Doors open at 7pm
Event starts at 8pm
Operator is Zac Farro's first album under his own name - after years working under the moniker HalfNoise, in addition to his work in Paramore - which makes sense; it's a cliche, but this is Farro's most personal record, the first that had to bear his name and his name alone. "This record is an entire inner dialogue with myself, within myself," he says. "So it felt right to cut out the middleman and go 'This is Zac Farro'. It's exciting - and it feels a lot more pointed."
Operator explores timeless, but endlessly fascinating, questions: What goes on in those heads of ours? Why can the simplest interactions lead to a total freakout? Is someone else at the controls, a tiny person flicking a switch to "anxiety" every time we get a paragraph-long text? Across the record, Farro interrogates anxieties, family issues and communication breakdowns in hope of working out, fundamentally, why we're all like that.
In Farro's hands, what could have been all doom and gloom becomes a thoroughly celebratory affair: Operator is an odyssey of sumptuous '70s rock and light-touch psychedelia inspired by the classic records that have held Farro through hard times. Working with close friends Josh Gilligan and Chancey Pierce - linchpins of the Nashville scene that Farro has found himself embedded in in recent years - Farro, for the first time in his life, let vibe and intuition guide him, without an overarching influence or theme in mind. "We said, let's show up at the studio and see what happens. I've always had such a vision, even sometimes the name of an album, before I go in," he says. "This one was like, if we're together, the magic will reveal itself. And it did."
