Deaf Havana album release show at ACT Kingston College

Name: Deaf Havana album release show at ACT Kingston College
Start: 2025-10-07T19:30:00+01:00
Location: Kingston College

Schedule

Tue, 07 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Kingston College | Kingston Upon Thames, EN

Admission will be via e-ticket. Your e-ticket will be delivered to your email address in time for the show (typically the day before the event).
Deaf Havana return to Kingston to celebrate the release of the new album 'We’re Never Getting Out'.
The songs that materialised for We’re Never Getting Out’ are, despite their shimmering disposition, devastatingly sad. Every anxiety, every step back, every wrench of the heart that comes with realising the life you thought you had built is crumbling around you is on
display in vivid colour. And that’s because most of them were written whilst James was in his marital home, penning break-up ballads before the break-up had even occurred. From the confused limbo of ‘Carousel’, detailing the dizziness that comes with this cycle of sadness and self-medicating he was stuck in, to the tear-stained ‘Frida, 1939’, where the concern of who he would be away from this massive part of his life comes to the forefront, through to the intent to not settling for the ordinary at the centre of ‘Lawn Tennis’ or the fear of being the one to make the all-important move surrounding ‘Car Crash’ it’s heavy going, heart-breaking and spine-tinglingly honest in equal measure.
In embracing the rough with the smooth and taking the steps he never thought he was going to, James has found a balance that probably wasn’t possible to locate in the past. And ‘We’re Never Getting Out’, as a title defines that feeling perfectly and reflects even more in how he is looking to the future. There are things we will never truly escape. The life we have lived so far, no matter how much of a success or failure we see it being, is committed to the echelons of history. The scars will remain, and the remnants of our past lives will constantly flow through our bloodstream. But in using that to their advantage, Deaf Havana has never felt more prominent or powerful.
“It’s excitement I feel now and not dread, I feel like this is a true fresh start.”
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Times TBC but we expect doors at 7:30pm with a stage time of 8:30pm
ACT at Kingston College, Kingston Hall Rd, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2AQ.
It's a great medium-sized venue right in the centre of town with excellent lighting and sound - follow the signs on arrival at the main reception area of the college.