Lonnie Gunn

Lonnie Gunn is an artist born in the United States and now based in Brighton, bringing pop, rock and indie-leaning songwriting to a London concert at The Black Heart.

Lonnie Gunn grew up in suburban New Jersey, in a household where music was central. Gunn's father had been a new wave club DJ, and a sister now plays in the Leeds-based noise rock band Skintern. As a teenager, Gunn fronted an indie rock band, wrote a great deal of material and contributed music to short films made with online collaborators.

Songwriting took on a deeper role after a difficult stretch of personal upheaval in late 2024 and into 2025, when it became a way of getting through that period as well as a means of expression. The project's visual and conceptual world is described as "fuzzy static heaven", where femininity, the body and surreal discomfort meet. The music moves between intimacy and abrasion, tenderness and the grotesque.

The Black Heart is a London venue that mainly hosts concerts, with a programme centred on pop, rock and indie music. Gunn presents this stage of the career as a threshold rather than a reinvention, and as an early chapter in an artist still at the start of the journey.