We loved his debut performance at The Bear in February ‘25 and couldn’t wait to get him back.
Scott Lavene 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, Scott is back with another album entitled, descriptively enough, “Cars, Buses, Bedsits and Shops”, an album bursting with more dark humour, snapshots of squalor and cheek, and more of Scott’s unique love songs.
The album is a bit of a departure for Lavene and is polished like a classic 70’s American singer songwriter album, an ode to Wings, to 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 less authentic 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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