Robert Vincent & David Poe - Liverpool meets LA
Robert Vincent + David Poe
Entry Requirements: Under 16s are not permitted in the venue. Under 18s must be accompanied by a responsible adult at all times.
Liverpool meets LA
A mini circle of two acclaimed songwriters Robert Vincent and David Poe.
Line Up
Robert Vincent
Who Am I To You? A change of direction is in the air for award winning artist Robert Vincent, the Liverpool based singer songwriter. Appropriately the album “Barriers”, Vincent’s fourth studio album, is released, again by Thirty Tigers, on summer solstice, a time that reminds us to look inwards to find what we need to love and evolve. “I’m learning how to lower my barriers and have made a more personal album than ever before” says Vincent.
“He's the Real Deal” - Bob Harris OBE (BBC Radio 2)
Vincent’s third LP, the critically-acclaimed (“A phenomenal, spiritual listen – Sunday Times Album Review”) ‘In This Town You’re Owned’, was released by Thirty Tigers early 2020 and walked straight into a worldwide pandemic. Despite stalled promotional plans and tours, the record resonated enough to win the Americana Music Association UK’s ‘Album of The Year’ award for 2021. Receiving critical acclaim, the record also charted at number 2 in the UK Americana Charts and American Songwriter Magazine named it in its top 20 albums (every genre) of 2020. “I had to try to take the positives as an artist” Robert says when recalling the experience of lockdown. “I hadn’t had any time off from performing in many years and lockdown gave me time for a bit of a reset and to question where I was musically and personally”.
It was Vincent’s powerful and soulful voice that attracted acolytes such as Bob Harris, Paul Carrack and Mary Chapin Carpenter. In 2016, Harris awarded Robert with his ‘Emerging Artist’ of the year award at the inaugural UK Americana Awards show describing Vincent as “absolutely magnetic” and “the real deal”. In 2018 following the release of ‘I’ll Make the Most of My Sins’ (AMAUK Album of The Year 2018) Robert was invited to perform on the BBC ‘Old Grey Whistle Test, For One Night Only’ closing the show. It was this performance that would propel him to number 1 and 2 in the iTunes Album and Singles Charts.
Maintaining his status as one of the most acclaimed voices in the UK Americana rock scene, Robert’s new songs represent a real left turn for an artist who is ready for something more.The new album “has more of an intimate sound,” Robert says. “The songs began to take shape during lockdown through to 2022 and are born from testing personal experiences, rather than the social commentary of the last album. This is a very inward set of songs, but I think it will resonate with people facing their own demons.’
The lead single for the album, ‘The Insider ‘, featured acclaimed actor David Morrissey in the video, playing the protagonist, with Vincent the doubtful dumb niggle “Who Am I To You” in the despot’s mind. Even when exploring his own personal battles Vincent doesn’t entirely leave the realm or metaphor of socio-political issues.
Vincent has been referred to as the “scouse Bruce Springsteen” and there are echoes of many of the same themes that Springsteen explored in ‘Darkness on the Edge of Town’, also his fourth album. Vincent breaks down the numbing barriers built up during a relationship gone wrong, faces the anger and challenges this creates and stands tall to fight for a brighter future and personal truth. As the second single off the album says “Follow What you Love and Love and Love Will Follow”
The intimacy and introspection of this evolving journey on the album’s songs is captured by the sure hand and keen ear of award-winning producer Ethan Johns whose work with Ray Lamontagne is a real touchstone for Vincent’s own ambition, mellowness, and honesty on Barriers. Johns also mixes the album and provides his own gifted instrumentation. Vincent’s core band (Anna Corcoran on piano, vocals; Jim Kimberley, drums; Danny Williams, bass; Adrian Gautrey, guitar, keys) are gathered under the eye of engineer Jon Withnall (Coldplay, I Am Kloot) and performed the music live in the studio with the addition of guitarist Joe Coombes. They are ably adept at the musical shifts and changes on the album which keep one foot bedded in Americana rock whilst moving towards a more English singer songwriter sound.
Robert continues to tour extensively showing his versatility as both a solo performer and with a full band. Notable past performances include 2023 Celtic Connections at Glasgow Theatre Royal with Mary Chapin Carpenter, showcase performances at Americana Fest in Nashville, Tennessee, supporting Roger Waters at Hyde Park, Tours with Paul Carrack and Duane Eddy. Tours around and after the album are booked for this year showcasing the consummate and searingly honest songwriting of this talented artist.
David Poe
“David Poe gives the singer-songwriter genre a much-needed jolt,” writes Rolling Stone.
The Village Voice calls Poe “the major domo of songwriters.”
David Poe has released seven studio albums. He has performed around the world, including as the support act for Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. A composer fellow of the Sundance Institute, songs by David Poe have been featured in numerous film and TV projects including Nashville, Dexter, and Diary Of A Teenage Girl. His work has been recorded by Grammy-winning producers T Bone Burnett, Larry Klein, and Buddy Miller, performed by a diverse array of artists including Curtis Stigers, Ana Moura, Oh Land, Daryl Hall and Grace Potter, and featured in commercial campaigns for the Malala Fund, Interfaith Sanctuary, and the You Mean The World Foundation.
His most recent work is Analogue, a collaboration with Rambert Dance and choreographer Jill Johnson that premieres at London’s Stone Nest in May 2024. Other commissioned works for dance include scores for the LA Dance Project at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, American Repertory Theater in Boston, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in New York City, and Shadowland by Pilobolus, on tour since 2009 and performed for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Poe is currently a featured vocalist in the orchestral presentation of David Bowie’s final masterpiece, the Blackstar Symphony.
Taking its name and some of the themes from his most recent release Everyone’s Got A Camera, Poe’s latest work is Analogue, a collaboration with Rambert Dance and choreographer Jill Johnson that premieres at London’s Stone Nest in May 2024. Other commissioned works for dance include scores for the LA Dance Project at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, American Repertory Theater in Boston, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in New York City, and Shadowland by Pilobolus, on tour since 2009 and performed for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
A native of the American Midwest, Poe served as the sound man at CBGB’s in New York before being signed to Sony Music. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
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