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The Madhouse Roliston
Keith James & Rick Foot
Saturday 23rd January 2010
Keith James and Rick Foot
Celebrate the music of John Martyn
UK Concert tour Autumn/Winter 2009/2010
This Concert tour by two of the UK’s most active and appreciated performers will be a challenging and
demonstrably personal collection of shows.
Over the past seven years or so Keith and Rick have gained substantial notoriety for bringing the fragile
and beautiful music of Nick Drake into a live Theatre context. With 500 or more concerts, festivals and an
appearance at Glastonbury they gave a re-birth and a human presence to this Country’s most cherished
singer/songwriter.
More recently and by way of a more far reaching and exotic endeavour the duo set two collections of
poems by the famous Spanish poet & dramatist Frederico Garcia Lorca to their original music - The Gypsy
Ballads and Poet in New York. The concerts of this material were really well supported bringing audiences
from both the modernist Spanish poetry circle, followers of Nick Drake together with those who simply enjoy
Keith & Rick’s seductive settings of fragile prose.
All this said; this season’s concert tour is profoundly closer to home. For the past 40 years the ingrained
body of music and somewhat tempestuous life of John Martyn OBE has been ever present in all of us who
have appreciated the work of acoustic singer songwriters.
It is not surprising that a significant amount of Keith & Rick’s audience, John Martyn’s audience and music
venues across the UK gave voice to the possibility of Keith & Rick performing concerts of his most beloved
music in its original format: that of voice, guitar and double bass.
It is therefore, with the most personal respect and the humblest of hearts that this series of concerts are
presented. The focus will be on the central integrity of the songs in their pure form on acoustic instruments
only. Also included will be music by Davy Graham, Sandy Denny, and Nick Drake.
‘A performance that is hypnotic and compelling’ Muse Magazine
‘Some of the most atmospheric and emotive music you will ever hear’ The Independent
