Preview: The Handsome Family

by Adam Aiken

Brett and Rennie Sparks – aka The Handsome Family – will be in Norwich this week for a stop on their UK and Irish tour.

The husband-and-wife duo won over a new legion of fans when Far From Any Road was used as the theme tune for the first season of the HBO smash True Detective.

Rennie and Brett Sparks will be in Norwich this week

But The Handsome Family – who hail from Texas and New York – have been performing since 1993 and have nearly a dozen albums under their belt.

The pair receive regular acclaim from other notable songwriters, and David Bowie cryptically wrote “The Handsome Family” in a notebook just before he died.

The show at Norwich Arts Centre on Wednesday, September 7, is likely to be a mix of darkness and humour, with some leftfield tales thrown in for good measure.

Click here for tickets.

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