Luce Mawdsley is an autistic non-binary composer and guitarist based in Liverpool with a practice rooted in progressive experimentation. Drawing from a range of poetic art forms, their work uses personal experience of neurodivergence, mental health disorders and queerness as a ligature from which to generate subversive explorations of gender, sexuality, place and identity formation.
Luce's latest album Northwest & Nebulous is a lush and accomplished instrumental album suffused with radiant and fluid possibilities, where expansively cinematic instrumentals conjure queer cowboy landscapes via the Northern English coastline. The album is a world-building piece of work, pulling from folk, Americana and soundtrack influences, fusing Luce’s romantic and exploratory energies to signal the beginning of a new journey for composer, with an open invitation for listeners to come along for the ride.
“Inventive and affecting baroque-jazz-folk from the Merseyside Morricone” - Uncut
“Eight fluid, folk-tinged instrumentals sound quietly lovely while still shaking the emotional foundations” - 4* MOJO
L.T.Leif brings the many-hearted music of the swamp witch. Slow-felt swamp glitch. Based out of Glasgow and rooted in the DIY spirit of the Canadian prairies, Leif is also deep-dipped in Iceland, Finland, and the Pacific NW. Leif has been involved in many bands and projects, from experimental noise collaborations with the infamous Bill Wells to playing sold-out shows with the punk-hearted OK JAZZ, working with Scottish dreamboats Pictish Trail and Susan Bear on a collaborative psych-rock album (Lost Map Presents Weird Wave), recreating the music of Ivor Cutlor alongside Emma Pollock (Glasgow Dreamers), drumming with slacker-rock bands (Hex Ray and Hungry Freaks), and singing in a witch choir (Hermitess). Leif’s admirers include K Records maestro Calvin Johnson (they touredtogether with The Believer Magazine). Their work has been honoured through concert and collaboration with musicians across Canada, the states, the UK and the European North. Leif’s spirit is eternally collaborative, generative, experimental, and kind – the band members and the parameters of the project are often changing, but, as Leif says of the project: “to the friendships and the moment we are grateful and stay true”.
“beautifully contemplative” – Steve Lamaq, BBC radio 6
“one of those special types of songwriters, the kind of artist that can stop a day in its tracks,
pull it apart, bend it this way and that, and transport the listener somewhere else entirely.”
– Tom Johnson, Gold Flake Paint
“What strikes you first is the beauty of the melodies and the space the arrangement allows
for everything to sit serenely within. Thats not to say it doesn’t crackle with emotion and
exude a weary melancholy, because it does to the point of taking your breath away.”
– Jim F, Backseat Mafia
As with all our shows, we welcome everybody and want to make sure that the ticket price is not a barrier to attending. Please get in touch if so.
