Live music at the Tree House!

I keep forgetting to add events to this website. We will soon have a shiny new website and hopefully my excitement about that will encourage me to update it more often!

But we have wonderful live music next Saturday, 19 November. We haven’t hosted many gigs this year, and I am still in two minds about the whole small venue thing, but the gigs we’ve had since the lockdowns have been fabulous. There are still some tickets left for this upcoming one, so do come if you can.

We have Wes Finch coming – an old friend of the Tree House and one of the most talented singer-songwriters around, for my money. He’s bringing with him Amit Dattani, who came once before, and is also wonderful. It’s going to be a great night! And all for £10. You can buy tickets here.

As well as being a fantastic songwriter, Wes is a genius at setting other people’s poetry to music, from Shakespeare to Philip Larkin and various poets in between. Here is his lovely setting of Philip Larkin’s Trees.

And here is a lovely original song from Amit Dattani – just beautiful.

Hope you can make it if you’re local! Starts 7.30pm, doors 7ish. More info at the Eventbrite link.

Chains, ‘All Up To Me’ and groovy Saturdays

Last Saturday, the fabulous Chains came and recorded a music video at the Tree House.  You may remember that Wes Finch came…then Speak, Brother came…and last weekend it was Chains’ turn to get the Big Comfy Sessions treatment.  They were fabulous, recording their own song All Up To Me and a beautiful cover of Carole King’s magical Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow.  Chains, aka Kate and Ben, are also very lovely people, which made it all the more wondrous.

The Big Comfy Bookshop will be opening in September at the new Fargo Village development in Coventry, and until then its owner Michael is using our shop as the venue for his Big Comfy Sessions.  They are filmed by Rob of  Redwood Photography under the aegis of Richard Harrison – it’s all very groovy, and I’ll miss it when the venture moves to its own premises!

Michael McEntee, owner of the Big Comfy Bookshop, has set up a crowdfunding project to help get his new premises off the ground, so do make a pledge if you’d like to support another community bookshop a bit like ours.  It’s great to have a new brother on the way!

But in the meantime, here are Chains – and for good measure, the previous two videos as well, as you can’t have too much grooviness on a Saturday, and they are all *amazing*.  How much fun can you have in a bookshop?  Loads, clearly.