LONDON: Green Note

THU 20TH NOV, 2008 7pm

A modern travelling troubadour using tap shoes, acappella, harmonica, guitar, trombone, spoons, finger cymbals, bandorea, djembe and various percussion instruments!

Rory has travelled the globe for different reasons at different times, from Asia to the middle East from Gambia to Cuba, Central America, Australia, North America, Canada, Europe and other nooks and crannies of the earth.

"You don't listen to McLeod you travel with him" City Hub, Sydney (Australia) "I've travelled to look for work, to mend a broken heart, to be with someone I longed for. I'd travel to visit friends and on the way I'd make new ones, I'd roam because I was curious to see what was around the next corner, sometimes I travelled to follow the warmer weather and migrate... like the birds and the big whales and fishes do".

"McLeod is one of the most energetic, most generous performers I've seen." (Doug Spencer, ABC Radio)

"McLeod is one of the most energetic, most generous performers I've seen."Doug Spencer, ABC Radio (Australia)

"Atavistic peoples' music ... something uncommon and most certainly an endangered species. You'll know Rory when you see him - above all don't miss him next time he's here." Molly McAnailly Burke, Hot Press (Ireland)

"Rory is a dynamic live performer - never still or silent, his shows radiate energy. All this dynamism does not obliterate his songs which are always thought-provoking and well crafted. Get hold of one of his albums and come and see one of the folk circuit's greatest live performers."Venue magazine, Bristol (UK)

McLeod's Blitzkrieg of originality should have made him a national icon long ago. That he remains a mere cult hero in a specialist field has much to do with his own incessant lust for adventure, reflected in a blaze of contrasting musical and lyrical reference points which scarcely keep him in one place long enough to milk any glory.

Part Talking Blues, part world music visionary, he switches from unexpected sentiment (Unlearning Song) to rampaging political observation in a voice that makes Billy Bragg sound like a public School boy, while skipping lightly through a musical history of the world.

The First CD is an especially moving Song Cycle, including telling contributions by ex-Anam singer Aimee Leonard, an inspired re-working of Ewan Macoll's 'Joy Of Living' and one epic, mind-boggling socialist anthem 'What would Jesus Do? Inspirational.(Colin Irwin)

PLEASE NOTE: the venue comprises both seated and standing space. There are a limited number of tables. These are allocated on a first come first served basis, with priority given to diners. If you’d like a table, please ensure you arrive early (doors open 7pm). Music starts at 9pm.

NO ENTRY AFTER 9.30pm.