Monnone Alone
Description
Coffeehouse at Julie's third show: Monnone Alone!
Intimate, unusually low-tech acoustic shows with natural reverb in a cosy restaurant at the Abbotsford Convent, Sunday evenings around dinner time.
As free of sonic artifice or interference as is achievable, these will be acoustic concerts unlike any other you have experienced.
Whether it's the human voice, a guitar or a guzheng, every note you hear at these concerts will sound more natural and 'real' than you may have heard these artists sound before.
In the cosy atmosphere of Julie Restaurant, around sunset on a Sunday evening, a small audience will enjoy some beloved local and international artists presenting their music as they wrote it: each word and every note clearly audible. Any audible distraction will be removed (within reason) to help the artist's music reach your ears intact. The kitchen will go quiet. Fridges will switch off.
Inspired by the coffeehouse gigs of Greenwich Village and across the UK during the folk revival of the early 1960s, these performances are captured only in further-away microphones that reinforce the overall sound of the artist, without making them louder. Rejecting the larger-than-life sonic approach typical of modern concerts, these artists will not perform into close microphones for each instrument, nor will their instruments be plugged into the PA system. The restaurant's magnificent church-like ceiling will provide all the reverb.
Restaurant meals, drinks and desserts available (not included in the ticket).
Perhaps most importantly of all - in the spirit of a real coffeehouse, there will be complimentary "bottomless cup" coffee!
Lineup
Monnone Alone
More than just a solo-outlet for ex-Lucksmiths bassist Mark Monnone, Monnone Alone has evolved into a fully functioning four-piece pop group with a questionable name. The ’T-Shirt Weather’ writer decided the solo game was no fun so soon took up with his old Lucksmiths pal Louis Richter (also of Mid-State Orange), Joe Foley (Extreme Wheeze) and Gus Franklin (Architecture in Helsinki), and the rest is jangly-fuzzpop history. Now four albums deep, the band have been likened to The Stone Roses collaborating with The Brian Jonestown Massacre while All Music claimed one could hold Monnone Alone’s music “right next to the best work of Matthew Sweet, Velvet Crush, or Teenage Fanclub and not notice any drop in quality”. On their latest album Here Comes the Afternoon, the group were joined by a cast of former Monnone Aloners including Steph Hughes, Darren Hanlon and Isobel Knowles to construct an album that some have described as “a delightful assemblage of hooks, melodies and just damn good songs” (When You Motor Away blog).
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