Our final event of the year in London features the winner from our online poll allowing our followers to vote for which album they would like to hear! The votes have been counted and we have a clear winner, Joni Mitchell Blue will lead us into Christmas. Join us at Brilliant  Corners in Dalston on Sunday 1st December at 3pm.

Tickets available here. ***THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT***

Released in 1971, the album reflects the disillusionment and disenchantment felt by a generation during the closing of The Sixties.

“It’s a description of the times,” Mitchell attests. “There were so many sinking but I had to keep thinking I could make it through the waves. You watched that high of the hippie thing descend into drug depression. Right after Woodstock, then we went through a decade of basic apathy where my generation sucked it’s thumb and then just decided to be greedy and pornographic.” She certainly doesn’t mince her words!

Alongside this universal theme of bereaving the end of an era runs a personal account of the loss of love. Mitchell had just willingly departed from a long, deep relationship with Graham Nash and she also reflects upon shorter but very intense affairs with James Taylor and Leonard Cohen. There is the conflict between love and freedom as in that period, women were supposed to repress their creative spirit to be tied down to family and domestic life. Mitchell’s spirit could not be bound.

However, in terms of which song is about whom, Mitchell replies, “It doesn’t matter who the guy is. Too much attention is put on the gossip and not on the art.”

And what art it is. Mitchell has a unique way of marrying the lyrics to the music so that they create a singular mood or as she says, “My words and music are locked together.”

London

Time and Date: Sunday 1st December 2019 3pm – 5:30pm

Venue

Brilliant Corners, 470 Kingsland Rd, London E8 4AE

Tickets – THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

£10 in advance

Presenter

Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy

Audio Menu

Dynavector D17D3 MC Cartridge, Rega P9 Turntable, Rega IOS Phono Stage Audio Note Jinro Integrated Amp, Chord Signature Speaker Cable, Chord Signature Tuned Aray interconnects, ISOL-8 Substation Integra Power Conditioner, Klipschorn Loudspeakers and Klipsch SW-115 Subwoofers

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