07 Nov Seb Lowe announces biggest headline show yet
Seb Lowe has announced a new headline show at Manchester’s infamous Band on the Wall, taking place on Saturday 11th February 2023. Tickets go on sale at 10am on Wednesday 9th November from www.gigsandtours.com.
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’.
“‘Upper Class’ and ‘Rat Sh*t’ are still quite grounded in my usual patter about how broken the world is and my last single ‘There She Stood’ is almost a break from that, being a song, which is just about a boy and a girl.”
Gaining 300,000 followers on Tik Tok, establishing the social and political awareness of young music lovers if it was ever in doubt, and being amongst the first artists to be signed to the platform’s Sound On label, Lowe’s existence and popularity offline also gathers pace. His headline show at Manchester’s Gorilla in May sold out and he’s recently supported Liam Fray, DMA’s, Baxter Dury, Louis Dunford and legend’s James. He’s set to open-up for Jamie Webster and Dylan John Thomas in November and December.
The Other Half was Seb Lowe’s second mini-album release, following 2021’s Seb Lowe’s Half Decent, both lifting many of his most popular Tik-Tok performances from the social network and into the studio in the company of producer, James Skelly. His latest release is the upbeat, doo-wop-esque, acerbic excellence of Here’s a Story.
