ELLEN & THE ESCAPADES HEAD SOUTH FOR TOUR OF THE WESTCOUNTRY
Delicate, bitter-sweet and soul searching are some of the words usually associated with the music of alt folk/rock quintet Ellen and the Escapades. Their upbeat and catchy debut single ‘Without You’, released on their own home grown label Branch Out Records, was lovingly packaged in hand stitched felt and greeted warmly by the likes of Steve Lamacq and Rough Trade in the summer of 2009. Since then, Ellen’s dusky, captivating vocals and honest lyrics have helped push the band to new heights, including winning Q Magazine/Glastonbury’s Emerging Talent Competition and playing a total of 5 stages at last year’s festival.
247 Magazine has been championing them for months now, since catching them at London Lexington last year and then again at Wychwood and Green Man Festival and they are reciprocating our love this spring by returning to the South West for a mini tour – which stops off at Chapel Arts in Bath on Thursday February 23, the Eden Project Café in St Austell on Friday February 24 and Miss Peapod’s in Penryn on Saturday February 25 before heading to Devon for a stop at Exeter Phoenix on Monday February 27.
Tickets from £5adv at www.wegottickets.com
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