Lande Hekt | Brighton

Lande Hekt Brighton

Lande Hekt live in Brighton at The Prince Albert on 20th April! Get tickets above, or from SeeTickets.

Lande Hekt has quietly become one of the UK’s best underground songwriters. On her 2021 debut full-length Going To Hell and 2022’s House Without a View, she explored her queer identity, sobriety, and childhood trauma through the lens of heartfelt, conversational indie-pop, which led to spots opening for the likes of Alvvays, Throwing Muses and The Beths. Her new album Lucky Now, written and recorded with producer Matthew Simms (Wire, It Hugs Back), reflects the most mature and confident version of Lande Hekt yet. “I’m not as concerned about how I’m presenting myself, ” Hekt says. “I’ve tried to think less about how things are coming across, and just write songs that make me feel connected to myself and what I value.”

Hekt’s musical touchstones – The Wedding Present, The Sundays, The Replacements – remain the same, but at the same time she’s delved deeper into other influences. Lucky Now is indebted to 1980s twee-pop and jangle-pop like The Pastels, Tallulah Gosh and The Bats, plus more modern iterations of the sound such as Autocamper and Jeanines, in its ecstatic, soaring melodies and gorgeous, tactile guitars. The sound is fitting for Hekt’s new lyrical outlook, where, though despair and anxiety rear their heads, she digs deep to find the gratitude.

“I wanted to try and push for something slightly more positive, which I’m trying to do more of generally – just to not fall apart,” Hekt says.

In keeping with that, opening track “Kitchen ii” is a love song about sharing simple, domestic moments with a partner, while “Rabbits” is a song about hope inspired by one summer solstice spent on Glastonbury Tor. Meanwhile, the slower, acoustic-based “Middle of the Night” is about “reeling from a realisation of being properly happy for the first time in my life,” Hekt says. Hekt also returns to more politically-based songwriting, after largely avoiding politics in both life and music during a disillusioned period, on “Circular” (“they change the law like it’s a game and we’re the pawns getting played”) and “A Million Broken Hearts” “If you get swept up in the notion that being politically engaged in any way is embarrassing, that is so dangerous,” Hekt says now. “It’s really important to try and find a way to reject that.”

During the process of making the album, Hekt also moved from Bristol back to her hometown of Exeter. She wrote Lucky Now’s closing track, “Coming Home”, about the experience of returning there after a long tour; smelling the familiar smells, spotting the familiar faces. In a lot of ways, Lucky Now is about return – return to joy, return to places and parts of the self once left behind. Who you once were can seem unreachable, but sometimes you can build a bridge. https://landehekt.bandcamp.com/

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Upcoming Love Thy Neighbour shows:
12122025 – Die Twice. Patterns
13122025 – Cubzoa. Alphabet
13122025 – John Otway & his band. Lewes Constitutional Club
14122025 – Hard Skin. The Hope & Ruin
11012026 – Spencer Cullum x Hollow Hand. Prince Albert
24012026 – Niall McNamee. Folklore Rooms
31012026 – Naima Bock. West Hill Hall
03022026 – Junior Brother. Prince Albert
17022026 – caroline. Chalk
20022026 – Mermaid Chunky. Revenge
19032026 – Gong + Henge. Chalk
20032026 – Beans on Toast. Concorde 2
26032026 – Heavenly. Hope & Ruin
26032026 – Joan Shelley. Lewes Constitutional Club
07042026 – Bibi Club. The Prince Albert
15042026 – Martin Carthy. Lewes Constitutional Club
16042026 – Martin Carthy. Lewes Constitutional Club
20042026 – Lande Hekt. Prince Albert
22042026 – Oslo Twins. Prince Albert
29042026 – Acid Mothers Temple. Hope & Ruin
01052026 – Love. Concorde 2
02052026 – House of All. Hope & Ruin
05052026 – Lorelle Meets The Obsolete. The Hope & Ruin
07052026 – LYR. Komedia
10052026 – Sean Rowe. Green Door Store
10052026 – Lucrecia Dalt. Chalk
19052026 – Charlie Parr. Green Door Store

Accessibility: No wheelchair access to the venue. Two sets of stairs up to the venue, no disabled toilets. Gendered toilets. If you require a carer at the venue, please contact us at info@lovethyneighbourmusic.co.uk for guestlist, with evidence such as a blue badge or access card. If strobe lighting is an issue or if standing for long periods of time is an issue, please contact us in advance. Would be possible to place a chair near the stage.

Lande Hekt Brighton

Lande Hekt Brighton