{"id":10370,"date":"2026-04-20T10:51:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/joana-serrat-chris-eckman-and-tenderness-live-at-club-uncut-from-stark-solitude-to-shoegaze-glow-154254\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:51:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:51:24","slug":"joana-serrat-chris-eckman-and-tenderness-live-at-club-uncut-from-stark-solitude-to-shoegaze-glow-154254","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/joana-serrat-chris-eckman-and-tenderness-live-at-club-uncut-from-stark-solitude-to-shoegaze-glow-154254\/","title":{"rendered":"Joana Serrat, Chris Eckman and Tenderness live at Club Uncut: from stark solitude to shoegaze glow"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThis is a song about when you feel good but you already know you\u2019re gonna feel bad,\u201d says Katy Beth Young AKA Tenderness, introducing the exquisitely bittersweet \u201cSalt Flats\u201d. She pauses for a beat before adding: \u201cAnd it\u2019s my happiest song!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis is a song about when you feel good but you already know you\u2019re gonna feel bad,\u201d says Katy Beth Young AKA Tenderness, introducing the exquisitely bittersweet \u201cSalt Flats\u201d. She pauses for a beat before adding: \u201cAnd it\u2019s my happiest song!\u201d<\/p>\n

Luckily, at the revived Club Uncut, we are mad for sadness. Beginning her captivating solo set with homesick Appalachian folk song \u201cThe Very Day I\u2019m Gone\u201d, Young goes on to reveal herself as the millennial Patsy Cline, the casually magnificent swoop of her voice turning romantic disappointment and quarter-life ennui into something almost euphoric.<\/p>\n

The Blue Basement holds good memories for Young. It was here (at a show by Nashville singer-songwriter Erin Rae) that she came across pedal steel player Harry Bohay, who went on to help define the Tenderness sound. Bohay isn\u2019t here tonight, so Young asks us to imagine him playing along to \u201cSaturday Morning\u201d. But the truth is, we don\u2019t need to \u2013 her vocal melody is transporting enough by itself, even as it describes yet another foundering relationship.<\/p>\n

It might get darker. Chris Eckman\u2019s music is stark and sorrowful, shot through with the desolation of long, chilly nights alone \u2013 which of course only makes it more compelling. \u201cGenevieve\u201d, the opening number from last year\u2019s terrific The Land We Knew The Best<\/em>, describes a love affair in terms so vivid and final that you know his pleas for reconciliation are hopeless. \u201cWars are won by those who quit \/ And leave dead dreams behind,\u201d Eckman sings ruefully.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cButtercup\u201d is ostensibly more upbeat, but contains further sage advice for anyone enjoying themselves a little too much: \u201cThe good times are the hard times half-remembered.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is a change of pace as he plays an old Walkabouts number \u201cThe Stopping-Off Place\u201d, later covered by Townes Van Zandt. \u201cWhich apart from being a great honour,\u201d says Eckman, \u201cproves that I had stolen all of it from him.\u201d And then, especially for us, a real treat: a suitably intense take on Neil Young\u2019s \u201cOn The Beach\u201d, first covered by The Walkabouts in 1989 and which subsequently appeared on Uncut\u2019s very first Sounds Of The New West CD in 1998. Right now, its sense of acute disillusionment feels more potent than ever: \u201cThe world is turnin\u2019 \/ I hope it don\u2019t turn away\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Catalan singer-songwriter Joana Serrat finally lets some sunshine in, appearing here with her London-based band, The Sweet Nothings. Heartbreak and regret are still major themes, but offset by Serrat\u2019s natural positivity and joie de vivre.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new songs she premieres here are the first she\u2019s written in full collaboration with the band, lending them a rich, dreamy quality that leans into her shoegaze influences. Thanks to the red Rickenbacker jangles of guitarist Sam Ferman, there\u2019s even one that winningly resembles the indie-pop sugar rush of \u201cVelocity Girl\u201d (both the Primal Scream song and the band named after it).<\/p>\n

It feels like Serrat has really hit upon something special with this new sound, packed with warm sentiment and a pleasing Floydian whoosh. She\u2019s not one for protest songs, but can\u2019t resist a quick call to \u201ctear down the patriarchy!\u201d before finishing with a rousing version of her signature number, \u201cTake Me Back Where I Belong\u201d \u2013 which, she confesses, \u201cis basically making music onstage\u201d. Conveniently, her happy place is ours too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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