LACHLAN BRYAN AND THE WILDES

LACHLAN BRYAN AND THE WILDES

Friday 27^th August 2021

Lachlan Bryan and The Wildes, from Melbourne Australia, have built their reputation on storytelling.  Over the past eight years they have released three award winning albums.  As with all artists the Coronavirus pandemic disrupted their plans for 2020, but in the previous four years they toured the UK, Europe and America building up a solid following and increasing their fan base on each occasion.  In 2018 and 2019 the band have were ‘the stars of the Festival’ at Maverick, playing sets in various line-ups.  The 2021 UK tour is eagerly awaited and we are delighted that they are playing Town Hall Live.

You can pin a multitude of labels on Lachlan’s music and not be far off the mark.  So, take a pick from rock ‘n’ roll, folk, alternative country or any other contemporary roots cliché.  More importantly Lachlan writes damn good songs and delivers them with impeccable sincerity, importing a cynical wit to counter a maddening world.

On their latest album ‘Some Girls (Quite) Like Country Music, there’s a song about a cemetery, a realer trash mid-life crisis, a forty year romance, a promiscuous girlfriend, a city we like, a pre-apocalyptic cautionary tale and a missing person’s report, to name but a few.

‘Some Girls’ was preceded by ‘The Mountain’ in 2015 and ‘Black Coffee’ in 2013, which proved to be their ‘landmark’ album winning the Golden Guitar Award for Alternative Country Album of the Year.

The Wildes are Shaun Riley on bass guitar and Riley Catherall on lead guitar on lead guitar, whilst Lachlan takes lead vocals and plays guitar, keyboards and harmonica.

Support will come from York singer songwriter Dan Webster who played has THL on several occasions, the last time headlining with his band.  Dan has released four full length albums over a 10 year career, the latest of which was the excellent ‘Devil Sky’ in 2018. 

Advance Tickets for this concert are priced at £14.00 and can be purchased from the Londis store in Kirton, from Brian on 01652 649230 or brianchudley@btinternet.com, or from www.wegottickets.com.