Upset The Rhythm presents…
DEAR NORA (DUO)
TAI HAF HEB DRIGOLYN
Wednesday 22 April
The Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, London, N1 9JB
7.30pm | £12 | Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/F39394c4d08b
DEAR NORA is an ever-evolving indie-pop band fronted by songwriter/producer Katy Davidson, and features a rotating cast of collaborators. Davidson was born in Arizona and has also lived in Oregon and California. The energy, intensity, and vastness of the western United States landscape imbue the songwriting and recordings.
Dear Nora has existed in two distinct eras – 1999-2008 and 2017-present – with a roughly decade-long break in the middle (the “Lost Years”), during which Davidson fronted various side projects and played session guitar/keyboards in the bands YACHT and Gossip. Dear Nora’s early music leans more toward pop-punk, DIY, confessional, and youthful. The contemporary music leans more poetic, expansive, genre-bending, and wise. The through-lines between Dear Nora’s two eras are: melodic hooks, vocal harmonies, and lyrics about time, space, capitalism, the internet, daily life vérité, ancient things, real vs. unreal or surreal, and all kinds of relationships.
Partially because Dear Nora’s early years happened before the rise of smartphones and social media (prior to hyper digital documentation), and because very little content survives this era aside from the analogue recordings, the group is often described as “legendary” (as in, “legend/myth”). Rediscovered via streaming platforms and word of mouth, Dear Nora’s music has influenced many young songwriters.
https://dearnora.bandcamp.com/
TAI HAF HEB DRIGOLYN are a band from Wales. Built atop of a DIY Ethos, THHD have a fantastic ability to merge their musical brain with real life surroundings, perfectly represented by “Ein Albwm Cyntaf Ni” recorded straight onto tape directly sampling the sounds that they recorded over. It’s rare for music this genuine and human to arrive with this quality and quantity; this is a special act that has to be seen to be believed. THHD are obsessed with the Elephant 6 collective, and as such have members spread across the country; they also stumble in the footsteps of R. Pollard and D. R. Edwards.
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