BEER FEST 2024
MAY BANK HOLIDAY
May the 1st 6pm until May the 6th at 7pm
FREE ENTRY
MUSIC MENU
Wednesday the 1st
6am May day dance with Boss Morris - celebrate Beltane with the Boss gang. Open for tea, coffee, bacon sarnies and licensed for a pint too.
7.30pm Traditional Folk Session.
A special edition of our monthly traditional folk session. All musicians and singers welcome.
Thursday the 2nd
7.30pm Irish Session.
Led by the wonderful Becky Dellow, a long time friend of the Albert - she’s been frequenting our establishment nearly all the 28 years that we will have been here this next month. Becy and friends will play mostly Irish tunes. All welcome to play, or sing.
Thursday the 2n
7.30pm Irish Session.
Led by the wonderful Becky Dellow, a long time friend of the Albert - she’s been frequenting our establishment nearly all the 28 years that we will have been here this next month. Becy and friends will play mostly Irish tunes. All welcome to play, or sing.
Friday the 3rd
7pm
Four Men Singing.
Friday night kicks off with, yes, four men singing. A couple of members of the AK47 from Ashton Keynes, and a Spooky Chorale fellow too. WE love a bit of vocal harmonies here,and these guys quartet is new on the block and we are delighted to give them an airing.
9pm
La Gringo Negra
Katie West ( Truckstop Honeymoon) and her companion Jose Solo treat is to folkloric Spanish and Latin American heritage on nylon strings and double bass
Saturday
Pebble Daisy
Pebble is a singer song writer from Stroud that has been making waves though out Gloucestershire with her pop, bubble grunge, alternative sound. She is influenced by artists such as Wolf Alice, The Smiths, Mazzy Star and Beabadoobee. She won the Stroud Song Contest with her song “GOOD TIME GRRRL” as well as winning the Stroud Show battle of the bands. She then has gone on to play at local festivals such as Cheltenham Literature Festival 2023 Chalfest, Whitcomb Festival, north Nibley, crown and sceptre beer festivals, The Prince Albert as well as various other well-loved venues. Already making waves with her smoky resonate swirling vocals, dense shimmering textures of distorted guitar sound, commanding melodies, sad girl aesthetic and intimate confessional lyrics.
Bosstrich
The Bosstrich recruitment drive was completed in 2023 when joined by a fourth fan of weird, alternative pop music, local singer-songwriter Lucy Barton. Since then they have been beavering away at making their own psyche-folk-punk-rock songs. Expect experimental yet catchy songs that vary from sweet melody to heavy doom psychedelic. Bosstrich are currently recording their debut EP.
Bert Ussher
Bert Ussher is a solo project led by Robert Pearson accompanied by Marcus Jeffrey and Tom Gould. Their debut EP is set for release in July taking influence from 70s musicians like John Cale and 90’s French band Air
Dogsbody
Music that infuses folk lyricism with a wistful tenderness, woven into raw and dissonant instrumentals, to create a full-bodied, cathartic sonic experience. The band blend the current vogue of grunge, jazz and alternative rock with the feeling of the 1960s folk l movement.
A single - “Let It Die” was released early March, 2024 - the band have already started to pack out venues across Bristol’s vibrant scene just by word of mouth. They were long-listed for Glastonbury’s emerging talent competition
SUNDAY
QUIZ
Caught by the River presents Roy Wilkinson’s Music & Nature Quiz 1pm (booking essential (via the The Sub Rooms/ Sub-Culture)for the quiz although pub open to all
Jazz Session 3pm with John Graham and friends
DJ DAYOO 5pm Matt and friends bring the tunes to get you in the mood for THE BIG GIG
Cantaloop 9pm -Funk Punk Soul Jazz Electro Rock Hip Hop
MONDAY
JOHN MONTY
ORDINARY FOLK
ROB QUO AND SAM CROOKS
John Monty
New to the Stroud valleys but causing quite a stir - Klang described him as thus ‘folk iconoclast - motorik fingerpicker’ - in the Drake, Martyn vein but with a sound of his own.
Ordinary Folk
Ordinary Folk - A four-piece collective from stroud, playing a mix of contemporary and trad Irish, American and Scottish folk. Currently on a spring/summer tour around the Stroud Valleys, otherwise found rehearsing on the Common!
Rob Quo and Sam Crooks
contemporary folk/blues performer, Rob is a prolific singer-songwriter; emotive & humorous in equal measure, his songs touch on the human experience with lyrical grace, and a melodic simplicity which is uniquely his own.
BEER menu
-The Kernel Brewery / Table Beer / 2.9%
-Cloudwater Brew Co. / Happy / 3.4%
Church End - Spiders have Feelings Too 3.4%
Redemption Brewing Co. & Taproom / Pale Ale / 3.8%
-Bexley Brewery / Bursted / 3.8
360 Tacoma 3.9%
Arbor Ales / Mosaic Gluten-Free Pale Ale 4%
Gritchie The English Lore 4%
Warwickshire Beer Co. / Darling Buds 4%
Tempest Brewing Co. Modern Helles 4.1%
Marble Beers Ltd Manchester Bitter 4.2%
Grasshopper Nymph 4.2%
Vocation Heart and Soul 4.4%
Dark Revolution - So LA 4.5
Vale Of Glamorgan Aged, 4.6%.
Downlands Evening Star Revival 4.8%
LB Co - Brandon Car Irish Porter 4.8%
TINY REBEL Fruit machine 4.8 wild strawberry IPA
Saltaire Brewery / Prospector / 4.9%
Blackjack Brewing Company/: Dark Ruby / 5.2%
St Ives - Alba ipa 5.2%
Steam Town West Coast IPA 5.4%
Durham Chocka Mocha 5.5
Thornbridge Brewery / Jaipur / 5.9%
G-The Fresh Standard Brew Co. Red Mild6%
BROADTOWN Dubbel Deckerbus
6.8% Belgian
26 VOG Jedi Order, 8.4%.
