Live and Unheard, the long-running monthly grassroots music night at Lighthouse Poole, returns on Saturday 21 March with the first gig in more than ten years from Bournemouth band Green Isaac.
The latest fruits of a musical kinship that’s well into its fifth decade, singer-songwriter Paul Holman and drummer Andy Place teamed up with producer Paul ‘Strangeboy’ Stacey (Noel Gallagher, Oasis, Black Crowes, Neil Finn) to record a fine new album, Branch, the follow-up to their 2015 debut Little Noises.
Drawing inspiration and influences from the likes of Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Blue Nile, Steely Dan, and Midlake, the songs reflect on themes of resilience, family and long-term creative collaboration and were recorded in part at Noel Gallagher’s Lone Star Studio with Paul Stacey on guitar and Phil Brickell on bass. Following a serendipitous meeting, Prefab Sprout keyboardist Jess Bailey plays on one song to complete a full circle moment for Green Isaac, whose name comes from the song on Prefab Sprout’s Swoon album – the 1984 record that cemented Paul and Andy as a musical unit.
“We made this album for the love of it,” says Andy. “If the songs weren’t written, where would they go?”
Also appearing at the March episode of Live and Unheard are Kolumbia, the teenage band from Wimborne whose first single I Want You is already turning heads, and 21-year-old poet/singer songwriter Karl Thomson from Swanage. His blend of rock, folk and alt styles can be heard on his latest single, I Remember.
