Leipzig

Penelope Isles - Leipzig

Penelope Isles

Songbyrd

Penelope Isles & Pom Poko with ME REX

ME REX

Pom Poko

Gigs

Washington D.C.

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This is an 16+ event

Elsewhere Brooklyn

Penelope Isles + Pom Poko

Penelope Isles - Cut Your Hair

New York

Elsewhere - Zone One

Luminescent Presents 

PENELOPE ISLES
+ Guests

Exeter Cavern
11.02.2022
16+ Event



This is an 16+ event.

Exeter

Exeter Cavern

for every sibling band forged in rivalry, many others mount an unassailable genetic argument for keeping the music in the family. formed around the chemistry between dual songwriters jack and lily wolter, penelope isles deliver a sound that is crisp and woozy, blissful and biting. it’s an immersive invitation to the isles’ pool party. “one to keep a beady eye on” - mojo

This is an 18+ event.

Penelope Isles + Support

Penelope Isles - Sudoku

Saint Leonards

The Piper

Penelope Isles

14+ (under 16s must be accompanied by an adult)

This is a 14+ (under 16s must be accompanied by an adult).

Bath

Moles

Penelope Isles are centred around siblings Jack and Lily Wolter, originally from the Isle of Man, and for several years now based in Brighton. Their debut album Until the Tide Creeps In was produced by the band at the Bella Union studios in London and Brighton. 

This is a 14+ event. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

Manchester

Low Four

**Rescheduled from 9 February 2022 to 26 April 2022 **

Formed around the chemistry between dual songwriters Jack and Lily Wolter, the quartet’s DIY mix of translucent dream-pop, fuzz-rock guitars and indie-psych flushes comes lovingly dipped in exquisite harmonies and lustrous melodies: a combination so intuitive, you’d think it was in their blood.

This is an 14+ event.

Leeds

Brudenell Social Club

O NOS Primavera Sound regressa ao Parque da Cidade, no Porto, de 9 a 11 de Junho de 2022.

NOS Primavera Sound regresa al Parque de la Ciudad, en Oporto, del 9 al 11 de junio de 2022.

NOS Primavera Sound returns to Parque da Cidade, in Porto, on the 9th, 10th and 11th of June 2022.

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A compra de bilhetes para o NOS Primavera Sound implica a aceitação das condições gerais de entrada disponíveis para consulta em www.nosprimaverasound.com.

The purchase of tickets for NOS Primavera Sound implies acceptance of the general conditions of entry available at www.nosprimaversound.com.

La compra de entradas para NOS Primavera Sound implica la aceptación de las condiciones generales de entrada disponibles en www.nosprimaverasound.com.

This event is for ages 6+

NOS Primavera Sound

Nos Primavera Sound 2022: 9-11 June

Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better

Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc.

Beck - Loser

Pavement - Harness Your Hopes

Little Simz - 101 FM

Kim Gordon - Air BnB

King Krule - The Noose of Jah City

Jamila Woods - Holy

Earl Sweatshirt - Huey

Khruangbin - August 10

Black Coffee - Superman

Shellac - Riding Bikes

Dinosaur Jr. - Feel the Pain

Helado Negro - Please Won’t Please

Beach Bunny - Prom Queen

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - French Press

Johnny Hostile & Jehnny Beth - Let It Out (feat. Jehnny Beth)

Japanese Breakfast - Be Sweet

Dry Cleaning - Sit Down Meal

C. Tangana, Paloma Mami & Alizzz - No Te Debí Besar

black midi - bmbmbm

Derby Motoreta’s Burrito Kachimba - Aliento De Dragón

Beach Bunny

Beck

Black Coffee

DIIV

DINOSAUR JR.

Porto

Parque da Cidade

When you’re trying to make it through tough times, you need a little light to find your way. That light blazes brightly on the alchemical second album from Penelope Isles, an album forged amid emotional upheaval and band changes. Setting the uncertainties of twentysomething life to alt-rock and psychedelic songs brimming with life, colour and feeling, Which Way to Happy emerges as a luminous victory for Jack and Lily Wolter, the siblings whose bond holds the band tight at its core.  
 
Produced by Jack and mixed by US alt-rock legend Dave Fridmann, the result is an intoxicating leap forward for the Brighton-based band, following the calling-card DIY smarts of their 2019 debut, Until the Tide Creeps In. Sometimes it swoons, sometimes it soars. Sometimes it says it’s OK to not be OK. Pitched between fertile coastal metaphors and winged melodies, intimate confessionals and expansive cosmic pop, it transforms “difficult second album” clichés into a thing of glorious contrasts: a second-album surge of up-close, heartfelt intimacies and expansive, experimental vision.  

Warm and rippling new single ‘Iced Gems’ is a sorrowed lament, played out over the gentlest of fluttery keyboards and experimental electronic sounds, while Lily’s ‘Sailing Still’ charts the life of a relationship to a slow-burn and sorrowed soundscape of dulcitones, cello, violin and more: building in increments to a climax of measured grandeur.

The album swerves into Mercury Rev and MGMT’s cosmic slipstream with ‘Miss Moon,’ a galloping centrepiece with an irresistible call to dream: “Hey, kids – look up!” Steering the album through further contrasts, ‘Have You Heard’ is a feelgood flurry of insistent, pulsing space-rock; ‘Pink Lemonade,’ meanwhile, is a song of sweet, sharp beauty, touching on fading childhood memories and lifted by Fiona Brice’s strings. ‘11 11’ hosts Lily’s most tender vocal yet: recorded in one take through tears, it finds Penelope Isles at their most exposed, with Brice’s strings weeping in sympathy. Finally, ‘In a Cage’ cogitates on confinement yet finds solace in field recordings of happy, high times – a judicious note of meditative reflection after a giddy ride. 

More field recordings were made during a stay at a small cottage in Cornwall, where Penelope Isles began work on the album. With romantic heartache already in the air, things swiftly got worse: lockdown began, claustrophobia kicked in and emotions ran high. As Jack puts it, “We were there for about two or three months. It was a tiny cottage with four of us in and we all went a bit bonkers, and we drank far too much, and it spiralled a bit out of control. There were a lot of emotional evenings and realisations, which I think reflects in the songs.” 

After Cornwall, the band redid many of the rhythm tracks, recorded a little in Brighton, then recorded more in Cornwall at their parents’ house. “It was,” says Jack, “a proper rollercoaster ride.” 

The ride continued with Fridmann, whose recent credits include Isles’ favourites Mogwai’s No 1 album, As the Love Continues. As Lily puts it, the process of sending Fridmann a mix, receiving it back in the morning and then having five hours to make decisions on it resulted first in stress, then in something sublime. “He made everything so colourful. It’s an intense-sounding record – a hot record. It was so refreshing to have that blast of energy from Dave – it’s like he framed our pictures.” 

Away from the confines of the cottage, the Wolters also opened the door to a collaboration with storied composer Fiona Brice, whose credits include John Grant, Lost Horizons and Placebo. A “big bucket-list tick” for Jack and Lily, the team-up results in glorious arrangements across the album.

On its release, Until the Tide Creeps In received rave reviews from Q, DIY, The Line of Best Fit and many others, while finding champions in Steve Lamacq and Shaun Keaveny. Meanwhile, extensive touring saw the Isles develop into a formidable live force, with ‘Gnarbone’ emerging as a sure-fire show-stopper. 

Now, the Isles have 11 more show-stoppers to add to the mix. At the album’s heart, the band’s core traits have never been stronger: the bond between the Wolters, a sensitivity towards complex feelings, a desire to celebrate life in all its facets and an ambitious reach combine to create an album that feels utterly, emphatically present on every front.


This is a 14+ event.

The Fulford Arms

Like breaking open a rock to discover a crystal inside. Shimmering, intimate and beautifully destructive, this is the experience of Penelope Isles. Siblings Jack and Lily Wolter make music that reveals a curiosity and sensitivity to the world around them.

This is an 16+ event

Guildford

The Boileroom

Manchester Psych Fest returns... Early Bird tickets available now.

This is a 14+ event.

Manchester Psych Fest 2022

Tinariwen - Toumast Tincha

Midnight Dipper - Soulwax Remix

Jane Weaver - Don't Take My Soul

Atlas

Battles - The Line (Bonus Track)

Goat Girl - Sad Cowboy

Good Bad Times

Hinds - Good Bad Times

Found God in a Tomato

Worth It

Willy Mason - We Can Be Strong

Feet - Petty Thieving

Bad Texan

Lime Garden - Fever

John

The Golden Dregs - Congratulations

Want Me To Stay

Delicadeza

Mint Field - Quiero Otoño De Nuevo

Bad Kids

Japanese Television - Tick Tock

The Eye And The Twitch

Mystic Peach - Across the Pond

Battles

Dead Meadow

FEET

FREAK SLUG

Goat Girl

Various Venues, Manchester

This event was previously scheduled for the 1st December 2021 but will now take place on the 23rd February 2022.

Penelope Isles create a shimmering, intimate and beautifully destructive experience, revealing startling curiosity and sensitivity to the world around them. From Brighton via the Isle of Man, the four-piece have a sound that unfolds both dramatically and softly. We loved their debut LP ‘Until The Tide Creeps In’ (released on Bella Union Records in 2019) and can't wait to hear more from them. For the lovers of early Arcade Fire, Grandaddy and Mogwai.
Suppoet comes from Laundromat.

This is an 18+ event

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