9 Songs For Bibliophiles - Paul Armfield

Having just released his new album ‘Between The Covers - 9 Songs For Bibliophiles’ Paul Armfield will be leaving behind his multi-award-winning bookshop on the Isle of Wight to embark on a two month tour of (mostly) bookshops around Europe.

Bringing together music and books was never Paul’s intention, he says: ‘The first two book songs just spilled out with very little conscious thought, so I tried to write another, then another… a lifetime in the book trade had clearly furnished me with plenty of material. Within a month I had 5 songs under my belt and set off to Stuttgart for four days in the studio with a great group of musicians and friends, once we had recorded my songs we had enough time left to try out a few songs about books by other people, these songs became the bookends for the album, hence the punny title ‘Between The Covers’. The songs are not about particular books but the act of reading and our relationships with books. The fist single taken from the album ‘The Books Beside My Bed’ is a lighthearted and upbeat exploration of the idea of tsundoku: the buying and hoarding of more books than you can ever read, whilst the second single ‘Paperback' is a soulful string-laden paean to the unwanted books that end up gathering dust on the shelves of charity shops.

Presented by The Holloway Norwich.

This is an 18+ event