The Heathen Apostles are appearing at 100 Club, the famous, and infamous venue in London, England, on 30 July with The Waterboys’ Steve Wickham (with Ray Coen), and their pal Sarah Vista will also be appearing. Here’s the ticket link, they’ll go fast, grab them while you can HERE.
Steve Wickham is recognised as Ireland’s premier rock fiddler since the mid-1980s. His distinctive playing has been a major contribution to the Waterboys groundbreaking records over the years. Steve Wickham became a member of The Waterboys in 1985 shortly after playing on their seminal album “This is The Sea”. After the album was released Wickham joined the group officially. Wickham’s influence and the new environment resulted in the traditional Irish music and traditional Scottish music sound of Fisherman’s Blues (1988). In 1990, Wickham, preferring an acoustic sound over rock, disagreed with Scott and Anthony Thistlethwaite over the direction of The Waterboys,[6] and left the band. Wickham has experimented with a technique he calls “fuzz fiddle”, partially inspired by rock fiddler Warren Ellis and the genre of grunge music. Wickham’s first attempt at a distorted rock fiddle sound was with a band named Juggler.
With a hand-picked posse of musical desperadoes alongside her, Sarah Vista creates a dark and dangerous country style that doffs the stetson to classic artists like Loretta Lynn, Nancy Sinatra, Nick Cave, Marty Robbins and Johnny Cash while also veering into spaghetti western territory. Her powerfully emotive vocals are the velvet glove but her truly original lyrics are the iron fist. Lee Powell from UK Rock & Roll magazine nailed it when he called Vista’s music “a unique blend of Morricone-esque western soundtrack style sounds and brooding, blood-soaked balladry.”
