DURHAM: Old Cinema Launderette

Wednesday 1st February, 2023

7:00pm

Event information

Doors 7pm. Music from 7.45

Good disabled access and facilities.

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Me Lost Me

Me Lost Me is the project of Newcastle based electronic folk innovator Jayne Dent, recent recipient of the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers and former Artist in Residence at internationally renowned concert venue The Sage Gateshead. Described by BBC Radio 6's Tom Robinson as a "brilliant peculiar noise", Me Lost Me delights in experimenting with genre and songwriting, taking influence from folk, electronica, art pop, ambient and noise music to create a beguiling mix of soaring vocals, synth, field recordings and hypnotic rhythms. Her live shows are atmospheric and playful, with a repertoire that explores storytelling and textural world-building through original songs, improvisation and reworkings of traditional ballads.

Following the release of her debut album 'Arcana' in 2018 she has been touring the UK extensively, and her second album 'The Good Noise' released in November 2020 demonstrates a maturing of her sound and a deepening of her exploration of site and experiments with genre. In 2021 her track 'Nightingale' was included on The Guardian's Folk Album of the Month, a 'Future Folk' compilation by The Slow Music Movement, with Me Lost Me's track "stripping folk back to its bones while letting its future echoes bleed out". Her latest EP 'The Circle Dance' features instrumentation from Newcastle jazz stalwarts John Pope (double bass) and Faye MacCalman (clarinet), and has been described as ""her most textural and sonically adventurous music to date".

Faithful Johannes

Electronic Sound magazine have described him as “The Alan Bennett of Hip Hop”.

Durham’s Faithful Johannes makes inimitable spoken word songs and the accompanying electronic music.

He performs nostalgia-filled tracks about charity shops, unsuccessful loft clearances, and much else in between with his gear arranged on an ironing board. He holds up large signs to help annotate his narratives or reinforce the choruses and gives out personalised notes to audience members.

In 2019 Johannes released his debut album Thrills & Bills on Win Big Records.

After a string of EPs a standalone singles, Johannes brought out the tragicomic story album, Ken & Jean, in September 2021 on pink vinyl. It was described by NARC. Magazine as ‘a gem fit for any collection’.

He has vowed to put out a Christmas single every year until his death (he’s up to five so far).

Johannes has received national airplay from Tom Robinson and Gideon Coe on BBC 6 Music. Tom Robinson has called him “a great artist… Durham City’s own unofficial poet laureate”, and said “if you have any chance at all, see him live”

Madeleine Smyth

Madeleine Smyth makes synth, viola and voice driven ethereal pop music.

She is from Hartlepool.

Madeleine’s second EP, Brigid is inspired by the saint, and focuses on themes of womanhood, myth and legend, expectations, existentialism and the natural world.
NARC magazine say “stunning… there is a feeling of wide-open space, drawing the listener into some deep forest or cold Northern lake”.

Madeleine is one of the most exciting and original emerging artists performing in the region right now.

Venue information

38 Marshall Terrace
Gilesgate Moor
Durham
DH1 2HX

www.oldcinemalaunderette.uk/retro-gig-venue

01913841412