Three of the original Rubettes line-up – including Alan Williams – are back on the road and pull up at The Stables this Thursday evening (April 21).
Go glam with 'em and they'll take you back to the success of Sugar Baby Live, a worldwide chart-topper that allowed the band to move forward and rack up a further 15 hits.
Meantime, Stage 2 welcomes Irish singer-songwriter James McGrath, a chap who has been likened to some serious aces in the musical pack; Shane McGowan, Neil Young, Nizlopi and Ed Sheeran. That's pretty tasty, so far as comparisons go, wouldn't you say?
Expect a charismatic stage-holder with humour, passion and sincerity in plentiful supply.
Dance Away Friday night (April 22) with Roxy Magic, and on Saturday night (April 23) The Bon Jovi Experience will be there for you as the venue welcomes in two nights of tributes.
Making their Wavendon debut on Stage 2 on Saturday night will be Casa Margarita, putting thrilling Spanish music at the fore.
It is “...a riveting fusion of stories, song, solo and ensemble pieces that sparkle like gems amidst an extraordinary percussive soundscape,” they promise.
The muso's each take character roles in the show, which is set in the courtyard of an old house is Seville.
'Lustrous storytelling and unbelievable castanet playing weave around tales of love that are filled with the heat and passion of Spain,' Casa Margarita say, but promise that their stories of love are ones familiar to all of us.
Expect their take on music by Rodrigo, de Falla, Albeniz, Torriba and much more.
Ruby Turner has a belter of a voice, and pretty lively fan base too, which explains her sold-out date on Sunday night (April 24), but there is still availability for Bridget Christie on Tuesday night (April 26).
She'll find the funny with her new show which will provide the answers to questions like 'Why has Bridget been sending her stained underpants to George Osborne at HM Treasury every month?'
And 'What's the difference between Eddie Izzard and Caitlyn Jenner?'
When she is done with making your face hurt in that humorous way of hers, Bridget will be present with pen in hand for a book signing. Purchase on the night, or bring your well-thumbed copy along. She'll scribble her name on either.
Last up this week is Wednesday's (April 26) show in the company of Kathryn Williams (top).
She is visiting these parts as part of a UK stint in support of her Hypoxia album project.
Kathryn was asked if she would accept an open commission to write material inspired by Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. It would commemorate the half century anniversary since the publication, and the author's untimely death – a month after the book's UK release and Plath was dead. She had taken her own life at just 30 years old. “What I wasn't prepared for was the muscular writing,” said Kathryn, who hadn't read the book since her teens.
“The shocking brutal honesty. The modernness. Thinking about a woman writing like this 50 years ago was astounding.”
When she had re-read the book, she was unable to let it go, so alluring did the characters prove to be. And so this album came to fruition, aided Ed Harcourt who both produced, and co-wrote a track on the release.
Have a listen to Hypoxia now, and hear it in the live in Stage 2 on Tuesday evening.
Reach for your plastic pal and call up 01908 280800 or visit www.stables.org
