Bright Town + Leah Eccles – 9th June 2023 | Sunbird Records, Darwen

Bright Town + Support
Friday 9th June 2023 | 7pm
Sunbird Records | Darwen

The start of a monthly collaboration with Whispering Pines Collective see us bring you Bright Town.

Bright Town

Were born of five Liverpool-based songwriters and their shared love of vocal harmony and melodic interplay. Unsatisfied with the offerings of the local scene, they embarked upon a rigorous schedule of writing, recording and rehearsing during late 2020, aiming to create for themselves what they could not find elsewhere. 

Despite starting out as a recording project, the live band came together naturally during the recording of their debut self-titled EP and instantly began to make waves in the the city in the summer of 2021 – supporting Mick Head & The Red Elastic Band at a sold-out hometown show and attracting the interest of several local labels. The band followed this over the subsequent months with other sold out shows supporting the likes of Jamie Webster and Hushtones, an appearance at Sound City Festival, as well as a sell out headline show at The Kazimier.

As the band’s live shows continued to impress, they continued to keep one eye and ear firmly focused on the songwriting core that had remained active since the beginning. Applying their unique and unmistakable Mersey-tinged pop sensibilities to influences as diverse as Folk, Krautrock, Lo-Fi, Gypsy Jazz and beyond, the band’s sophomore EP began to take shape as they headed into 2022. Entitled Smithereens!, and recorded with ex-Peach Fuzz frontman Nathaniel Cummings at Bill Rider Joes Yawn Studios, this offering displays the band at simultaneously their most diverse and yet accessible.The EP’s release was supported by sold out shows alongside Mick Head, Trudy and The Romance, The Sway and their first trip to mainland Europe to play Blåfrost Festivalen in Norway.–

Leah Eccles
Leah Eccles is a pop/acoustic vocalist and songwriter from Lancashire, who after gaining confidence through creating and sharing covers online, has began to write, produce, release, and perform her own original material.

With the upcoming release of the debut EP, featuring ‘2:38’, ‘Lilac Skies’, and ‘AURA’, as well as 3 exclusive new tracks, ‘Wisteria’ is a collection of independently written and produced songs about many themes, but focus on some kind of love, whether it’s for others, yourself, a lot of it, loss if it, or longing for it.

Bright Town + Leah Eccles
Friday 9th June 2023 | 7pm
Sunbird Records | Darwen
Ages 18+
Entry : Free