9:30pm, Tuesday 20th July
Bond Street Bridge and Sandra Bell
East of Eden Bookstore
Schreinerstrasse 10, 10247 Berlin
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Bond Street Bridge (cinematic folk noir)

Bond Street Bridge is the solo project of New Zealander Sam Prebble, who has become a fixture of the Auckland indie-folk scene over the past few years, playing mandolin, fiddle and guitar in a wide range of up-and-coming bands.

The live set is a solo show in which Sam uses loop pedals and tape echoes to build up layers of guitar, violin, minimalistic beats and vocals to produce a hypnotic, compelling and original sound.  Audiences are drawn in to the strange world Bond Street Bridge conjours up with a combination of compelling, poetic lyrics and sonically lush instrumental arrangements.

In 2008, Bond Street Bridge released his debut album ‘The Mapmakers’ Art’ on Monkey Records, and since then has toured extensively around New Zealand and  Australia.

‘The Mapmaker’s Art is one of the finest collections of homegrown music to cross this desk in a while… a joyously cinematic listening experience’ Real Groove
‘Very different and very good indeed’ Graham Reid (top 40 albums 2008)
‘Darkly beautiful in it’s ingenuity.’ Cheese on Toast

Sandra Bell is a poet and musician. Her music has been described as” rollicking dark pop full of brooding menace, luring you into a song one minute then dashing you onto the rocks the next.” Her first recordings were in Auckland in the 1980s, when Paul Luker of Industrial Tapes released a Live at Sweetwaters 1984 with fellow poet and musician Kim Blackburn. Her first EP ” Blackbirds” was released in 1985 by Volcanic Productions, a Womens Record Label. In 1987 she relocated to Dunedin and in 1988 self-released a tape called “Underground” recorded by Greg Fox. Her first solo album “Dreams of Falling”was released in 1991/1992 by Xpressway in NZ and Turbulance in Belgium. “Chord “, a double seven inch single was released on Turbulance in 1993, recorded by Brendon Hoffman In 1995 “Net” her second solo album was released by IMD, a Dunedin Label, recorded by Brendon Hoffman Also in 1995 “Angel” a 7 inch was released by American label Zabriskie Point, recorded by Richard Baker, and “Red Leaves” a self recorded split single with John Davis was released by American Label Road Cone. In 1996 Sandra relocated to Berlin, Germany, and in 1999 her 3rd solo album “City of Sorrows” was released by US label VHF. Her new album “White Nights” was be released by Powertoolrecords Auckland, New Zealand in Oct 2008 and Sandra did a National Tour with drummer Dainne Civil, John White and American Indie Queen Azalia Snail.