Dry Cleaning – Open Season 2026

Few bands make you lean in quite like Dry Cleaning. The south London four-piece have spent the better part of a decade carving out a sound entirely their own – frontperson Florence Shaw’s coolly detached spoken-word poetry winding through a musical backdrop that draws on early 80s American hardcore, no wave, stoner rock and pastoral fingerpicking, all without ever settling into something you can easily name. In a lineage that runs from Laurie Anderson to Life Without Buildings, Shaw is simply one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary music.

Their third album Secret Love – produced by Cate Le Bon at a studio in the Loire Valley – is being hailed as the finest thing they’ve made. It’s a record that lives up to Uncut’s declaration that they are “the most important British guitar band of their generation” – tight, generous, deeply human, and somehow both restless and warm.

Dry Cleaning play The Princess Theatre for Open Season. This is the kind of show you’ll be telling people about.

Open Season is The Tivoli Group’s annual program of music, art and cultural events, transforming Brisbane into a winter playground for live performance each year. Open Season is independently owned and operated, and has funding assistance through the Live Music Office of the Australian Government and Arts Queensland.