English Teacher

June 10th, Bowery Ballroom

This Leeds band were making ripples last year and after a breakthru appearance on Jools Holland’s Later last November playing their single ‘“The World’s Biggest Paving Slab,” those ripples have become waves. The indie-post-post punk combo return to NYC to support their newly released debut album This Could Be Texas.

There’s a lot of judgment that I had early on,” said singer Lily Fontaine. “Being a woman of color fronting a band shouldn’t even be a thing to talk about; we need to just get on with it – only then will the narrative around that change.” “R&B,” which was released a few years ago but has been re-recorded for the album confronts that. She certainly has a precence.

Their first song “Nearly Daffodils” was named one of the 10 best songs of 2023 by Time magazine.

So go check ‘em out at The Bowery Ballroom. It’s a Monday night and you wont find a better evening’s entertainment for under $30 anywhere in The City... or anywhere else for that matter.