(Sunday 6 May / 8pm / £8 advance)

A welcome return to the Cube for Californian alt-folk singer songwriter Mariee Sioux. With songs inspired by Native American culture and customs, her first studio album Faces in the Rocks drew comparisons to Joanna Newsom and Joni Mitchell. This year she's touring her new album Gift for the End (Almost Musique), which showcases an expanded musical palette including psychedelic folk, classical piano and country Americana.

Both a band an a cross-genre Dalston arts night, Sarah Johns Music Party blends bluesy, percussive songwriting, gentle harmonies and bursts of electro-pop that will appeal to fans of Rozi Plain, Rachael Dadd and Martina Topley Bird.
Martin Aloysius Brignall has an interest in early musical forms particularly American and English folk, primitive and early classical. Drawing on these influences he crafts songs that relate his personal experiences and
observations. John Fahey has played a part in shaping his approach, but many others are touched on, like Robbie Basho, Robert Johnson, Howling Wolf and Jim O'Rourke. He finds inspiration from all kinds of places: London's strange and rich history, where he spent 10 years, and growing up in a small village in Gloucestershire. His songs try to capture the beauty and cruelty of life, the contrast and the glue that binds them.

http://www.almost-musique.com/2012/01/mariee-sioux-gift-for-the-end/
http://sarahjohnsmusicparty.blogspot.co.uk/
http://martinaloysius.bandcamp.com/

Plus The Milky Way and Lantern of Voyage DJs in the bar.

http://www.myspace.com/milkywayclub
http://lanternofvoyage.moonfruit.com/