MANCHESTER: Hey! Manchester @ YES (The Pink Room)

Friday 11th October, 2024

7:00pm

Event information

Euros Childs has been making music for over thirty years, as a solo artist and as the frontman of Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci. He’s released 19 solo albums to date, most of which have appeared on his own National Elf label. Since 2019 Euros has also been playing keyboards and lending his voice to Teenage Fanclub, appearing on their last two albums.

This tour will mark Euros’s return to the stage with a band for the first time in seven years. He’ll be joined by long-term collaborators Stephen Black (aka Sweet Baboo), Stuart Kidd (Kidd, The Wellgreen) and Selma French (Morgonrode, Frøkedal).

Expect a show full of life, zest and humour that draws on Euros’s extensive back catalogue as well as songs from his forthcoming album Beehive Beach, due in October.

Tour support comes from Selma French. Selma French is a songwriter and musician renowned and revered within the Norwegian folk scene. She grew up with traditional music and has played and created music all her life. Her musical inspirations include Linda Perhacs, Nick Drake, Judee Sill, Frøkedal, Sundfør and Sandy Denny. Her debut album Changes Like the Weather in the Mountain was released in 2022 to critical acclaim and was ranked among the top Norwegian albums of 2022 by notable Norwegian newspapers such as Dagsavisen and Aftenposten.

Selma has toured extensively throughout Scandinavia and is a member of the bands such as Masåva, Frøkedal & Familien – with whom she toured in the UK as special guests of Teenage Fanclub, Sondre Lerche and Norwegian Grammy award winners Morgonrode. Her music is widely recognised in her native country and has recently featured as the theme song in the hit Viaplay TV series Furia. Her music reflects an admiration for Norwegian and English folk music and is infused with an airy, enigmatic energy. Her rich landscape of guitars, wurlitzer, fiddles and high pitched choir voices manages to convey a roar of frustration, obscure portraits of the present and a gathering force of hope.

‘What a Norwegian gem we are dealing with here. Selma French is Norway’s music scene’s best-kept “secret” – for now’ – GAFFA.no

Please note that doors open at 7pm, with Selma French on at 7.30pm and Euros Childs at 8.15pm (curfew 10pm).

38 Charles St
Manchester
M1 7DB

www.heymanchester.com