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50rpm presents:

JJ Gilmour & D.Cullen

JJ Gilmour + D. Cullen

Georgian Hotel, Coatbridge

Fri, Sep 20, 2024 7:30 PM

£20
Entry Requirements: Over 18's
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A very special album launch show for the long awaited 'Best Of' album, The Evolution Of JJ Gilmour', released by Last Night From Glasgow on cd & vinyl.

** We operate a no talking policy when acts are performing. If yu don't like this... don't buy a ticket. let the music do the talking **

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Internationally acclaimed Scottish singer-songwriter JJ Gilmour made his recording debut in 1989 with The Silencers, one of Scotland’s top bands who enjoyed huge success throughout Europe. A naturally gifted musician (in his youth (JJ came very close to a career in classical music as a tenor), he first joined the band as a backing vocalist though later in their career he progressed seamlessly to lead vocalist.

Seven action-packed years of gigging and recording ensued during which The Silencers had gold albums, sold over half a million records for BMG/RCA, headlined major rock festivals and were regulars on hit TV shows across Europe. However, all good things must come to an end and after this successful period with the band, JJ decided he needed to take on new challenges and embarked upon a solo career.

After an initial period of prolific song-writing in 2001 at his home in Jersey (Channel Islands), JJ left for New York to record his critically acclaimed debut solo album ‘sunnyside P.A.L’ Produced by Dan Wise (Scissor sisters) and mixed by Michael Brauer (Coldplay, John Meyer) the album was inspired by the memory of a childhood friend Paul Anthony Lennon and was released in February 2002. The album became the catalyst for establishing his now fiercely loyal fan base and gained wide spread acclaim from his peers as an ‘outstanding debut album’.

In between the release of his first solo album and the long awaited equally successful second album ‘The Boy Who Didn’t Fall’ (released in 2009), JJ’s desire to write a musical began to take shape in 2006. This was where he began to sow the early creative musical seeds and formulate ideas for the show ‘Dancing Shoes’, based upon the life of footballer George Best. After his dream was realised “Dancing Shoes” played to over 70,000 people. He has also written the songs for the musical play ‘The Titanic Boys’ which had its debut in August 2012 at Belfast’s Grand Opera House.

JJ was living in Scotland where he recorded his third album Slocomotion, before departing for Ireland. During his time here, he remastered and released ‘The Jersey Sessions’ & ‘Live at Cottiers’ albums and finished compiling a newly released songbook of his works as a solo artist. He has also now completed album number four which saw him go back to The Foundry Music Lab to work with Sandy Jones recording the album he always wanted to do - DiX is 10 songs of simply vocals, piano, strings and uilleann pipe, released in January 2017.

Darragh Cullen is a songwriter/musician from Dublin who recently topped the charts in his native Ireland with the No1 hit 'Radio'.

In 2019, his song "Alright" made waves at radio in Ireland and led to an acclaimed performance on Ireland's biggest TV chat show "The Late Late Show". He followed up in 2020 with a slew of equally addictive and uplifting releases - "The Rising Tide" EP, two singles ("Rainbow Weather' & "Birch Street") and a festive collaboration with Sinead McConville: "Christmas Ain't The Same (Miles & Miles Away)".

Darragh released 3 singles in 2021. He started with “All The People”, a vibey, melodic, psych-pop tune co-produced with renowned producer Roger Bechirian, "Heartline", an instant pop hit which somehow bridges the gap between Elvis Costello, Tom Petty & Taylor Swift, and most recently "She Is Song", an unabashed love song which rounds out his 2021 in glorious fashion!​

He has started 2022 with the mission statement of "Radio". Bouncing along on a massive bassline and exploding with electronic bubbles, “Radio” is big, bold pop at its finest. “Radio” is taken from D.’s forthcoming debut album, “Sing My Story, Tell My Song”, which will be released in Autumn 2022.