LIVE AT THE BEDFORD

8:00 PM DELFINA MANCARDO

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Delfina Mancardo, is an Argentine singer-songwriter based in Buenos Aires, who plays acoustic and electric with soul and intimacy singing in both English and Spanish.

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8:30pm CAITLIN AND OLLIE CLARK

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Caitlin was born and raised in the new forest a few miles outside the seaside town Lymington. Her mother and uncle are both concert pianists, her father – a writer, and her brothers and sister – musicians and artists; she grew up surrounded by culture. Caitlin trained to be a jazz singer and got regular gigs at well-known London clubs and bars doing the classic standards and hanging around with incredible musicians and performers.

Inspired by everything from the iconic works of Amy Winehouse, Billie Holiday, and Aretha Franklin to the new and disruptive sounds of Pip Millet and Olivia Dean. Caitlin, 21, has become a skilled singer/songwriter described as ‘the Venus flytrap of soul and jazz with roots a mile deep’. Captivating on and off stage, she is known for being wildly musical and sharp-witted.

As well as being a strong vocal soloist, she plays flute, guitar and piano and can harmonise almost anything. She has written songs with Bruno Major (Lianne La Havas, MJ Cole) and Jimmy Napes (Sam Smith, Disclosure).

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Ollie Clark is amongst the most talented young musicians in the UK, blowing people away for years with his guitar playing ability. As a multi-instrumentalist, his versatility shows no bounds. Whether the scenario requires background music or the use of his full Latino band, you can be certain he will deliver an incredible experience for your guests.

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9:30 PM THE NEW TWENTYS

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“The New Twentys harness the liberating feeling of being young and bottle that bittersweet aftertaste of summers gone by.” – Earmilk

With a punk-informed emphasis on independent artistry; The New Twentys are pooling their influences to become something greater than the sum of their parts.

Harry & Jimmy Morris grew up in a musical household in Laleham where their Dad introduced them to some of the greats like Lou Reed, The Police, and The Pretenders. The brothers found a natural penchant for capturing the creative energy of a tune and, at the age of 16, were fronting spikey pop-punk bands around the capital. Just beyond the M25, in Southend, Chris Bourne had recently turned his focus to writing. Having played bass in a successful US group, he toured the states extensively with his own brand of hook-heavy pop-punk, before burning out and heading back to his Pops’ Garage home studio. After lending his songwriting talents to several high-profile names (5SOS, Busted), Chris met Harry & Jimmy somewhere through the cracks of the London live scene, “I didn’t think I had the energy to start another band. I thought Harry and J were rad guys and originally I just wanted to write for their thing,” Bourne recalls from those early days. ‘A few songs later I realised that I was emotionally invested and couldn’t imagine myself out of it, missing out on the live shows – a serious case of future FOMO“.

The trio headed down the coast and set up camp at Chris’s brother’s place in Cornwall to continue writing/producing with no distractions. “This was when the sound of The New Twentys was born,” says Harry, ‘the first song we recorded on that trip was ‘Inside Out’ which set the tone for what was to follow.’ With the lack of a ‘drummer’, the three musos all have a hand in recording/programming the percussive bed for the band’s output, as well as all contributing to the lyrics, giving each track on their debut album a cohesive voice and direction. “We recorded the whole thing on a £120 scarlet interface.. we’d spend a lot of time trying to get the right sounds, although initially, these were all just demos that naturally morphed into the finished track,” Chris adds. This is a group who wears its DIY ethos as a badge of honour – everything is 100% in-house and entirely independent.

From the wonky, “Talking heads” new-wave energy of album opener ‘Inside Out’, to the Ramones-esque call and response of ‘You Got Me Good’, The New Twentys harness the liberating feeling of being young and bottle that bittersweet aftertaste of summers gone by. During their band-defining stint in Cornwall, the songs poured out and the trio were finding inspiration from every source imaginable. From an illness that left Chris bedbound, no food for 9 days (‘Power’), to a conversation that the group had with comedian Jimmy Carr (‘Dancing On A Sunday’). “All these girls are doing tracks like ‘I kissed a girl and I liked it’,” Carr said, ‘but no boys have come out with ‘I can’t think straight when I’m with you’, you can have that idea for free’. And they did.

The band has been cutting their teeth live all around the UK and proved that they are built for entertaining large crowds. They’ve already been playing shows with established acts such as Primal Scream, Fat White Family, Happy Mondays, McFly, Scouting For Girls, and James Bourne (who took the band on his whole UK tour). The band, whilst still completely independent, are being mentored with their social media campaign by Damian Keyes (founder of BIMM) purely because of his belief in the trio. The world-famous producer Steve Lillywhite (U2, Talking Heads, Killers, Morrissey, The Rolling Stones) has The New Twentys on heavy rotation on his radio show, as does Rodney Bingenheimer on Sirius XM.

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