Secret Sunday Sessions with Ryan Davis & The Shudders - live at The Vic

Name: Secret Sunday Sessions with Ryan Davis & The Shudders - live at The Vic
Start: 2024-06-23T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-06-23T22:30:00+01:00
Location: 88 Victoria Road, SN1 3BD Swindon, United Kingdom

Schedule

Sun Jun 23 2024 at 07:30 pm to 10:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

88 Victoria Road, SN1 3BD Swindon, United Kingdom | Swindon, EN

SECRET SUNDAY SESSIONS present...
Ryan Davis - Kentucky – multi-instrumentalist, artist
and songwriter Ryan Davis’ Americana-noir soundwaves have been emanating for years in a myriad of forms. As driving
force for the lauded State Champion, long-running member of Tropical Trash, administrator of the esoteric and excellent
Cropped Out festival, and lone proprietor of the Sophomore Lounge label, Davis lays down his first proper ‘solo’ release with
Dancing On The Edge – a rich, 2-LP tapestry of tunes that absolutely glows over seven expansive cuts. It’s a pure collage of
modernity and heritage.
“This is the sound of someone bearing a torch.” - Bill Callahan
"Davis’ talents are immense: vivid imagery and clever one-liners pulling epiphanies from the sacred, mundane, and profane."
- Jon Blistein (Rolling Stone)
"On the latest and perhaps greatest notch in the storied songwriter’s belt, Ryan Davis is tipping his beer to a world in moral
and constitutional decline." - Chad DePasquale (Aquarium Drunkard, Best of 2023)
"(His solo debut) Dancing on the Edge is singular and strong enough to put Davis in league with some of the very best
American songwriters of the past and present. He's someone with the originality, wit and ambition to cut through the murk.
Someone worth paying attention to." - Tyler Wilcox (Uncut)
"In Kurt Vonnegut’s debut novel, 1952’s Player Piano, the author delivered one of his defining ideas through the mouth of his
character Ed Finnerty: “Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center... Big, undreamed-of
things—the people on the edge see them first.” Seventy years on, this Kentucky-based songwriter traces life’s edges in the
same spirit, contemplating the human capacities for open-hearted euphoria and harrowing pain... In his investigation of the
human spirit, Davis has learned to embrace worry and wonder as companions for a restless heart. His place at the edge may
be perilous, precarious, and occasionally lonely, but it’s got one hell of a view." - Allison Hussey (Pitchfork, *7.9 /Best
Rock Records of 2023 / Associate Editor Sam Sodomsky's #2 Best Album of 2023)
“A treasure trove of brilliant songwriting and winding, unhurried alt-americana.” - Joe Graham (Americana UK)
“Like freewheeling meditations on the human condition, Davis’ songs tackle big issues (existential angst, disappointment,
loneliness, death) with sharp wit and gallows humor... I’ve been spinning Dancing on the Edge for weeks, and I still don’t feel
like I’ve fully plumbed its depths. Much like the best work of David Berman (who once called Davis “one of the best lyricists
going”), these songs will continue to reveal their layers for years to come.” - David Wilikofsky (Undercurrents)
* Best of 2023 / year-end list inclusions from: Aquarium Drunkard, CHIRP Radio, Free Form Freakout, Goner
Records, Matador Records, Medium, Merge Records, Pitchfork, Repressed Records, Rolling Stone, Rosy Overdrive,
Teenage Hate, Uproxx ++