Live at the
Candlelight
Club
I’ve been running the Candlelight Club since 2010. It’s a pop-up 1920s speakeasy themed event, usually happening once or twice a month, and we always have live jazz bands playing. Since 2016 I’ve been recording their live performances and posting mixes to our Soundcloud account, and you can find a few samples below. The performances are great but the conditions are full of challenges: it’s not a demure jazz club but a raucous knees-up filled with hen parties doing conga lines, so dealing with background noise and bleed between the instruments is always a challenge—though I actually quite like having a certain amount of audience response in the mix, as it does give a good sense of what it’s like to be at these events…
It Don’t Mean a Thing (If it Ain’t Got That Swing)
The Shirt Tail Stompers, October 2021
Why Don't You Do Right?
Duncan Hemstock and Louise Messenger, May 2023
Go to the Mardi Gras
The Candid Jug Orange Band, March 2019
Lulu's Back in Town
The Hot Strings Review, March 2023
St James Infirmary
Jack Calloway and his Parlophonians, October 2021