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Sadly, Alansar aren't able to livestream a set for the Glasshouse at the moment, but we look forward to having them live or streamed sometime in the future.
2pm: Collars
2pm: Collars
https://www.facebook.com/collarstheband/videos/3449012418526049/
Based in rural Cambridgeshire, Collars is made up of Danielle and Kane. Together they play their own brand of indie with just vocals, guitar and drums: it's wholesome indie like your mama used to make, if your mama was Florence Welch and your godparents were the White Stripes. Danielle sings and writes, while Kane plays guitar and drums at the same time.
3pm: Ben Hemming
3pm: Ben Hemming
https://www.facebook.com/benhemmingmusic/videos/756233008493025/
In something of a backward nod to the ways of a bygone era, its fair to say that Ben Hemming didn’t so much find the blues… as the blues found him.
It was during a particularly troublesome period in his life, stuck in a dead end job, and having watched his girlfriend walk out of his life, that he decided the only option was to seek change. Big change. Leaving all of his emotional baggage behind, he embarked upon a musical pilgrimage around America that eventually would come to define not just his sound, but also his own identity. Picking up an old guitar in a pawn shop along the way, he played his way across the southern states in the tradition of the delta Bluesmen before him. It was Hemming’s way of paying his dues, and of understanding a cultural heritage. Yet in moments of brutal self-reflection, he himself knew that more than anything, this was about escape.
It was whilst stumbling along the main drag in Nashville one night, somewhat worse for wear, that his moment of epiphany came; he observed a crowd surrounding an old man playing an extraordinarily battered one string guitar, made from nothing more than a broom handle and a box, whilst playing drums with his feet. The rudimentary equipment belied a performance of musical integrity which touched Ben in a way he had never previously been, and in that moment he sensed he had found the inspiration he was looking for; the blues came not from the destination, but from the journey, and from the rawness of its expression.
Since that day he has never looked back, having toured Europe and America several times since, released two albums, his forth ‘Broken Road’ released in the summer of 2020, and received critical acclaim; The Blues Magazine called him 'A unique musical identity’; Blues Blast Magazine described his songs as being 'of bleak beauty' and Americana U.K. placed him at the forefront of the so-called ‘new Blues’ movement.
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