The Talleyrand Presents:
Ray 'Chopper' Cooper
+ Quincey Brown
26th October 2024
7:30pm
£15 adv
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Ray Cooper:
Ray Cooper started playing in bands at the age of sixteen. After studying at Art College in Brighton, he became a member of the punk band Amazorblades, moved to London and began working with other bands and genres. He was already an experienced session musician and had worked with producers such as Steve Lillywhite, Martin Rushent, Phil Chevron, Joe Jackson, Pete Bellotte, Aki Dean, and Edwin Starr when he became a member of 3 Mustaphas 3 in 1982.

He then moved repeatedly between rock, punk, pop and world music, working as a singer, bassist and cellist before joining the Oysterband and embarking on a long journey to his own roots. In 2000, Cooper moved to Sweden, but continued to work with the Oysterband, with whom he performed in 27 countries and recorded many albums. In 2012 the band won three BBC Radio 2 “Folk Awards” for Best Group, Best Album and Best Traditional Track, appeared on the Later with Jools Holland show and were declared one of the three “Icons of Folk” by FROOTS magazine. Despite the great success, Cooper decided to leave the band in 2013 and start a solo career, which he has since successfully pursued with four albums to date. Two of them were nominated for the German Record Critics’ Prize.
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Quincey May Brown is a Manchester-based singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. Her mesmerising harp and piano led songs are layered with undercurrents of dark woodwind drones and textural electric guitar, while she lyrically conjures imagery of mischief, sarcasm and surgery. Her anatomically themed debut album entitled Basic Surgeon, produced by Joel Harries (of 72% and Lichen Slow), was released on Squirrelled Away Records on 15 November 2023.