Tsarzi and Mr & Mr Jones at the Walled Garden Workshop @ Libby’s

Libby’s Walled Garden Workshop presents: Tsarzi and Me & Mr Jones

Tsarzi

Tsarzi presents her one-woman show Gone to the Dogs – a meditation on modern Britishness, telling stories of a land steeped in nostalgia and decay, dreaming of wars and golden ages.

Tsarzi is a classically trained pianist, but also something of a Sheffield multi-instrumentalist pop icon. Her eclectic style is a riotous melting pot of cabaret musical stirred with synth-pop, humour with darkness and wordsmithery with luscious music.

She released her debut album Last Decade of Love to considerable acclaim in 2018, including radio play on BBC 6Music and praise from judges of the Glastonbury Emerging Talent competition. The album was remixed as electronica by a host of independent artists including Late Junction favourites DORCHA and released as Lost Decayed Love.

Gone to the Dogs marks a further step down the musical rabbit hole, moving through arias and unhinged shanties to echoes from the last night of the proms. In 2023 it was a Lyn Gardner pick at VAULT festival (week 5) & nominated for an Off-WestEnd award at the Edinburgh Fringe.

– ‘Kate Bush at her most Brechtian’ – Now Then Magazine.
– ‘Most imaginative record of the year’ – Tom Robinson – BBC6 Music – on Tsarzi’s “Bad Indie Movie”
– ‘An affectionately nightmarish reflection on Britain’s Imperial Nostalgia and obsession with the war(s) presented by a faded Britannia’ – Exposed magazine on ‘Gone to the Dogs”.

– ‘An inventive blend of gig theatre, opera & requiem’ – Fringe Biscuit
– ‘If British history was told through the subconscious of a drunk Lewis Carroll against a backdrop of surreal music’ – the Wee Review

LINKS:

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/26qkio4i6vc1Z7Lfxt89pA?si=Dw3C7rnvR162_etzG-NTkw
Bandcamp: https://tsarzi.bandcamp.com/
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/tsarzipan/

Me & Mr Jones

Tsarzi will be supported by an upbeat set of acoustic pop from Derbyshire pop quarto-quintet – the confusingly titled Me & Mr Jones . They comprise Lou (vox), Rob (cajon), John (harmonica) and Dave (vox and guitar) – a group of friends who met via Chesterfield’s Hasland Theatre. They love playing acoustically and value punchiness, poppiness and a good dose of comedy.

Me & Mr Jones’ album ‘Skyscraper Eyes’ can be found on Bandcamp https://meandmrjones.bandcamp.com/

Tickets from https://wegottickets.com/event/636685 or by contacting Libby directly