Wandering Oak: Gwenifer Raymond
Schedule
Thu Oct 23 2025 at 07:30 pm to 11:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
The Lubber Fiend | Newcastle Upon Tyne, EN
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Wandering Oak brings you:Gwenifer Raymond
plus John Nellist • The Horse Loom
at the Lubber Fiend
• Gwenifer Raymond • (We Are Busy Bodies / Tompkins Square Records)
Welsh instrumentalist Gwenifer Raymond announces her third studio album, to be released September 5th on Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies. Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark is a hybrid of the ancient and the futuristic, where the arcane etchings of occult folk horror fuse with the unfathomable equations of the cosmos. As celestial drones and mutant folk meet a frenetic blues that bends and twists like space-time, on her new album Raymond finds herself evoking the work of pioneering rocket scientists, the words of fictional hobo prophets and the concepts of mathematical infinity.
Raymond, via the circuitous trans-Atlantic journey of her demo - signed to San Francisco's Tompkins Square Records in 2017, with who she released her first two albums. Her first proper gig was at the Thousand Incarnations of the Rose Festival in Maryland, where she hung with heroes such as Glenn Jones, Marisa Anderson, Daniel Bachman and Peter Walker and was presented by Henry Kaiser with a 1880s Joseph Bohmann guitar which she feels may be possessed by some fingerpicking demon.
The Guardian has described her as a "profound talent" whilst The Observer praised her "awe-inspiring technique and intense musicality", and Uncut Magazine has championed her "fast-developing talents as a composer of eerie menace." She has since toured Europe, the US and Canada with the likes of Michael Chapman, Michael Hurley, The Handsome Family, Lankum, Charlie Parr, Richard Dawson, Ryley Walker, and Squid.
FFO John Fahey / Lankum / Davy Graham / Anne Briggs
https://gweniferraymond.com/
• John Nellist •
Enduring presence in North East music (and Wandering Oak's founder) John Nellist has a rich songbook, quietly cultivated alongside his more overt activity in Rüne Behold A Pale Horse and Monkey Junk. Expect homespun, soulful melodies, delivered with indelible passion.
https://johnnellist.bandcamp.com/
• The Horse Loom •
Fresh from a 12 date UK tour, most sold out in advance, The Horse Loom has returned to his beloved NE.
“Northumberland's best kept secret" The Wire.
"Acoustic songs that interweave his surprisingly tender vocals with his truly incredible guitar style that recalls Davy Graham or Bert Jansch at their finest" - Chris Sumlin
Advance tickets available via See Tickets:
https://www.seetickets.com/event/gwenifer-raymond/the-lubber-fiend/3450945
via DICE:
https://link.dice.fm/Ue8704ffcad5
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
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The Lubber Fiend, The Tipsy Cow, Blandford Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3PZ, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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