ABOUT


DATSON+HUGHES
POST PUNK FOLK

SAMPLE OF LIVE ACOUSTIC PERFORMANCE

Musical collaborators Geoffrey Datson and Annette Hughes form the acoustic post punk folk duo DATSON+HUGHES.

On recordings they play a range of instruments, from cello to bird whistle, but in live performance,  play predominantly on hand made dulcimers and banjos, fashioned by Geoffrey, who has been making his own instruments for the past thirty years.


The duo formed to perform new material and give voice to Geoff's vast back catalogue of songs and poetry written since the early eighties.


"While the live performance resembles the "folk" of traditional instruments and styles, it is also folk in the sense of home-made, uncompromising and free from commercial ambition", "harking back to something Alan Lomax might have captured, but also recalling the deadpan experiments of the Velvet Underground. Using Biblical language and the mythology of the ancient world juxtaposed with crappy cars and the detritus of the inner city life", DATSON+HUGHES makes music as “it was originally dreamed of”. 


PERFOMANCE REQUIREMENTS:
 

Instrumentation 
2 voices, dulcimers, guitar, banjos, ukulele and cello.
 
Unplugged

We are loud enough to work unamplified in a lounge room (and prefer to play completely unplugged) The dulcimers are the quietest instruments. A couple of songs are twin dulcimers & vocals.

Plugged
We need a PA or similar with input for 4 mics.
We perform seated. Two chairs with two boom stands to swing two mics in from above the dulcimers, and two stands for two vocal mics

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