Wandering Oak: ATFK and Me Lost Me • special co-headline show

Wandering Oak brings you:
ATFK and Me Lost Me (co-headline show)
plus support to be announced
at the Lubber Fiend
• ATFK •
‘Brimming with invention and energy. Together they’re dynamite’ - The Crack
Meet ATFK, the ‘envelope-pushing’ untethered brainchild of Amy Thatcher and Francesca Knowles. This genre-blasting duo defy the preconceptions of what their instruments can do, breaking with tradition while tactfully adopting their folk roots as a playground for experimentation. ATFK's sound is one of both raucous energy and sympathetic intensity, combining piano accordion, percussion, synths and vocals for an unapologetic brew of colourful composition which channels influences from jazz, prog, EDM and beyond.
Their debut album Emergency of the Female Kind (2023) kicked off this two-woman genre revolution: reflecting on themes of female identity, activism, sexuality, and local pride, it showcased a spectrum of human-ness rarely captured in 46 minutes. It earned rave reviews from the likes of Rock ’N’ Reel, describing them as ‘a musically kinetic meeting of fragility and kick-ass strength’; and a 4-star review in MOJO, who branded them charmingly ‘perverse’ and ‘fantastic’.
Alongside national tours and festival showcases, ATFK have enjoyed radio support from the likes of Stuart Maconie and Jamie Cullum, who called them ‘Unusual and really exciting’, as well as curating an exclusive mixtape for BBC 6 Music show The Freak Zone.
Bringing their dynamic and ever-evolving live show back on the road in 2026 in support of their audacious sophomore album, REPEAT FOR JOY (2025), which was engineered and produced by
North East art-rock luminaries Field Music - prepare to be veered off the tracks.
https://www.atfk.co.uk/
• Me Lost Me •
Me Lost Me delights in experimenting with songwriting, creating a beguiling mix of soaring vocals and atmospheric electronics that playfully push the boundaries of genre. The Project of Newcastle-based artist Jayne Dent who takes influence from folk, art pop, noise, ambient and improvised music, her work has been described in The Guardian as "stripping folk back to its bones while letting its future echoes bleed out".
With her prolific writing and extensive touring schedule, her unique sound has won much support across the musical spectrum. Dent has notably performed live for BBC Radio 3's After Dark Festival and as part of the 2022 BBC Proms alongside Spell Songs, Royal Northern Sinfonia and the Voices of the Rivers Edge Choir. She received the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers and was 2020-2021 Artist in Residence at Sage Gateshead
Me Lost Me’s fourth full-length album, This Material Moment, was released June 2025 on Upset the Rhythm. An “emotionally raw” album, it’s her most honest and vulnerable yet, akin to rummaging through a box of long-forgotten trinkets. With each song, Me Lost Me extracts something from the box and asks us to consider and interpret it from every angle. Whilst Jayne Dent’s music as Me Lost Me has previously presented time stretching back and forwards in opposition (noticeably on 2023’s album RPG), on This Material Moment she does away with linearity altogether, evoking rather than narrating, and presenting feelings, happenings and moods with no clear beginning or end point - “like experiencing a vista, trying to capture a moment that is unfolding all at once”. Instead, each track on This Material Moment exists entirely in media res, adjacent to past and future, and instead sprawling across the endless now.
https://www.melostme.com/
Advance tickets available via See Tickets:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/atfk-and-me-lost-me-co-headline-show-/the-lubber-fiend/3680746
and via DICE:
https://link.dice.fm/p6e0d16a07c6
and in person from Reflex CD Vinyl Newcastle.
The Lubber Fiend
81 Blandford Street
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 3PZ
For ages 18+ only, from 7:30pm