A Special Night For Swells Announced

Celebrated NME journalist (and, really, how often do we get to put those words together these days?) Steven Wells AKA Seething Wells AKA Swells was taken from this world too soon by cancer earlier this year. Quite rightly, a flock of his peers are putting on a special night to celebrate his life at the Albany in Deptford, London on December 4th.

THE NIGHT WE KEPT FOR SEETHING WELLS
Steven 'Swells' Wells, who died of cancer on 24 June this year, was a roaring, radical, iconoclastic motormouth, a verbal timebomb permanently primed and aching to explode.

As a journalist for the likes of the NME and, after his move to the States, The Philadelphia Weekly, he systematically demolished everything middl England held dear and then dynamited the rubble, while simultaneously immolating whiny indie bands, pompous rock stars and Morissey. Before that, in the early to mid 80s, as the ranting poet Seething Wells, he did the same thing, only even louder because he was on stage - headlining one of the earliest Apples & Snakes gigs in November 1982. Tonight some old mates and collaborators celebrate his loud, defiant, wonderful life. Book early!

Featuring

Melodic punk trailblazers The Newtown Neurotics
Speccy troubadour John Hegley
Innovative journo / broadcaster David Quantick
Gothic poetry-pioneer Joolz Denby
New Model Army frontman Justin Sullivan
Livewire anarcho-poet Nick Toczek
Nightingales singer Robert Lloyd
Southern Death Cult / Fun-Da-Mentals Aki Nawaz
Vintage Bradford ranter Little Brother
Music-vidoe innovator Nick Small

With compere Attila the Stockbroker (who shared an EP, a book and countless memorable gigs from Swells)

THERE WILL BE A COLLECTION FOR CANCER RESEARCH AFTER THE SHOW

Tickets cost £8, £5 to concessions and free to selected under 26 year olds. For more information check the website