Please note this has been moved from The Church to The Smokehouse
Brighten The Corners Presents Tracey Nelson at The Smokehouse on Thursday 5th November, with support from Lou Terry.
“Pushing his winsome songwriting into rootsier territory with a little help from co-producer MJ Lenderman, the New Yorker’s debut album is primed to soundtrack your summer” - Shaad D’Souza of The Guardian
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Time: 7:30pm - 11pm
Venue: The Smokehouse, Ipswich
Tickets: £14+bf
Support: Lou TerryAge Restrictions: 14+ (14- 17s must be accompanied by an adult)
There is step-free access into the venue and the bar / accessible toilet / venue are all on one floor. For further information, please email info@brightenthecorners.co.uk so we can make your visit as comfortable as possible.
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Tracey Nelson’s self-titled 2025 debut EP was one of the year’s best lesser-heard gems: Five tracks of sparkling, winsome indie-rock that recalled classic antipodean jangle bands the Clean, Twerps and Dick Diver. Tracks such as New Years Flowers and Just Shoot Me Now suggested that Austin Noll – the NYC-based singer-songwriter behind the project – was a classicist with a keen sense for bright melodies and self-deprecating one-liners.
This July, he will release Hercules, his first full-length, on Perennial, an imprint of the beloved Olympia, Washington label K Records, which in recent years has released great LPs by garage rockers Sharp Pins and the amorphous Los Angeles band Dummy. Co-produced by the North Carolina musicians MJ Lenderman and Colin Miller – and performed by a murderers row that includes Lenderman and Miller alongside Landon George, Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman, Xandy Chelmis, Ethan Baechtold and former Hotline TNT guitarist Jack Kraus – Hercules amps up the country elements of last year’s EP while giving Tracey Nelson and his band more space to breathe.
Tracks such as Two Feet and St John’s River amble about in a dazed, friendly way that makes the record’s summer release date a no-brainer; lead single Hercules is a warm spotlight for Noll’s warbling, characterful voice. “I’ll carry you with me wherever I go,” he sings, drawing out each word with a faint sense of adoration and affirmation. The whole of Hercules balances deftly on this tightrope between melancholy and geniality, establishing Noll as an unshowy songwriter with a deeply clarified sense of self.
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Lou Terry is a musician, genre-mangler and activist who fuses strange technology with timeless songwriting. He has just released his sophomore album 'Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Spectacle' on Divine Schism, which they are touring currently. They have toured with and supported the likes of Black Country, New Road, Richard Dawson, Porridge Radio, Ora Coga, Jeffrey Lewis and Califone.
Through quirky vocals and meticulously crafted folk soundscapes, Lou's music paints a picture of the people, events, feelings, doubts and misgivings of everyday life, guiding the listener through episodic stories with heart on the sleeve honesty and poignant, political lyricism, nodding to personal experiences like getting evicted from his home, the repressed ecstasies of romance, or getting sacked from JD Sports, often finding beauty in the mundane.
‘Sensational!’ John Cooper Clarke
‘One of our absolute faves’ The Windmill, Brixton
‘Epic and defiantly unique', ‘One of the finest pieces of songwriting of the past few years’ and ‘Lou Terry’s latest album reminds us why he is one of the best respected songwriters in London right now.’ Hard of Hearing
‘Progressive and potent’ - Wonderland
‘That's an excellent album from Lou Terry... really fresh and original with plenty of bite’ Tom Robinson