A night at the Brudenell is helping to celebrate Nell's life and music

The life and music of teenage singer-songwriter Nell Smith is to be remembered at a celebration evening organised by her family and their friend, Emmerdale actor Jeff Hordley, at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds.

- by Charles Brown

The event, which takes place on Monday, will feature videos and a 15-minute documentary that Nell made before her tragic death, aged 17, in a car crash in British Columbia, Canada, last October.

The band Penelope Isles, who played on Nell's album Anxious, which was released posthumously in April, will perform some of her songs live, and the event will be compèred by Simon Raymonde, boss of Bella Union Records, who released Anxious and Where The Viaduct Looms, the album of Nick Cave covers Nell recorded with her friends the Flaming Lips during the Covid lockdown.