KING HANNAH

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KING HANNAH
01.06.25 | 20:00 | Hall

On their first tour of the United States, King Hannah could hardly believe where their debut album had taken them. The Liverpool indie rock duo, consisting of Hannah Merrick and Craig Whittle, found themselves in the middle of the southwestern desert of New Mexico, among other places they had only seen in movies and television. Their dogged determination and sheer courage to swim toward their carefully planned vision had landed them headfirst in a scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Badlands, or any of the numerous true-crime documentaries they enjoyed off the road. Being in a new place opened their eyes to everyday occurrences that they might have ignored had they happened in Liverpool, and from a new perspective. Much of the band's second album, Big Swimmer, reflects stories from their travels as the duo shared the stage with Kurt Vile, Thurston Moore and festivals in Europe and North America. In America in particular, Merrick and Whittle saw through the window of their tour bus as a kind of projection screen from which they drew inspiration for their stories.