. Most of the songs come from when their local bookshop in Bath, Mr Bs Emporium Of Reading Delights, hosts an author evening. The band read the book, and write two songs inspired by it, to be performed at the start of the evening, with the author in the audience.
After the first year of events they had recorded four albums, and quietly released a boxset with them all in. Supported by VINTAGE BOOKS the band went on a tour of independent bookshops around the UK in 2012, also coinciding with Independent Bookseller’s Week. Over this period they have been featured on 6Music, The Today Program, Front Row, BBC 1 News, and The Guardian among others. During 2012 the band have written a further three albums and hope to record them for release in early 2013.
Free event, all welcome, followed by mince pies and wine!
Venue: Special Collections Reading Room, The Library
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Dec 2012 | 1:00pm - 3:00pm |
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