David Thomas Broughton / Kid Congo

Straddling the line between music hall turn and avant-garde performance artist, Broughton’s live show is not to be missed.'
MOJO

'Broughton’s live shows are miniature spectacles… He layers sounds in slightly haphazard ways, as though his songs weren’t so holy that he couldn’t subject them to chance.'
Pitchfork 


David’s songwriting and delivery is rooted in the rugged countryside and industrial towns of the North of England, and strives to fathom the universal themes of love, death and the awkwardness of being human.

Broughton continues to produce records which delightfully interweave layers of beauty and discomfort. He has not stopped his loops from including the glitches and mistakes.

Live he remains sometimes unsettling, potentially confrontational, at risk of it falling apart yet somehow in control.

For those with patience, a performer that can reward with great moments of beauty or comedic delight.

Crippling Lack, David's brilliant, sprawling triple album release from 2016, was made with French producer Raphaëlle Duquesnoy (Le Noize Maker), while David was living in Pyongyang, North Korea, exchanging evolving mixes via email. From a distance, French musicians added percussion and cello and David sent back more of his own parts. The album also features contributions from Aidan Moffat, Jordan Geiger (Hospital Ships), Beth Orton, Sam Amidon, Luke Drozd, Rachael Dadd and Ichi, David’s brother Daniel, and piano parts recorded in Pyongyang.

David interviewed in The List: “The record is about discomfort and trying to reconcile conflicting elements of the human condition, to eventually come to terms with the awkwardness of life.” 

Tickets for this show are £8 in advance.