Bush Hall

Paper Aeroplanes

Categories, Pop and rock

Female-fronted Pennsylvanian troupe play jangly indie over the pond.

Sam Amidon

World, Folk

• Critics' choice

This Vermont-born alt.folk singer and fiddler updates the sounds of the old West and writes his own songs that are spare, melancholy, otherworldy, yet engagingly quirky too. He's currently working on a film, 'Plywood Superstar', which will end with Jimi...

Wang Chung

Synthpop, New wave and post-punk

Another reunion by this new wave duo, who were always more successful in the US than at home in Britain. They'll be playing their synthtastic, Bowie-aping '80s hits, including 'Everybody Have Fun Tonight' and 'Dance Hall Days'.

Sarah Neufeld

Indie rock, Violin recitals

In between playing violin for Arcade Fire, her post-rock group Bell Orchestre, or art-pop band The Luyas, Neufeld squeezes in a solo career in which she uses insistent violin loops to create urgent rhythms. Oh, and she's got another career as a moksha...

City And Colour

Singer-songwriter

Better known as the lead guitarist from Canadian screamo kings Alexisonfire, nowadays Dallas Green makes big-hearted, clear-voiced folk-pop that's won three Junos. Three whats? That's Canadian Grammys, obviously.

Woodpigeon

Categories, Pop and rock

• Free

NB: This show has been cancelled; refunds available from point of purchase. Slightly twee, yet charming and sweetly seductive sounds from this Canadian folk-pop outfit, promoting new album 'Thumbtacks And Glue'.

Bush Hall presents...

Comedy

Every so often the Show and Tell team take over this beautiful music venue in Shepherd’s Bush with intelligent, all-headline bills featuring some of the most erudite comics in the land. For each line-up see the occurrences.

Laurence Fox

Singer-songwriter

Posh actor Fox – who plays Detective Sergeant Hathaway in 'Lewis' – crosses the line from drama to music as he takes to the stage armed with an acoustic guitar and a selection of confessional songs. The audience could well consist mostly of 'Lewis' fans,...

David Serero

Show tunes, Opera, Song recitals

The baritone David Serero performs his electric repertoire (opera, Broadway, world music and comedy).

Martin Rossiter

Categories, Pop and rock

After a seven-year sabbatical from the music industry, the former frontman of Gene staged a comeback in 2012. Rossiter (great-nephew of the forbidding late actor Leonard) sings from his debut album 'The Defenestration of St Martin', a stark and touching...

Bo Bruce

Categories, Pop and rock

After coming second in the finals of ‘The Voice’ UK last year, this hushed, doe-eyed singer plays a headlining show. Her original songs are patchy, and she dresses like Rufio from ‘Hook’, but she undoubtedly has a pretty singing voice and does a cracking...

Robbie Boyd

Singer-songwriter

He made his name as a busker, winning the Mayor of London's 'Big Busk' competition with his band in 2012, so you may have seen Boyd on the street or a Tube tunnel already. If you have, you might remember he's got a gift for perky folk-pop, a yen for ukuleles...

Julia Fordham

Categories, Jazz and experimental

Veteran AOR singer-songwriter Fordham performs songs from her 20-year career, including music from her most recent 2008 release 'China Blue'.

Bush Hall presents...

Comedy

Every so often the Show and Tell team take over this beautiful music venue in Shepherd’s Bush with intelligent, all-headline bills featuring some of the most erudite comics in the land. For each line-up see the occurrences.

Trembling Bells/Mike Heron

World, Blues, roots and country, Folk

• Critics' choice

Mixing up British folk of the 1960s with post-rock, Trembling Bells is the atmospheric, sometimes psychedelic and frequently blistering project of drummer Alex Neilson. He fronts the band from the rear of the stage while guitarist Lavinia Blackwall takes...

Angel Olsen

Singer-songwriter

• Critics' choice

When otherworldly Chicago singer Olsen isn't playing with Emmett Kelly's experimental folk-rock band The Cairo Gang, she's a bewitching folk songwriter in her own right. Her heartstring-tugging vibrato and sheer simplicity make her well worth a liste...

Damien Jurado

Categories, Pop and rock

Excellent Seattle songman Jurado offers up agreeably downbeat and minimalist, folk-toned alt.rock fare. Here playing from his latest LP 'Maraqopa' with a full band.

Sam Baker

World, Blues, roots and country, Folk

• Critics' choice

In 1986, Austin-based Baker was caught in a terrorist bombing on a train in Peru. He was forced to relearn guitar left-handed after reconstructive surgery, and nowadays his fragile acoustica, recalling the poetic songcraft of Mary Gauthier, draws inspiration....

Kelly Joe Phelps

World, Blues, roots and country, Folk

• Critics' choice

Swapping his trademark slide guitar for a bottleneck on last year's 'Brother, Sinner and the Whale' album, Phelps is a fluent and affecting country blues musician. He's been known to use some unusual alternative tunings, but recently returned to his more...

Hawklords

Categories, Pop and rock

Late-'70s Hawkwind offshoot Hawklords bring their retro post-punk to the twenty-first century.

The Blow Monkeys

Categories, Pop and rock

Popular in the mid-'80s, The Blow Monkeys return with their darkly moody 'simian soul and primate punk'. With a dash of sophistico-pop to boot.

Bruce Cockburn

Categories, Pop and rock

The highly regarded Canadian returns, with somewhere in the region of thirty albums to his name. The most recent, 2011's 'Small Source of Comfort', is as sprightly as ever and his light-fingered guitar work remains unrushed.