2024Upcoming shows - Paris June 2nd - Le Faitout, 166 Rue Edouard Branly, Montreuil. Doors will open at noon, and from noon. 12 to 2.30pm a three course lunch will be served created by Chef Luc Chambonniere & themed around some of Simon's songs, which sounds intriguing. 2.30 - Hedi Bensalem 3.30pm Simon Finn playing with Joolie Wood Chicago Sat Aug 10th - Million Tongues Festival (to be confirmed) 2023Great Yarmouth Festival May 6th. The Jube nightclub situated in the old Primark shopping centre 10pm 2022Sat 23rd July - I will be playing at the Fano Folk Festival in Denmarkwhich is always a wonderful place to play and watch shows in a very special location. We will play at the SuperNormal Festival in Oxfordshire. Saturday evening Aug 13th. This show will be with: Joolie Wood - violin, Mark Kluzak - bass, Maja Elliott - piano & Ian Hothersall - drums The last time we played all together was at Cafe Oto last year, so I’m really looking forward to being all together again. information at: https://www.supernormalfestival.co.uk/programme Friday July 8, at 7.30pm we will play in "The Summer of Love†a Blacktooth production which they describe as : "an evening of peace, love, underground poetry, wacky anecdotes and agitprop. Expect readings and live music.†The “live music†part will be Joolie Wood, Martina Schwarz & Ian Hothersall and myself. The four of us will produce the 60s sounds of Donovan, Pink Floyd, Beatles, Rolling Stones, The Doors and Country Joe and the Fish. This will take place in the Moravian Church Hall, Priory Road, London N8 on Friday July 8, from 7.30pm. Tickets, £10, via: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../summer-of-love-tickets... Leigh-on-Sea Folk Festival Sat June 25th at 15.20 this will be in the FISHERMEN'S CHAPEL, NEW ROAD, LEIGH-ON-SEA SS9 2EH I’ll be playing with Mark Kluzak on bass and Keith Godman on mandolin 2021Cafe Oto Aug 13This will be the full band with Joolie Wood - violin, Mark Kluzak - bass, Maja Elliott - piano & Ian Hothersall - drums2020I was to do some shows to celebrate Pass the Distance's 50 year anniversary this year. But they have had to be put on hold due to a hernia and ulcers. Delighfully they are both being fixed.So it is with a lot of pleasure that I can say that I will be playing The Fano Festival in Denmark which runs from July 23rd - 25th. Much thanks to Rasmus for his patience. I can think of no better place to celbrate Distance passing, and indeed myself. details of acts and times can be found on http://fanofreefolk.dk 2019I took a break for year to have an arm operation which has now been fixed by a delightful and competent Dutch surgeon,so I can now take up Polevaulting should the mood strike. More pleasurably still, I shall be doing some shows this year. The first will be in Copenhagen in March , followed by a show in Pisa., Tuscany in April. COPENHAGEN Sat. 16TH March at ALICE Nørre Allé 7 DK-2200 København N Tlf.: +45 50 58 08 41 info@alicecph.com I will be acompanied by Sarah Hepburn on Vocals and Harmonium and Mikkel Elzer on Drums & electic Guitar. http://alicecph.com/event/simon-finn-uk/ PISA, Italy BACKDOOR Friday 26th at 22hr. Casa Del Pololo di Castelfranco di Sotto Via Francesca Sud, 30 - C/Franco di Sotto (PI) 2017All of us will be doing another show together in Folkstone Dec 9thAt the Lime Bar 46 Tontine Street, Folkestone, CT20 1JU Doors open 7.30pm concerts start at 8pm I'll be playing a couple of shows in the UK with the delightful Doomed Bird of Providence and Harpoon Group, this autumn. Starting off at: The Colchester Arts Centre, Sept 13th & The Golden Lion, Todmorden, Friday Sept 15th. Todmorden is a couple of miles from Hebdon Bridge I believe. We will also be playing in Cambridge at the The Blue Moon THU 14TH SEP, 2017 8:00pm If everyones shedules and shows sync we hope to do some others together in November. I'll be playing at Cafe Oto April 16th with Bob Theil, whom I look forward to hearing. That's Easter Sunday, by the way, so we can hopefully soften the blow for those that found no eggs. I will be doing a show in Rome, March 16th at "The Flying Donkey" This concert is a fund raiser for The Italian Insider , one of the few remaining papers still being sent to print. And also one of the few remaining papers that have things of any relevance to say. For reservations and concert details go to: info@italianinsider.it 2016 Good way to end the year: Thanks to Michal Porwet in Gdansk & Marcin Barski in Krakow for looking after me so well. It was wonderful to see both cities again, though one day I must arrange to be there in summer. It was very chilly. Thanks also to John Philips for his unexpectedly in depth review of the show for the Italian Insider. It lent my songs a rather more generous political bent than they've usually received, but I understand he's mainly a political correspondent for the Times & Independent. That said, I've never felt more political in my life than at the present time, so he was likely interpreting my unconscious. I should correct one detail in John's review - Though I would have been ecstatic to have been "mentored" by Leonard Cohen, I love his work, but in truth other than once delivering and helping him lay a Persian rug in his Montreal apt. we only spent one night together; in the 80s with a mutual friend and poet Bill Fury, who'd introduced us. He was both delightful, and delightfully intelligent, qualities we could use a lot more of in the world at the moment. POLAND: November shows I will play at the Gdansk Art Centre, on the 27th, Address: Jaskółcza 1, 80-767 GdaÅ„sk, Poland Tel: +48 58 305 40 50 and in Krakow on the 28th at Baza, 15 Florianska Str., Krakow
A huge thanks to everyone who arranged and made playing in Denmark such a pleasure: 201525th Oct: Colchester Arts Centre 12 noon. l'll be hosting an evening celebrating The Beatles album Revolver at the Colchester Arts Centre this sunday (25th Oct). Playing it recently induced many eidetic and surprisingly pleasant memories for me. I should probably play a couple of other albums some time. The original vinyl album will be played in entirety. 17th April: Colchester Arts Centre 7.30pm Joolie (Wood) will be singing and playing at the Colchester Arts Centre on April 17th. Mark Kluzek (The Doomed Birds of Providence) and I will be joining her on stage, Mark on accordion myself on electric guitar. Joolie's voice has always held for me a special quality of unflinching vulnerability and I always look forward to hearing it. I think this will be the first time Joolie's had an accordion player in her group, it works wonderfully; and Mark is real pleasure to rehearse with. 9th Feb: Cafe Oto 8pm Another bit of Cafe Oto news. David Toop will be joining us on a couple of songs from Pass the Distance. David and I haven't played together live for 45 years! We met up recently to try and work out what key, if any, we'd played them in. Once that was sorted it all seemed to fall into place wondrously smoothly.
Dec 2nd, 2014: Colchester Arts Centre - The Arts Centre is always a luxury to play. It has lovely people and fabulous sound. This show will be with Joolie Wood & Ian Hothersal on Drums, and I will be playing a mix of electric and acoustic. Also playing will be Fishclaw, a group I heard for the first time two months ago and loved.
Fri. Jan 28th - Mandra-RA2 Kichijoji, Tokyo Sat. Jan 29th - U.F.O. Club Koeji, Tokyo Sun. Jan 30th - TRAUMARIS, Nadiff, Tokyo http://www.traumaris.jp/ UK: Thur. Feb 17th - Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester Denmark:Thur. Nov 25th - Studenterhuset, CopenhagenAlso playing at this show will be: Kloster + Of the Wand & Moon Sept 23rd, Casa, Montreal, Canada London: HMV Forum May 28th Single for HMV show St. Etienne June 11th Festival Toto, Musee de la Mine, Saint Etienne, France (Faust will play on the 12th) Marseille Paris Madrid |