Lighthouse Poole, Thursday 25th September
Hangover Hill and Lighthouse present three more highly rated acts as they have a rare opportunity to experience a larger stage in our monthly unsigned music night. Live and Unheard, the monthly original grass roots music showcase at Lighthouse Poole, hosts its first Original Music Awards takeover on Thursday 25th September with three of this year’s winners.
The bill is headlined by Dorset-based prog rockers Galahad as part of their ongoing 40th anniversary celebrations. Having played their first gig at Somerford Community Centre on 31 August 1985, in their colourful career they have sold tens of thousands of copies of their 12 studio albums as well as a host of live releases, best of sets and offshoot projects despite never having had a major record deal. They served their time on the local circuit and went on to play theatres and festivals across Europe and North America, building up a global fanbase.
“I’m really looking forward to this one – it’s a bit of an off one for us, mainly because we don’t tend to do many things locally,” says singer Stuart Nicholson. “We were thrilled to be given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the OMAs and I’ve known Matt and Mel who organise it for years. They’ve wanted us to do a show for a long time – so here we are.”
Unsurprisingly, it’s not the first time Galahad have appeared at Lighthouse – in the late 1990s they played a charity show in the old Dorset Room of Poole Arts Centre (as it was known then) and in 1991 opened for hard rock band Magnum in the Wessex Hall.
“We were still quite new to it at that point so that was a bit of an eye opener – the rows of costumes and the riders and food and everything. I remember they had these walkways onto the stage that I wanted to use, but we were told to keep off!”
Having toured Germany, Holland and Belgium in June, as well as playing their official fortieth anniversary show at 1865 in Southampton, the Live and Unheard outing is a rare chance to see one of the UK’s pre-eminent prog bands of the last 40 years in a small and intimate setting.
Stuart Continues “Yes, it’ll be fun, a chance to play to an audience close up again. I’m not sure we’ll do a full band show at Live and Unheard, but we might resurrect our band-in-a-box idea and record the bass and drums to play to. It’s been a busy year, for us. The tour and the anniversary show were great with the full stage production – we saw loads of people from across the years and two guys made the journey over from Bucharest. Incredible”.
“Every show is different and this will be no exception,” adds Stuart. “There are times I wonder why I’m still doing it, but I can’t help it. What else would I do?”
Also appearing are Bournemouth indie rockers Traffic Cone Wizard whose album We:Are won the OMA for Best Recorded Work – Album
Traffic Cone Wizard. They are an eclectic indie-rock band from Bournemouth, originally formed in 2010. After writing and performing together for just a year, the band split in 2011. They reunited in 2020, bringing a new energy and direction to their sound. In 2023, they released their debut album, We:Are, which blends indie rock, psychedelia, and experimental pop. The album captures the band’s distinctive style, with quirky instrumentals and introspective lyrics. Traffic Cone Wizard continue to carve out their unique place in the local music scene with their vibrant, genre-defying sound.
The third act on this line-up is lucymuses s a singer-songwriter who has been charming audiences with her confessional song writing and chatty performance stylings since 2023. A self-described ‘walking noise complaint’, she blends her choral foundations with a lifelong love of any and all music and performance, and a ‘vibes-led’ approach to guitar-playing (read: never taken a lesson). The result is melodic, self-aware, sometimes melancholy, often fun, and always delivered with a cackle.
Vides
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Links
https://www.galahadonline.com
https://www.facebook.com/trafficconewizard
https://www.instagram.com/lucymuses
