Hamell On Trial + Ruth Theodore + Guy Gibson – Adelphi 40th Anniversary
Part of The Adelphi 40th Anniversary celebrations
Hamell On Trial
+ Ruth Theodore
+ Guy Gibson
(+ Special Guest Attila the Stockbroker)
Tuesday 1st October 2024
Tickets: £12.00 Advance
Doors: 8.00pm
As good as it gets… ****** 6/5
“Bill Hicks, Hunter S. Thompson and Joe Strummer all rolled into one” Philadelphia Weekly
Ed Hamell of Hamell on Trial is one of the most exciting and brilliant songwriters to come our way in years. The New York-based Hamell is a one-man punk band, and what with his frantically strummed and heavily amplified acoustic guitar and wonderful vocal delivery; simultaneously bleak, touching, and hilarious songs; and propensity for telling long and very amusing anecdotes you won’t even notice he’s up there all by himself. You’ll be too busy laughing, or being moved by the man’s incredible empathy for the damaged, the downtrodden, and the damned.
Very highly recommended
Hamell on Trial
Headliner and one-man explosion, Hamell on Trial, is a dynamic performance informed by politics, passion, intelligence and the all-important sense of humor.
Armed with a battered acoustic guitar that he amplifies mightily and strums like a machine gun, a politically astute mind that can’t stop moving, and a mouth that can be profane one minute and profound the next, Hamell’s caustic wit and devil-may-care attitude has long been a favorite of anti-establishment icons Aesop Rock, Kimya Dawson, and has toured extensively with folk legend Ani DiFranco. His performances invoke thoughts of the great, rebellious satirists and social commentators of the past: Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor and Bill Hicks. There’s no way around his obscenity but in that is a willingness to fight for the free thinkers of the world.
“Bald, bold and superbad!” – Rolling Stone magazine
“one man Tarantino flick” – the Village Voice
Ruth Theodore
“Her tales leave you breathless” MOJO
Back by popular demand, Adelphi favourite Ruth Theodore has just signed an exciting record deal with Ani Difranco’s Righteous Babe Records in the USA to release her highly anticipated 5th studio record.
Guy Gibson
It’ll be 40 years to the day that Guy Gibson became the 1st EVER performer at the Adelphi Club…that date was October 1st 1984…we can’t wait to see him back on stage