When: 7.30pm on Thursday 6 March 2025
Where: YES Pink Room, 38 Charles Street, Manchester, M1 7DB

When: 7.30pm on Saturday 8 March 2025
Where: The Lending Room, 229 Woodhouse Ln, Woodhouse, Leeds LS2 3AP

We’re excited to welcome Sean Rowe back – this time, to Manchester and Leeds!

Though he grew up in the generally frozen landscape of Troy, New York, Sean Rowe spent many of his formative summers in DeLand, Florida where his father was a residential caretaker at a home for troubled youths. It was there, in a mercifully air-conditioned, mostly unused building filled with donated musical instruments, where he taught himself to play drums and then bass. Sean credits those early experiences for what has evolved into his distinctly low and percussive approach to guitar playing.

During those same years, when he wasn’t listening to heavy metal or building his early musical chops, Sean was in the woods exploring, foraging, and obsessively learning all that he could about the natural world around him. Since then, his fascination with the subject has only grown and through his web-series, Can I Eat This?, he’s found a means of indulging two of his great passions: music and nature. In each of the forthcoming episodes, Sean will guide a fellow musician on a foraging mission for all manner of wild foods. The two will use their harvest to prepare some tasty creations and end their adventure by performing a cover song together.

Over the course of his career, Sean Rowe has recorded five full-length albums and several EPs. His music has been used widely throughout film and television, with notable examples including NBC’s hit dramas The Blacklist and Parenthood. Rowe’s song To Leave Something Behind was one of two non-score tracks to be featured in Ben Affleck’s hit 2016 feature film, The Accountant. The song accompanied the film’s final scene and has since received nearly 14 million streams on Spotify alone.

MANCHESTER:

Support comes from Granfalloon. Richard Lomax (AKA Granfalloon) first embarked on writing songs for a proposed year-long journal in 2014 – a maddening yet rewarding journey that documented the fever dream of a chaotic year in the form of 52 pieces of music. This sonic journal rested until 2022 when 12 songs were reawakened, re-recorded under studio conditions, and released as Calendar – Volume I. It was to be the first instalment of a triptych; it focussed on traditional songwriting, and not quite traditional storytelling, to chisel out small, beautiful moments.

This was followed by 2023’s Calendar – Chapter II, a collaboration with fellow songwriter Lobelia Lawson. Chapter II took the ideas, concepts and rough sketches of 2014 and rewrote them entirely, making new songs and fresh pieces of music with Lobelia. Now, a decade after its initial conception, Calendar – Phase III completes the journey, taking those 52 ramblings, ideas, half-baked thoughts and overcooked dreams and turning them into a trio of albums.

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LEEDS:

Support comes from Lewis Pugh. Lewis Pugh is a prolific songwriter influenced by everything from bluegrass, country, folk through to skiffle and punk. Brought up going to bluegrass and folk festivals with his family who were often performing, such as Cambridge Folk Festival and Edale Bluegrass Festival, Lewis’ appreciation of roots music came at a young age.

After playing in countless punk and metal bands from age of 12 until 26, Lewis gradually shifted back to the music of his upbringing. Self-releasing his first solo album in 2017, he has since released Dark Wheels turn Above Our Heads in 2020 and Bullets for Bread in 2024, finding a sound between country, folk and bluegrass with a distinct political slant. In between albums there have been countless singles and EPs, often raising money for homeless outreaches or food banks.

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The Leeds show is a co-promotion with the Brudenell.