Kid Tigrrr comes home to Happy Dog

Jenna Fournier's dreamy solo project, now with a side gig holding down bass for Billy Corgan, plays the Detroit Avenue bar a week from tonight.

There are bigger rooms in Cleveland than Happy Dog, but few that have watched Jenna Fournier's solo project grow up the way this one has. Kid Tigrrr threw its record-release party there in February 2025. Next Thursday, November 5, it's back, on a bill with Lily DeTaeye. Doors are at 8 p.m. and the music starts at 9, according to the Opendate listing.

That listing bills the night as "Lily DeTaeye / Kid.Tigrrr," so think of it as a shared evening rather than a headliner with an opener. At roughly 175 capacity, it's the kind of show where you can stand close enough to see the pedalboard.

If the name is new to you, Kid Tigrrr is the solo project Fournier runs alongside NIIGHTS, the shoegaze and alt-rock band she fronts. The solo material is gentler and stranger. Her debut album, *Stoned and Animald*, mixes art-rock, indie folk and dream pop, and singles like "Scry," "Shapes of Water" and "Skin" are all up on her Bandcamp. There's also a set called *Dæmos* there, plus a demo of "Heavyweight Champion." That's a good place to start if you want to know the songs before you walk in.

The other thread in her story has taken her a long way from a Cleveland bar stage. Billy Corgan heard the record, released the debut on vinyl through his label Martha's Music, and had her sing backup on the Smashing Pumpkins' *Aghori Mhori Mei*. Then he asked her to play bass in Billy Corgan and the Machines of God, his solo touring band. That band's 2025 tour opened June 7 in Baltimore with Fournier on bass, alongside guitarist Kiki Wong and drummer Jake Hayden. Cleveland Magazine has the full account of how that friendship started, and the magazine put Fournier on its Most Interesting People 2026 list this year.

Corgan released the debut on vinyl, then handed her a bass.

None of that has pulled her away from home. Our records show Kid Tigrrr playing Cleveland more than any other market, and setlists from this year show local dates in January, April, May and July. The July set mixed in older songs like "Mouth of the Dog" and "Crusher." We couldn't find an announced new single or album ahead of next week. So if there's new material, Happy Dog is where you'll hear it first.

The room suits her. Happy Dog famously books everything from punk to polka. It's a bar where a dream-pop set under the string lights makes as much sense as a garage band. Fournier also makes visual art, and her shows tend to treat atmosphere as part of the job.

So here's the case for going: a Thursday night, a cheap bar ticket and an artist who has spent the last two years splitting time between a Cleveland bar circuit and arena-rock royalty. You'll be close enough to see how she does both.

Kid Tigrrr and Lily DeTaeye play Happy Dog on Thursday, Nov. 5. Doors 8 p.m., show 9 p.m. Get there early, find a spot by the stage and order the tots.

Sources: Opendate: Lily DeTaeye / Kid.Tigrrr at Happy Dog, Nov 5, 2026 (app.opendate.io); Opendate: Happy Dog venue page (app.opendate.io); Opendate: Kid.Tigrrr Record Release, Feb 7, 2025 (app.opendate.io); Kid Tigrrr on Bandcamp (kidtigrrr.bandcamp.com); Cleveland Magazine: How Cleveland artist Kid Tigrrr befriended Billy Corgan (clevelandmagazine.com); Cleveland Magazine: Jenna Fournier, Most Interesting People 2026 (clevelandmagazine.com); Icon Vs. Icon: Billy Corgan and the Machines of God 2025 tour (iconvsicon.com); Setlist.fm: Kid Tigrrr (setlist.fm)