Advance Base with bobbie and Kristin Daelyn

Advance Base plays The Side Chapel of the First Unitarian Church on Friday, December 11, with bobbie and Kristin Daelyn opening. It's a seated show, so you'll have a chair rather than standing the whole night.

Advance Base is the melancholic soft rock project of Chicago singer-songwriter Owen Ashworth, who you might know from Casiotone for the Painfully Alone. He works with a two-handed arsenal of electric piano, Omnichord, samplers, effect pedals and drum machines, building minimalist, heavy-hearted, nostalgia-obsessed ballads around his conversational baritone. The sound has been described as lo-fi, depressed and weirdly uplifting.

His third album, Animal Companionship, came out on September 21, 2018. Since then, he's put out Wall of Tears & Other-Songs I Didn't Write, a home-recorded collection of mostly country and Americana covers, and Live at Home, a gathering of mid-quarantine livestream performances. A new single, "Little Sable Point Lighthouse," arrived on March 31, 2022. This is a seated performance in the church's Side Chapel, and bobbie and Kristin Daelyn open the bill.

Doors open at 7:30 PM, and the show starts at 8 PM. Tickets are $19.13.