Tommy Lefroy
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Tommy Lefroy
Doors: February 28, 2027 7:00 PM
Online Scheduled Ticket Price: ADVANCED: $20.00 DAY OF: $25.00
“Many of us are, or are at risk of falling into the precariat.” This urgency inspired the title of the debut record by Tommy Lefroy, the soft rock project of Wynter Bethel and Tessa Mouzourakis.
The Precariat, a portmanteau of ‘precarious’ and ‘proletariat’, was popularised by economist Guy Standing to identify a new class riddled with financial fear and job insecurity, trapped in circumstances beyond their control and at the mercy of systems stacked against them. The band found the term a perfect metaphor for both global and deeply personal experiences of increasing precarity.
A timestamp of fraught, unstable times in which it was written, the album’s themes come to light through deceptively immediate, earworm indie-rock, cementing Tommy Lefroy as a vital and timely new voice.
“The level of insecurity, even in America is insane. There's no ceiling but there's no floor; there's nothing catching people. We felt a responsibility to speak to this experience that so many people are having, to do something about it,” says Bethel, originally hailing from rural Michigan. “As far as I'm concerned, art is not neutral,” Mouzourakis, from Vancouver, Canada, continues. “I have no interest in being an artist that's apolitical - to me, that’s not art.”
The Precariat arrives as an invigorated, impassioned call to arms: a clarion call to look up and zoom out, delivered by a pair of musicians who’ve put in the hours to back it up.
“We treated this record like a thesis and really studied what we were writing about,” says Mouzourakis. “Learning about it all was kind of life-changing. The whole point is that [this time in history] is very alienating, but we're all experiencing it and we can all work together. That is power and that is resistance, and that is inherently hopeful.”
While their debut album is grounded in heavy experience - in the burning wildfires of LA that open the scene of ‘Angel In The House’ or the shadow of Grenfell that looms in ‘Anomie’ - the origin story of Tommy Lefroy is one that, conversely, seems like kismet. Bethel and Mouzourakis first met in Nashville in 2017, while plugging away at an often thankless songwriter circuit. Surrounded by people trying to crack the elusive formula for a hit, they gravitated towards each other as writers who, instead, valued honesty and unpredictability.
Over the next half decade, the pair travelled back and forth, writing their 2021 EP Flight Risk on FaceTime across different time zones before moving to London to throw themselves entirely into the project. “When we started, we didn't live in the same country. It was completely illogical, but it was very instinctual,” Bethel says. “We found each other and were both just like, ‘where have you been all my life?!’”
Suggested off-the-cuff by a friend, the pair saw the name Tommy Lefroy (a reference to Thomas Langlois Lefroy, Jane Austen’s alleged muse for Mr. Darcy) as a cheeky nom de plume, an opportunity to take up space in a lane so-often reserved for men.“Borrowing the name was about embodying that boyish courage and a confidence we were jealous of,” Mouzourakis explains. “And that's what it felt like being in the band - like stepping into something new and putting on the armour of this persona.”
Purchase Tickets: https://www.etix.com/ticket/servlet/s/38226331
Doors: February 28, 2027 7:00 PM
Online Scheduled Ticket Price: ADVANCED: $20.00 DAY OF: $25.00
“Many of us are, or are at risk of falling into the precariat.” This urgency inspired the title of the debut record by Tommy Lefroy, the soft rock project of Wynter Bethel and Tessa Mouzourakis.
The Precariat, a portmanteau of ‘precarious’ and ‘proletariat’, was popularised by economist Guy Standing to identify a new class riddled with financial fear and job insecurity, trapped in circumstances beyond their control and at the mercy of systems stacked against them. The band found the term a perfect metaphor for both global and deeply personal experiences of increasing precarity.
A timestamp of fraught, unstable times in which it was written, the album’s themes come to light through deceptively immediate, earworm indie-rock, cementing Tommy Lefroy as a vital and timely new voice.
“The level of insecurity, even in America is insane. There's no ceiling but there's no floor; there's nothing catching people. We felt a responsibility to speak to this experience that so many people are having, to do something about it,” says Bethel, originally hailing from rural Michigan. “As far as I'm concerned, art is not neutral,” Mouzourakis, from Vancouver, Canada, continues. “I have no interest in being an artist that's apolitical - to me, that’s not art.”
The Precariat arrives as an invigorated, impassioned call to arms: a clarion call to look up and zoom out, delivered by a pair of musicians who’ve put in the hours to back it up.
“We treated this record like a thesis and really studied what we were writing about,” says Mouzourakis. “Learning about it all was kind of life-changing. The whole point is that [this time in history] is very alienating, but we're all experiencing it and we can all work together. That is power and that is resistance, and that is inherently hopeful.”
While their debut album is grounded in heavy experience - in the burning wildfires of LA that open the scene of ‘Angel In The House’ or the shadow of Grenfell that looms in ‘Anomie’ - the origin story of Tommy Lefroy is one that, conversely, seems like kismet. Bethel and Mouzourakis first met in Nashville in 2017, while plugging away at an often thankless songwriter circuit. Surrounded by people trying to crack the elusive formula for a hit, they gravitated towards each other as writers who, instead, valued honesty and unpredictability.
Over the next half decade, the pair travelled back and forth, writing their 2021 EP Flight Risk on FaceTime across different time zones before moving to London to throw themselves entirely into the project. “When we started, we didn't live in the same country. It was completely illogical, but it was very instinctual,” Bethel says. “We found each other and were both just like, ‘where have you been all my life?!’”
Suggested off-the-cuff by a friend, the pair saw the name Tommy Lefroy (a reference to Thomas Langlois Lefroy, Jane Austen’s alleged muse for Mr. Darcy) as a cheeky nom de plume, an opportunity to take up space in a lane so-often reserved for men.“Borrowing the name was about embodying that boyish courage and a confidence we were jealous of,” Mouzourakis explains. “And that's what it felt like being in the band - like stepping into something new and putting on the armour of this persona.”
Purchase Tickets: https://www.etix.com/ticket/servlet/s/38226331
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