Tessa Rose Jackson

The Louisiana, Bristol, GB Friday, 13 March 2026 7:00pm £12 + BF
16+ (under 18s to be accompanied by a responsible adult)
Not available

JOY. Presents:
Tessa Rose Jackson @ The Louisiana Bristol

Tessa Rose Jackson live at The Louisiana, Bristol. Friday, 13th March 2026.

With support from Izzie Auty-Dawe

One wintry Amsterdam afternoon in early 2024, a light guided Tessa Rose Jackson home. In the midst of an unproductive few months which this visionary Dutch-British singer, songwriter, artist and composer set aside to write her 5th album, a song struck her from nowhere. “The Lighthouse” was a beacon illuminating her way towards a place of intimacy, exposure and reassurance; of embracing her fears, her identity and her deepest, most morbid fascinations. 

“I could see the album before it was made,” she says of the record she’d also name The Lighthouse. “I knew the world I wanted it to live in, a slightly more out of time world, a little bit of ghostly folklore. Talking about mortality means talking about life and how we live it, and how we use it and appreciate it.”

For the 32-year-old Jackson, it’s been a colourful, if turbulent, journey to The Lighthouse. Raised in Amsterdam to two lesbian mothers, she sadly lost one of her parents at a young age. “I learned to think about death and loss as something inescapable and vast very early on,” she says. “I always used to say: if you’re not a little bit scared of dying… do you really appreciate what it means to be alive?”

She found a release in music, struck by the certainty, at her first singing lesson aged 13, that she needed to perform forever. Via the Conservatorium van Amsterdam and the BRIT school in London - where a passion for production took hold – Jackson found herself modelled as a young pop star in Holland. Her 2013 album (Songs From) The Sandbox was a success for her at the age of 19, but also an instant albatross. “It took me on a rollercoaster,” she says. “I realised very quickly that I wanted to go much deeper into music, into much more interesting waters. I felt pushed into an image that wasn't me.” Rejecting performative pop, for the next decade she retreated behind a kind of anti-pseudonym, recording simply as Someone, “a project about the creative side of everything and not image”.

Show starts at 7:00pm.

Line Up

• Tessa Rose Jackson