After a spellbinding headline performance at Black Deer Festival 2024, The Delines return for a Black Deer Live show right here at TOM.
This fantastic band are getting a lot of airplay on Black Deer Radio and that is because the storytelling is truly captivating and hooks you straight in the narrative.
The Delines return to perform tracks from the latest album The Sea Drift, an album that brings more of their country soul to the forefront. The debut record, Colfax, appeared in 2014 and surprised fans and critics alike. Evoking a beat-up Dusty Springfield or a weary Rickie Lee Jones, Colfax made over a dozen top ten year-end lists. It was a four-year wait until their sophomore effort, The Imperial was released. Singer Amy Boone spent much of that time in hospital beds recovering from serious injuries sustained in a car accident in Austin, Texas. When she was just strong enough to stand, she finished The Imperial. The record spent two weeks on top of the UK official Americana charts with the band playing sold-out shows across the UK and Europe.
The band returned with their cinematic third album The Sea Drift, which Americana UK and BBC6 Gideon Coe both made their ‘Album of the Year’. It is penned by guitarist and songwriter Willy Vlautin with arrangements by keyboardist Cory Gray and the rhythm section of Sean Oldham and Freddy Trujillo. Vlautin is no stranger to critical acclaim, enjoying cult success and rave reviews from the likes of the New York Times, Washington Post, Uncut, Rolling Stone and Mojo, both as a novelist with seven books under his belt (two of his books have become major films with Lean On Pete currently being made into a Netflix movie out 2025). Willy, Oldham and Trujillo also lead the alt-country outfit Richmond Fontaine, who released over ten albums before breaking up in 2016.
2022/23 saw the Delines performing at EU festivals, and they released two more singles plus a soundtrack. In this set, the band will be playing a wide array of songs, including all their past classics. Support TBC.
Seated (unreserved)
Doors: 19:15
Tickets: £26
Age: 14+, under 16s must be accompanied by an adult
Presented by Black Deer Live & Brighthelmstone
A £2 venue levy charge applies to all tickets