Saturday 30th September
The Kings Head
Doors 7.30pm £6
A heartfelt tribute to the Man in Black with all the ingredients for a five star party.
Open House pays tribute to the legend and the icon who crossed musical borders, and the musical establishment, to do things his own inimitable way. Cash started life as a poor sharecropper's son from Kingsland, Arkansas, who sang to himself while picking cotton in the fields. But Johnny Cash wasn’t just another country singer. Mixing country with rockabilly, folk with gospel, he stands out as someone who understood the real meaning of ‘soul’ in music, and who never forgot his roots.
Union Avenue are a rockin’ four piece (guitars, drums, face-slapping stand-up bass) who deliver a fitting homage to the great man with a mixture of Cash’s own songs, and tongue-in-cheek cover versions that sound as he himself would have done them during his early years. Imagine a young Johnny Cash doing Teenage Kicks, White Wedding, Walk on the Wild Side or even Sympathy for the Devil.
This event will be broadcast live on BBC Radio Ulster from 8–10pm as part of McClean’s Country. Ralph McClean presents McClean’s Country every Saturday night on BBC Radio Ulster, as well as writing a weekly music column for the Sunday Life and a weekly cult movie column for The Irish News. His favourite album of all time is Live at San Quentin by the Man in Black.
