A guitarist who played for The Prodigy and an artist with over a hundred million streams are among the stars performing at a Suffolk pub turned-music hotspot this year.
The Rev, a guitarist who played for the electric dance music band The Prodigy in the 2000s and performed in front of crowds of over 40,000 people, will take to the stage of the small village pub, The Tavern, in Rendlesham, near Woodbridge, later this year.
The small microbrewery says the Ex-Prodigy and Towers star is set to perform on Saturday, August 24.
The rev joins a whole host of talented artists serenading the small discrete Suffolk pub recently, including Cosmo Pyke, an English singer-songwriter with over a hundred million streams.
The multi-instrumentalist Cosmo Pyke, hailing from London, randomly attended one of the The Tavern's open mic nights and surprised the staff and guests with his immense talent, humbleness and stardom.
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Adam Thomas a local star who recently won the Cambridge Club Festival competition also regularly supports the open mic nights.
Another local name, Josh Locke, who has played at Glastonbury three times, is set to attend the pub's next open mic night on Tuesday, June 25.
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The Tavern's manager Chris Burness said, "We are incredibly lucky. We run an open mic once a month and 45 musicians turned up last month plus another nine that we couldn't fit in.
"We've had people coming to us who've played Glastonbury and have hundreds of millions of streams, all sorts of things. And all of this, given the fact that we really are in the middle of nowhere. It's absolutely crazy!"
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"So yeah, it feels like we are becoming a bit of a magnet for music at the moment. I'm not sure how or why but it's brilliant."
39-year-old Chris, who has been part of a band for nine years, says he set up the open mic nights initially to build up his own confidence and network with other musicians but now it has become much bigger than that.
Chris smiles and says "We've now attracted much bigger acts who want to play in our tiny micropub in the middle of nowhere. It's great."
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