Moray McLaren is a Scottish singer-songwriter, born and raised in Edinburgh. When a disk of Moray’s rough recordings fell into the hands of producer Jonathan Shakhovskoy (U2, Patrick Wolf), he suggested they make an album together. The pair are currently in the studio recording. Moray’s debut album will be released on Lash Records this summer.
LUCY ROSE
ON STAGE: 9.20
singer/songwriter with a beautiful voice!
THE NOFAIRS
ON STAGE: 8.40
The Nofairs met in December 2003 in crowded, cold Victoria Station. N was shooting a short movie, Peter was coming home from his family’s late Christmas gathering. Having just been ditched by her lead actor, she asked him to take the role. Peter said yes; partly because he tries to be a helpful person, partly because she enticed him with a pack of Japanese cigarettes. On New Year’s Eve 2003 they played their first song together in a dirty hostel kitchen.
Despite living thousands of miles apart (N moved to Chicago, IL; Peter stayed in London) they continued to influence each other musically as they each pursued separate projects. Between them they played bustling festivals and empty bars, backrooms and stages.
In late 2008, they reunited in a flat in New Cross to shape a more serious, intimate sound and self-recorded a series of songs that became the demo, ‘Cities and Closed Doors’. Quietly insistent, cinematic and lyrical, N and Peter write songs that unsettle and reassure in equal measure.
CRIS TANZI
ON STAGE: 8.00
Listen closely for a hint of bittersweet melancholy a touch of hidden longing in the fragile folk pop of Italian singer-songwriter Cris Tanzi. Swapping her Mediterranean home for a London-based Music School (UK) a good ten years ago, Tanzi soon bumped into her future partner Alex Scaturro. A lasting, fruitful collaboration and relationship that culminated in the couple's loudest laptop/guitar project Trigger Baby. Cris Tanzi’s solo career, on the other hand, is relatively recent development: In 2005,the gifted singer finally plucked up the courage to take her voice and guitar to London's stages, where her moving songs soon gained her favourable comparison to pop's leading ladies, from Bjork to Tori Amos. Cris Tanzi her self remains unimpressed,” What I play is the sound of my life-wherever I go, good or bad, my music will always be with me."
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17 August (Monday) - MORAY MCLAREN, LUCY ROSE, THE NOFAIRS, CRIS
