Old Mercia
🕖 Venue opens - 7:00pm : 🕥 Event finishes - 10:30pm
🪑 Standing show
Old Mercia are a 4 piece folk, indie type band based out of Royal Tunbridge Wells. Originally from Lichfield, a city in the heart of Mercia, we somehow found ourselves living close to each other again. So we returned to playing music together.
Describe one of your earliest musical memories.
Listening to Buddy Holly on cassette tapes and dancing to UB40
What are your some of your top 3 all-time favorite albums, and why? Why did you choose these three albums in particular?
Biffy Clyro, The Vertigo of Bliss Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes The Felice Brothers, The Felice Brothers Felice Brothers for the incredible songwriting and storytelling. The vertigo of bliss for the experimentation fused with melody in both the music and vocals. Fleet Foxes because of the balance between tenderness and rawness in an album
Find a song of yours that you love and tell us what makes it special. Tell us why you chose this song.
“The Farmer” We love to blend classic folk and traditional styles with modern pop hooks and The Farmer does that while also telling some kind of story with the lyrics