Banshees Book Party(Day Shift!) + Painted Bird + Q and A / Interview + Author Laurence Hedges + Jon Klein + Martin Mc Carrick + Journey’s End + RNR Book Club

Journey’s End – Siouxsie and The Banshees 1987-1996, published by Wymer is the third book in Laurence Hedges excellent Siouxsie And The Banshees trilogy covering 1987 through to 1996. This afternoon (no waiting for the Night Shift required) RnR Book Club host Tony Gleed is joined on stage by Laurence, alongside guitarist of the epoch Jon Klein, and strings and keys all important addition of the time, Martin McCarrick. They will be discussing the book, and the times and the remarkable music, and no doubt inviting a few questions from the floor too. The afternoon is topped off by a performance by the incredible Painted Bird, playing classic Banshees material from across their back catalogue, and there will be a DJ spinning Banshee adjacent records in between chats and sets. Something Wicked This Way Comes. EVENING SHOW TICKETED SEPARATELY HERE https://wegottickets.com/f/17433 Miss Havisham’s Digital Clock + Cuckoo Corner + 00000000 Miss Havisham’s Digital Clock –  MHDC are North London’s velvet-clad oddballs, mixing alternative rock, chamber pop, and new psychedelia into something gloriously unpredictable. Think steampunk swagger, cabaret flair, and songs that swing from dreamy (Trifle Filled Skies) written on The Ray Davies songwriting course to defiant (Happy Song). With four songwriters, a singing saw, and the ability to turn art-school ideas into irresistible tunes, their live shows are as theatrical as they are electric. Cuckoo Corner  – post punk imbued indie rock with slouching, insistent rhythms and deceptively melodic intonations. 00000000 – noisy art rock cum post punk with forceful artful female vocals and a wayward twisty turny experimental feel. Interesting stuff …a bit Kristin Hersch maybe, or a more leftfield Yeah Yeah Yeahs. DJ Sammi Starr til 2am