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Step into the enchanting world of The Bookshop Band to say farewell to the festival for another year as their songs unfold like chapters in a grand literary saga. Ivor Novello-nominated musicians, Beth Porter and Ben Please, write songs inspired by books and have performed concerts in bookshops world-wide. They are about to release their 14th studio album, Emerge, Return, produced by Pete Townshend of The Who and featuring songs inspired by Margaret Atwood, Philip Pullman and Robert Macfarlane amongst others. They are about to release their 14th studio album, Emerge, Return, produced by Pete Townshend of The Who and featuring songs inspired by Margaret Atwood, Philip Pullman and Robert Macfarlane amongst others.
"Achingly good" The New York Times "An inspiration" Pete Townshend
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Biographie de The Bookshop Band
The Bookshop Band - the offspring of an artistic love-affair between a group of award winning songwriters / composers and an independent bookshop in the UK, Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights, who curate most of the books that inspire the band's songs.
Ben Please & Beth Porter have now worked with hundreds of authors since they began in 2010, and toured all over the world. This year they are releasing their 14th studio album, EMERGE, RETURN, produced by music legend, Pete Townshend (The Who), and with cover art by Stanley Donwood. It is out on June 28th, during Indie Booksellers' Week, and the band will be performing all over the UK. The album features songs inspired by:
The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood
The Book Of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, by Philip Pullman
The Vanishing Hours, by Barney Norris
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Underland, by Robert Macfarlane
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë & Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Diary of a Bookseller, by Shaun Bythell
The High Mountains of Portugal, by Yann Martel
The Orphans of the Carnival, by Carol Birch
Plus d'infoBen Please & Beth Porter have now worked with hundreds of authors since they began in 2010, and toured all over the world. This year they are releasing their 14th studio album, EMERGE, RETURN, produced by music legend, Pete Townshend (The Who), and with cover art by Stanley Donwood. It is out on June 28th, during Indie Booksellers' Week, and the band will be performing all over the UK. The album features songs inspired by:
The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood
The Book Of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, by Philip Pullman
The Vanishing Hours, by Barney Norris
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Underland, by Robert Macfarlane
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë & Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Diary of a Bookseller, by Shaun Bythell
The High Mountains of Portugal, by Yann Martel
The Orphans of the Carnival, by Carol Birch
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Composer Songbook
Folk
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