When: 7pm on Monday 22 March 2027
Where: Band on the Wall, 26 Swan Street, Manchester M4 5JZ

We’re delighted to host one of just four UK dates for The Delines plus special guest Mark Eitzel, who will play an extended set with his band.

Portland country/soul band The Delines were formed after Richmond Fontaine singer/songwriter Willy Vlautin heard singer Amy Boone (The Damnations) sing just one single ballad. He was so moved by her voice that he secretly wrote her songs for over a year before approaching her to start a band. Lucky for all she liked what she heard and The Delines were formed. Fontaine’s Sean Oldham on drums, Freddie Trujillo on bass, Vlautin on guitar, and multi-instrumentalist Cory Gray on keyboards and horns. Vlautin is no stranger to critical acclaim in the US, UK, and Europe, enjoying cult success and rave reviews from the likes of the New York Times, Washington Post, Uncut, MOJO, Hot Press, Rolling Stone and the Wall Street Journal, both as a novelist with seven books under his belt, and as the former front man/songwriter of the Americana outfit Richmond Fontaine who produced eleven acclaimed studio albums. Three of his novels have been turned into feature films: The Motel Life, Lean on Pete, and The Night Always Comes. Ursula K. Le Guin said this of Vlautin’s writing: ‘Willy Vlautin is one of the bravest novelists writing… An unsentimental Steinbeck, a heartbroken Haruf, Willy Vlautin tells us who really lives now in our America, our city in ruins.’ The Delines released their sixth album, The Set Up, earlier this year – hailed as their best – and will be releasing another new album in 2027.

Mark Eitzel has released over 17 albums of original material with American Music Club and as a solo artist. The Guardian has called him ‘America’s greatest living lyricist,’ and Rolling Stone once gave him their Songwriter of the Year award. Originally formed in 1983, AMC released seven albums before breaking up in 1995. The band reunited in 2004 for two full-lengths, Love Songs for Patriots and The Golden Age. In April of 2012 while working on his last solo record, Eitzel suffered a heart attack which forced him to slow down and delayed the album’s release. Mark has spent the last seven years composing music for playwright Simon Stephens, as well as working on the American Music Club reissues. In addition to older classics from American Music Club, which will be featured on a new box set due out in 2027, Mark will play songs from previous solo albums and a new vinyl EP. He will perform an hour-plus set with his band.

This show is for ages 10+. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

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