China Crisis

China Crisis: October 5th, 2023 – date changed. Tickets from the original date will be valid for the rearranged date. Refunds are available.

7:00 p.m. – Doors open

7:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. – Novelty Island (Support band)

8:15 p.m. to 10 p.m. – China Crisis

Eddie Lundon and Gary Daly are the founder members of the band which started in Kirkby, Merseyside back in 1979. China Crisis found major success in the UK with five Top 40 singles, ten Top 50 singles and three Top 40 albums and hits across Australia, Europe and the Americas. The band are known for their string of hit singles, including African & White, Chrstian, Working with Fire and Steel, Black Man Ray and Wishful Thinking. On two of their albums, they worked with Steely Dan’s Walter Becker. This show will see the band performing these classics alongside songs from all of their seven studio albums.

Eddie Lundon
Gary Daly
Jack Hymers (keys)
Eric Animan (sax)

Tickets to see China Crisis are £20

https://www.wegottickets.com/event/563176

Novelty Island

Novelty Island is the project of Liverpool-based songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, Tom McConnell. McConnell grew up between Newcastle and Liverpool and takes inspiration from the pop music, surrealism and melancholy of the North.

After a series of psychedelic EPs, the debut Novelty Island album How Are You Coping With This Century? was released in Autumn 2021. It led to the Novelty Island live band performing at Glastonbury and supporting Sea Power and The Pale White around the UK. McConnell then turned to recordings he’d made at Abbey Road Studios and Damon Albarn’s Studio 13 for the second Novelty Island album, Wallsend Weekend Television. The album was released in March 2023 and followed by a 10-date UK headline tour. Both Novelty Island albums have received five-star reviews from Shindig and R’n’R as well as support from Mojo, BBC Radio 6, BBC Introducing and Absolute Radio.

McConnell also creates the surreal imagery around Novelty Island in the form of papier-mâché props, dreamy animations, claymation videos and a never-ending Instagram account.