Miranda Sykes & Jim Causley (Supported by Spafford Cambell)
August 8 AT 7:30 pm
Miranda Sykes & Jim Causley – Sat 8th Aug 26, 7.30pm at Queens Road Baptist Church. Supported by Spafford Cambell.
Two of the UK’s most iconic voices have finally combined as a duo.
Miranda Sykes & Jim Causley have known each other for nearly 20 years and united in 2024 to create a show celebrating pioneering folk song collector Sabine Baring-Gould.
They enjoyed working together so much and audience feedback was so positive that they have just released and toured their debut album.
“Everything Possible” features some of their favourite contemporary songs from the UK folk scene and beyond and brings their magical voices together.
Spafford Campbell
Spafford Campbell are twenty-something mould-breakers, fiddle player Owen Spafford and guitarist Louis Campbell.
The two first met as teenagers playing traditional music. The connection, they say, was immediate. The duo Spafford Campbell began playing live in 2018, prompting double takes with their delicacy, dynamism and seemingly telepathic exchanges, with the startling intimacy of musical conversations nurtured in improv-led writing sessions.
Their latest album ‘Tomorrow Held’ is a visionary body of eight largely instrumental tracks that hold space, resolve into mystery, that fold in elements of jazz, post-rock and chamber classical music while raiding the folk music toolbox. Call it what you want: post-folk. Trad-noir. Folk nihilism. Then know that Spafford Campbell are blazing a trail that erases genre —and finds gold in the embers.
While redolent of Talk Talk’s moody, experimental 1988 opus Spirit of Eden, and riven with a Bon Iver -ish sense of transcendence, Tomorrow Held is a work of bold singularity. A whole greater than the sum of its parts —parts that include effects pedals, ambient cassette loops, flashes of electric guitar, electronic processing on fiddle and impressionistic accompaniment.
