Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage + The Grasping Straws

New York Anti-Folk Legend
Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage
+ The Grasping Straws
+ My Pleasure
Tuesday 8th September 2026
The New Adelphi Club
Tickets £22 Advance (on this page)
Doors 8pm

Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage’s brilliant style of scuzzy urban indie-rock-folk, is like a 21st century mash-up of Sonic Youth, Pete Seeger and Robert Crumb.

The songwriter and comic book artist began developing his sound by recording homemade cassettes in New York City in 1998. Since then, he’s signed with Rough Trade Records and brought his critically acclaimed, unusual and word-dense songs to countless gigs all over the world, and has opened for icons like the Mountain Goats, Daniel Johnston and Pulp.

With or without bandmates Lewis wrings folksy spiel and garage bohemianism from his ramshackle guitar, while incorporating his often politically subversive visual artwork and cartoons into live appearances.

The current 4-piece touring line-up of Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage includes Mallory Feuer on violin and keyboard, Kait Pelkey on bass and Brent Cole (Moldy Peaches) on drums.

“A wordy force of nature… stirs you up with politics or knocks you sideways with sadness… ideas burst from Jeffrey Lewis like an overstuffed suitcase – strange ones, funny ones, poignant ones, usually a mixture…. kicking out ramshackle fuzzbomb jams… it’s difficult to imagine how any couple of hours spent in Lewis’s company couldn’t prove inspirational.” (****) – The Guardian