Bridewell Studios and Gallery: Novelty Island: Jigsaw Causeway Debut Exhibition
Date: 4.10.25 - 10.10.25
Time: 12:00 - 16:00
Location: Bridewell Studios and Gallery, 101 Prescot Street, Liverpool, L7 8UL
Novelty Island
Jigsaw Causeway Debut Exhibition
a 50,000 piece puzzle
- Open: 4th-10th October, 12-4pm
- Launch party: 3rd October, 7:30pm
Novelty Island’s hook-filled dream pop channels surrealism and Northern melancholy through classic songwriting. The project is led by Liverpool-based songwriter and producer, Tom McConnell who describes it as “Paul McCartney having an argument with Bernard Black”. Eclectic songs inspired by childhood, motorways, trains, old televisions, cowboys, space, birds and balloons form their first two albums, How Are You Coping With This Century? and Wallsend Weekend Television, which received acclaim from Mojo, Shindig, BBC 6 Music, BBC Introducing and Absolute Radio. The psychedelic, papier-mâché-prop-filled Novelty Island live band have performed at Glastonbury and toured the UK extensively as a headline act and support to Sea Power, The Pale White, Scott Lavene and China Crisis.
Novelty Island’s new album Jigsaw Causeway is a darker collection of lo-fi songs inspired by the fuzzy, woozy production of Grandaddy, Beck and Boards of Canada. Novelty Island’s releases feature McConnell’s artwork in a range of styles from papier-mâché sculptures, lo-fi animation and claymation. The new album will be by accompanied by his first exhibition.
