Medium Build brings King of Having Fun to the Egyptian Room on Nov. 17

Nick Carpenter's sixth album tour reaches the Old National Centre's 2,000-capacity room next Tuesday, with Eden Joel opening.

Next Tuesday, a songwriter from Anchorage gets the biggest room in a 1909 Shriners temple downtown. Medium Build plays the Egyptian Room at Old National Centre on Tuesday, Nov. 17, with the show starting at 8 p.m. and Eden Joel opening. Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster.

Medium Build is the project of singer-songwriter Nick Carpenter, who moved back to Anchorage, Alaska, for good in 2016 and played his first show under the name that December, per Wikipedia. He has worked his way from local stages like Alyeska's Slush Cup Spring Carnival to NPR's Tiny Desk, and he's now signed to Slowplay/Island Records. Clash headlined its profile of him simply: "Medium Build Is Achieving His Dreams."

The tour is behind his sixth studio album, *King of Having Fun*, released Sept. 4 on Slowplay/Island, per Melodic Magazine. Zane Lowe debuted the early single "In My Gut" on Apple Music 1, uDiscover Music reported, and "Home Depot" followed as the second single, per The Line of Best Fit. The album came after 2024's *Country*, a quieter, acoustic and introspective record. The label's press materials quote Rolling Stone calling the new one the most complete Medium Build album so far, per Sacks & Co.

A songwriter from Anchorage gets the biggest room in a 1909 Shriners temple.

This is the tour's Indianapolis stop. The run passed through Phoenix, Dallas and Austin earlier this month, and plays Memphis and Louisville later this week before the Egyptian Room.

The room is worth the trip on its own. Old National Centre is the former Murat Shrine Temple, built in 1909 to designs by Oscar D. Bohlen with a 1922 addition, per SAH Archipedia. The temple is named for Joachim Murat, one of Napoleon's generals in the Egyptian campaign, which explains the theme. The Egyptian Room is the standing-room hall, holding 2,000, and its stained-glass windows, Egyptian-themed columns and sconces were preserved through a later renovation, per Wikipedia. The complex took the Old National name in 2010.

That size says something about where Medium Build is right now. A 2,000-capacity general-admission floor on a Tuesday is a real step for a singer-songwriter whose last record was a hushed acoustic one, and it should make for a crowd that sings along.

What to know: Ticketmaster is the seller. Eden Joel opens, and with an 8 p.m. start on a weeknight, getting there early is how you catch the whole bill.

A Tuesday in mid-November doesn't usually feel like an event. This one might. Bring a friend who hasn't heard him yet, and let the songs do the rest.

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