We deal primarily in behind the scenes talent round here, so it’s not often I get to talk about gigs. I am, however, able to say with a mixture of delight and sadness that our boy Henry Brill will be performing for the final time under his John Joseph Brill moniker. He’s doing two nights in Nashville - one this evening (the 30th April) which is fully sold out, and one tomorrow (1st May), which has a couple of tickets week. It’s at a secret location and I am beyond gutted than I’m not able to be there. Goddamn pandemic.
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It’s with a heavy heart (kinda, but not really. I know what’s happening next), that today we put out the final EP from Henry Brill’s John Joseph Brill project. Henry sent me the demos that made up this EP (cheerfully named Damn It All) before we were even working together, and it was listening to his scratchy home recordings driving round the Australian countryside that convinced me that we had to work together (and my wife asking me every time I put them on why the hell I wasn’t managing this guy).
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If this must be the final song, we’ll dance all night…
So here it is, the penultimate new piece of work from the artist known as John Joseph Brill for only one more week. John Joseph Brill is the artistic alter ego of Henry Brill, and next week he’s hanging up his black jacket and performing his last show live from lockdown in Nashville.
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