Tickets £4
Doors open 12pm, show starts at 12:30pm
This show is for a seated audience.

The bar will be open throughout.

Bob Dylan / Blood on the Tracks

They (critics, fans) call it Dylan’s ‘break-up album’, and yeah, there’s no shortage of battered emotions and accusatory finger-pointing to be found across its 10 tracks – but has a song cycle about love turning cold ever felt so counter-intuitively lush, comforting and warm? For members of the faithful, Blood on the Tracks is a centrepiece of the great man’s catalogue. for Dylan neophytes, it’s perhaps the ideal entry point to discovering the complex, multi-layered lyricism for which he’s so celebrated, here beautifully recorded on wax using the finest studio technology of the time, with Dylan himself in the producer’s chair. Free from the muffled clutter of his 60s period and the ill-advised sonic bombast of his (and, to be fair, most of his contemporaries’) 80s output, the result is arguably among Dylan’s most pristine and contemporary-sounding records – with lots to chew on in the post-listening discussion, we suspect…

The album playback will be followed by a Q&A session.

After a short break, we’ll follow the album with our usual ‘Dead Wax’ session. Bring along a vinyl disc of your choice and hear a track from it played through the Arts Centre PA. This can be anything you like, for any reason – the more ‘out there’ the better.