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April 29, 2023

SPENCER CULLUM

Where
Upstairs
When
Apr 29, 2023 @ 8:00pm
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Singular Artists proudly presents

SPENCER CULLUM


plus support

RICH RUTH

Sat 29th Apr 2023

Whelan’s Upstairs


Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection 2, sees the Nashville-based musician step further from the pedal steel and towards center stage. Released on the evergreen Full Time Hobby label, this new collection of tracks is a kaleidoscopic collection of folk, jazz, and pop, cut though with immaculately-rendered songwriting. Spencer Cullum will be performing live Whelans (Up) on 29th April 2023. Tickets are available from Friday, 20th January at 10am.

Cullum has always maintained a somewhat silent presence – even now saying “I still want to hide behind my pedal steel in fear” – but 2020 saw him release his debut solo effort, Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection. Despite his project with Jeremy Fetzer, Steelism, showing off more of his talents, never before had he felt the limelight so firmly on him.

Although …Coin Collection’s modus operandi was “a very quintessential English folk record, but with really good Nashville players”, Cullum says of …Coin Collection 2 that “I wanted to be different. I wanted to try and pull away from wearing my influences on my sleeve… I was trying to pick out ideas that were new to me. You can never escape your musical influences but I wanted them to be more hidden sub-consciously than upfront.” Though you can pick out the odd similarity to other things here and there – The Beach Boys’ Friends LP, perhaps, or The Incredible String Band, or Joni Mitchell – the thing is decidedly Cullum’s own. What’s also reassuring is that there hasn’t been some giant sonic leap from …Coin Collection, rather that the beautifully sun-kissed, English country garden, bees-buzzing-round-lager atmosphere has remained, but complicated, weirded, deepened.

Much in the same way that the album doesn’t wear its influences (Amon Duul II, Skip Spence, Ennio Morricone, Chu Kosaka, Michael Chapman) lightly but rather is steeped in them and toys with them, Cullum brought in a host of guests to turn…Coin Collection 2 loose from being a purely solo effort. Yuma Abe provides fractured, low-register chorus vocals that accentuate the ever-so-slightly mournful air to ‘Kingdom Weather’, while Dana Gavanski provides beautiful harmony lines in ‘What A Waste Of An Echo’. Despite the number of collaborators and players (also including Rich Ruth, Erin Rae, and Caitlin Rose) things never seem too crowded or brimming with too many ideas. Instead Cullum marshalls each moving party expertly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fc5hGNtWPo



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TICKETS


€18 available online from Whelan’s.

– €1 per ticket service charge applies. Final ticket price may be higher from other outlets.

Strictly over 18′s, I.D. may be required.



AFTER THE GIG


Whelan’s Indie Club w/ Late Bar from 10:30pm or check out the bands playing The Midnight Hour in the upstairs venue – Free Entry via front door until 10:30pm | Drinks Promos

Where
Upstairs
When
Apr 29, 2023 @ 8:00pm
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