Chris Wood at Widcombe Social Club, Bath.

Date: Friday, April 04, 2025

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FRIDAY 4 APRIL
CHRIS WOOD
Widcombe Social Club
Doors 7.00pm - Chris Wood on stage 8.00pm
All Of The Above welcomes England’s passionate, compassionate, fierce, acute, witty, uncompromising and influential singer of traditional songs and composer of songs in the tradition - there’s no-one quite like Chris Wood.
Wood’s music reveals his love for the un-official history of the English speaking people. With gentle intelligence he weaves the tradition with his own contemporary parables. An independent streak shines through everything he does. Direct and unafraid to speak his mind, his song writing has been praised for its surgical clarity. Characteristically he cites his major influence as Anon.
Chris Wood’s most recent album So Much to Defend ranges in subject matter from football to empty nest syndrome, learning to swim, Cook-in Sauce and, not least, the Gecko as a metaphor for contemporary society.
Reviewing the album fROOTS MAGAZINE perceptively said:
Chris Wood might be the Ken Loach of songwriting. Very political, but at the same time full of compassion, and he grows sharper and more acute with each passing album. Hes good, quite probably the very best we have today, and we need him more than ever.
Similarly, ACOUSTIC MAGAZINE wrote:
“Steeped in tradition, yet always striving for a new day, this is a glorious album proving that Chris Wood is a bit of a national treasure.”
Tickets:  £ 18/£16 WSC members
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Widcombe Social Club
Widcombe Hill
Bath, BA2 6AA