support from Andrew Hockey + Wires
(Sat 10th / 7.30pm / £5 adv)

Like Sissy Spacek in Badlands Marissa Nadler is soft velvet spookiness incarnate. Her songs are a Gothic country siren call for all those that love wounded, melancholic beauty in song. She has released two well read and highly addictive LPs on Eclipse Records, causing a small legion of devoted fans. Fascination is often found in Nadler's words, they are like tear-stained letters found in your grandmother's attic, as if written by some Jane Austen character. She put a spell on Bristol at the Venn Festival and promises much with her songs of loss, love and high romance. She mixes Americana, Portuguese Fado and psychedelia, into an unflinchingly whole. Imagine the resonance of Emmylou Harris, the other worldliness of Hope Sandoval and the magic of Julie Cruise singing in the darkened heart of a wood paneled, red curtained art cinema.
Support comes in the form of the meditative loop folk, evocative instrumentals and blues infused fingerpicking of Cornish troubadour ANDREW HOCKEY plus ultra-bleak, minimal chamber music from brother-sister duo WIRES.