Seth Lakeman
Thu 11 Oct 8pm
Butterworth Hall: £21.50, £19.50 + booking fee
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CloseSeth Lakeman, widely regarded as the UK’s foremost folk singer songwriter, releases his new album Tales From The Barrel House in April, and will be joining us at Warwick Arts Centre to play tunes from this, plus other gems from his critically-acclaimed back catalogue.
Having come to wider public attention following his Mercury nominated Kitty Jay album in 2005, when Seth brought folk music to a new, younger audience, he has been widely credited with breaking down perceptions and barriers often associated with folk music and its acceptance (or lack of it) in the mainstream.
Seth Lakeman - Blacksmith's Prayer
Butterworth Hall
With a maximum capacity of 2000 standing or 1500 seated this concert hall has an outstanding natural acoustic and is the home of our International Concert Series, as well as the majority of our music gigs and big name comedians. Butterworth Hall has recently had a £6.9 million redevelopment and reopened in autumn 2009 .
2 Comments
We went to see Seth Lakeman last night and were very disappointed. He is such a talented artist and felt very let down by the production. We felt sorry that he was in such a big place as the Hall as the circle was completely empty and the atmosphere was not good. Obviously the theatre would have been too small so I think the band was performing in the wrong place. The sound was much too loud and we could not hear any of the words Seth was singing and his songs are all about the words - it was so sad. The band were obviously feeling the lack of atmosphere and audience reaction and towards the end of the second half after various comments from Seth and his band some folk got up and danced but it was all very laboured. The lighting also was very distracting and unnecessary for a folk band. Sorry to be so negative, but we were as I said very disappointed having looked forward to seeing Seth Lakeman and also as the tickets were pretty expensive. I think the management should look into these points as I am sure we were not the only people to feel this way about the loudness and the atmosphere.
julia dick at 6:37pm on Fri 12th Oct 2012
Dear Julia,
Thank you very much for your comments regarding the Seth Lakeman concert. We are sorry that you were disappointed with the event, and we will pass your comments on to Seth's management team, who were in charge of the lighting/sound on the night.
Best wishes,
Sinéad
Press Office
Sinéad Bevan at 11:23am on Tue 16th Oct 2012