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SUMMARY:The Cleaners From Venus
LOCATION:London Islington Assembly Hall
DESCRIPTION:- THE CLEANERS FROM VENUS will be performing this Autumn in Lo
 ndon. Martin Newell will be on guitar and piano\, joined by Nelson Surfqua
 ke Nice - an original member of Cleaners back in the 80s\, and half of The
  Brotherhood of Lizards alongside Martin. The group will be performing som
 e classic Cleaners songs\, with a Brotherhood of Lizards cameo-set thrown 
 in!Martin Newell is a purveyor of ingenious pop music. His music is refrac
 ted from late 60s rock only shot through with invention from the rough-and
 -ready explosion of DIY tape releases in 80s Britain. As a songwriter\, he
 ’s right up there with Syd Barrett and Ray Davies\, capturing a peculiar
  Englishness that’s very much his own. Martin started his career in musi
 c aged 19 when he joined an Essex glam-rock band called The Mighty Plod as
  a singer and gigged in rough clubs\, pubs and colleges for the next two y
 ears. In his early twenties he joined a hard rock/prog band from Ipswich c
 alled Gypp and gigged in the UK as well as touring northern Germany severa
 l times. In 1979\, he won his first record contract and shortly afterwards
  his first single ‘Young Jobless / Sylvie In Toytown’ was released\, f
 irst on an indie label and then with Liberty Records. In the 1980s he form
 ed the anarchic and wonderfully offbeat Cleaners From Venus\, who after mu
 ch defiance of music biz convention\, signed to a London record company an
 d began making proper records which were well reviewed and well-received. 
 He began co-writing songs with Captain Sensible in 1986\, a relationship w
 hich endures to some extent to this day. In 1989 he and his friend Nelson\
 , now of New Model Army formed The Brotherhood of Lizards\, were signed to
  make an album and proceeded to promote it\, touring the record by bicycle
 . This led to many TV appearances and some notoriety and amusement in the 
 media. In 1993\, with XTC's Andy Partridge in the producer's chair Martin 
 made what was to become his most successful album ‘The Greatest Living E
 nglishman’\, hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as a rock classic. Over th
 e last ten years Martin has continued to release exhilarating albums under
  his own name and as Cleaners from Venus\, most recently a winsome new Cle
 aners album called ‘K7’ was released on CD and cassette.A highly-enter
 taining live act\, Martin Newell performs infrequently\, refusing nowadays
  to tour at all. He has been the subject of a highly-praised documentary f
 ilm Upstairs Planet (2019) which enjoyed premieres both in London and in N
 ew York. A second documentary The Jangling Man\, the director James Sharp
 ’s intimate portrait of Newell’s life and work\, premiered in London a
 nd Los Angeles in October 2022.https://www.cleanersfromvenus.com/\n\nBolet
 os: https://wegottickets.com/event/706235
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