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Love with Johnny Echols + Swansea Sound *

July 21, 2024

Tickets £23.50
Doors open 7pm, gig starts 7.30pm
This gig is for a standing audience

The Love band featuring Johnny Echols sees Arthur Lee’s longest serving band perform classic songs from Love’s first three albums ‘Love’, ‘De Capo’ and ‘Forever Changes’ as well as some special deep cuts for the last time.

From 1993 until Arthur’s death in 2006, the band Baby Lemonade performed with him, being an essential part of the renaissance of Love’s music. This iteration of Love saw many sold out tours, as well as back to back Glastonbury performances and an appearance on Later with Jools Holland.

Joining Baby Lemonade is Love’s original lead guitar player and founding member Johnny Echols, who was part of the classic line up that recorded the seminal ‘Forever Changes’.

Johnny Echols and Arthur Lee were childhood friends whose families both moved from Memphis to Los Angeles. Teenage Johnny & Arthur teamed up to form the groups Arthur Lee & The LAG’s and the American Four before they formed Love in 1965. The classic Love line up featuring Johnny disbanded in 1968. Johnny reunited with Arthur Lee in 2005 to perform with Love once more.

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SWANSEA SOUND
Reuniting Hue Williams and Amelia Fletcher, the original singers of cult 1990s UK indie band The Pooh Sticks, Swansea Sound have become a popular fixture on the UK indie scene. They have released two acclaimed albums, are frequently played on the BBC and have recorded a live BBC6Music session. Described as ‘an indiepop miracle’ by All Music, SWANSEA SOUND combine a witty, sardonic, very contemporary lyrical attack with timeless guitar-pop songwriting. Latest single ‘Markin’ It Down’, which features Amelia as an unimpressed record shop worker and Hue as an ever-optimistic customer, was released in April to mark International Record Store Day. The live experience is unmissable, with Hue and Amelia playing off each other, sometimes duetting, sometimes harmonising, always entertaining, while the band (Rob Pursey – also Heavenly, Bob Collins – The Dentists, Ian Button – Death In Vegas) kick up an infectious melodic racket.

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Date:
Sun, July 21
Time:
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Website:
https://www.facebook.com/events/402964782740407/

Venue

Church St, CO1 1NF Colchester, United Kingdom

Organiser

Colchester Arts Centre
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