COMPRISING two brothers from Leicester and their two friends, The Displacement formed three years ago when Andrew Stone (vocals/guitar), Nick Eversfield (vocals/bass), Joe Wilson (guitar), James Stone (vocals/drums) picked up instruments and taught themselves to play in the front room of the brothers' house - a house with a PA, musical parents and lots of old records which the boys spent 24 hours a day consuming.
The band started running their own sold-out club night in Leicester, borrowed money, bought a van and started to play the country on tour. Since then, they signed to Stiff Records.
Tomorrow, meanwhile, Rotherham Arts Centre hosts Gin And Tonic And
Passing Trains, the 10th anniversary touring production by Spike Theatre.
Influenced by the classic Charles Dickens ghost story The Signalman, this darkly visual comic tale, played against an original music score, is a mix of object animation, mime, clown, bold storytelling and strong characterisation, with the performer at the centre.
Gin And Tonic And Passing Trains is a tale of one man who has too much time on his hands, with nothing for company other than his thoughts and the sound of trains rushing past his damp rickety signal box. Soon the loneliness, the responsibilities and the endless sounds of bells drive him to distraction and the bottom of a bottle. Curtain up 7.30pm.
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