Michelle Shocked
Caroline of Brunswick
39 DITCHLING, BRIGHTON, SUSSEX
Feb 23, 2018
7:00 PM UTC
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Double Grammy-nominated artist Michelle Shocked is touring the UK with a series of shows celebrating her time signed to Mercury Records, performing each of her albums from that time in their entirety. A triumphant performance. -Variety Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Michelle Shocked, affectionately known as the Godmother of Americana, brings her unique blend of indie, folk, blues, and politics to the stage. Not one to shy away from controversy, Michelle's dynamic personality, frank storytelling, and captivating vocals promise intimate and unforgettable evenings of music. Short Sharp Shocked, Captain Swing, and Arkansas Traveler are arguably Michelle's most enduring works and each gig will see her performing one of the albums in their entirety, with good banter and a few surprise numbers thrown into the mix.Tickets £8 + b.f. advance / £11 on the door.
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Michelle Shocked Biography
Michelle Shocked is a U.S. singer-songwriter whose music and performances seem influenced by her Texas roots, her political activism, and a self-assured style that her first major label producer likened to troubadors such as Joni Mitchell, Spider John Koerner, and Dave Van Ronk.
She was born Karen Michelle Johnston on February 24, 1962, in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of a carpenter and a woman who would end up committing her to a psychiatric hospital twenty-something years later. She graduated from high school in Gilmer, Texas and received her bachelor's degree in the Oral Interpretation of Poetry from the University of Texas in Austin. She was raised in a strict Mormon household and worked her way through college to pay for tuition.
Michelle's stage name dates back to the name she gave when arrested in 1984 at a protest for fair housing during the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, California. Her nickname was 'Chel, so Michelle Shocked was a play on words intended to resemble the phrase "shell shocked". The front cover of her (arguably) best-known album, Short Sharp Shocked, shows her restrained by the chokehold of a San Francisco policeman in a supposedly authentic photograph of this incident. However, some indie music critics of the time observed that the style of this image showed a strong similarity to a photo that appeared on an album cover from British punk band Chaos UK. This led some to assert that she plagiarized the concept, but the accusation was never answered nor seriously pursued.
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Read MoreShe was born Karen Michelle Johnston on February 24, 1962, in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of a carpenter and a woman who would end up committing her to a psychiatric hospital twenty-something years later. She graduated from high school in Gilmer, Texas and received her bachelor's degree in the Oral Interpretation of Poetry from the University of Texas in Austin. She was raised in a strict Mormon household and worked her way through college to pay for tuition.
Michelle's stage name dates back to the name she gave when arrested in 1984 at a protest for fair housing during the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, California. Her nickname was 'Chel, so Michelle Shocked was a play on words intended to resemble the phrase "shell shocked". The front cover of her (arguably) best-known album, Short Sharp Shocked, shows her restrained by the chokehold of a San Francisco policeman in a supposedly authentic photograph of this incident. However, some indie music critics of the time observed that the style of this image showed a strong similarity to a photo that appeared on an album cover from British punk band Chaos UK. This led some to assert that she plagiarized the concept, but the accusation was never answered nor seriously pursued.
(Straight copy from Wikipedia)
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