Coming out of hibernation to play together for the first time in over 2 years, ex-Creation records refugees Pete Fij (Adorable / Polak) & Terry Bickers (House of Love / Levitation) will perform their first ever 'remote' show at Worthing's Cellar Arts Club streaming directly to you online and followed by a live Q&A.
Bickers & Fij have combined to make sweet melancholic music, to widespread critical acclaim, gaining many ‘Album of The Year’ nominations, and live appearances on BBC Radio 4, BBC 5Live & BBC 6Music.
Described as like a late night jamming session with Johnny Cash, Velvet Underground & The Everley Brothers trying not to wake the neighbours, their sound of cheerful melancholia has never sounded quite so apt as in these strange times, blending humour and resilience with fragile vulnerability. Their albums and live shows have shown how these two indie musicians have transitioned into intelligent literate alt country artists, and reminded people just why Bickers has been compared to Johnny Marr and Bernard Butler by the likes of the NME with his sublime guitar playing, and why his cohort Fij was described by the Independent as “the most underrated lyricist since Jarvis Cocker last put pen to paper”.
“Minor key, acoustic introspection (Hawley, Lloyd Cole-ish) done so beautifully it’s as if they’re singing to one another in the dustlight of a pub back room; strumming, crooning, nursing collective memories.” MOJO
“Unfailingly lovely late night reflections” UNCUT
“A sweetly gloomy affair...an uplifting reminder that it really is never too late to get your band together” Q
“Deceptively simple, direct, beautifully constructed and timeless odes to love and dreams, lost and still bubbling and refined it with an English approach to song writing that takes the influences of Roy Orbison, and Scott Walker.” AMERICANA UK
This ticketed event is a unique collaborative production with Cellar Arts, Worthing and a percentage of any profits will be used to support this important grass roots music and arts co-operative. Thank you
