December Gig at Xposed Club

5 December 2008, Xposed Club, Pittville Studios, Albert Road

Friday 5th December a Christmas Special sees the legend Lol Coxhill join the great Veryan Weston and the very very special duo of Mike Adcock and Clive Bell make it a night of two duos. Come along to Xposed Club and be prepared for a night of outstanding music making.

Lol Coxhill and Veryan Weston have been playing with together since 1974. They made their first public recordings together (Joy of Paranoia and Digswell Duets) and also collaborated with various visual artists on performance projects. They also co-composed for Derek Jarman's film – Carravaggio, as well as stuff on Granada television with Lol's group – Standard Conversions.

Mike Adcock and Clive Bell have been playing together, on and off, for over twenty years. In the mid-80's they formed the band Accordions Go Crazy, recording three albums for the Trikont label in Germany. Since then they have been involved separately in various solo and group projects as well as continuing to work together in a number of ways. Clive Bell has played for several years in Jah Wobble's band Invaders of the heart and has worked with Paul Schütze, Bill Laswell and Jeff Beck.

Mike Adcock, as well as playing with blues/swing band The Cadillac Kings, has developed a long standing interest in Norwegian music through a number of collaborations with Norwegian musicians, including Nils Økland, Karl Seglem and Terje Isungset. In 2002 the CD Sleep It Off by Adcock and Bell received wide acclaim, including being voted one of the The Wire magazine's albums of the year. More recently they have both been performing with the German-based improvising group Paper Factory, along with Sylvia Hallett, Hans Joachim Irmler (from Faust) and Mike Svoboda from the USA, releasing a CD Schlachtfest-Session 1.

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