The Halfway Kid (SOLD OUT)
Sat, 02 Nov
|The Folklore Rooms
Time & Location
02 Nov 2024, 19:30 – 23:00
The Folklore Rooms, 12 North St, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN1 3GJ, UK
About the event
As The Halfway Kid, British-Sudanese singer and songwriter Saeed Gadir makes music for communing, and finds himself in the midst of a new folk tradition — one that he’s writing in real time.
Having experimented with rapping over dubbed out, electronic-heavy R&B, Saeed picked up a guitar in his early 20s and figured out his own way around its six strings. He’d pore over Bob Dylan tabs, soon learned the harmonica, and took on songs by Nina Simone and Joni Mitchell and scores of old blues players: offbeat solo performers who could lift and carry a room with the power of just a song. He obsessed over Elliot Smith. Above all, he realised it was the stories these writers told that kept him and others coming back — the way they’d spin kitchen-sink melodrama into universal truths, and in such a way that you couldn’t…