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Music
The Sleeping Years

When

Monday 9 June 2008 (7:30pm)

Where
12 Bar Club (Denmark Street, WC2, 020.7916.6989) Tube: Tottenham Court Road
Price
£6
Details
http://www.12barclub.com/gig_listings.html
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The Sleeping Years is the solo project of Northern Irish singer/songwriter Dale Grundle, a man with plenty of industry experience — back in the '90s, he toured with Oasis and Pulp as the lead singer of now-defunct indie band Catchers. Grundle resurfaced last year with a couple of promising EPs, and tonight, he cuts the ribbon on his debut album, We're Becoming Islands One by One. The collection of haunting, mist-topped beauties for acoustic guitar, piano and voice (mostly self-performed) has been getting rave reviews just about everywhere — even winning over the fussy French — as the perfect kind of music to fall in love to.

Joe Rudkin