A New York Evening with Nick Lowe
A New York Evening With Nick Lowe
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49m
The GRAMMY Museum was thrilled to welcome Nick Lowe at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY for an intimate conversation moderated by SNL's James Austin Johnson about his first album in over a decade - Indoor Safari out on Yep Roc Records - his career, and more, with a performance that followed.
Nick Lowe is one of the many artists to be featured in the GRAMMY Museum’s New York City program series, which includes bringing a slate of the GRAMMY Museum’s renowned GRAMMY In The Schools Education Programs and Public Programs to the East Coast. “A New York Evening With…” is generously supported by the Dawn and Brian Hoesterey Family Foundation.
ABOUT NICK LOWE
Six years ago, the revered British artist and songwriter Nick Lowe had almost abandoned the idea of making another full-length album. The realities of the marketplace and the expense aside, Lowe was busy enjoying the more immediate “camaraderie and rewards” of touring with Los Straitjackets, those masked marvels who've been his fellow musical voyagers for the past decade. Together, they'd released a handful of EPs and singles between 2018-20. But Lowe saw those mostly as “souvenirs to let people know the store was still open.”
But fall of 2024, Lowe returned with his first LP in over a decade - Indoor Safari. So what changed his mind?
“We've really got a style together now,” Lowe says. “When it started out, it was just to do shows. We had no thoughts of recording, really. But after a while, we started to attract an audience – and a much younger one. When we started noticing the younger fans, I realized my fate maybe wasn't to just keep playing the same old songs to the same old tubby ex-pub rockers (laughs). Suddenly, the whole thing started to get some bounce to it. Like, 'Wait a minute, this is really something.'”
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