Sunday 5th February
BILLIE MARTEN + Studio Electrophonique
£8 | £10 [+10% booking fee]
Doors open 8pm – tickets available on the door
Seated 14+ show | u16s must be accompanied by a responsible adult
Billie Marten has announced her fourth record Drop Cherries for release on 7 April via Fiction Records. Recorded entirely on tape in Somerset and Wales late last summer, Drop Cherries marks the very first time that Billie Marten has both written and co-produced one of her records; following critically-lauded 2021 album Flora Fauna, Feeding Seahorses by Hand (2019) and Writing of Blues and Yellows (2016).
The new album’s lead single This Is How We Move also arrives today after premiering with Chris Hawkins on BBC 6 Music, with Marten explaining: ‘A song about finding the natural rhythm and pacing between two people. Working together and flowing as one – the relationship dance. John Martyn / JJ Cale ease of recording. Double bass Nick Pini. ‘You keep the garden, and I’ll take the view, this is how we move.’ Different wants and needs, catering for each other’s happiness. DESERVING TO BE LOVED.’
Flora Fauna was lavished with praise by the likes of CLASH (9/10), The Line Of Best Fit, Uncut, NME, Dork, The Independent, Gigwise (all 4* reviews) as well as The Sunday Times Culture and DIY in 2021. The record also landed multiple radio playlists at national broadcasters BBC Radio 1 (twice Hottest Record in the World for Creature Of Mine and Human Replacement), BBC 6 Music (including a string of A List records) and Radio X.
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With a fourth record looming over her, Billie Marten at last learned to stop thinking about what others want to hear and finally started to trust her own instincts. ‘When I’m trying to write, the creative door is closed most of the time,’ she says. ‘When it briefly opens, I know I’ve stumbled across moments of true emotion and insight; they give no warning and are often unpredictable. I can’t force the process, something I’m realising more with each album. And that’s why I know that Drop Cherries is a collection of songs expressing genuine intuitive feeling.’
Billie Marten – Drop Cherries – out 07/04/2023 via Fiction Records
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