Shovel Dance Collective
Metronome Nottingham
Friday 12 February 2027
7:00 pm : Doors
Standing
14+ (under 16s must be accompanied by an adult over the age of 18)
Tickets
General admission: £18 + booking fee
NTU Students: £5 + booking fee
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Shovel Dance Collective – Everything in Readiness Tour
The nine members of Shovel Dance Collective are united by a passion for the beauty, force and political charge of traditional music. Together their practice has emerged as a patchwork of fragments, traditional material sewn together and embroidered with their own ever deepening group improvisations, explorations of field recordings, and concrète style tape manipulation.
Their arrangements emphasise the inviting, hopeful and human qualities of folk, and they channel the joy and sadness held in these collaboratively-shaped words and melodies. Balancing dense orchestration with intense fragility, the patchwork is threaded with a deep sense of the way in which traditional music carries the voices of all those who have gone before, the oppressed and those who, through their labour, create the wealth of the world.
The new album Everything in Readiness, released on Friday 23 October is receiving very favourable reviews, described as exceptional by Mojo and “a magnificent offering” by The Wire, so we can’t wait to hear these new songs live in the intimate setting of Metronome.
Discounts
A limited number of 50% discounted tickets are available for NTU staff. Use your NTU email address and promo code MET50 at the checkout.
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Shovel Dance Collective
Shovel Dance Collective – Everything in Readiness Tour
The nine members of Shovel Dance Collective are united by a passion for the beauty, force and political charge of traditional music. Together their practice has emerged as a patchwork of fragments, traditional material sewn together and embroidered with their own ever deepening group improvisations, explorations of field recordings, and concrète style tape manipulation.
Their arrangements emphasise the inviting, hopeful and human qualities of folk, and they channel the joy and sadness held in these collaboratively-shaped words and melodies. Balancing dense orchestration with intense fragility, the patchwork is threaded with a deep sense of the way in which traditional music carries the voices of all those who have gone before, the oppressed and those who, through their labour, create the wealth of the world.
The new album Everything in Readiness, released on Friday 23 October is receiving very favourable reviews, described as exceptional by Mojo and “a magnificent offering” by The Wire, so we can’t wait to hear these new songs live in the intimate setting of Metronome.
Discounts
A limited number of 50% discounted tickets are available for NTU staff. Use your NTU email address and promo code MET50 at the checkout.
Accessibility
