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eh up, cheers for dropping in.. for those of you that don't know, us at the redbricks have been putting on killer nights of fucked up folk and fun loving psychedelia in rotating venues around london for a good 18 months now and are permanently broadening the horizons of what we can achieve from pulling together a highly skilled and enthusiastic gang of home spun progressive troubadours..it all started in soho may 2006, when, having recently moved to london, our main protagonist and self confessed psychedelic impressario, lee gorton, decided that the city was lacking somewhere for it's bristling nu folk starlets to hang out on a regular basis and launched our mother night 'down at the redbricks' at the black gardenia.. word spread pretty quickly after early gigs from the monks kitchen, the draytones, john stammers and pete greenwood landed 'em all decent deals on the back of impressive live performances and the sense of a burgeoning scene...we've come a long way since and have a regular monthly home for 'down at the redbricks' in the elegant surroundings of the proud galleries in camden (3rd tuesday of the month) whilst regularly putting on as many, preferably free, nights at various suitable boozers around the city including the gladstone, the lock tavern and the soon to be launched, new look amersham arms in new cross..we've instigated our own annual fete in the shape of the bonnington square festival which is also free and occurs every july and are about to launch our own record label, the redbricks recordings. the first single by pete greenwood should be out by november.we're slowly gaining ground across britain too. 'up at the redbricks' relaunches in manchester soon in the sunny suburb of chorlton at the newly opened dulcimer folk bar. on top of visits to glasgow and reading we've got more gigs planned soon in nottingham and birmingham.sooo, if you're into acid-folk/wyrd-folk/nu-folk/psych/prog/tropicalia/freakbeat or just good 'ol fucked up 40 year old pop music come and hang out. we really try to make as many of the gigs as free or cheap as possible so they're accessible to all and we're persistently uncovering a healthy new crop of super talented psychedelic beatniks... come and get involved!!love, the redbricks. x
