Oz-Indie-Country pioneer Henry Wagons returns to the UK, with a new desert-fried Morricone-inspired album under his arm and a hunger to share songs and stories from the road.
Henry is tour-hardened and still grinning, standing at the ready after a huge string of launch shows across the USA, Canada, Mexico with The Dead South, as well as headline shows on home soil. The UK is next, and he can’t wait!
Wagons is a songwriter and entertainer, who stomps and shimmies across the stage like no other, with an ever-present relationship with the crowd that is natural law. A show you will need to tell your friends about. Henry Wagons is the mad professor of song. His fierce intellect was once hurtling toward a career as a philosopher, but was derailed by a record deal, a thirst for whisky and an insatiable need to make noise.
There is no songwriter who casts the same kind of ever-curious, startlingly present shadow. The man is a master craftsman of the stage and carves out his place upon it like no other. He soaks up inspiration from spectres of the past in Hazelwood and Elvis, also the many comrades with whom he has shared the stage with, such as Lucinda Williams and Justin Townes Earle, all intertwined by a passion for classic song-craft.
Henry has roamed the globe having appeared at Bonnaroo, Byron Bluesfest, Laneway, Bumbershoot, Big Day Out and Ottawa Blues as well as SXSW and Americana showcases. Mr. Wagons has made six albums as benevolent dictator of the band “Wagons” as well as two solo albums and has also taken part in a slew of diverse side projects which includes hosting acclaimed weekly radio program “Tower of Song” on national broadcaster Double J as well as regular appearances on a cavalcade of multi-media.
Henry is a vibrant creative dynamo that is truly reaching the full extent of his powers. With many a grand scale project set to unfold in the next decade, this is a musical force you need to see. “a shrewd showman and an equally savvy songwriter and singer…Wagons makes sly rock ‘n’ roll that both intellectuals and pop fans can appreciate” – Nashville Cream“
Henry Wagons comes across like Nick Cave singing the Johnny Cash songbook” – Timeout NYC “Henry Wagons: the new Prince of Country noir” – Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
Henry is playing: Monday 10th February, Kitchen Garden Cafe, 17 York Rd. Kings Heath, Birmingham. B14 7SA. Doors: 19:30. Tickets: £17.60. Venue: 0121 443 4725.