Fenne Lily's Richmond return lands at The Camel in March

Her first Richmond date since 2020 is Saturday, March 6, 2027, in a 200-capacity room, with a new album, Win Win, to play.

Fenne Lily's last Richmond date on the books was Aug. 16, 2020, at The Broadberry. Six and a half years later, she's coming back to a room that holds about 200 people, which is small enough that the quiet parts of her songs will actually stay quiet.

Fenne Lily plays The Camel on Saturday, March 6, 2027, at 7pm. The show was announced Oct. 22, and tickets are sold through The Camel.

She arrives with a new record. *Win Win*, her fourth album and her first with Nettwerk Music Group, came out Oct. 23. Stereogum previewed it over the summer with the single "Sleeping," and Alternative Press covered the announcement as the follow-up to 2023's *Big Picture*. The lead single was "Uh Huh."

A room small enough that the quiet parts of her songs will actually stay quiet.

The six years since that 2020 date cover most of her career as people now know it. She signed to Dead Oceans with the single "Hypochondriac," and released her second album, *BREACH*, there on Sept. 18, 2020, about a month after that Broadberry date. *Big Picture* followed on Dead Oceans in April 2023, and the label also reissued her debut, *On Hold*. So the Richmond crowd that saw her in 2020 saw her right before her second album arrived. This time she comes with three more years of songs and a fresh album cycle on a new label.

Her writing has always leaned inward. Early singles like "Alapathy," which BrooklynVegan described as paranoid when it introduced *BREACH*, and "Solipsism," which Beats Per Minute heard as an artist investing herself in contemporary discomfort, set up the kind of close-up, anxious, funny-sad songwriting she's known for. Those are songs that reward a listening room.

That's the case for this show. A 200-capacity room on a Saturday night is about as intimate as touring songwriters get, and for an artist with four albums behind her, it's a rare chance to hear this material without a crowd talking over it. The early start means you can make a full night of it.

If you want to come prepared, start with *Win Win*, then go back to *BREACH* and *Big Picture* to hear what changed. Then get your ticket, because rooms this size don't stay open for long.

A Saturday in early March, 7pm, a small room and a songwriter with something new to say. Richmond waited six years for this one.

Sources: JamBase: Fenne Lily at The Camel (jambase.com); The Camel (thecamel.org); Stereogum: Fenne Lily - 'Sleeping' (stereogum.com); Alternative Press: Fenne Lily announces new album Win Win (altpress.com); Northern Transmissions: Fenne Lily Returns With 'Uh Huh' (northerntransmissions.com); DIY: Fenne Lily signs to Dead Oceans, hear new single 'Hypochondriac' (diymag.com); BrooklynVegan: Fenne Lily preps BREACH LP for Dead Oceans, shares 'Alapathy' (brooklynvegan.com); NME: Fenne Lily - BREACH review (nme.com); DIY: Fenne Lily album Big Picture (diymag.com); Dead Oceans: Fenne Lily announces 'On Hold' reissue (deadoceans.com); Beats Per Minute: Fenne Lily invests herself in contemporary discomfort on 'Solipsism' (beatsperminute.com)