JP Cooper

JP COOPER
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Following on from a sold-out UK tour and supporting soul singer Angie Stone in 2014, JP Cooper returns with When the Darkness Comes EP. The 4-song project explores a journey of love, longing and loss – and you can listen to it on Telegraph.co.uk. Combining folk, blues, soul and gospel, this follow-up to Keep the Quiet Out showcases Cooper’s talent for both songwriting and lyricism which releases true emotion – not only for himself but also the listener. This Cooper particularly shows in the EP’s title track, When the Darkness Comes, which discusses the need to escape reality and gain clarity from the silence of darkness, and the breathtaking Satellite.

Hailed as a Future Sound of 2015, the dreadlocked, blue-eyed singer-songwriter from Middleton, north Manchester, is touring again, with five dates in London and a coveted slot at the SXSW Festival in Austin, Texas. Influenced by Donnie Hathaway, Bill Rivers and Stevie Wonder, Cooper was also a singer with Manchester’s finest gospel choir, The Manchester Sing Out Choir.

Support from:

MIKE DIGNAM
www.mikedignam.com

JOSHUA LUKE SMITH
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MONDAY 18 MAY

THEKLA BRISTOL
The Grove, Bristol BS1 4RB
Doors 7:30pm
Ages 14+

Advance tickets available from:
www.alt-tickets.co.uk
www.gigantic.com
Bristol Ticket Shop
0844 871 881

JP COOPER: Sometimes you see someone perform for the first time and you’re just completely blown away… Playing a blend of folk, blues, soul and gospel; JP Cooper is an intriguing prospect amongst aspiring British singer-songwriters. Listening to him perform, either alone or with his band, bears witness to an honesty, intensity and power evoked via the simplest of orchestration. His soulfully expressive, unique vocal style, the kind that cuts through a room to hush a chattering crowd in seconds, is utterly bewitching. His unexpected vocal flights hardly prepare you for the intimacy and empathy to follow, and coupled with a clutch of sensational songs, you will find it almost impossible to believe that he has only been writing seriously for two years and performing solo for barely one. Comparisons are yet to be made (although they inevitably will be..), but there is nothing derivative about his voice or his songwriting.

Support from:

Burning Bandits

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Info: [www.jpcooper.co.uk]