Thu 25 Oct - 8:00pm, £6.50, seated

Fossil Collective, a two-piece from Leeds, consists of multi instrumentalists David Fendick and Jonny Hooker. Their first recordings saw them taking inspiration from classic albums by Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac and Simon and Garfunkel and suggested comparisons with more contemporary artists such as Fleet Foxes, Midlake and Bon Iver. But in truth their exquisitely structured songs and glorious, rich harmonies owe as much, if not more, to a solid English song tradition, and their material holds that distinct English quality that many North American artists hanker after.

'Backed by a lush, smoothly-quiet quartet, Fendick and Hooker's assembly literally swept from indie to the sort of sweeping Americana that you might associate with big alt-country groups such as Wilco... a bunch of fossils well worth digging up.' THE SCOTSMAN

Support: Luke Sital Singh

Luke Sital-Singh is a singer-songwriter from New Malden, the south-west London birthplace of John Martyn and Jamie Woon, two other musicians from different generations known for taking folk traditions in unexpected directions.

'As soon as we heard this 24-year-old artist's song Fail for You we were knocked out, and it felt as though he was breathing life into a tired form... He's not just another boy with a guitar.' THE GUARDIAN

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Venue: Exeter Phoenix

Website:fossilcollective.com