Liz Lawrence

Liz Lawrence performs a pop, rock and indie concert in Leeds built around Vespers, an album written after the death of the artist's sister. The evening takes place at Brudenell Social Club in Burley.

Vespers is an album about loss, written in the wake of a family tragedy and dedicated to Liz Lawrence's sister, Jessie, who died in 2024 at the age of 35. Its songs were drafted over roughly three weeks and arrived in a rush around six months after Jessie's death, which followed a serious accident in Ireland. The record includes the singles 'Exploded Into Flowers', 'Black Ulysses'and 'A Good One'.

The artist has said the album is specifically about one family's situation but also speaks to something universal: grief is something almost everyone experiences, yet it is still rarely discussed openly. Its music sits between the time before a death and the time after it, and it is presented as a personal record of a life and a death rather than a general account of loss.

Brudenell Social Club, on Queen's Road in Burley, Leeds, began as a working men's club and mainly hosts pop, rock and indie concerts, which places this evening within the venue's usual programme.