Dan Whitehouse
A Night Of Glass - Rising Sun Stream with Dan Whitehouse from Tokyo Bay
Apr 12, 2024
10:00 PM GMT+9
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I’m sorry to say rain is forecast.. so it’s best we move the planned Rising Sun Stream gig again to FRIDAY 12th (still 10-11pm) to provide the sunrise backdrop, but also so my laptop doesn't drown!
If you've bought a ticket and can't make it we will send you a private link to a recording (YouTube) of the gig.
Hope you can make it - Dan x
An online event brought to you, through the glass, as the sun rises in Tokyo Bay.
Virtual 'door's 9:45pm (UK time)
Music from 10pm (UK time)
Over the past two years, acclaimed singer-songwriter Dan Whitehouse has been in a transparently reflective mood with three albums all themed around the physical and metaphorical nature of glass. In The Glass Age he explored how, in terms of communication, we have become a screen-fixated society exchanging virtual emotions with an emoji or a coded text, our smartphones as indispensable an appendage as an opposable thumb. As the song Campfire succinctly puts it, “When you change the way you look at things/ Watch the things you look at start to change”.
This was followed by Voices From The Cones, an album that approached glass through a different lens, an Arts Council funded radio ballads styled project commemorating the history and legacy of glassmaking in Stourbridge in the heart of the Midlands, the epicentre of the nation’s glassmaking industry for over 400 years. A social history song cycle, he drew on both interviews and oral archive material, both playful and poignant, from some 100 former glassworkers who had been the industry’s molten heart. Then came Reflections On The Glass Age, a mirror image of the electronic pulses of the first album refracted through acoustic reinterpretations, intimately sung and played to distil the sweet melancholia of the material.
Songs from these projects have now been gathered together for ‘A Night Of Glass’, a simple but hypnotic live experience in which, he takes audience deep into the heart of glass in its myriad manifestations, his expressively nuanced crystalline vocals, a hint of Bowie here, a touch of Cohen there, effortlessly mining a wealth of emotions and ideas. This is where the light gets in.
George Bernard Shaw said “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul”. A testament to Dan’s intoxicating songwriting, consummate musicianship and quiet, unassuming charisma with songs like Thin Blue Line, the anthemic Rainbows Never End, and the infectious, crowd-friendly Work, A Night Of Glass is the melting point where art transforms.
“Gorgeous… intriguing” The Guardian
“Dan has an outstanding singing voice, possesses a unique artistic vision and displays songwriting excellence.” Chris Difford
“Wonderful production and writing” Tom Robinson BBC 6 Music
“Subtle and delicate melodies” The Sunday Times
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July 7th 2023
Lovely venue, the symphony hall.
Beautifully subtle stories told. My favourite about women strikers in cradley heath
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Bookings and enquiries Katie Whitehouse katie@fromthewhitehouse.com 07832 200980
“Nothing short of beautiful – **** ” — RnR Magazine
“Wonderful production and writing” — Tom Robinson BBC 6 Music
“Subtle and delicate melodies” — The Sunday Times
Acclaimed Black Country singer-songwriter Dan Whitehouse has gained a reputation as “a fine songwriter, a unique vocal talent and a talented multi-instrumentalist/performer” (MAVERICK) across five solo albums including 2020 release Dreamland Tomorrow.
2022 the International Year of Glass - Dan is focusing on two album releases, serendipitously glass related (at opposite ends of the spectrum).
The Glass Age - songs which look at how our human experience and ways of connecting have changed through the ‘glass’, the screens, of virtual meetings and communication.
‘Voices From The Cones’ - an Arts Council funded Midlands-centric song-cycle which tells the stories of the community of glassworkers of the Stourbridge glass factory which closed in 1992. An important part of our industrial and social history.
Touring now with TEN STEPS
Read MoreSinger-Songwriter human.
Bookings and enquiries Katie Whitehouse katie@fromthewhitehouse.com 07832 200980
“Nothing short of beautiful – **** ” — RnR Magazine
“Wonderful production and writing” — Tom Robinson BBC 6 Music
“Subtle and delicate melodies” — The Sunday Times
Acclaimed Black Country singer-songwriter Dan Whitehouse has gained a reputation as “a fine songwriter, a unique vocal talent and a talented multi-instrumentalist/performer” (MAVERICK) across five solo albums including 2020 release Dreamland Tomorrow.
2022 the International Year of Glass - Dan is focusing on two album releases, serendipitously glass related (at opposite ends of the spectrum).
The Glass Age - songs which look at how our human experience and ways of connecting have changed through the ‘glass’, the screens, of virtual meetings and communication.
‘Voices From The Cones’ - an Arts Council funded Midlands-centric song-cycle which tells the stories of the community of glassworkers of the Stourbridge glass factory which closed in 1992. An important part of our industrial and social history.
Touring now with TEN STEPS
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