Nordic Americana duo Glimtvis will play their first ever UK headline show at Newton Aycliffe’s Steam Machine Brewery in March.
Comprising singers Rikke Egholm Ravn and Rasmus Pedersen, Glimtvis combine their Scandinavian and rock roots with elements of the Americana genre honed by working with artists in Nashville, Tennessee.
Rikke and Rasmus made their UK debut in 2025, performing two sets at Buckle & Boots Country Festival, and the friendships they made on that visit led to the planning of their return to the UK.
Their visit to Steam Machine on 19th March will be Glimtvis’ first ever non-festival show in the UK.
It follows a sell-out show at the brewery by Grammy-nominated Nashville artist Jeremy McComb in 2025, building on the growing popularity of the venue for touring artists.
Pronounced Glimt-vees, the Danish word translates as “a little glimpse”, and when it comes to what people can expect from one of their shows, it’s a fitting moniker.
Rikke says: “I think what we would love for the audience to experience is to see themselves in our songs…whether that’s something about being an adult, maybe about a broken heart, about feeling happy on the road, or whatever one of our songs is about. It resonates with them. They can recognise themselves in the lyrics – we love for that to happen, and it always happens that someone comes up to us and says ‘I know that feeling’.”
Rasmus adds: “When people leave a Glimtvis show, maybe they leave with the feeling of ‘I’m maybe not doing so bad myself, actually.’ That’s the humorous way of it, but actually that they see that other people have these doubts and fears and feelings and losses and everything, too. I hope they will be able to see themselves in it.”
Tickets for Glimtvis’ show at Steam Machine Brewery on the 19th are available from:
www.skiddle.com