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On tour celebrating their debut album Shamming The Drama, bold Scottish quartet Birdvox deliver a colourful collision of political disco, skewed-folk floor-fillers, avian electronica and hymns to humanity. Singing in Scots, Shetland dialect, old Norn and English, they distil traditional folk, indie, electronica and pop into an uplifting, unflinching and joyful live experience.
With support from genre-defying instrumentalist MADRIGIRL
Birdvox are four established, multi-tasking artist-producers: Sarah Hayes (vocals, flute, synths, programming), Charlotte Printer (vocals, bass), Jenny Sturgeon (vocals, guitar, synths, sampling) and Inge Thomson (vocals, accordion, electronica, beats). Formed from a shared passion for birds, harmonies and impromptu kitchen discos, the group creates an energetic, shapeshifting sound rich with harmonies and vocal interplay.
Expect music pulled from pasts that never met… It’s post-folk, post-pop, post-pigeonhole. It’s the sum of all its parts. Birdvox are what happens when you rewrite the recipe and shake the kaleidoscope.
“Perhaps the standout event of the whole festival... exciting and energetic... at the intersection of boundary-pushing art and extremely listenable, melody-based pop”
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MADRIGIRL (AKA Jude Rees) is an electro-bard and muli-instrumentalist from the UK Midlands. Her noise is modern/ancient, fusing medieval sounds with modern circuitry to create her own sonic lexicon. With her brand of Medieval Futurism, MADRIGIRL reimagines early music through a contemporary lens, diving deep into the raw source material of ancient polyphony and reconstrucing it with live-looped improvisaions, her own compositions, and a rich tapestry of drones.
Live performances feature a dizzying array of instruments, including shawms, English border bagpipes, crumhorns, hurdy gurdy, synths, electronics and voice, all woven into immersive, otherworldly soundscapes. It’s experimental music with warmth, intelligence and a whole heap of chaotc joy.
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