The Delines + Seamus Fogarty

, starts 8pm. The Delines were formed after Richmond Fontaine singer/songwriter, Willy Vlautin, heard singer, Amy Boone (The Damnations), sing just one single ballad. He was so moved by her voice that he secretly wrote her songs for over a year before approaching her to start a band. Lucky for all she liked what she heard and The Delines were formed. Fontaine’s Sean Oldham on drums, Freddie Trujillo on bass, Vlautin on guitar, and multi-instrumentalist Cory Gray on keyboards and horns. Vlautin is no stranger to critical acclaim in the US, UK, and Europe, enjoying cult success and rave reviews from the likes of the New York Times, Washington Post, Uncut, MOJO, Hot Press, Rolling Stone and the Wall Street Journal, both as a novelist with seven books under his belt, and as the former front man/songwriter of the Americana outfit Richmond Fontaine who produced eleven acclaimed studio albums. Three of his novels have been turned into feature films: The Motel Life, Lean on Pete, and The Night Always Comes. Ursula K. Le Guin said this of Vlautin’s writing, “Willy Vlautin is one of the bravest novelists writing. An unsentimental Steinbeck, a heartbroken Haruf, Willy Vlautin tells us who really lives now in our America, our city in ruins.” https://www.thedelines.com/ “The Delines’ exemplary seventh album. Vlautin’s latest pin-sharp vignettes of drifters, con artists and the left behind. Behind Vlautin’s writing and Amy Boone’s poised, soulful delivery, Cory Gray’s horns swoon and sway in sympathy.” Uncut – 9/10 “With its soft-edged brass, Wichita Lineman twangs and soft-purring organ, the perfectly weighted, often filmic music is impeccable, short instrumental pieces punctuating episodic, detail-rich character studies which singer Amy Boone delivers with her usual flair and poise.” MOJO – 4 stars **** “Stunning doesn’t begin to cover it. Over the last couple of albums there has been a growing sophistication in the way Willy Vlautin writes, and in how The Delines interpret his stories, and this is another step forward in that process.” Americana UK – 9/10 Seamus Fogarty London-based Alt-folk alchemist Seamus Fogarty recently released his new album Ships (6th March) on Scottish label Lost Map Records, in partnership with Swedish label Sing A Song Fighter.    Packed with poignant and funny slice-of-life vignettes touching on everything from Geoffrey Chaucer to DIY coffins, and existing in a wonderful new sonic realm where songs and stories coexist peacefully with fragmentary electronics, drones and field recordings, Ships is his most expansive and uplifting collection of music to date.  Singles 'I Passed Your House', 'Fire' and 'Ships' picked up wide support across BBC 6Music, from the likes of Cillian Murphy ('one of my favourite artists around at the moment'), Lauren Laverne, Cerys Matthews, Craig Charles, Huw Stephens, New Music Fix Daily, Radcliffe and Maconie, and Riley & Coe, as well as support elsewhere from Uncut (8/10), Analogue Trash, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3, BBC Scotland, BBC Ulster, BBC Wales, Radio X, RTÉ Radio 1, RTÉ 2FM and more. The first single ‘I Passed Your House’ also spent multiple weeks on RTÉ Radio 1’s Recommends list.  “By turns gritty and poetic… A real original” ★★★★ – The Observer “Nestles beautifully at the point where the digital and analogue worlds collide” ★★★★★ – The Skinny “Original, self-contained and unencumbered by the genre” ★★★★ – Mojo  “The ghostly, emotional wallop of the  tunes will take your breath away” ★★★★ – Irish Times

Venue: Colchester Arts Centre, Church Street, Colchester, Essex CO1 1NF.

Event type: GIGS.

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