Brighten The Corners Presents South London-based musician Lou Terry at The Smokehouse on Saturday 30th November. Support comes from Garden Centre.
“Sensational!” - John Cooper Clarke
“Humorous, politically-tinged and at times raucous…with the help of a full band, as well as the futuristic use an MYO gesture control device, he creates a richly textured backdrop to his earnest and expressive vocals” - Loud and Quiet
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Time: 7.30pm - 11pm
Venue: The Smokehouse, Ipswich
Tickets: £8+bf
Supports: Garden Centre (solo)
Age Restrictions: 14+ (14- 15s must be accompanied by an adult)Accessibility: There is step-free access into the venue and the bar / venue is all on one floor. There is a Changing Places toilet across the courtyard from the venue. Please be aware we are a small venue. For further information, please email info@brightenthecorners.co.uk so we can make your visit as comfortable as possible.
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Lou Terry is an up and coming South London-based musician, genre-mangler, music software builder and activist. The 2023 Black Country, New Road UK support and Radio 2-tipped artist fuses strange technology with timeless songwriting. His 2023 EP 'Warmly, Alexandria' charted 22 in physical sales. He is set to release his debut album in November 2024, is touring for its release, supporting Porridge Radio as well as Califone, and is playing taste-maker festival Left of the Dial in Rotterdam in October.
Through his quirky vocals and meticulously crafted folk soundscape, Lou’s music paints a picture of the people, events, feelings, doubts and misgivings of the everyday - often finding beauty in the mundane. In his own words, “If I’ve got the story at hand, the way in is just to tell that, the very specific situations that happened, and how they are related to things that are bigger”. Lou guides the listener through episodic stories with heart on the sleeve honesty and poignant lyricism - nodding to personal experiences like getting booted out of his home, repressed ecstasies of romance, or getting sacked from JD Sports. Lou Terry speaks for a generation that feels at odds with its surroundings.
His music has received support from Matt Wilkinson, Steve Lamacq, So Young, DIY Mag, Line of Best Fit, Dazed, Loud and Quiet, NTS Radio, The Most Radicalist, Hard of Hearing, Far Out Mag, BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 2, New York Village Radio, International Times and BBC Introducing. He once won the heart of John Cooper Clarke who was so entranced he missed his train home.
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Searching for a Stream, the album from Garden Centre’s Max Levy, was largely written and recorded in Levy’s ex-girlfriend’s house shortly after they broke up (and lockdown forced them to continue living together), “Searching For A Stream”, the follow-up to 2019’s “A Moon for Digging” is a playful meditation on the interchange between actual and vicarious living. The album’s 12 songs are populated by narrators whose immediate realities are clouded by nostalgia, superstitions; the glory and pain of other people. A train guard, who usually takes pleasure in telling jokes over the intercom, can no longer spin his pain into a punchline (he’s just seen a horrific injury on TV). A man, asleep at his desk, sings frantically and fondly about his own personally curated hall of fame. A kid interrupts an important conversation with the sound of his dirt bike.