40 WATT SUN, plus very special guest SERPENTENT (Seattle, USA).
Schedule
Fri, 11 Apr, 2025 at 08:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
The Barrel House Ballroom | Totnes, EN
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The Barrel House Ballroom is delighted to be hosting this very special intimate pre-European tour warm-up show of 40 Watt Sun, plus very special guest Serpentent (Seattle, USA).40 Watt Sun
40 Watt Sun is the musical project of singer, guitarist and songwriter Patrick Walker, founded in early 2009 following the dissolution of his previous band, Warning, one of the most important, highly regarded and influential bands to emerge from the ‘90s doom metal scene.
The music of 40 Watt Sun is characterised by spare and deliberate arrangements, down-tempo rhythms, and Patrick Walker’s poignant and idiosyncratic vocals and introspective, often darkly-confessional lyrics. Hank Shteamer of Rolling Stone magazine has described the band’s music as “a poetic, gradually unfolding dirge rock”.
In a unique solo performance, 40 Watt Sun will play an intimate Totnes warm-up concert, before embarking on a string of European dates in support of their fourth and most recent album, Little Weight. 40 Watt Sun will be joined on all dates by special guest Serpentent from Seattle (USA).
“The album reaffirms that Walker is one of our finest living songwriters.”
- Bandcamp Daily
“Gutting, gorgeous, pitch-perfect.”
- Pitchfork (The 38 Best Rock Albums of the Year)
“One of the greatest and most emotionally shattering [bands] on the planet.”
- SPIN magazine
“One of modern heavy music’s most captivating and covertly influential singers.”
- Knotfest
“One of the most emotive and underrated vocalists and songwriters in Britain today.”
- Echoes and Dust
“Patrick Walker's music stands alone and stands firm at this point, a kind of epic, transportive dirge-rock, methodical, entirely resistant to anything less than a complete kind of engagement. I feel a deep and almost dangerous sense of surrender when I really let this music in, so strong is its emotional pull, so raw and true is the feeling at its centre, so ancient-seeming and wisdom-filled is Walker's gift for writing and singing melody.”
- Hank Shteamer (Rolling Stone)
Serpentent
Drawing from the vast array of influences – ranging from darkwave to folk to neoclassical and prog – interdisciplinary artist and musician, Anne K. O’Neill, sonically and visually encapsulates the vast scope and ranges of the human experience. Her albums are built around guitar and piano compositions carefully crafted so that they can be both layered with more instrumentation, such as on her records, as well as performed on their own, as when O’Neill embarks upon her solo tours. This is an artist gracefully weaving together a broad range of themes and soundscapes with a stunning degree of soul that is both haunting and moving.
“This is weighty music, confronting powerful topics… O’Neill’s voice is quite simply incredible, drawing you in from the first note to the last.”
- Echoes and Dust
“…her knack for fusing folk styles is nothing short of impressive.”
- Your Last Rites
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Where is it happening?
The Barrel House Ballroom, 54b High Street, Totnes, TQ9 5, United Kingdom,TotnesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
