Our host and curator of “Soundings”, ELANOR MOSS will play a set of her own songs, each of them new or works in process. Elanor is a folk songwriter from Lincolnshire, writing tender observations on the world, with a keen eye for the intimate details that make up our every day life. Taking inspiration from artists such as Judee Sill and Bridget St John to Fiona Apple, her songs are little vignettes as timeless as they are timely. Featuring on lineups including Green Man Festival to London Pitchfork Festival, with BBC6 playlisting, and opening for artists such as Christian Lee Hutson and CMAT, Elanor has become one to watch on the UK songwriting scene.
Across Same Mistake Twice, his second album as The Howl & The Hum, Griffiths confronts the pain and chaos of recent tumultuous years across 12 tracks of his most direct songwriting to date.
Surviving the breakup of his band, the global pandemic and reckoning with his future in music, he points the spotlight directly at the anxiety involved in any breakup we experience: how am I perceived? How do people speak about me? How will I be remembered? Am I a good person?
The answer Griffiths reaches is a complicated 'No'. Same Mistake Twice is a joyous and immensely brave new chapter for The Howl & The Hum, one that was taken on the road throughout the UK & Europe in November to sold out crowds. In being honest - in singing fiercely of those deathbed songs - Griffiths finds solace in the imperfections that make us all human. Sometimes, we have to make the same mistake twice.
Matthew Herd is a songwriter, saxophonist, and composer interested in people. How they get into the various pickles and difficulties that make up the fabric of a lot of our lives. How we forget, try not to, how we show ourselves and how we hide, and why and from whom and who to. Working in Claire Keegan-esque vignettes, Herd puts these questions to rambling, folk and jazz inflected piano music, somewhere between Molly Drake and Sondheim. This makes for sparse, but detailed and emotive, instant folk classics. Runaway boys and lovesick students in affairs with their teachers, and a compassionate but unsparing look at Britain First sympathisers in countryside pubs, all conspire to a singularly powerful effect.
Matthew has a band called Seafarers, which he writes the music and lyrics for and plays saxophone in. He hosts a songwriter evening at Vortex Jazz Club in Dalston, and is working on his first solo voice and piano project.
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