We loved Scott Lavene’s debut performance here last February and couldn’t wait to have him back. Scott is as English as pork pies and pasties, dunked biscuits in Yorkshire tea. Last year’s album Disneyland in Dagenham was full of Essex, East End poetry, and classic English post-punk.
Following extensive touring, including many sold-out shows, he returns with Cars, Buses, Bedsits and Shops, an album bursting with dark humour, snapshots of squalor and cheek, and more of his unique love songs.
It’s a bit of a departure for Scott, polished like a classic '70s American singer-songwriter record - an ode to Wings, yacht rock, and Neil Young, like if Wilco and Bruce Springsteen’s lovechild was raised in Basildon.
The combination of wry observation, humble wisdom, unguarded vulnerability, and unpredictable humour makes Scott a unique voice in today’s expansive world of artists.
“Once upon a time, he’d have found a home on Stiff Records, alongside Ian Dury and Wreckless Eric, even Jona Lewie, and he’d have become a national treasure: he really is a very good writer, with an eye for the telling detail”
“Scott Lavene is a throwback, and very English or, to be more precise, very Essex…”
Doors 7pm / Music 8pm / Tickets £14
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