Thursday 7th April
BRIX SMITH
£16 / £18 [+10% booking fee]
Doors open 8pm – tickets available on the door
18 + show
Brix Smith – singer-songwriter, guitarist, author, actor, fashion commentator, and stylist; a high-profile life in music, television and the arts took shape after a chance meeting with Mark E. Smith at a show by post-punk icons The Fall in Chicago in April 1983, ultimately propelling her across the Atlantic Ocean, taking LA-born, Illinois-based Brix to a new life in Manchester, Northern England … and her destiny.
Almost two decades on she bounced back with a critically-acclaimed memoir which in turn proved the catalyst for a return to songwriting, recording and performing, this time at the forefront of much-praised five-piece Brix & the Extricated, five years of compelling live shows following, with three happening LPs inspiring rave reviews.
With the Extricated currently on hiatus, she’s now taking a fresh solo direction, releasing an album of brand new recordings as Brix Smith, the LP’s vibe described as ‘dystopian California’, working with Killing Joke bass player and production legend Youth, writing and recording in Spain and remotely – from her bedroom in Shoreditch, East London, amid pandemic lockdowns – on a set of new songs she says, ‘I’m really proud of’.
‘This is the record I wanted to make before The Adult Net, and serves as the perfect follow-up, more than 30 years later. With Youth I’m able to realise what I always heard in my head but was never previously able to put down on tape. It’s taken a lifetime of listening, learning and grafting for everything to fall into place.’
‘I’ve put together an all-woman band for this project. It’s time for me to standup and put my head above the parapet, put my money where my mouth is, having been a strong woman in the music industry for however many years. I’m gonna make the mother**** of all-girl bands’
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