A fantastic evening of live music, with Swansea favourites Swan Hill headlining a night including Ryan Mark Elliot (Kinky Wizzards) and Celavi.
SWAN HILL are a band from Swansea that make 90s inspired, fuzzed out, power-pop guitar music that will make you think you’ve died and gone to Jazzmaster heaven.
Originally formed as a Garageband lockdown project, the band have spent the last couple of years gigging across the UK, filling small stages with effects pedals, telling lots of inside jokes and generally being noisy.
The latest single, ‘Unlucky’, (mixed and mastered by Tom Rees of Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard) rounds off 2022 with a signature blend of intricate melodies and big, fuzzy guitars. Word on the street is that there will be even more music from Swan Hill to come in the near future.
RYAN MARK ELLIOT is a Welsh musician, composer and producer known for his adventurous, distinct and eclectic guitar playing and untempered ambition in writing and performing music.
In May of 2019, Elliott announced that he would be releasing his solo debut album, the music to follow will be a blend of many styles including rock, grunge, progressive rock/metal, dream pop and ballads all with a sense of strong conceptual grandeur of the 80’s: influenced by many artists including Steven Wilson, Bjork, Radiohead, Rush, Tears for Fears, Sting, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Mew, David Bowie and Tool.
The debut album ‘Between a Disillusion and Resolution’ was released on the 27th March and features nine tracks that offer an immersive and cinematic listening experience with dense harmonies, intricately written guitar and drum passages, atmospheric synthesisers and ornate arrangements.
Elliott’s career began at the age of 16 when he started performing extensively as a soloist, for local musical productions such as ‘We Will Rock You’ and with function bands. In 2009, Elliott won the John Tree award for most promising musician in RCT. In 2010, he attained distinctions in RGT guitar grades 6,7,8 within 6 consecutive months before studying at the Academy of Contemporary Music, Guildford where he graduated with a first class honours in 2014.
From 2012 to 2018 Elliott was the leader of progressive rock band, Eden Shadow, who have released two full length albums under Rob Reed’s label White Knight Records, Phases (2014) and Melodies for Maladies (2016), both of which have sold internationally and features a range of guest musicians such as Nik Turner (Hawkwind) and Theo Travis (Steven Wilson/Soft Machine/ Robert Fripp). Melodies for Maladies was released to critical acclaim, being described as ‘a hidden gem’, ‘crazily good album’ and ‘one of the most accomplished and enjoyable progressive metal albums of 2016.’
In 2014, Elliott joined The Kinky Wizzards, the bass guitar and drum duo formed of brothers Miffy and Jiffy to transform the band into an instrumental rock and jazz trio. The band are garnering a reputation as being one of the most audacious and entertaining instrumental bands in the UK. The band regularly perform live, including being invited to the London Drum Show and supporting Frank Zappa’s band ‘The Mothers of Invention’ and Magenta. In March 2017, The Kinky Wizzards released their second album ‘Quirky Musings’ and was well received by listeners as a thoroughly entertaining instrumental album that was compared with the likes of The Aristocrats and Mahavishnu Orchestra.
During the summer of 2019, KW returned to the studio to record their third album. The following year, Kinky Wizzards released their third album ‘The Effervescent Travellers’ on August 14th. The album features seven high octane – energy fuelled tracks all inspired by the themes of travel. The band are currently working on online performances and content whilst the pandemic inhibits musicians from hitting the road.
Elliott is currently studying for a masters in composition and Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and dedicating his time to guitar tuition, music theory and education based workshops.
CELAVI are Gwion and Sarah, a metal | nu-metal | goth band from Bangor in North Wales. Their music is also influenced by industrial | electro and rock – bringing a fresh nu-sound to metal. The heavy guitar driven sound of their music is dramatically contrasted by Sarah’s soft and delicate voice which compliments their music and makes them stand out from the crowd.
Always staying in their own lane, CELAVI thrive on their fresh genre-exploding nu-metal sound, supported by BBC Introducing Rock with Alyx Holcombe on BBC Radio 1 and Future Alternative with Nels Hylton on BBC Radio 1.
Are you ready for something different?
Free entry. 7pm.