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Acoustic Ladyland

Acoustic Ladyland are a London based jazz/punk band consisting of Pete Wareham on vocals, tenor and baritone saxophone, Seb Rochford on drums, Tom Cawley on piano and Ruth Goller on bass guitar.

Tom Herbert played bass on their first three albums. They are part of the F-IRE Collective.

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Album Review

Acoustic Ladyland: Living With A Tiger

Read "Living With A Tiger" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Living With A Tiger, Acoustic Ladyland's fourth album, is the first to feature guitarist Chris Sharkey and bass guitarist Ruth Goller. They join with the founder members, leader and writer Pete Wareham on saxophone and drummer Seb Rochford [who are both also members of Polar Bear], to create one of the most distinctive and powerful quartets on the British music scene. This is loud, raucous, frenetic and inventive music that defies easy categorization, despite labels such as “punk jazz" that ...

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Live Review

Acoustic Ladyland at Norwich Arts Centre

Read "Acoustic Ladyland at Norwich Arts Centre" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Acoustic LadylandNorwich Arts CentreNorwich, U.K.September 24, 2009 Acoustic Ladyland took to the darkened Arts Centre stage, and the crowd began to cheer and whistle. Pete Wareham, tenor saxophonist, bandleader and composer, peered through his sunglasses and beckoned the audience towards the stage. The crowd, mostly younger than the musicians, dutifully moved forward as the band kicked into “Glasto." For the next 75 minutes Acoustic Ladyland played a frenetic, involving, funky and powerful set of ...

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Acoustic Ladyland at Vortex, London

Read "Acoustic Ladyland at Vortex, London" reviewed by Frederick Bernas


Acoustic Ladyland Vortex Jazz Club London, England March 28, 2008

As the act which opened the new Vortex in 2005, Acoustic Ladyland holds a special place in the hearts of many club regulars. The band returned on March 28 to a full house of over 100 people, with the usual table layout abandoned to create an entirely different atmosphere.

A standing audience pushed the quartet to perform at its highest level. Saxophonist-turned-singer Pete Wareham ...

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Acoustic Ladyland: Live at The Spitz

Read "Acoustic Ladyland: Live at The Spitz" reviewed by Chris May


Acoustic Ladyland Live at The Spitz London May 14, 2005

By 9.00pm--fully two hours before Acoustic Ladyland hit the stage, which they would do like an attack formation of B52s carrying armed love warheads (that's slash and burn amplification, off-the-meter energy levels, and a big throbbing gumbo of rock riffs, punk attitude and jazz improv)--the throng of people hoping, somehow, to get past the “Sold Out" sign and into the Spitz's funky and friendly second-floor performance ...

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Acoustic Ladyland: Last Chance Disco

Read "Last Chance Disco" reviewed by Chris May


Another revolutionary and heartening jazz-is-reborn manifesto from the F-IRE collective of young London bands--and by a mile the most extreme to date. At times closer to thrash metal and grindcore than jazz as it's usually defined, and acknowledging the presence of Pig Destroyer and Dizzee Rascal in the world around it, Acoustic Ladyland is either an electric jazz band that plays dirty rock 'n' roll, or a dirty rock 'n' roll band that plays electric jazz. Either way it'll rip ...

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Acoustic Ladyland Healine at Cargo London

Acoustic Ladyland Healine at Cargo London

Source: All About Jazz

ACOUSTIC LADYLAND HEADLINE AT CARGO plus The Invisible and Grasscut

Thursday 9th July Cargo 83 Rivington Street, Shoreditch, EC2A 3AY “Living With A Tiger" is released 13th July, through Strong & Wrong

Acoustic Ladyland return with a ferocious, slash-and-burn, minimalist sound that already makes this a contender for alt. jazz album of the year. TIME OUT

A ferociously good third setsounds like a group cranked up on crystal meth. ...

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Jimi Hendrix's Influence on Jazz

Jimi Hendrix's Influence on Jazz

Source: All About Jazz

Never underestimate Jimi Hendrix's influence on jazz music, on both sides of the Atlantic. Take Acoustic Ladyland: the London post-jazz darlings started out doing Hendrix covers (hence the name). They've broadened their palette quite a bit since then, not least their keys player Tom Cawley. His second album with side project Curios, Closer (Impure), shows off his improvising skills to dazzling effect, especially on the intricately dynamic Bradford, named for fellow pianist Brad Mehldau. There's great interplay with bassist Sam ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

The Mighty Q EP

Mood Records
2009

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Living With A Tiger

Strong And Wrong
2009

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A.L.IVE

Mood Records
2007

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Skinny Grin

Mood Records
2006

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Last Chance Disco

Mood Records
2006

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Saltwater

Mood Records
2006

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