Liz Lawrence in-store at Banquet Records
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Admission will be via order number, please bring yours to the shop.
To celebrate the release of the new album, Liz Lawrence visits Kingston to play an in-store set, please note: this is a performance set only, there will be no signing / meet and greet afterwards. There will also be special, event exclusive lyric booklets given away to attendees.
Vespers, the new record by Liz Lawrence, is an album about tragedy. It is the record of a life and death, an act of devotion and reflection. Liz wrote the songs in the ashes of disaster: "It is dedicated to my beautiful sister Jessie and her too-short life.” Jessie was 35 when she died.
Vespers was written over a period of three weeks, its songs coming in a short burst, all at once, six months after Jessie died. Its music exists at the borders of the before and the after. "If you want to understand the change in me, from the person who made Peanuts to the person who wrote Vespers, then this is it. Grief changes you. I don't recognise the person I was before."
The demos for these songs were written simply and plainly, often first recorded only as a vocal, and later fleshed out on the old nylon-stringed guitar that Liz has had since she was 10 years old. Liz recorded and produced the finished version of Vespers herself, in the late summer of 2025, at Vada Studios in Worcestershire, close to her home and to her family. The studios are in a deconsecrated church, built on top of an old convent and burial ground.
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Performance expected to start shortly after time shown.
Priority will be given to anyone who orders a copy of the new album from us. If there's space on the day for more people, we'll let you know!
To celebrate the release of the new album, Liz Lawrence visits Kingston to play an in-store set, please note: this is a performance set only, there will be no signing / meet and greet afterwards. There will also be special, event exclusive lyric booklets given away to attendees.
Vespers, the new record by Liz Lawrence, is an album about tragedy. It is the record of a life and death, an act of devotion and reflection. Liz wrote the songs in the ashes of disaster: "It is dedicated to my beautiful sister Jessie and her too-short life.” Jessie was 35 when she died.
Vespers was written over a period of three weeks, its songs coming in a short burst, all at once, six months after Jessie died. Its music exists at the borders of the before and the after. "If you want to understand the change in me, from the person who made Peanuts to the person who wrote Vespers, then this is it. Grief changes you. I don't recognise the person I was before."
The demos for these songs were written simply and plainly, often first recorded only as a vocal, and later fleshed out on the old nylon-stringed guitar that Liz has had since she was 10 years old. Liz recorded and produced the finished version of Vespers herself, in the late summer of 2025, at Vada Studios in Worcestershire, close to her home and to her family. The studios are in a deconsecrated church, built on top of an old convent and burial ground.
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Performance expected to start shortly after time shown.
Priority will be given to anyone who orders a copy of the new album from us. If there's space on the day for more people, we'll let you know!
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52 Eden Street, KT11 Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom, 52 Eden Street, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 1EE, United Kingdom
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