07 November 2022
Newsdesk
Seb Lowe has announced a new headline show at Manchester’s infamous Band on the Wall, taking place on Saturday 11th February 2023.
Intelligent and unflappably self-assured songsmith Seb Lowe continues building on his 2022 momentum with his biggest headline show to date at Band on the Wall. 2022 was a breakthrough year for Seb, with his mini-album, The Other Half releasing on the same week that he confirmed his debut Glastonbury Festival appearance. Lowe’s leap from Tik-Tok to festival stages comes courtesy of an unimpeded connection with fans who know what he knows - that everything’s a bit sh*t and the wrong people are in charge. For anyone thinking ‘does he mean me?’ – he probably does.
Seb opened that five-song collection with Upper Class, sounding like ‘Eminem meets Bob Dylan’, he carves out the rotten soul of rewarded failure, connecting the opener with later track, Rat Sh*t in a consistent and justifiable narrative, wryly shaming the cocaine-addicted, hollowed-out souls of commerce and government dragging everybody else down to hopeless lows. Oldham-born (and living) Lowe strikes with a caustic humour and vital intellectual rigour. In There She Stood, Lowe proves that he can also tackle love and does so with a tender touch.
Able to stand up his ideas fearlessly and without hesitation, Lowe reflected on his last EP, saying: “The Other Half is largely an amalgamation of my own thoughts. It sort of dots about the place with different ideas about different things. This ranges from something close to spoken word acoustic poetry - trying hopelessly to tackle ideas around conspiracy theories and political disillusionment - to the more built-up pieces, the stuff I would even call ‘songs’.
