Woodbridge Festival Live At The Riverside
Monday 7 December at 6pm
Sun Cutter (ft. Kevin Pearce) / Kirsty Allison (Vagrant Lovers)
Host DJ Ben Osborne
Sun Cutter/Kirsty Allison Live at the Riverside - tickets available here
Our Live At The Riverside residency returns for its fourth event with a double header featuring regional star singer Sun Cutter (aka Kevin Pearce) and internationally acclaimed word and music artist Kirsty Allison (Vagrant Lovers).
Sun Cutter is better known to Suffolk and Essex audiences as front man Kevin Pearce, the Manningtree-based singer/ songwriter who grew up in Colchester.
“Loving Sun Cutter.”
Gifted with a pitch perfect voice and often likened to Radiohead in song style, he was scheduled to appear at this year’s Bearded Theory and Glastonbury festivals - and was in the middle of a tour with Turin Breaks- when COVID-19 drove a bulldozer through the live music industry.
But this isn’t the only crisis the singer has recently experienced. Two years ago he suffered a heart attack, although still a young man. As well as having to redress his excessive living, his rehabilitation saw him develop a new creative alter-ego, the Sun Cutter project. Sun Cutter has drawn comparison with the warmth of Richie Havens, Cat Stevens, Van Morrison and Tim Buckley, but with a contemporary edge.
The LP was co-produced with Dean Honer(The Moonlandingz, I Monster, Eccentronic Research Council). With the first single achieving radio-play across the world in October, the LP is being released in January. Woodbridge Festival are delighted to share another live debut of new music with our audience. “Beautiful” (Mark Radcliff, BBC 6Music)… “Loving Sun Cutter” (Mark Riley, BBC 6Music ).
Post punk poet and musician Kirsty Allisonhas been compared to a current day Patti Smith and a female John Cooper Clark. Dr Cooper Clark is also a fan, while Trainspotting author Irvine Welshsimply says “Kirsty Allison is the greatest cultural beacon this planet has produced”.
Allison has appeared around the world. She opened Andrew Weatherall’s Convenanza Festival in 2017, has performed withYouth, John Cooper Clarke, Thurston Moore, the Fat White Family, and many more. Her debut LP with band Vagrant Lovers will be released in 2021 and features Mikey Chestnutt (Snapped Ankles), Gil De Ray, Malik Ameer(Madison Washington), Def Presse., Danielle De Picciottoand Kelli Ali(Sneaker Pimps). She’s played Pikes Literary Festival, Byline, the Volksbuhne and Gallery 46. "She combines the cerebral and the carnival" (Sunday Times Style)… "Wordsmith wizardry" (Adam J. Harmer, Fat White Family)… and is “sexy and talented… what is not to like?” (Murray Lachlan Young, poet-in-residence, BBC 6Music).
“Kirsty Allison is the greatest cultural beacon this planet has produced.
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Kirsty Allison’s debut novel, Psychomachia, is out next year, while subscribers to kirstyallison.substack.com receive a free copy of her Now Is Now poetry collection, which will also be available at the show.
The next Woodbridge Festival Live at The Riverside dates are:
7 December, 25 January, 22 February, 29 March.
This event is supported by Suffolk County Council.