Stuart Turner (musician)
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Stuart Turner is an English
alternative
blues
singer. He now lives in Medway
, Kent
. Having formed a band and signed with the independent record label
, Brigadier Records, Stuart Turner & The Flat Earth Society released the album Gin & Bitters in July 2010.
distribued by Cargo, and formed by friend and fellow musician Kris Dollimore, ex-guitarist with The Damned. Turner produced Dollimore's debut Sun Pier release (02/01/1978) in 2006, writing a song on it ("The North Kent Post Industrial Hillstomp Blues") which received national airplay
on BBC Radio Two. Turner's own solo appeared a few months later with his debut album
, A Gallon of Water Makes a Mile of Fog, which one critic described as "packed full of ideas". Turner supported Dollimore in gigs around England and spent 2006 and 2007 playing shows in a diverse selection of venues, including bowling alleys, cabaret clubs and Swedish festivals, which one reviewer described as "scaring the living daylights out of the assembled crowd with his spooky folk blues". Turner's second album, File Under Carnal Knowledge, was described as "freight train riding back bar room down at heel blues", and released on Sun Pier in February 2009.
and digital download in July 2010, through the independent Brigadier Records. The band added "steam driven power" to his "anguished urban blues", and provided the opportunity for live performances around the South East of England, including the Lounge On The Farm
festival.
. A live version of "Murder On Gaslight Street" was made available for free download via Medway Eyes in October 2010, whilst Brigadier Records released the Gin & Bitters album tracks, "Shimmy" and "South Sea Blues" as radio promos in December that year.
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
alternative
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
singer. He now lives in Medway
Medway
Medway is a conurbation and unitary authority in South East England. The Unitary Authority was formed in 1998 when the City of Rochester-upon-Medway amalgamated with Gillingham Borough Council and part of Kent County Council to form Medway Council, a unitary authority independent of Kent County...
, Kent
Kent
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. Having formed a band and signed with the independent record label
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...
, Brigadier Records, Stuart Turner & The Flat Earth Society released the album Gin & Bitters in July 2010.
Sun Pier and early performances
Though being an active musician for a number of years, and playing with a number of different local musicians, Turner's first official solo release came on Sun Pier Records, a Chatham based record labelRecord label
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distribued by Cargo, and formed by friend and fellow musician Kris Dollimore, ex-guitarist with The Damned. Turner produced Dollimore's debut Sun Pier release (02/01/1978) in 2006, writing a song on it ("The North Kent Post Industrial Hillstomp Blues") which received national airplay
Airplay
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on BBC Radio Two. Turner's own solo appeared a few months later with his debut album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
, A Gallon of Water Makes a Mile of Fog, which one critic described as "packed full of ideas". Turner supported Dollimore in gigs around England and spent 2006 and 2007 playing shows in a diverse selection of venues, including bowling alleys, cabaret clubs and Swedish festivals, which one reviewer described as "scaring the living daylights out of the assembled crowd with his spooky folk blues". Turner's second album, File Under Carnal Knowledge, was described as "freight train riding back bar room down at heel blues", and released on Sun Pier in February 2009.
Gin & Bitters
Turner formed The Flat Earth Society in 2009 to record and perform his third album, Gin & Bitters. The album was released on CDCompact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
and digital download in July 2010, through the independent Brigadier Records. The band added "steam driven power" to his "anguished urban blues", and provided the opportunity for live performances around the South East of England, including the Lounge On The Farm
Lounge On The Farm
Lounge On The Farm is a music festival held annually at Merton Farm, Canterbury, Kent, which attracts thousands of visitors each year. Although there has been a vast increase in the capacity of the event, as well as the amount and quality of the performing acts, organizers insist that they keep the...
festival.
Current activity
Turner & The Flat Earth Society performed gigs to the end of 2010, including a Christmas ball at Oxford UniversityUniversity of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
. A live version of "Murder On Gaslight Street" was made available for free download via Medway Eyes in October 2010, whilst Brigadier Records released the Gin & Bitters album tracks, "Shimmy" and "South Sea Blues" as radio promos in December that year.
Albums
- A Gallon of Water Makes a Mile of Fog (October 2007, Sun Pier)
- File Under Carnal Knowledge (February 2009, Sun Pier)
- Gin & Bitters (with The Flat Earth Society) (July 2010, Brigadier)
Singles
- "London" (radio promo only) (May 2010, Brigadier)
- "Essex" (radio promo only) (July 2010, Brigadier)
- "Shimmy" / "South Sea Blues" (radio promo only) (December 2010, Brigadier)