Penny and Sparrow | Exchange

Schedule

Wed, 05 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Exchange | Bristol, EN

Penny and Sparrow
With support from Sylvie Grey
7pm doors
£15 Adv
Tickets > https://hdfst.uk/e128343
Penny and Sparrow
A wise wizard once said: “when in doubt, always follow your nose.”
The last album from Penny and Sparrow, Olly Olly, was a work of revelation and liberation. A search for and an embrace of the self. I imagine they were left with a headscratcher of a question: well, shit. Where do you go from there?
Fortunately, they listened to the wizard and followed their noses backwards to find their way forward. Aiming to strip away pretense and invite experimentation, they commandeered a garden shed from a friend and retrofitted it to make a twenty-track album that is vast, weird, and wholly unexpected.
If Lefty is anything, it is the journal of Penny and Sparrow’s inner child. Dog-eared, lock busted open. On its pages the sketches of dreams, nightmares, erotica, and literary fan fiction graffiti the margins of poetry, elegies, and loveletters in the wild colors of saxophone blue, electronic pink, and blood harmony red. Beautifully varied and richly rendered, it is an album that wanders from theme to theme, style to style, exultation to tragedy. Yet it is never lost. If anything, it is at play.
United by its intimate vocals and aching harmonies, its acoustic laments trickle into ethereal pop only to surge into whimsical ballads and crest into grand hooligan anthems that sway gently down to familiar shores where melancholic ballads tell of love lost, found, forgotten, and remembered.
Andy and Kyle have written some albums in blood. Others they’ve whispered to the sea. This one they danced in the sky with smiles on their faces. Lefty feels like not just a celebration of their journey beyond the bounds of their traditional genre, but as if they have rediscovered the joy in music by honoring the sounds that inspired two boys growing up in Texas to one day make the damn stuff themselves.
Sylvie Grey
Sweeping numbers of love and pain, and all things in-between – Grey’s offerings are reliably powerful, and relentlessly honest, a riddle of sonic textures to complete the design." - JFLE
Influenced by artist such as beth gibbons, vashti bunyan, joanna newsom, julie london, aldous harding, jessica pratt & sharon van etten, Grey's music is ethereal yet uneasy, bold yet nostalgic & utterly timeless.
Grounded in earthy, indie-folk soundscapes, Sylvie Grey's debut double-track single 'Odes & Shadows' was released 12 May 2024. She wrote, arranged and recorded both tracks alone on a Tascam Porta 2 tape machine in quiet moments from her bedroom floor in Bristol. Grey’s music is ethereal yet uneasy, bold yet nostalgic & utterly timeless.
Please note the basement is not wheelchair accessible and is accessed by a narrow enclosed staircase. For more accessibility info, please email [email protected]
Tickets > https://hdfst.uk/e128343

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Exchange, 72-73 Old Market Street, Bristol, BS2 0, United Kingdom
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