Ed Harcourt - Live at The Amadeus
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The Amadeus in Little Venice has re-opened its doors in the wake of the pandemic with Gus Robertson at the helm, who has previously run iconic West London venues - 20th Century Theatre, Bush Hall, Paradise by way of Kensal Green - as well as helping establish The Playground Theatre in Latimer Road. Gus also curates music festivals (www.thegreatbrainrobbery.co.uk), London nightclubs and other venues (www.gusrobertsonpresents.com) and is a musician himself, having played guitar for the likes of Mick Jones of The Clash and Razorlight. Gus now presents “Live at The Amadeus” – a series of six intimate concerts at West London’s hidden gem - a musical journey through blues, jazz, gypsy, gospel and spiritual rhythms and rhyme featuring some of London’s finest musicians. All of this served up with ground-breaking cocktails from www.blackcow.co.uk and AV from the atmospheric pioneers www.redcatlighting.co.uk and sonic gurus www.rigsandgigs.com
Today, the third concert of the series is announced – Ed Harcourt
Depending on who you speak to, you will hear that Ed Harcourt was raised by wolves, he grew up in a Russian orphanage or discover that he was once part of a travelling circus, which perhaps explains his Coulrophobia. Truth is, he was born in the seventies (“the year punk broke, days before The King was dead”), and lived with his parents in East Sussex in between stints of living overseas in Europe due to his father being in the military. After a 2 year stint as a sous chef, Ed signed to Heavenly / EMI records in 2000 and his debut album, Here Be Monsters, was subsequently nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. Over the years, he has become a well-read, well-dressed, well-travelled English gent and a songwriter of some repute.
For the last 15 years Ed has also been a gun for hire songwriter, working consistently with all kinds of different artists veering from Paloma Faith & Sophie Ellis-Bextor to Marianne Faithfull & Mark Lanegan but most recently has been producing past & forthcoming albums & tracks for Kathryn Williams, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Tom Bright, Peter Jöback, Hannah Rose Platt, Kit Green, Azure Ryder, Wildwood Kin, Laura Mary Carter (Blood Red Shoes) & many more. However Ed is not just a studio hermit but is also a veteran performer! He has been requested to play live personally by Patti Smith, R.E.M., Neil Finn, Afghan Whigs & many other iconic bands & artists over the past two decades. As musical director in the live realm, Harcourt has worked on Beck’s Song Book Reader at the Barbican, the Sky Christmas Show at the Royal Albert Hall, a Lee Hazelwood tribute show at the Barbican & The Beatles St Pepper tribute show at the Philharmonic in Paris.
After Ed’s richly dark apocalyptic record, Furnaces (produced by Flood) was released in 2016, he moved his family to the countryside in south Oxfordshire and built his now infamous studio, the Wolf Cabin, which has been a hub of creative energy ever since & was inspired to release two cinematic instrumental records, Beyond the End (2018) & Monochrome To Colour (2020) . Ed is currently putting the finishing touches to his forthcoming solo record, ‘El Magnifico’, which has drawn him back to the lyrical light & which he hopes to perform live and tour at some point in the near future.
Twitter: @edharcourt
Instagram: @edharcourt
Website: www.edharcourtmusic.com
Tickets: £15 plus booking fee from https://linktr.ee/theamadeus
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