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Gruff Rhys - Sadness Sets Me Free

CD Album + 1 Ticket - £13.99 - Limit 4 per person
Vinyl LP + 1 Ticket - £28.99 - Limit 2 per person
Blackberry Vinyl LP + 1 Ticket - £33.99 - Limit 2 per person
Dinked Exclusive Honeycomb Vinyl LP + 1 Ticket - £39.99 - Limit 1 per person
1x Ticket only - £10.50 - Limit 1 per person max

We urge you to consider buying an Album bundle rather than Ticket only as they only cost £3.49 more to get a CD,  PLUS this way you are helping the artist AND the more albums we sell the more of these exciting Album Launch shows we are able to put on in the future.

 PLEASE NOTE CD Album + Ticket Bundles are limited to 4 per person. Ticket only is limited to 1 per person

(PLEASE READ DETAILS BEFORE PLACING YOUR ORDER)

To celebrate the release of his new album ‘Sadness Sets Me Free’, Gruff Rhys will play a special set at Brudenell Social Club on Sunday 28th January we except doors at 7:00 with Gruff Rhys on stage just before 8:00 so please be prompt.  

We have set up special bundles (in the drop down box above) for this release where fans can purchase an album on any format and get a ticket for this exclusive Show

 
There is a limited capacity for this event so we would expect all the album and ticket bundles to sell out very quickly. 

This event is 14+ with Adult / 16+ without.

Please note there is only limited space available for disabled / accessible viewing at the venue so please email using the address below to book in as soon as you have ordered a ticket / Bundle - access@brudenellsocialclub.co.uk

PLEASE NOTE: WE ARE PRINTING TICKETS FOR THIS EVENT AND THEY WILL BE NEEDED FOR ENTRY TO THE VENUE . ORDER EMAILS ETC WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED ON THE NIGHT OF THE EVENT.

Shipping is the only option for this event, TICKETS will ship first around a week before the event. ALBUMS on or just before Friday 26th January

There is NO collect at venue or Collect in store option all ticket and stock will be shipped out.

Dinked Edition available without a ticket here

Album is also available on all formats without a ticket here 

Gruff Rhys is pleased to announce his new album “Sadness Sets Me Free” which will be released by Rough Trade Records on 26.01.2024. This incredibly will be the 25th album he has released in his 35 year career individually, collaboratively and as a member of various bands. “Sadness Sets Me Free” is also the follow up to 2021’s “Seeking new Gods”, his first solo top ten record.

Lead-off single “Celestial Candyfloss” is a telling four minute glimpse of the forthcoming album, revealing the heady wonders and classic pop sounds within. Soaring strings carry the sweet melodies along, anchored by just enough necessary melancholy to add emotional ballast. The eye-popping video was created by long-time collaborator Mark James and compliments the scope and style of the song on a galactic scale.

“Celestial Candyfloss” is, Gruff says, “an attempted pocket symphony about the cosmic lengths that people will travel in the pursuit of love and acceptance. Mark James has brought the Sadness Sets Me Free album cover to life & managed to place me watching TV interference in a shipping container that’s lost in space. For what is apparently the 25th album I’ve had a hand in writing I’ve reverted to a rich seam of inspiration relating to shedding some light on sadness and the general terror of cosmic loneliness.”

And so it was that Gruff and his band – Osian Gwynedd (piano), Huw V Williams (double bass) and former Flaming Lips drummer turned Super Furry Animals archivist Kliph Scurlock (drums) piled into a van driven by the late, legendary tour manager “Dr” Kiko Loiacono and raced from Dunkirk, where they had just played the final show of a tour of Spain and France, to the outskirts of Paris in the early hours of a March morning in 2022. There, in La Frette Studios, a recording facility installed in a 19th-century house, Gruff and his road-hardened group tracked “Sadness Sets Me Free” in just three days. Backing vocals were added along the way by Kate Stables from This Is The Kit along with additional strings and orchestration and it was mixed between Marseille and Cardiff. What finally emerged from these intense bouts of cross-continental activity was Gruff’s most accomplished and beautiful record to date.

In a career that has taken him from the slate-mining towns of north-west Wales, down to the expat communities of Patagonia, up to the Mandan tribe of the Great Plains of North America and across to the Tuareg rock groups of the Saharan Desert, Gruff Rhys, one of Britain’s most beloved and successful singer-songwriters, has always been willing to follow an opportunity, wherever it may lead him. “At this point I quite like working with serendipity,” he says. “Not in a cosmic way, [but] I try and leave things open to chance encounters and chance geography. As I'm around 25 albums in I’m always looking for ways to make a different-sounding record”

Tracklisting

1. Sadness Sets Me Free
2. Bad Friend
3. Celestial Candyfloss
4. Silver Lining (Lead Balloons)
5. On The Far Side of the Dollar
6. They Sold My Home To Build A Skyscraper
7. Peace Signs
8. Cover Up The Cover Up
9. I Tendered My Resignation
10. I’ll Keep Singing