Melting Vinyl Presents:
JOLIE HOLLAND + MARK MCKOWSKI
https://www.komedia.co.uk/brighton/music/jolie-holland-special-guests/
Jolie Holland is an American singer and performer who combines elements of folk, traditional country, jazz, and blues.
Over the span of her career, including with the Be Good Tanyas, Jolie Holland has knotted together a century of American song—jazz, blues, soul, rock and roll—into some stew that is impossible to categorize with any conventional critical terminology. 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
‘Haunted Mountain’ Out now (collaboration with Big Thief’s Buck Meek)
Plus Support from…
Mark McKowski
In the enchanting realm of music, few creators possess the ability to transcend boundaries quite like the Irish virtuoso, Mark McCausland. Renowned as a multifaceted artist, Mark’s illustrious career has seen him don multiple hats – songwriter, producer, and musician extraordinaire. While he’s celebrated for his role as one half of the spellbinding duo, The Lost Brothers, Mark’s artistic odyssey doesn’t stop there. Under the enigmatic pseudonym McKowski, he crafts his own musical narratives that whisk listeners away on sonic adventures.
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THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE KOMEDIA STUDIO BAR
STANDING SHOW
AGES 14+ (UNDER 16s MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ADULT)