Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter live in concert.
ON TOUR

Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter

7
critic concert reviews
folk

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

71
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Based on 
7
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Critic Consensus

Based on 7 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter is rated as a decent live performer, with shows that lack distinction. Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter concert reviews describe live shows and performances as extraordinary and spooky.

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Artist Info

Genre
folk
Origin
Seattle, King County, Washington, United States (1998 - present)
Bio
Jesse Sykes is a Seattle-based singer-songwriter. Her backing band is The Sweet Hereafter, which features Phil Wandscher (late of Whiskeytown) on guitar.
Has Performed With
The Sweet Hereafter

Critic Concert Reviews

The Skinny (UK)

April 28, 2011
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Captain's Rest, Glasgow, Scotland

Glide Magazine (USA)

March 7, 2007
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Mark Linkous, the man behind the moniker, brought his current incarnation of the band along with Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, touring in support of Like, Love, Lust & The Open Halls of the Soul, her latest release.

Glide Magazine (USA)

February 13, 2007
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Sykes and her stellar band- The Sweet Hereafter – has been making “spooky Americana” that critics have relished for a few years now, yet she still remains a few magazine covers away from obtaining lofty Cat Power/Neko Case status.

The Guardian (UK)

April 28, 2004
60
%
Accustomed to the chills and damp of her native Seattle Sykes views life through a miasma of melancholy and mystery.

The Guardian (UK)

July 22, 2003
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First there was Laura Veirs lamenting the extreme heat and extraordinary sweatiness of the Borderline and then there was Jesse Sykes wondering if she had any chance of making it through her set without passing out.

KEXP (USA)

August 8, 2011
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Seattle, USA

No Depression (USA)

June 30, 2003
%
With its categories and subcategories from northern and neo to country and deep it can be a tough concept to pin down.

Past critic reviews published in

Humo (Belgium), The Canberra Times (Australia), Irish Examiner (Ireland), The Times (UK), Gaffa (Denmark) and more

Image Credit

Joe Mabel [CC BY-SA 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons