M G Boulter, Samantha Whates & Ida Wenøe

Name: M G Boulter, Samantha Whates & Ida Wenøe
Start: 2024-10-26T19:30:00+01:00
Location: The Fishermen's Chapel

Schedule

Sat Oct 26 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

The Fishermen's Chapel | Southend-on-sea, EN

A very special evening is in store.
Serving his apprenticeship in numerous bands in the hotbed of the Southend-on-Sea pub rock scene M G has been quietly working at creating rich and evocative story songs since 2013. Garnering praise from reviewers like Uncut describing his work as “gorgeous in a word” and R2 listing him as “a weapons grade songwriter.
M G’s songwriting creates vignettes of ordinary life and seaside communities. This writing is no better shown than in his 2021 album Clifftown, a themed album based on his personal experiences and the wider hidden histories of his hometown, Southend-on-Sea .
M G has recorded in The Fishermen’s Chapel and is thrilled to be performing here again.
Scottish singer-songwriter and Rough Trade Records recording artist Samantha Whates is a hugely respected figure on the London folk & roots scene. Her beautifully crafted, poetic songs retain a strong affinity with her Scottish roots, cultivating a sound that is thoroughly contemporary, rooted in tradition, yet uniquely her own.
Amongst a digital mountain range littered with accomplished folk-ish bands and singersongwriters, it is a rare miracle to come across a cave so rich in jewels as the one beneath Ida Wenøe’s ribcage. Clash Magazine‘s description of her sound as being “bewitching acid
folk with a deeply personal edge…”