CUSHY GIGs

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@ 12 BAR CLUB
Denmark Place, London WC2

RHATIGAN
MICHAEL J SHEEHY
ANT
LIANNE HALL

Thursday, 13th December 2001

Who'd a thunk it another Cushy year and the gang's all here, well just. I'd like to thank everyone who helped throughout and beyond particularly Andy Lowe promoter at the 12 Bar a man of immaculate musical taste and temperament and Carlo and Andy the club owners who continue to provide a home for great live music. Thanks to regular Rhatigan band members John, Paul and Jacqui and the friends (too numerous to mention) who have stepped into the breach and of course the 1000 or so sound engineers and door persons I have chewed up and spat out in my time.

Above all thank you to the loyal Cushyites who barring family bereavement or the chance of a shag turn out every month to witness the full horror of a band prepared to play their music to the death. All of the Cushy adventures have been chronicled by my dear friend Scott who never fails to capture the madness in his newsletters which you can see by visiting RHATNET

Next year Cushy will be changing. Rhatigan as a band or solo will not be appearing every month. I will still gather the best artists and bands to play in an atmosphere that is easy going and creative. The headline band will take over the two set format and hopefully 'the anything might happen' feel of the night will continue. Meanwhile we will be putting together the album we have long promised and will turn up live from time to time. So I guess this is the last RHATIGAN live gig for a little while...

Aside from getting to play my songs and hang out with my friends, the great thing about the Cushy night for me has been bringing some of the best talent in London to the venue. There have been many highlights (which you can read about in the gigs pages on the Cushy site ) and MICHAEL J SHEEHY fits that category. His second solo album 'Ill Gotten Gains' out now on Beggars Banquet is the cauldron of passion, violence and aspiration he has been mixing since the early Dream City Film Club days, but with his talent to the fore it is now a delicious and irresistible potion you can't help sipping.

Anthony Harding aka ANT the quietest drummer in the west is another singer songwriter who beguiles and tempts me but in a very different way. His is a sweeter sadness but his apparent innocence belies a dark centre. His second album 'A Long Way To Blow A Kiss' is out in January on Fortune and Glory and with Hefner laying down tools for a while, he will hopefully get a chance to spread his own words about.

A late addition and a welcome return to LIANNE HALL whose recent set for us was spell binding. There is a richness and resonance in her voice which combined with the melancholy and humour in her songs really does it for me, (Chan Marshall's English country cousin). Her second Peel session is being aired on Thursday 6th of December so tune in to that as taster for the 13th...

Things have changed with the online tv set up and gigs are no longer live online. Thanks to Paul at the club the shows can still be videoed for £25, but if you are interested in buying a copy let him know before the show, some of the older gigs should still be on the online tv archive ...Link to UK Online TV @ 12 Bar

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RHATIGAN
SON OF DAVE
SERGEANT BUZFUZ
THE SCREWTAPE BROTHERS

Thursday 8th November 2001

Thanks to every one who risked life and limb to attend last months CushyLink to Gallery 2001 night, it was a very special evening. This month should be no less engaging although as I go to press I don't know which members of RHATIGAN will be in attendance. Certainly Jacqui 'Trombone' Grace will be there, as it is her birthday and she is hoping for shed loads of prezzies www.suzannerhatigan.com. Erstwhile bassist for Canadian uber group 'Crash Test Dummies' Benjamin Darvill aka SON OF DAVE sent me a copy of his eponymous album and it lived up to expectation. It is an odyssey of psychotic blues harmonica, beats and alarmingly infectious melody that draws obvious comparisons with Beck but at his more experimental. Also tonight the trashy alt/folk leanings of SERGEANT BUZFUZ who's album 'Obsessive Compulsive Pour Homme' has been garnering rave reviews and in live performance will not disappoint. Recently I have been playing solo sets on a song writer night in Dublin called 'The Ruby Sessions' next one is Tuesday 23rd October. It is an intimate room upstairs in Doyles Pub opposite Trinity College and it has a great atmosphere. On one such visit I happened upon a singer song writer called Derrick Devine who particularly appealed to me as he owes more to the Will Oldham/Neil Young school, rather than the ubiquitous Nick Drake/Jeff Buckley 'camp'. Tonight he will be playing with some friends as THE SCREWTAPE BROTHERS.

If you can't make it to the show you can watch live online or look at some recent gigs on the archive...Link to UK Online TV @ 12 Bar

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£5 or £4 with flyers

Doors 8pm




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Denmark Place, London WC2

RHATIGAN
CORMAN
EUGENE WOLSTENHOLME
LIANNE HALL

Thursday 11th October 2001

I'm excited about this months Cushy night. My friend Jennifer from 'Long Good Luck' and 'Evil World' records suggested her friend in brand new skewed country outfit CORMAN get in touch and they duly sent me a tape and I liked it , I liked it a lot. To be honest I don't often enjoy 'country' emanating from this far east of the Atlantic but Corman have changed my mind about that. I thought it would be a good opportunity to invite the afore mentioned LONG GOOD LUCK back too, but instead I'm equally delighted to have LGL song man EUGENE WOLSTENHOLME singing his wonderfully heartrending tales of the search for love in Loughborough Junction among other celubrious South London locations. Then following advice from Paul Cox of 'Sausage Machine' and 'Art Rocker' singer songwriter LIANNE HALL from John Peel favourites PICO got in touch and did the necessary tape sending and low another fine collection of songs. Her sound lies comfortably somewhere between Cat Power and Smog, dark and delicious. My rusty old cassette machine hasn't had so much hot tape action in some time. To complete the bill I will be cranking out my own precarious blend of folkish songs and bits and pieces of electronica, sequences and trombone as this month I will be sans RHATIGAN band..www.suzannerhatigan.com

If you can't make it to the show you can watch live online or look at some recent gigs on the archive...Link to UK Online TV @ 12 Bar

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Doors 8pm


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