Antony Szmierek

Come for an infectious journey through pop melodic hooks and thumping dancefloor orchestrations, overlaid with stream of consciousness vocals, set against the backdrop of pounding kick drum and club-ready synths.

It’s been a wild few years for Szmierek, self-taught poet and producer from Manchester, from self-publishing novels to honing his performance skills on the spoken word scene and gaining notoriety for his seamless flow skewering everything from the hardships of contemporary British life to finding unexpected beauty in the everyday.

His single ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Fallacy’ kicked off his meteoric ascent, finding its way onto BBC 6 Music, which named him an Artist of the Year 2023. Later… with Jools Holland and triumphant Glastonbury sets led to a flurry of comparisons to The Streets, John Cooper Clarke and Jarvis Cocker. But with his banger-filled, dancefloor-focused debut album Service Station at the End of the Universe, Szmierek cements his own distinctive sound.

See also Antony Szmierek’s book event on Sunday 25 May.