(Wed 6 March / 8pm / £6 advance)

Richard Dawson has been a much-loved musical spectacle in his native Newcastle for many years now, a skewed troubadour who sings and plays guitar with a rare intensity and a very singular style.

Dawson’s music is a collision of opposites, his hoarsely cracking voice suddenly rising to a magical soar that’s been compared to Tim Buckley, John Martyn and Richard Youngs, while his battered acoustic guitar veers from stumble to sublime in a way that can recall Sir Richard Bishop or Captain Beefheart.

Tom O.C. Wilson, AKA Freeze Puppy, plays tonight in a more stripped-down incarnation as a solo guitar/voice project.

Two White Cranes create dreamy, wistful folk-pop melodies.

http://www.richarddawson.net/
http://www.tomwilsoncomposer.co.uk/tocwpage.htm