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The R.M.A Tavern Cromwell Rd., Eastney : Sat. 11th Setember - The Rhino Men - and Tuesday 14th September - Angie Palmer: Two very different FREE ENTRY gigs are at The R.M.A Tavern this week. On Saturday 11th September The Rhino Men, featuring Ian Duck on vocals, harmonica and lead guitar, will be serving up some top quality rock 'n blues.The other Rhino Men are Ian McLaughlin (bass), Clive Bates (guitar), Alan Partridge (drums), and Jane Mansfield on backing vocals. Ian Duck played harmonica on Elton John's 1971 album"Tumblweed Connection" and also played guitar on Harry Nillson's most famous album, "Nilson Schmilsson", which quickly reached number three in the album charts, and gold album status. In the late 1960s, Ian Duck was a founding member of Hookfoot, along with Dave Glover (bass), Roger Pope (drums, vocals), and Caleb Quaye (guitar, vocals). On Tuesday, acclaimed singer/songwriter/guitarist Angie Palmer drops into the R.M.A. on her nationwide tour. At seventeen Angie decided to travel before taking up a place at art college, and ended up spending the next seven years travelling around Europe busking, playing bars and clubs, and small festivals. “People often comment on the aggressiveness of my playing, but a lot of my style came from pure economics: the better I played the better I ate. It was as simple as that. I wanted to be as good as I could, but I had to compete with others so I went for making my guitar sound as big as possible. I thumped and slapped it to get some percussion so that I could grab people’s attention. If they did that they might part with some money." On her return to England Angie toured the blues and folk circuit, and appeared on the acoustic stage at Glastonbury two years running. Her songs again have strong narratives, but here they grounded in an Americana country-blues musical setting that finds Angie drawing on her love of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and later songwriters like Gillian Welch. “I had been listening to Gillian Welch’s "Time (The Revelator)" a lot, the way she brings together stories and music that seems both traditional and revolutionary, and thinking about where my heart is really at." Angie Palmer's third album, "Road" is a return to her stripped down acoustic roots with Angie working with another guitarist Mark Townson, and Richard Curran on violin and mandolin. ANGIE PALMER appears at The R.M.A Tavern in Cromwell Rd., Eastney on Tuesday 14th September, and THE RHINO MEN appear on Saturday 11th September.Admission to both gigs is FREE