Heavy Pop: Nadia Reid + Kevin Fowley | Oxford
Schedule
Fri, 26 Sep, 2025 at 07:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
The Jericho Tavern | Oxford, EN
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Heavy Pop presents Nadia Reid (NZ) + Kevin RowleyFri 26th Sept | The Jericho Tavern, Oxford
18+ | 7:30pm | £17 Adv (subject to booking fee)
Tickets: heavypop.co.uk | wegottickets.com
- NADIA REID -
"The New Zealand songwriter embraces a full bodied sound halfway between Haim's sophisticated pop sparkle and Sharon Van Etten's full-throated songcraft." – The Guardian
“Reid has built a name for herself as a chronicler of emotional complexities…capturing the joy and pain of living in an opaque fashion” – The Times
Nadia Reid’s Enter Now Brightness is an album of departure and questioning, a reminder that songwriting can transform pain, joy, thoughts, and anger into something new. “I’m so much better off now that it exists,” she says. “Now feels like a new time.”
Moving further from her folk roots, Reid establishes a sound distinctly her own—poised and expansive. The title, drawn from a book passage, evokes light breaking through, the feeling of stepping onto a stage, of life beginning.
A record of great beauty and change, Enter Now Brightness captures Reid’s evolution, blending textural pop, country-leaning folk-rock, and striking emotional depth. The Guardian describes her sound as “halfway between Haim’s sophisticated pop sparkle and Sharon Van Etten’s full-throated songcraft.
+ Kevin Rowley
“Serge Gainsbourg doing his best Songs Of Leonard Cohen impression.” Uncut
Growing up, Kevin Fowley split his time between living in France and Ireland. He listened to French lullabies sung by his mother in one room, while his father would be playing Donegal tunes on the fiddle in another. “I’m lucky to have been brought up bilingual and bicultural,” he says. “What I find interesting is that I usually think in English, but if I intentionally start thinking in French, a markedly different side of my personality comes through, encouraging different thought patterns.”
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Where is it happening?
The Jericho Tavern, 27 Walton Street, Oxford, OX1 2HQ, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
