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With Sweet Chaos arriving June 5, Damian Lewis is bringing back one of the things fans loved most during the Mission Creep era: intimate album launch shows with live music, conversation, and signings.
Three years ago, I went to one at Rough Trade East in London.
And honestly?
I still think about that night.
Because if you’ve never been to one of these… it’s not just a gig.
It’s something else.
Let me take you there…
With Sweet Chaos arriving June 5, Damian Lewis is bringing back one of the things fans loved most during the Mission Creep era: intimate album launch shows with live music, conversation, and signings.
Three years ago, I went to one at Rough Trade East in London.
And honestly?
I still think about that night.
Because if you’ve never been to one of these… it’s not just a gig.
It’s something else.
Let me take you there…
My husband and I started 2023 listening to the 2-hour “Damian Lewis Blues and Swing Special” on Jazz FM. And after 2 delicious hours of music, I put together a Spotify playlist for the fans who were not able to hear the program because of annoying zone restrictions. And this post has all the songs Damian played in the program but also what he talked about when he talked about the music he loved! So… ENJOY! Continue reading “Throwback Thursday to Damian Lewis’ ‘Blues and Swing Special’ on Jazz FM”
Two years ago, during the second leg of the Mission Creep UK tour, I had the chance to sit down with Damian Lewis for a conversation about his music.
We spoke backstage at Epic Studios in Norwich after the gig, with a glass of the band’s signature “D Lew” drink in hand. It was the first time I had been able to arrange a proper interview in advance — a real sit-down conversation instead of the quick chats we had managed in the past between rehearsals, interviews, and sound checks. Continue reading “Two Years Before Album Two: My Backstage Interview with Damian Lewis”
The record’s musical and emotional centerpiece, though, is She Comes, a gorgeous blend of folk and jazz in which Damian sings of a spirit inhabiting the living world – she comes as a blackbird, she comes as a fox, she sits at the window, she sings from a rock – over washes of rolling, Nick Drake-style piano.
Our Song of the Week series has been getting wonderful feedback from fans, and it has been a joy to see so many people revisiting the songs from Mission Creep along with us. In these posts, we take a closer look at one track at a time — diving into the lyrics, the performances, and the personal stories behind the songs. Many of the tracks on Damian Lewis’ debut album are deeply personal, and part of the fun is trying to piece together the experiences and emotions that may have inspired them. If you’ve missed any of the earlier entries in the series, you can catch up with all the previous Song of the Week posts here.
This week, we dive deep into “She Comes,” the first song Damian wrote for his debut album Mission Creep. The post is not only about the song itself but also about how Damian began his journey as a songwriter.
Continue reading “Damian Lewis’ Song of the Week: She Comes”