Gwenno (solo) + QUINQUIS

Schedule

Fri, 14 Nov, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

St Lukes Church, Queen’s Park - Brighton | Brighton, EN

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Melting Vinyl presents:
Gwenno (solo) + QUINQUIS at St Luke's, Brighton on Friday 14th November
Doors 7.30pm / Start 8pm
£22 + booking fee / £27 on the door
Seated
All ages welcome, under 16s to be accompanied by an adult.

Forty-three years into her life, Gwenno Saunders has been many people. The disaffected Cardiff schoolgirl; the teenage Las Vegas dancer; the singer in indie pop group The Pipettes. There was a turn in a Bollywood film, a nightclub tour, a stint cleaning floors in an East London pub. Long before she would become an acclaimed solo songwriter in both Welsh and Cornish, a winner of the Welsh Music Prize, a nominee for the Mercury, a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh, there were the days of Nevada, London, Brighton; of Irish dancing, techno clubs, messiness and chaos.
Utopia, Saunders’ fourth solo album, is an extraordinary exploration of all of these selves. These are songs of discovery and range from floor-fillers to piano ballads, via contributions from Cate Le Bon and H. Hawkline, and encompass William Blake, a favourite Edrica Huws poem, and the Number 73 bus.
It is her finest work to date, Utopia began quite differently to its predecessors. First came the realisation that in order to capture this specific time in her life she would need to use English. “I think the way I’ve managed to write in English is by acknowledging that I can’t translate a lot of memories,” she says. “I’ve found that idea really important to explore. I think if I’d just stayed in Wales, and I hadn’t lived anywhere else or experienced any other culture then it would be really different. I would’ve made records in Welsh, but I left home at 16.”
'Utopia' - Released on Heavenly Recordings, July 11th.
QUINQUIS, the first female electronic music producer composing in Breton language, is redefining the boundaries of music in Celtic languages with a sound that is as rooted in history as it is relentlessly forward-thinking.
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St Lukes Church, Queen’s Park - Brighton, 198 Queens Park Road, Brighton, BN2 9ZB, United Kingdom

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