Melting Vinyl dedicated to bringing creative artists to Brighton & Kent

Melting Vinyl presents
Jolie Holland + special guests at St Luke’s Church, Brighton on Friday 19th September.

St Lukes Church, Queens Park Road, Brighton, BN2 9ZB
Doors: 7.30pm
Tickets: £22 in advance + booking fee / £26 on the door
Age restrictions: 18+
Seated event. There are bar facilities in the church.

All hail the return of Jolie Holland after a sold out show in Brighton!
Jolie Holland is an American singer and performer who combines elements of folk, traditional country, jazz, soul, rock n roll, and blues. Forging a timeless, haunting musical career, Jolie Holland returns to the UK to share her intimate and honest artistry spanning several albums and projects with her new and devoted fans.
Jolie has knotted together a century of American song into a stew that is impossible to categorise. This is her burden and her gift, to know all of these American songs of the last ten decades in her head and her heart, and to have to wrestle with their legacy.
She dives straight to the pathos of a song the way the very greatest singers – singers like Mavis Staples, or Al Green, or Skip James, or Tom Waits do. Upon first encounter her songs seem challenging, perhaps unsettling at times, but as so many poets and rockers have shown us (from Dante Alighieri to William Blake to Sylvia Plath to Patti Smith to Nick Cave to Mark E. Smith) that’s where the beauty lies. As evident on her first recordings, Holland apparently has no fear of the truth, and there is no emotional core that she cannot reach in song. In fact she thrives on the red hot center of a musical composition, in all its strange and brutal detail.
“Noir, lived in, caustic, not entirely of this time” Aquarium Drunkard.