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Coming to The Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham....Yves Tumor, Kate Bush, Diamanda Galas are all attempts to explain hard-to-describe, multi-genre artist, Kristeen Young. But, they are wrong. You can’t find a comparison because there isn’t one, and isn’t that a nice change? She plays piano/keyboard in a dissonant bashing style, sings using a wide range with operatic vocals, and her lyrics eviscerate in a playful way like an afternoon with a Victorian child ghost. You’ll be dead but you will have enjoyed your own life’s K*ll. And ….speaking of…..her new (self-produced) album, The Beauty Shop, is a song cycle based on the life of a serial killer, with each song also representing a different major emotion. “But, it’s really about how life kills our emotions,” she interjects. The album's lived-in imagery originates from the beauty shop her foster/adopted mom had in a room in the little St. Louis house where she grew up. Besides the audio of the album, Kristeen has also shot and edited 6 song videos (herself) for The Beauty Shop and plans to release a visual version of the album in 2023. Never on a record label, or with management, continuously navigating on her own, Kristeen has always been the epitome of DIY. Shortly after arriving in New York (where she now resides) she met legendary producer, Tony Visconti, who brought David Bowie to one of her shows and ended up recording a duet with Kristeen (a song she wrote called Saviour). She also toured several times as Morrissey’s opening act. Dave Grohl discovered one of her songs on a mix tape and then contacted her….which lead to him to playing drums on her entire 2014 album, The Knife Shift. Nick Zinner (Yeahs Yeah Yeahs) was guitarist for her 2017 album, Live at The Witch’s Tit. Her first live show post-pandemic was Riot Fest, September 2021. Following by her own curated night at SxSW 2022. Since the June 2022 release of The Beauty Shop she’s been filling rooms in New York, San Francisco, St. Louis, London and Manchester…. touring on her own. She has a West Coast tour booked for early December 2022.
Strange Cities :
San Francisco post punk band Strange Cities was formed from the ashes of several Bay Area bands. Featuring former members of In Letter Form, Murder of Lillies, NRVS LVRS, and Upstairs Downstairs. Drawing on influences such as Echo and the Bunnymen, The Chameleons, & JAMC, Strange Cities’ sound also reflects the foggy, jagged, industrial landscape that inspired their name. Whether stitching up pieces of a broken past or reflecting on an unknown future, their music skirts the fringe of noise and nihilism, melodic and melancholic, tragedies and trajectories. A post-post punk if you will.
With Daniel Nakazo Clark (vocals and guitar), James Levis (guitar), Clayton Vorheis (bass and vocals) and Dan Caporale (drums).
The band recently toured the western half of the US with Gene Loves Jezebel. On that tour they met Smiley, UK based producer and drummer for GLJ, The Alarm. Archive, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros. Strange Cities will be heading to Fleet to work with Smiley at his studio, Sunshine Corner in Feb. , 2023 ,coinciding with their debut tour of the UK .
Low Red Moon
Imagine, if you can, a blend of enigmatic Texas desert pop and swirly psychedelia, shot through with the clang and echo of surfy guitars." - Matt Almond for ROCKwell UnScene
"I always think they'd make a rocking 'Twin Peaks' house band!" -Alan, Kushikatsu Records"
Avant, "Psy-Fi Americana" band, Low Red Moon are an 8-person-strong musical force, living in Birmingham, UK
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The Sunflower Lounge, 76 Smallbrook Queensway,Birmingham, United Kingdom
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