The Wilmington Arms
We are the Wilmington Arms A pub in the heart of Clerkenwell, located just over the road from the vibrant Exmouth market, with its fabulous independent shops, restaurants and market stalls.
We serve excellent booze, fantastic food and there is always something exciting in our live venue. Open since December 2007 and sister to Camden's the Hawley Arms we aim to provide a home-from-home atmosphere serving quality drink, food and live entertainment for all those who enter.
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Next Gig
JP COOPER
17th May 2012
JP Cooper
Ed Laurie
7.30PM Doors
£6 Entry
Advance Tickets at http://www.alt-tickets.co.uk/alttickets/home_jp_cooper_.html
JP Cooper
Sometimes you see someone perform for the first time and you're just completely blown away…
Hailing from Middleton North Manchester, playing a blend of folk, blues, soul and gospel. JP Cooper is an intriguing prospect amongst aspiring British Singer Songwriters
Listening to him perform, either alone or with his band, bears witness to an honesty, intensity and power evoked via the simplest of orchestration.
His soulfully expressive unique vocal style, the kind that cuts through a room to hush a chattering crowd in seconds, is utterly bewitching. His unexpected vocal flights hardly prepare you for the intimacy and empathy to follow, couple this with a clutch of sensational songs and you would find it almost impossible to believe that he has only been writing seriously for 2 years and performing solo for barely 1. Comparisons are yet to be made (although they inevitably will be..), but there is nothing derivative about his voice or his songwriting.
JP has been singing with Manchester’s finest gospel choir, The Manchester Sing Out Choir (nominees for the National Gospel Awards), for the last few years. An unusual training ground for an acoustic singer-songwriter you might think… but it’s one that has enabled him to develop an extraordinarily soulful warmth to his vocal whilst retaining a genuine folksy feel and has informed a real leftfield approach to his song writing.
Although gigging constantly throughout 2010 JP found time to recorded & self-release 2 x 4 track EPs with nothing more than a few battered microphones and some aged recording equipment. This home-crafted approach, (which can be heard in sections of his D.I.Y recording as creaks and accidentals are exposed in the folds of the songs), is beginning to pay dividends. Selling out of over 500 copies of his bedroom recordings JP is currently recording his 3rd EP complete with full backing band and gospel singers.
Check out the following video of JP doing what he does best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUqsWxuhDRA&feature=digest_mon
Sour Milk Sea
Sour Milk Sea is the pseudonym of London singer songwriter Nathan Hinchliffe. Born and raised in the cathedral city of York. A love of music brought him to London to study at the eminent Goldsmiths College. There, he learned that you could make a living out of music you just had to stick with the right folks.
After years of playing in various groups, Nathan has finally decided it is time for him to go his own way and with the influence of groups long gone and ever present friends he has written songs that challenge the way a singer songwriter should present themselves, with considered production and instrumentation all from his own brainbox.
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