Lucy Dacus / Brooke Bentham

Monday 18th April at St John's Church, 6:00pm (14+)

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Following the release of her third full length album titled Home Video last year, Lucy Dacus visits Kingston to play at St John's Church.

This new gift from Dacus, her third album, was built on an interrogation of her coming-of-age years in Richmond, VA. Many songs start the way a memoir might—“In the summer of ’07 I was sure I’d go to heaven, but I was hedging my bets at VBS”—and all of them have the compassion, humour, and honesty of the best autobiographical writing. Most importantly and mysteriously, this album displays Dacus’s ability to use the personal as portal into the universal.

“I can’t hide behind generalizations or fiction anymore,” Dacus says, though talking about these songs, she admits, makes her ache. That Home Video arrives at the end of this locked down, fearful era seems as preordained as the messages within. “I don’t necessarily think that I’m supposed to understand the songs just because I made them,” Dacus says, “I feel like there’s this person who has been in me my whole life and I’m doing my best to represent them.” After more than a year of being homebound, in a time when screens and video calls were sometimes our only form of contact, looking backward was a natural habit for many.

If we haven’t learned it already, this album is a gorgeous example of the transformative power of vulnerability. Dacus’s voice, both audible and on the page, has a healer’s power to soothe and ground and reckon.

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doors at 6:00pm with Lucy Dacus on stage at 7:00pm

Support for this show will come from Brooke Bentham.

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This show is 14+, under 14s must be accompanied by a ticket-holding adult.

St John the Evangelist, Grove Lane, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2SU

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Entry conditions will include whichever Covid-19 safety measures are advised by government at the time.

PLEASE NOTE: date is subject to change pending government / NIHP guidance around the coronavirus outbreak.

If this event is postponed, we will let you know - please do not contact us until a rescheduled date is announced. Once announced, if you cannot make the rescheduled date refunds will be available.