Ed Kuepper Jim White + Bleak Squad || City Recital Hall, Sydney

Name: Ed Kuepper Jim White + Bleak Squad || City Recital Hall, Sydney
Start: 2025-10-11T09:00:00+11:00
Location: City Recital Hall Angel Place

Schedule

Sat, 11 Oct, 2025 at 09:00 am

UTC+11:00

Location

City Recital Hall Angel Place | Sydney, NS

The hardest working men in showbiz Ed Kuepper and Jim White reunite for a limited run of shows this October in support of their new album After the Flood.
"… the results are stunning. Playing tunes as old as The Saints Swing For the Crime and as new as The Ruins (from Kuepper’s 2015 Lost Cities), the album is a brilliant roll of invention” - Byron Coley (The Wire)
Joining them on their Sydney debut is Bleak Squad, a new Melbourne four-piece comprised of true Australian art-rock royalty. Featuring Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Mess Esque), Mick Harvey (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, The Birthday Party), Adalita (Magic Dirt) and Marty Brown (Art of Fighting), the unlikely quartet unite for the first time on Bleak Squad's brooding, noir-rock debut LP Strange Love. Borne from spur of the moment jam sessions, Strange Love sees all four members juggle multiple instruments, songwriting, their own idiosyncrasies, and lead vocal duties between Adalita and Harvey. The result is a confident nine-song set of love, loss and lonesome-ness, set to fizzing guitars, slippery basslines, and the signature illogical squawk of Turner’s guitar. With Strange Love, Bleak Squad announce the boldest of entries into the Australian music landscape. City Recital Hall marks their debut Sydney performance as special guest of Kuepper and White.