The Living Room Presents The Bookshop Band
The Living Room Presents The Bookshop Band at The Grapes Bath
The Living Room Presents The Bookshop Band £10.00
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About the show
It's been a long time coming, but we've finally successfully coordinated diaries, and we are proud to announce we have the fabulous Bookshop Band playing at The Living Room! The Bookshop Band are the musical offspring of an artistic love-affair between a group of award-winning songwriters and an independent bookshop in the UK, Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights. The songs are the musical outpouring of the band’s own response to books they have read. “A great book intensely fires your imagination over the time it takes to read it. You are living the life of that character or exploring a time or place you’ve never been to before. As we turn to write, trying to evoke what it was about the book that most resonated with us, what emerges are highly personal songs but from new points of view, inevitably influenced by the different perspectives experienced whilst reading the book.” The Bookshop Band formed in September 2010 and released their first album in December that year. They have since released 13 albums, each exploring a different theme in their responses to over 100 authors’ books. They have toured extensively around the UK and abroad, from bookshops to festival main-stages, and have been commissioned by BBC Radio 3, The V&A Museum, The National Portrait Gallery and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, most recently writing two songs for the launch of Philip Pullman’s The Book Of Dust. They are currently working with The V&A Museum on a musical series of banned books. Between
Featuring - The Bookshop Band
The Bookshop Band write songs inspired by books, and perform them at themed literary evenings held at Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights, in Bath (Independent Bookshop of the Year 2008 / 2011). The collaboration was started as part of a plan to help Mr B’s rejuvenate its traditional ‘author evenings’.
The band would read the forthcoming author’s book in advance and write two songs based upon it, to be performed at the start of the evening. Their performances are inextricably linked to the books themselves, as the members of the band take it in turns to describe where the inspiration for each song came from. The band is made up of two British musician / songwriters, Ben Please, and Beth Porter.