Jessie Pie & The Thorn at Olive Cafe

Live music at the Olive Cafe invites you to listen to this week performace by Jessie Pie & The Thorn.

Entry: £5
Start: 8:30pm 1st set / Break 9:15pm / 9:45pm 2nd set


Bringing theatrical and technical possibilities to an agile frontier, Jessie Pie & The Thorn harnesses a passion for the glamour and pomposity of rock while affirming a shared commitment to making fresh, bold, sensational live music.


Jessie Pie made her musical debut on the London burlesque scene nearly ten years ago, and has since fronted a host of bands, duo and trio projects including London band “Elephant Shelf” and associated trio “The Cleavage of Death”, while continuing with her own brand of solo cabaret both independently and through the “Ministry of Burlesque”. She has recorded and played live with Alabama 3 and played a number of reputable London venues including Madame Jojo’s, The Cobden Club, Hoxton Hall and The Troubadour in Earl’s Court. As well as “Jessie Pie & The Thorn”, she currently performs regular gigs with her blues band, “Jessie Pie & The Fork Handles” (www.facebook.com/pages/​Jessie...Fork-Handles/​136892006374045), her “The Pie Trio” (www.facebook.com/​ThePieTrio), and as “Pie & Bajtala”, with Hungarian pianist Janos Bajtala. ...

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Live music at the Olive Cafe invites you to listen to this week performace by Jessie Pie & The Thorn.

Entry: £5
Start: 8:30pm 1st set / Break 9:15pm / 9:45pm 2nd set


Bringing theatrical and technical possibilities to an agile frontier, Jessie Pie & The Thorn harnesses a passion for the glamour and pomposity of rock while affirming a shared commitment to making fresh, bold, sensational live music.


Jessie Pie made her musical debut on the London burlesque scene nearly ten years ago, and has since fronted a host of bands, duo and trio projects including London band “Elephant Shelf” and associated trio “The Cleavage of Death”, while continuing with her own brand of solo cabaret both independently and through the “Ministry of Burlesque”. She has recorded and played live with Alabama 3 and played a number of reputable London venues including Madame Jojo’s, The Cobden Club, Hoxton Hall and The Troubadour in Earl’s Court. As well as “Jessie Pie & The Thorn”, she currently performs regular gigs with her blues band, “Jessie Pie & The Fork Handles” (www.facebook.com/pages/​Jessie...Fork-Handles/​136892006374045), her “The Pie Trio” (www.facebook.com/​ThePieTrio), and as “Pie & Bajtala”, with Hungarian pianist Janos Bajtala.


Chris Thorn was raised in Hastings but moved to London when he was18 years old. He worked with various blues and swing R ‘n’ B bands until the early 90’s, when London’s acid-jazz craze led him to North London jazz-funk band “Tribeca” and “The Jazzhearts”. A 10-year spell ensued, spent touring and playing the Glastonbury Jazz World stage, supporting “The Yellow Jackets”, recording an album live at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club and playing top venues including The Jazz Café and the 606 Club. As well as working with some of London’s busiest function bands from the late 90’s, Chris has worked for Arclite Productions in Ladbroke Grove as a session guitarist and was the live guitarist for “Mint Royale”, whose single “Singing in the Rain” went to Number One in the UK charts. Working with Jessie Pie witnesses the glorious coalescence of all these years of experience in a manner not dissimilar to atomic combustion, only funnier and more creative.

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