LIVE: BC CAMPLIGHT – 29/11/2019

-YES, MANCHESTER- “I think we’ve got just enough time for one more”. Brian Christinzio, AKA BC Camplight, mumble-growls from somewhere deep within this thick trucker beard, from out beneath a black baseball cap that reads “Cape Lookout”, from behind the blackest of black sunglasses. And that’s all fine – it is Black Friday after all […]

-BAND ON THE WALL, MANCHESTER- Tonight is special for BC Camplight. He’s too cool ever to say so, but it is clear. After everything he’s been through over the last decade, to have an intimate solo show like this in the city that has become his home and has offered him the opportunities that he […]

LIVE: BC CAMPLIGHT – SOLO SHOW & Q&A – 30/04/2019

LIVE: BC CAMPLIGHT – 10/10/2018

-GORILLA, MANCHESTER- Half way through proceedings – a sweaty, sleazy gorgeous romp of a night – and Brian Christinzio takes off his lounge lizard jacket to reveal a T-shirt with the slogan ‘I’m in a weird place now’. You and me both, mate. You want to try standing here by the stage, as a geographically […]

Currently putting the finishing touches to a new studio album, hopefully due for release later this year, BC Camplight will be embarking on a grand piano solo tour in April, playing songs from his critically acclaimed album How To Die In The North, alongside older tracks from his catalogue and also some new numbers. April […]

BC CAMPLIGHT ANNOUNCES GRAND PIANO SOLO TOUR IN APRIL AND SUMMER FESTIVAL APPEARANCES

LIVE: BC CAMPLIGHT – 18/11/2016

– THE RUBY LOUNGE, MANCHESTER – Brian Christinzio has one hand on the neck of his guitar and the other up a puppet’s ass. Although BC himself provides the high pitched voice of the puppet, he is even then undermined by his cloth nemesis, who calls him on his insecurities about his age, teases him […]

Sufjan Stevens will play his first ever UK festival show when he headlines End of the Road Festival in September. The songwriter will play the event, which is held at Larmer Tree Gardens in Wiltshire, on Saturday, September 5. He joins the previously announced headliners Tame Impala, who are currently readying their third album and […]

SUFJAN STEVENS TO HEADLINE END OF THE ROAD FESTIVAL

BC CAMPLIGHT SHARES NEW ANIMATED VIDEO

BC Camplight has shared a new animated video to accompany his new single, You Should’ve Gone To School. The single by BC Camplight, real name Brian Christinzio, is taken from his third studio album How To Die In the North, which was released through Bella Union earlier this month. The songwriter, who is originally from […]

– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – What’s in my head right now is trying to suss out the connection between a potential Mancunian slow dance and a gorgeously dreamy Californian sound. I’m a bit off kilter on both counts. BC Camplight’s latest album title ’How to Die in the North’ (out now on Bella Union) would give […]

LIVE: BC CAMPLIGHT (ALBUM LAUNCH) – 23/01/2015

BC CAMPLIGHT MINI-DOCUMENTARY

A short mini-documentary has been made by freelance journalist and videomaker Sophia Rahman. The video features an interview with BC himself while recording his third album ‘How To Die In The North’ at EVE Studios and also includes a live studio performance of the album track Atom Bomb. Directed and produced by Sophia Rahman http://sophiarahman.co.uk Shot […]

– SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – I love a good story me, and boy, does Brian Christinzio aka BC Camplight, come laden with a whole heap of baggage. Namely the few the suitcases he packed in 2011, when he upped sticks from Philadelphia to set up home here, in Manchester. “Someday the press will awake to […]