Lucy And The Caterpillar

...I could be singing
this for hours and hours
and hours...

Emerging from her pupa with quickening pace, Lucy is a music industry butterfly in the making.
Having recently supported Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly and with a raft of XFM sessions under her belt, Lucy and her Caterpillar have been winning audiences over across the country.

The caterpillar itself is not actually an invertebrate but in fact her pet name for her trusty miniature acoustic guitar, on which she strums folk hinged pop songs extolling the virtues of kit kats and alcohol.

Lucy Conroy, the diminutive 19 year old singer songwriter with a penchant for even more diminutive guitars, is Burnley’s brightest star. Drawing comparisons with Regina Specktor and hailing herself as a cross between Vashti Bunyan and Destiny’s Child, Lucy in reality has a style all of her own.

Her MySpace page, adventure blog and website, all but scratch the surface of Lucy’s youthful exhuberance and quirky outlook on life. Effortlessly bittersweet and delivered with a healthy dose of self deprecation Lucy packs a heartfelt and unpretentious punch. At a recent gig she decide to perform a Cher cover, only to stop mid way and ask the audience what the lyrics were.

Lucy recently performed a showcase at ‘In The City’ following with a single ‘Red Red Wine’, which was released on Nov 6. Head on over to YouTube to witness her no expense spared video for ‘Red Red wine’, costing a hefty £4.99 (the price of the bottle)

Go here to read all about Lucy’s adventures in the not so wide world of music…

http://lucyandthecaterpillaradventures.blogspot.com

www.lucyandthecaterpillar.co.uk

You can also catch Lucy live on BBC 6 Music on 28 Dec and at the Water Rats on 7 Feb.

Video: Lucy And The Caterpillar - Red Red Wine

Bat For Lashes

...Heaven
is a feeling I get in
your arms...

Imagine the combined voices of Bjork and Tori Amos trapped in the body of Lilly Allen and you’re halfway into the world of Bat For Lashes.

Brighton based Natasha Khan, who is Bat for Lashes, matches all three of these contemporaries on eccentricity.

Her journey into music apparently began whilst working as a nursery school teacher, when, in a dream she had a visitation from a black horse. The horse, on arriving at her window ledge, escorted her away into the night.
The resulting song ‘Horse and I’ is the opening track on her debut album entitled ‘Fur and Gold’.


Bat For Lashes’ live shows, with accomplices Ginger Lee and Abi Fry, are made up of thunderous marching band drums, desert guitar, ballet school piano, harpsichord, sub-bass snarls, hand-claps and naive beats. Natasha immerses herself in a dreamlike world on stage characterising herself somewhere between a feral forest creature and a child playing dress up. Covered in war paint and sporting an Indian headdress it comes as no surprise that she was a performance artist before turning her hand to music.

Her debut single, ‘The Wizard / I Saw A Light’, was self released in May as a 7” and instantly sold out. The song itself comes across like a sweeping post modern version of Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights, all electronic resonance and otherworldly whispered vocals.

Bat For Lashes create an evocative and enchanted nocturnal realm transporting you into a world mid way between sleeping and waking. Recurrent themes of natural forces and animal kingdoms, rugged English cliff tops and engulfing oceans are juxtaposed by the energy of rough urban living and teenage bedrooms.

Natasha describes her music as “like a gun that fires wolves” and cites ‘weather phenomena’ and ‘childhood Halloween parties’ as among her greatest influences.

For more details you can visit the Bat For Lashes website:

www.batforlashes.co.uk

MP3: Bat For Lashes - The Wizard

MP3: Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do?

Video: Bat For Lashes - Prescilla