CHARLIE DORE

NEW ALBUM OUT JUNE 17th
Like Animals
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FRIDAY JUNE 25th 2021 - KINGS PLACE LONDON

Like Animals
Album Launch

FULL BAND WITH JULIAN LITTMAN, GARETH HUW DAVIES, FERGUS GERRAND AND VERY SPECIAL GUESTS



Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG Tel: 020 7520 1490
Tickets: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/folk/charlie-dore

Live Dates Update
Happy to say we are going to resume UK touring again from June 2021. Gigs are in the diary, however, apart from Kings Place we aren’t making official announcements just yet. Please stick with us and check back while we fine-tune the re-scheduling. Meanwhile there’ll be some online events, so one way or other I’ll see you very soon. Thank you for being out there!
Charlie x

Keswick, Private Concert. mail@charliedore.com for details

PRIVATE CONCERTS

Some concerts are just that - private. But others will make a few extra tickets available in addition to the invited guests, depending on the occasion, size & location of the venue. Each one is different. Just email mail@charliedore.com and we’ll let you know.

If you’d like to find out a little more about putting on your own private concert either in your own home or in a local hall where you might club together with music-loving friends to share the event, drop us an email and we’ll send you an info sheet that’ll give you a better idea of what it entails and how to make it happen.

Short biog June 2020

Charlie Dore is one of the UK's most respected singer-songwriters. Her songs have won two Ascap awards, an Ivor Novello nomination, made UK No 1 and US No 4 while her 2017 album, Dark Matter won Best Album from the US Indie Acoustic Project.

She has also worked as an actress in theatre, film & TV, co-founded London Comedy-Impro venue, The Hurricane Club, composed scores for film & TV and written for BBC radio. Her song Pilot of the Airwaves remains a worldwide radio favourite. Her 10th album, Like Animals is released 19/6/20.

Although best known as a respected songwriter for others, Charlie enjoys a multi-faceted career that includes acting, comedy-improvisation, writing for radio and composition for film and TV as well as performing live with her band. After drama school, regional rep and a stint in childrens' television Charlie formed a bluegrass band playing Monday nights in a west London pancake house.

The band, with school friend Julian Littman graduated to the pub circuit from where she was signed by Island Records in 1978. She made her first album in Nashville and London and released a single, Pilot of the Airwaves, which became a hit in the US.

Since then she has made eight albums, one per decade for the 80's ('Listen' for Chrysalis) and 90's (Things Change, Black Ink), during which time she also returned to acting and started writing for other artists. She became one of a handful of UK songwriters to have success across diverse genres with songs covered by George Harrison, Tina Turner, Lisa Stansfied, Ricky Ross, Sheena Easton (US No 4), Celine Dion, Black, UB40, Status Quo, Paul Carrack and a UK No 1, 'Ain't No Doubt' for Jimmy Nail. In 1996 she had a surprise European Club hit with an Italian remix of 'Time Goes By' from the Things Change album, which reached No 6 in Italy.

She starred opposite Jonathan Pryce in the award-winning film 'The Ploughman's Lunch', worked in theatre, appeared in two shows with the iconic People Show company, television and radio with Eric Idle and co-founded and performed at London comedy-impro venue The Hurricane Club for seven years, working alongside many comedy icons including Bill Bailey, Harry Hill and Robin Williams.

Seven of Charlie's albums have been released since 2005 on her own label Black Ink, which have seen her rediscover her own voice and return to her earlier folk-roots influences. She considers herself a fairly late starter in terms of resuming her own recordings and so intends to keep touring until she drops. Her songs have won two Ascap awards, an Ivor Novello nomination, both the Overall Grand and the Folk Prize from the International Acoustic Music Awards, Best Album Lyrics for Cheapskate Lullabyes plus both Album of the Year and Best Lyrics for 2017’s Dark Matter from the US Indy Acoustic Project.

Charlie’s new album, Like Animals explores our most basic instincts and how we’re often hi-jacked by our emotional responses. Fear, anxiety and aggression figure but on the plus side, intense joy and love are in the mix as well. However sophisticated we imagine we’ve become it seems we haven’t evolved all that much. We’re still animals, it’s just that we wear suits and we know how to make gunpowder.

The album also features Gareth Huw Davies on 5-string double bass & cello, Jessie May Smart on violin and Quentin Collins on flugelhorn & trumpet. With over 35 dates originally booked for 2020 Charlie hopes to be touring again next year, but only when it’s safe to come out! Meanwhile she hopes to see all her followers online.