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Charlie Dore is one of the UK’s most respected songwriters. Initially a highly original solo artist (her self-written single Pilot Of The Airwaves reached number 13 on the Billboard chart back in 1980), she went on to ply her gifts for inspired melodies, big harmonies and clever, quietly subversive lyrics in the wider commercial marketplace, and with great success: Tina Turner, Celine Dion, George Harrison, Lisa Stansfield, UB40, Jimmy Nail, Sheena Easton and Hayley Westenra are just a handful of the diverse artists to have covered her songs. Her most recent album, ‘Cuckoo Hill’ received rave reviews; if you appreciate good songs, beautifully sung, it’s highly recommended. In 2007, Charlie released a single, Some Kind of Love, a celebration of dysfunctional relationships. Charlie says: "I'm not saying everyone I know is in a dysfunctional relationship, but when I mention what the song's about, so far, most people give me a very knowing look. A lot of my favourite people stagger along in what, from the outside looks like a disastrous pantomime horse of a partnership, yet they survive somehow. Some people don't recognise love unless it's carrying a big stick" "Imagine what might happen if you shut the McGarrigle Sisters in a room with Gillian Welch and made them listen to Lennon and McCartney all day” Alan Jackson "A clever songwriter with a dream of a voice that glides from folk and country to jazzy cabaret' - The Telegraph "Playful and clever… a wonderful kind of bittersweet pastoral Englishness" Americana "Beautifully crafted songs" Record Collector
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Special
support for this show is provided by highly regarded Brighton-based
singer songwriter Chris Simmons. After a year in Australia, Chris
returned to the UK and quickly won Southern FM`s Battle of The Bands
(beating 400 other acts) and has gone on to play an impressive list of
support slots with acts including The Kooks, Squeeze, Suede, Finlay
Quaye and many more. He has had tracks played on Radio One, Radio 2, XFM
and many other commercial stations in the UK, Spain, the USA and
Australia as well as appearing live on BBC One, Sky One and ITV