Bright Lights Sessions

Bright lights is back for the final time this year so lets see the year out in style! The Bright Lights for November are

Duchess

Becky Gowans

Zahara

Finn Anderson

£3 NUS or £5

Duchess
www.soundcloud.com/duchesssounds

Duchess are a London-based band peddling melodic, modernist folk, with members hailing from from Edinburgh, Manchester and Perth (Australia). The line-up revolves around Scottish chanteuse Sophie Dodds, who writes songs about stars, snow and public transport. Duchess’ sound take its lead from the likes of Leonard Cohen and Laura Viers, with Portishead-esque production sensibilities and nods to Bjork, Bat for Lashes, Nancy Sinatra, Scottish folk and Portuguese Fado.

“Duchess’ songs roam between a pure vastness of space, bleak wastes full of crystalline longing, and the warm interiority of a playworld with fantastical premonitions embodied in toylike objects, words and pictures under the window of dreams, that ambivalent hinge. In such a delicate probing of intimacy-liberty, sensuality-decorum, nostalgia-desire, the voice also quests high and low as it carries the lyrics over bittersweet harmonies, expertly tempered and withheld, and an uncluttered structure. Romantic, literate and thrilling.” - Lorna Scott-Fox, Writer and Translator

Becky Gowans
https://soundcloud.com/beckygowans

You may remember Becky from our May Bright Lights Sessions where she absolutely blew us away, since then she's been Wee fish from Edinburgh in the gargantuan fishbowl that is London Town.

Zahara
https://www.facebook.com/zaharamusica

In 1997 she composed her first song ‘Una palabra’, and has not stopped writing songs since, participating with them in numerous competitions and giving small concerts throughout Spain until 2005 when she released her first album ‘Día 913′.
Thanks to the great reception on the internet and using social networks as partners (achieving more than 1.5 million visits on MySpace), Zahara took the big step to Universal and in May 2009 released ‘La fabulosa historia ’, with 11 songs produced by Ricky Falkner and Carlos Jean.

Finn Anderson
www.finnanderson.co.uk

As well as recording and performing as a singer-songwriter, Finn has created music/sound for theatre, film, dance, animation and video games. Finn also creates new musical theatre; writing and producing his first musical aged 14 at The Byre Theatre, St Andrews. By the age of 18 Finn had two full-length musicals under his belt. Most recently Finn worked with Interval Productions on Streets – A New Kind of Musical.Streets ran at The Cockpit Theatre to critical acclaim, has been nominated for two Off West End Awards including ‘Best New Musical’ and transferred to Hackney Empire for two performances in June 2013. Still only 21 years old, Finn is currently taking some time to focus on himself as a solo artist and is working on a solo EP for the New Year.

The Amersham Arms is just 13 minutes from Central London: One stop from London Bridge or Ride the East London line to New Cross and its right opposite! New Cross Gate tube (Also East London Line) is only 5 minutes on foot and Deptford Bridge DLR is 10 minutes walk away.

Buses 21, 53, 136, 171, 172, 177, 225, 436, 453 pass the door.