Saturday Night at the Pie
With Rachel Rimmer and the Trent Vale Poet
As part of a series of acoustic and word based performances for Axis Festival
Rachel Rimmer
Every now and then an artist comes along who transcends all genres and fads by the sheer excellence of their talent. Rachel Rimmer is one of those rare performers who from the moment she sings, you know you're in for a real treat.
From the first notes, we can hear the warmth and huskiness of Sade and the free-falling falsetto of Joni Mitchell both wrestling with the ghost of Nina Simone...as a result this impossibly young chanteuse takes us on a vocal journey few can lead.
Her vocal depth, dexterity and maturity belie the fact that she is still only 22 years old, which augers well for a long and distinguished career. Brighton based Jazz vocalist Alice Russell states Rachel's music to be, "sounding really tastey, lovely acoustic sound in the production with Rachel's lovely smokey voice over the top!"
Meanwhile, Matt and Phred's Jazz Club in Manchester describe Rachel's live performance as
"Class...nothing but!"
And, as a young woman and practicing artist, Rachel is not shy to draw her influences from a huge spectrum of contemporary sources including Punk Princesses, Mowtown, broken hearts, Vivienne Westwood, Banksey, Burlesque, Film Noir, Marvin Gaye, one legged flute players, Madonna, bathroom recordings, Flamenco, corsets and Rory Gallagher. These contribute to songs that study the intricacies in life such as the subtleties of body language and being caught in the emotional web of someone very very bad. This special one off intimate preformace is not to be missed
www.rachelrimmer.com
The Trent Vale Poet Over the years Stoke on Trent has inspired a number of writers, Alan Bennet and Margaret Drabble to name but two and the Trent Vale Poet is one of our most recent home grown artists. Born in Burslem The Trent Vale Poet delivers his particular mixture of witty thought provoking street poetry, with a peculiarly Potteries slant with all that warmth and self deprecating style we have become accustomed to. There’s no edge on a Potter, we know how to tell it like it is!. Reflecting this down to earth daily repartee, the TVP appears regularly and often unannounced, in his home city of Stoke on Trent and beyond. Never have the ancient themes of the Potteries been more contemporary but in this guerilla poet’s hands.
www.myspace.com/thetrentvalepoet
£6.00 inc supper
Tickets only available at pieminister
37 Stafford Street
Hanley
Saturday 3 May, Pie Minister, 8:00pm, Spoken Word
Tickets: see description above for more information.
