Short films and shows
a new venture and some dates for you. all exciting, promise.
Alright you lovely lot,
Happy Sunday. I come bearing news of new ventures and Autumnal live shows. Full list of dates and ticket links at the bottom of this message.
Rhoda:
My infinitely talented pal Alex Lawther wrote and directed a short film Rhoda and asked me to write the score. It stars Juliet Stevenson and Emma D’arcy and has been accepted to the BFI London Film Festival. So, it’ll be screening on October 9 & 14 as part of the festival. More personally, it’s prompted a bit of an obsession with writing and listening to choral music, and watching masterclasses on how to score to picture. I’m so thrilled to have had this opportunity to flex a new type of muscle, and fall in love with a new way of making music. I can’t wait for you all to meet Rhoda.
Live:
I’m playing as part of Mike Lindsay’s Supershapes super group this next week, so singing and jumping and playing some saxophone (quietly… away from the microphone…) it is SUCH a fun show, please do come and dance and eat salad with us.
Then in October I’m utterly thrilled to be joining St Vincent for the UK & European dates. It’s 5 dates across four countries, and I now believe it’s happening because the shows have actually been announced.
Barezzi festival is happening in Novembere in Parma and I am so excited to play a full solo show and become full of pizza and pasta.
The most gorgeous W. H. Lung have asked me to support them for their huge hometown show that starts off their UK tour. I love them.
Newsletter questions:
I’ve also been wondering how to make this newsletter… something. What is it, and why. It feels cold to just do facutal music stuff, but I feel shy about writing prose or musings (and in all honesty shy about writing even factual things lest I blather on like the above) but perhaps some day it will take a more creative form. I make playlists every month, perhaps I’ll put some of those in here, or tell you what I’ve been reading and whether I liked it. There are a few newsletters that I cherish, but they tend to be concerned with slowness and stillness, mending and repair, and soft thoughtful prose. I would love to do something like that, but I fear this music newsletter isn’t the right spot.
I do also really love W. H. Lung and Laura Marling’s recent forays in to the newsletter world, but I don’t know that I trust myself enough to be able to make the same kind of insightful, erudite essays & thoughts. Mine would be far less smart, less self-assured. But, perhaps people like indecision? (And question marks, and brackets, and infinite commas and em dashes and colons and so on and so on and so on... Even more so than this). I also don’t think anyone would pay to see me do a tutorial of my songs on guitar (but also, please?).
Do let me know what you’d like to see from this going forwards. I am haunted and tickled every time I send these by the memory of Stu calling me out for never sending newsletters. That’s legit.
Below are the dates, as promised.
Peace. xx
Live and links:
September
15th - Supershapes - LONDON
October
13th - ABS supporting St Vincent - DUBLIN *sold out*
also 14th - ABS supporting St Vincent - MANCHESTER, England *sold out*
November
I think that concert dates and new music release news are more than apt content. I’d rather more artists, bands did this than post on Instagram that I might only see if the algorithm isn’t being a dick on a given day and this is even with having “followed” them. You might even post about a new song in the world on Instagram at the same time that everyone is posturing their taste by posting tributes to a newly dead famous person that they didn’t even know and that would be fucking annoying wouldn’t it?
Other things:
Prose would be wonderful. You are an amazing writer.
Playlists also a banging idea.
An essay about something that inspires you or that irks you (lol)
The St.Vincent shows. Oh my. We saw her at the RAH earlier this year. It was an excellent show. Slightly jealous of those that will get to see you do your thing and Annie in one night. Fabulous.