Wed, Apr 5
Brooks Nielsen
8:00PM (Doors: 7:00PM )
$35.00
online sales closed
Ages 21 and Up
This event is at Belly Up
143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach, CA

Genre: alternative

Ticket Price: $35 advanced / $35 day of show / $62 reserved loft seating (available over the phone 858-481-8140 or in person at our box office) (seating chart / virtual venue tour) / $135 VIP "Brooks Hotel" Experience PACKAGE / $100 VIP "Brooks Hotel" Experience UPGRADE (does not include a ticket to the show and must be purchased separately)

VIP "Brooks Hotel" Experience PACKAGE includes:

  • 1 General Admission ticket 
  • Individual Photo Opportunity with Brooks Nielsen
  • Two (2) Song Minimum Acoustic Performance
  • Exclusive Brooks Hotel Fan Club T-Shirt
  • Signed In Person Brooks Nielsen 8x10
  • Commemorative "Brooks Hotel" VIP Laminate
  • 3" Commemorative Button
  • Crowd-free merchandise shopping

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Brooks Nielsen
Uncompromising, enigmatic, and wildly ambitious, Brooks Nielsen (lead singer of Southern California surf-psych icons The Growlers) is proud to announce his first full-length solo album One Match Left: a double-vinyl, twenty-song journey into the heart of darkness, and toward the light that eventually remains. 
 
“There’s happiness in there,” says Nielsen, speaking from his Los Angeles home. “The bands that I like have a sense of humor, like Television Personalities or Jonathan Richman, but there’s tragedy too. That’s the old theatrical tradition.” One Match Left showcases these aspects in epic fashion, with Nielsen playing the role of carnival barker, lullaby crooner, and rock & roll priest, depending on the track. It’s actually Nielsen’s first time around without his partners from The Growlers; he’s now joined by old friends Christopher Darley (guitarist for Father John Misty) and Levi Prairie on songwriting duties. 
 
No stranger to the emotional landscapes of modern pop life, producer Michael Andrews expands the songs from the theatrical and into the cinematic. From his Elgin Park Recordings studio in Glendale, Andrews makes chart-topping hits (like the song “Mad World” from his soundtrack to Donnie Darko) and cult favorites (he scored the entirety of Freaks & Geeks and Pete Davidson’s King of Staten Island). “He’s an encyclopedia and extremely talented,” says Nielsen of Andrews. “Which meant he could be a great commander in the studio.” 
 
Assembling a core team of himself on guitar and bass, Robert Walter (The Greyboy Allstars) on keys, and Joey Waronker (Beck, Atoms For Peace) on drums, Andrews infuses the material with a lush palette, more akin to Harry Nilsson and Serge Gainsbourg than anything we’ve heard before from Nielsen. Album opener “All That You’ll See is Everything” sets a carnivalesque tone, a loopy and optimistic revelation about the songs that follow. “Virgin Lady Luck” alternately thunders and whispers, a standout single that’s already turning heads on social media. “Long Train” channels Charanjit Singh’s Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat and West African jammers Tinariwen into a driving dance party. “How Do You Like It So Far (This Life)” attempts the impossible: thoughtful reggae pop, free of beach bum clichés, woven together into an atmospheric dub soundscape.

“It’s all a bit of smoke and mirrors,” says Nielsen, speaking both of One Match Left in general, and of the cover art made with photographer Pamela Littky (known for her surrealist ad campaigns for hit shows like Dave and Pam & Tommy). Nielsen as magician, as clown, as poetic trickster. Through the prism of time, we’ll see One Match Left for the many things that it is: a reflection on the death of a relationship, a public reckoning for a fan-favorite band, a love letter to his wife (and mother of their three young children), a survey of global sound and vision, and a daring step forward for one of contemporary music’s most essential voices, Mr. Brooks Nielsen.

Genre: alternative

Ticket Price: $35 advanced / $35 day of show / $62 reserved loft seating (available over the phone 858-481-8140 or in person at our box office) (seating chart / virtual venue tour) / $135 VIP "Brooks Hotel" Experience PACKAGE / $100 VIP "Brooks Hotel" Experience UPGRADE (does not include a ticket to the show and must be purchased separately)

VIP "Brooks Hotel" Experience PACKAGE includes:

  • 1 General Admission ticket 
  • Individual Photo Opportunity with Brooks Nielsen
  • Two (2) Song Minimum Acoustic Performance
  • Exclusive Brooks Hotel Fan Club T-Shirt
  • Signed In Person Brooks Nielsen 8x10
  • Commemorative "Brooks Hotel" VIP Laminate
  • 3" Commemorative Button
  • Crowd-free merchandise shopping

Not on the e-mail list for Venue Presales? Sign Up to be a Belly Up VIP and you will never miss a chance to grab tickets before they go on sale to the general public again!

There are No Refunds or Exchanges on tickets once purchased.