The Harrison, Kings Cross
Wednesday 8th April
Doors 7:30pm, Live Music 8:15pm
Tickets £10 Advance £12 on the night
Sally Rushbrook’s is a music that has forgotten its own age. Distinctly old in style, these songs draw influence from folk, gypsy jazz and barroom blues. Encountering pianist Mark Young, drummer Adam Williams and bassist Tom Eldon on the London performing circuit, an ensemble was formed around Sally’s songs and The Soothsayers have been refining a sound distinctly their own live and in the studio for several years now.
When she writes it is with an emphasis on lyrical content. Streams of consciousness and narratives often form the basis of these introspective songs and subjects include passing time, changing hearts or perspectives and lost souls. Like a late-night conversation stretching into the early hours, putting the world to rights her music can equally evoke the feeling that someone is confiding in you or taking an old aphorism and turning it on its head to see what happens.
Dwelling on the threshold between epiphany and confusion, Swedish Lucy Lundström sings from a place of existential questioning and occasional dread. Drawing inspiration from folk music, fairytales and visionary art, her songwriting is distinctive and evocative, yet, humble and vaguely to-the-point.