Del Casher
Over a fascinating career that started aged just 16 with his own radio show "The Many Guitars Of Del Casher" on WJOB, Del Casher has worked with artists as diverse as Frank Sinatra, Julie London, Elvis Presley, Phil Spector, Motown Records and Frank Zappa. He also developed the Wah Wah pedal for guitar and invented the Eccophonic Tape Echo Machine. In the late fifties he played with The Three Suns, touring Japan and releasing a number 1 hit album "The Three Suns Live In Japan" and had hits of his own in the sixties with songs like "Night Mist On Highway 2" and "Guitar On Fire". Del also worked on films with Elvis (Roustabout), Roger Corman, and Warren Beatty amongst others.
At these intimate shows Del will play material from across the years, demonstrating his stunning guitar techniques and telling anecdotes from a captivating personal history.
Lewis Floyd Henry
Guitarist/songwriter Lewis Floyd Henry brings his one man band show to Cafe Oto, serving up a bucolic mix of psychedelic soul and blues.
"Sounding off like a thrash improv Hendrix with a trashy roots flare and scatty cum honky flow of song, his guitaristry maintaining a lovely natural fluidity and his changes and sections winding together to hold a firm audience engagement. Anyway, this guy wails rocks and can show it." Synthiamusic Blog
Boycott Coca-Cola Experience
Boycott Coca-Cola Experience (aka artist and animator Tim Siddall) performs brilliantly observed agit-prop songs on the themes of ecology, love and modern life with a with a large pinch of surrealist humour. He has released one recording an eponymous twelve-song CD.
"A tall, regal man (... ) he performs songs that mostly consist of long imaginary arguments with people about where electricity comes from. "This guy's a genius," says Pete Molinari, who is the last person I would expect to appreciate such esoteric streams of consciousness." Will Hodgkinson, The Guardian.
" (... ) a dry, Dadaist set (during which) the wonky guitar repetitions become all the more disorientating. Tim Siddall’s deadpan vocal is a little more re-assuring, very reminiscent of One More Grain’s Daniel Patrick Quinn, with punning, surrealism and wry satire its focus." Vanity Project Fanzine, 2009.
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