Past event!
This event has already taken place. Find all current events for this promoter here.

Louis Brennan Full Band Show

0	LONDON: The Slaughtered Lamb
P	Wednesday 24th November, 2021
N	7:30pm

Event information

‘A master storyteller with a voice like rolling thunder’ – GQ
Magazine

‘His ability to twist and turn a simple phrase can render the most
innocent line into something utterly heartbreaking’ – Clash
Magazine

‘Someone capable of turning the bleak into beautiful and
relatable’ – Gigwise

‘His wry tales manage to make that which is moribund sound full of
life’ – R2

London-based Dubliner Louis Brennan is a singer-songwriter in the folk
tradition. His folk however aren’t the field hands and travelling minstrels
of yore but the repressed middle managers and ennui-ridden urbanites
of late-stage capitalism. They populate tales of bad sex, half-drunk
commutes and interpersonal claustrophobia delivered in Brennan’s
cracked baritone, at times embarrassingly intimate, at times spuriously
broad, peppered with pitch-black humour.

His debut album Dead Capital was recorded at Berlin’s Candybomber
Studio, located in the now-defunct Tempelhof Airport. Produced
alongside acclaimed Irish songwriter A.S. Fanning and legendary
engineer Into Krauss, whose credits run from noise-merchants
Einsturzende Neubauten to tango pioneer Astor Piazolla,
Dead Capital brings together a body of work shaped through dozens of
live shows in London and further afield. It was released to critical
acclaim in February 2018 with For Folks Sake remarking ‘Dead Capital
is an overwhelmingly beautiful album forged from hopelessness’.

He recently decamped to the legendary Rockfield Studios in the Welsh
countryside to begin work on the follow up to ‘Dead Capital’ alongside a
stellar cast of musicians. The eagerly anticipated sophomore album
promises to cement the reputation of what Artree has described as “one
of the most interesting performers in folk today”