Chris Difford + Izzie Yardley + Zak Hobbs

While the doors to our beloved venue remain closed and the whole world as we know it seems to have turned upside down, we wanted to continue to do what we love doing! So…. we are very proud to present “Virtually Green Note… in the round”… a series of specially-curated, unique online musical events that will run every Wednesday and Friday evening at 8pm (UK time), streamed live to our website, our YouTube and Facebook page.

If you watch this show (and are able to) we would like to like to ask you to make a donation via our PayPal link and support the musicians during this difficult time. All the money raised for each show, will be divided  between the venue and the three artists playing on this date. Please know that we, and all the musicians involved, are incredibly grateful for the support of music-loving audiences… and it enables us to keep doing what what we do!

Suggested donation £10, but any donation will be much appreciated. Thank you!


CHRIS DIFFORD is a Grammy nominated and double Ivor Novello Award winning lyricist who has brought us characters and sketches from everyday life, and has successfully turned the mundane into the beautiful, the urbane into the exquisite, for over 40 years.
With his collaborator, Squeeze co-founder Glenn Tilbrook, Chris has written some of the most enduring and best-loved songs of our time such as ‘Up The Junction’, ‘Cool For Cats’ and ‘Labelled With Love’, ‘Tempted’ and many others. Squeeze returned with two new albums in recent years ‘Cradle to the Grave’ in 2015 and ‘The Knowledge’ in 2017, followed by extensive world-wide touring.
Chris hosts songwriting retreats and has done so for over 25 years, some in Prisons, some in Rehabs, but mostly in Somerset with the Buddy Holly Foundation at Pennard House. He is one of the country’s most respected songwriters and has co-written with a host of musicians and performers that reads like a veritable who’s who of the music industry.
His autobiography ‘Some Fantastic Place’ was released in 2017 and found some wonderful praise in the UK press and with fans around the World who recognised his journey into recovery while touring with his friends in Squeeze. The book continues to be part of his solo touring and became the focus of his sell out two week run at the Edinburgh Festival. A stand up show with a bit of sit down.
In 2020 Squeeze are sanding still while the global Pandemic takes center stage, sadly their tour with Hall and Oates is on hold until 2021. Meanwhile Chris is finding ways of being at home and keeping creative and busy. Online workshops, Zoom concerts from home raising money for charity and Podcasts with his chums in the industry. Another book? Who knows. Some summer outdoor shows, yes.

IZZIE YARDLEY is an alternative indie-folk artist who started circling the British live scene a few years ago, after experimenting with a series of alternative jobs that ranged from chocolatier to immersive theatre. Welcomed by Folk and Americana communities alike, though as music is released we’ll be seeing more of her childhood background of Classical and Jazz. Productions have been seeing support from the likes of Chris Difford and Fresh On The Net, and it is now being confirmed that a debut EP should be expected 2021, with an exciting set of collaborators.
In the months leading up to the UK lockdown she was found selling out a headline show at Spiritual Bar in London, supporting Ethan Johns & the Black Eyed Dogs, folk artist Maz O’Connor and playing Union Chapel with ‘Letters Live.’ Spring 2020 was supposed to see her visiting the US on invitation by the House of Songs, and when the industry reopens she will be set to join an upcoming tour with a US based British duo.

Singer-songwriter from London, ZAK HOBBS is the Grandson of Richard and Linda Thompson. Noted for his “brainy guitar chops” and “unsparing world view” by the New York Times he cut his teeth as a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist for numerous acts in the UK and in the US. As a solo artist he has been called the “natural continuation of the family tradition of musical excellence” by Folk Radio UK