Shhhhh! Listen again, quietly.
Our Quiet Nights in April saw special, gentle, loving gigs from special, gentle, loving musicians up in the ICA's Nash room. We've got the mp3s for you to stream or download and, as soon as they're finished, you'll be able to watch films of the nights here too.
Esiotrot
3 April 2009
Lively, lovely indie ramshacklers, fans of Roald Dahl, Jonathan Richman and guitar-tickling, invited audience participation.
The XX
3 April 2009
The soulful, doleful electro kids on XL melted us with their gorgeous boy-girl vocals.
Gerry Mitchell
10 April 2009
Poet and ponderer Gerry Mitchell did no-shit stand-up with his cracking backing band, including Serafina Steer on harp.
The Voluntary Butler Scheme
10 April 2009
Motown-meets-Half-Man-Half-Biscuit, VBS gave us a tailor-made one-man magic show for Quiet Nights.
Rue Royale
17 April 2009
Our first international Quiet Nights appearance! This ace married couple from Chicago are now in the UK, and have beautiful harmonies and perfect folky pop.
Blue Roses
17 April 2009
The Joni Mitchell of Bradford wowed us with her pure-as-a-cloud voice and her sweet, simple songs.
Peter Raeburn
24 April 2009
Advertising bigwig Pete Raeburn is also a superduper composer and producer. He and his band did the smoothest of all the Quiet Nights gigs: enjoy.
Mike Bones
24 April 2009
Bonesy is a Brooklyn boy with serious guitar skills who closed our Quiet Nights season with style, grace and a great violin player.