Thursday 9 August 2012

Inside a Picture - Live at the Ritz

...a compilation of rehearsal footage along with stagecam sound, this is the Ascension Plan with the massed choirs of the Divine 50 Degrees and the Eden Choir, live at the Ritz, Penzance...

Wednesday 1 August 2012

Ascendance at the Ritz


...Messrs, Stetson, Wackem, Shoddy and Waft are proud to present...

...fresh from International acclaim (in Vogue and NME ) at the Port Elliot Festival, Vicky Abbott's the 50 Degrees (augmented by members from the Eden Choir) will be joining local beat combo the Ascension Plan this Friday 3rd August at the Ritz, Penzance...

...the massed choir will be opening the evening with a "dark" selection of songs taken from their contemporary repertoire...

...after a short intermission, the delightful Abbott/Birbeck and friends will be entertaining with a selection of favourites old new & blue...

...following another short pause for refreshments, the Ascension Plan will lead us into the second half of the show, featuring the guitar and vocal stylings of Martin Jackson (Ethatone, Quietly Torn), and the ethereal electric violin of the Waft (Eden's Ashes, Bates Motel) backed by solid rhythm engineers Gurt Wackem and Mungo Shoddy, late of Pablo Fanques Fair...

...described as "warm and unusual" the Plan will take us on a journey from a whisper to a scream, thru Love, Death and Rebirth with the massed choir returning for the uplifting epic final movement...

...Lightshow/Projections by WSW in association with Ben Mankin and ol' Steckfenster imself...