K&K + Bizarro Knees UP special with Pete Astor and Lonely Tourist
Schedule
Sun Sep 28 2025 at 03:00 pm to 06:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
162 Wells Road, BS4 2AG Bristol, United Kingdom | Bristol, EN
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K&K and Bizarro Promotions are very excited to present legendary Pete Astor at the KCC, supported by the truly wonderful Lonely Tourist. This is going to be a big one!Come on down for a very special afternoon of music. Doors at 3:00pm. Like all our events, this is FREE but please be generous when the hat it passed!
About Pete Astor
Pete Astor led Creation Records’ groups The Loft and The Weather Prophets, writing songs and releasing records that helped define the sound of the label and the emerging Indie genre. He has gone on to a lengthy solo career since then; writing, recording and releasing music on a range of labels including Matador, Heavenly, Warp, EMI and Fortuna Pop. Since 2017 Astor has been signed to Tapete Records, home to Robert Forster, Lloyd Cole and Comet Gain among many reputable others.
He will be playing old and new music with a selection from his album Unsent Letters (Home Recordings 1984-2024), all unreleased songs spanning Astor’s career from The Loft to the present day. He will be aided and abetted by the estimable Ian Button on a selection of percussion, drum machines and Casio keyboards.
A songwriter who never falters and is maybe even getting better with age.’ All Music
‘The master of less is more’ The Guardian
A lifetime of listening has led me to believe that Pete Astor’s songs would have always found a way to reach an audience. If he’d been a Californian baby boomer, he’d have ended up in the Capitol Records building in Los Angeles, laying down late-night grooves with the Wrecking Crew for a largely-neglected, slightly gloomy, pop album that’d now be worth a fortune. If he’d been born into post-War Britain, earnest girls in sweaters would’ve fallen in love with him, and his songs, in Embassy-fogged folk clubs. - Danny Kelly, NME
About Lonely Tourist
Lonely Tourist (AKA Paul Tierney) brings his Glaswegian indie-folk ‘pub step’, back to the KCC.
In August 2024 Lonely Tourist released his sixth studio album Takes A Lot Of Beating. Made while going through personal loss, it contains some of his prettiest and most life affirming musical moments. The album featured the BBC 6music endorsed Duty of Care, Takes a lot of Beating and Always the Way.
'Classic underdog pop music' ‘Very Entertaining’ - Steve Lamacq, BBC 6Music
'King Creosote meets Ivor Cutler... rich in character... a beautiful sadness at its heart. Full of wit and warmth' - Roddy Hart, BBC Scotland
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Where is it happening?
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