The CB2 cafe is a special place for gigs and really is the closest to the Glastonbury Green field’s tent experience you can get indoors. Scatted cushions all over the floor of the basement venue, tiny stage and fifty people and the place is packed. Good food / beer / wines and a very pleasant crowd, the evening is set.
Greg McDonald and Gemma Gaynor (She was battered and bruised from falling off her bike earlier in the week) put on a delightful set of folk tunes. A debut record from the pair is currently being recorded with the guy’s from Slow of Hands, in the West Country.
Next up was Ethan Ash. A jolly fellow with a great collection of songs. I guess you would say pretty much in the Ed Sheeran mode and from the look of his hand-outs a master of social networking. Boundless energy and free jelly babies for the audience, he was well received.
Rachel Sermanni took to the stage once everyone had visited the bar and had a stretch, immediately the audience are smitten. Rachel’s voice can sing the most fragile, delicate song one moment, to blasting through a powerful up-tempo tune the next. Her guitar playing is also getting better and better meaning the instrument comes as a perfect match for the voice.
We first saw Rachel last year at SXSW and then Homegame (The Fence Collective’s occasional bash in
Much like seeing Laura Marling on the bandstand in
Pete
Rachel’s upcoming tour dates
Thursday 1 March - The Latest,
Friday 9 March - Whelans,
Friday 6 April - The Catstrand Arts Centre,
Saturday 7 April - Stockton Calling, Stockton on
Thursday 19 April - The