Brighten The Corners Presents Bristol alt-country quartet Langkamer at The Smokehouse Friday 12th May with support from underground disco-pop artist Vanity Fairy.
“Langkamer are truly one of the UK's most exciting bands in recent years, they're moulding the gap between new and old.” - CLUNK MAGAZINE
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Time: 7.30pm - 11pm
Venue: The Smokehouse, 6 South Street, IP1 3NU
Tickets: £8+bf
Supports: Vanity Fairy
Age Restrictions: 14+ (14- 15s must be accompanied by an adult) -
Langkamer announce upcoming second LP The Noon and Midnight Manual with first single 'Sing At Dawn'.
As clear and direct as the morning hours, ‘Sing At Dawn’ perfectly embodies the band's dextrous and anthemic brand of slacker rock. Bridging that short gap between Lynyrd Skynyrd and Pavement, it takes the vast existential worries of modern life and dresses them up in rambling pop sensibilities, swerving between sing-along chorus and off-kilter guitar melodies.
The genesis of Sing at Dawn came shortly after the recording of the band’s debut album ‘West Country’, developing material for their sophomore record even before the dust had settled on the first. As lead singer Josh Jarman states:
“Sing At Dawn is the first song we wrote for the second album. It was a really hard time of year. It was cold and bleak and the days were short and dark. The Seasonal Affective Disorder was really weighing me down. Writing this song was an exercise in catharsis.”
Vanity Fairy:
Having supported Warmduscher, Katy J Pearson, Audiobooks, Lime Garden, Insecure Men, Let’s Eat Grandma, and Girl Ray, 2022/3 has been a bit of a whirlwind for divine disco diva - and recent Moshi Moshi signing - Vanity Fairy.
A sparkling starlet of the underground East London scene, Vanity’s debut EP ‘Love From Above’ spins a nostalgia-laden world that plays with kitsch-pop tropes and revels in the hedonistic indulgences of classic disco. But there’s also something strange at work here. Far from being content to ape her be-dazzled Studio 54 idols, Fairy adds something new to the mix. It’s a bittersweet, playful, wistful sensibility that works itself out in a sound that both reveres and toys with the music she loves with all her heart.
Between her shimmering vocal falsetto (which has been compared to everyone from Barry Gibb to Kate Bush) and onstage theatrics, the iconic disco darling is earning a reputation as one of the most mesmerising live performers around.
With a new EP set for release, and more exciting live news soon to be unveiled, 2023 looks set to be a stunner for the high priestess of underground disco-pop.
Vanity Fairy is on a messianic, hedonistic one-woman-mission to spread one simple emotion to audiences everywhere: JOY!