, 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

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

Event type: GIGS.

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