Camille O’Sullivan & Band featuring Earl Slick: ’The Art of Falling Apart'

Raunchy & dangerously fragile with an exceptional voice, Camille is a courageous and singular performer, one of the most gifted interpreters of narrative songs about loss, love, joy, light and darkness. Camille O’Sullivan will take to the stage with both hymnal and rock renditions of her much-loved classics.

Known as the "Queen of the Edinburgh Festival" (BBC) and the original star of Olivier Award winning LaClique, Camille O’Sullivan enjoys a formidable reputation for her intensely dramatic interpretations of the songs of Brel, Cave, Waits, Bowie, Edith Piaf and more. The multi-award-winning singer has stunned audiences around the world with her five-star sell-out performances, including at The Sydney Opera House, Royal Festival Hall, La Clique & Royal Albert Hall. In addition, Camille has performed on BBC’s Jools Holland show and won the coveted ‘Herald Angel’ award for her RSC solo performance ‘The Rape of Lucrece’. A former award-winning architect and painter, this dark and mesmerizing, French/ Irish Londoner, transforms.

Earl Slick was David Bowie’s long-time guitarist starting with the 1974 Diamond Dogs tour, recording and creating the incredible riffs and solos on Young Americans, Station to Station, Heathen , Reality, The Next Day Serious Moonlight, Dancing In The Streets, with Bowie and Jagger and more. He has also worked with such greats as Robert Smith, Carl Perkins, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Eric Clapton and Buddy Guy . It can be said that one of the high points of his career was working alongside John Lennon on what would become Lennon’s final studio recording, the 1980s chart-topping Double Fantasy. After Lennon’s death the same year, Slick returned to the studio with Yoko Ono, and appeared on what would become her highest-charting solo release, 1981s Season of Glass. Earl’s guitar work would also appear on the posthumously released compilation of Lennon leftovers, 1984s Milk and Honey, as well as CD box sets for both Yoko Ono, Onobox, and John Lennon, 1998s Anthology.

Camille and Earl Slick first crossed paths in Yoko Ono’s Meltdown Royal Festival Hall in 2013, performing a spell binding emotional rendtition of Lennon’s I’m Losing You. It was at this meeting they recognised a real musical and personal connection “You’re the real thing, as crazy and free on stage as I am”, she thought. Now, some thirteen years later, the pair are reunited for this special one-off gig.