Hemlock + Westelaken, with Route 500

On tour for the first time overseas, Hemlock and Westelaken join Brighton's Route 500 for an intimate show at Pink Moon Tickets on the door are a suggested £5-£10 sliding scale, nobody turned away for lack of funds. hemlock (Louisiana, USA) is the swamp-raised, “phone-fi" alt-folk project of multi-disciplinary creative force Carolina Chauffe, with a prolific discography spanning hundreds of self-released songs. Doggedly DIY, touring nearly nonstop for the past few years on “permatour”, they strive to return music to where it has always existed - the house show, the porch, the field, the waterside. They are a neighbor, a gatherer, a believer in miracles, and a hopeful for a free tomorrow for all. Westelaken is a Toronto based band that at their simplest is a tight and twangy alt-country quartet. But they’re also prone to letting their songs open up, and following their whims beyond the confines of structure and convention, like lines of text spilling off of a page. In solo performance Jordan embraces intimacy and tension, leaning into the quiet, while the lines of text gather on the floor and lay like a nest hair clippings. Route 500 is the musical world of Derek Inver - observational lyrics, compelling vocals and dissociative recollections make up their dynamic, lo-fi sound. The Brighton based project pursues rawness over perfection and captures the darker inner workings and depths of the human psyche. Their debut album 'Island Perimeter' drew comparisons to the likes of The Microphones, Big Thief and Red House Painters, earning an ever-expanding following of loyal listeners.