As those who've bought one of her sold-out hand-made EPs or caught one of her live shows know, Catherine Anne Davies dishes up a unique brand of folk-noir. Her music is both haunting and heartbreaking, but unlike the slew of softly spoken singer-songwriters, Catherine's music packs an epic punch, colliding in your head with the same dizzying feeling you felt on hearing Jeff Buckley or Low for the first time. Her dramatic and distinctive voice makes the (lazy) "a-new-PJ-Harvey" comparisons redundant and has left journalists and musicians alike reaching for superlatives - the Metro, for instance, compared her voice to 'a lake of black honey'.

Catherine describes her bastardized brand of folk and post-rock as sitting between glass-breaking diva Diamanda Galas, Nine Inch Nails, and Sigur Ros. But it's a sound that's just as likely to be found hanging out in Nick Cave's shadow whilst her words shimmer through Morrissey's lime-lit silhouette. Written on a host of traditional and junk-shop instruments, Catherine's music is unified by its weaving of both modern and timeless obsessive fixations with the human condition and the Arts, pouring in as much of her scuffed heart as her love of literature and passion for music into her songs. These are songs for the lover, loser, and fighter in us all.

It's been an eventful year for Catherine: Currently one of the Emerging Artists in Residence at the Southbank Centre, she was invited to play at the grand re- opening of the Royal Festival Hall in June 2007, subsequently being invited by Mercury Award nominee and Nitin Sawhney to collaborate on his forthcoming album "London Undersound" (alongside such luminaries as Paul McCartney & Imogen Heap). Courtney Love then invited Catherine to play with her after hearing her "gorgeous sick beautiful voice"; at the same time her demo "Grow Out" was picked up by BBC6 Music and won the listeners vote for best new track on Tom Robinson's "Introducing" show and she decided not to wander off to be in one of her heroine's backing band.

Here's some of what the press have said so far:
"If Kate Bush died and went to hell, she might sound like London gothic folk chanteuse Catherine Anne Davies…kooky and spooky and very good." – NME
"....a rare sense of resilience and wonder that recalls Tori Amos, Joni Mitchell, and Joanna Newsom... richly evocative material" - Daily Mirror
"Gorgeous sick beautiful voice." - Courtney Love
"A voice that sounds like a lake of black honey…." – Metro
"A very special voice... it would only need a lucky break for her to hit the big time. Beautiful and brilliant." - BBC.CO.UK

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Past events

• Thu 07 Aug at London Bush Hall. (post review)
• Martha Wainwright headlines Girl Friday, Fri 07 Mar at London Queen Elizabeth Hall. (post review)
• Winter Warmer, Sun 27 Jan at London Barden's Boudoir. (post review)
• Sat 26 May at London Islington Bar Academy. (post review)
• Tue 22 May at Brighton Komedia Theatre. (post review)
• Wed 09 May at London Hoxton Bar & Grill. (post review)
• Tue 24 Apr at London The Enterprise. (post review)
• Bloody Awful Poetry, Sun 08 Apr at London Nambucca. (post review)
• Electroacoustic Club, Wed 21 Mar at London Clerkenwell Slaughtered Lamb. (post review)
• Wed 06 Dec at London Spitz. (post review)
• Thu 30 Nov at London Ginglik. (post review)
• Sat 25 Nov at London Buffalo Bar. (post review)
• Tue 01 Aug at London Bush Hall. (post review)
• Thu 22 Jun at London ICA. (post review)
• Tue 23 May at London Clerkenwell Slaughtered Lamb. (post review)
• Sun 21 May at London Sun and Doves. (post review)
• Sun 14 May at London Spitz. (post review)
• Mon 24 Apr at London The Luminaire. (post review)
• Sun 16 Apr at London Sun and Doves. (post review)
• Fri 13 Jan at London Bush Hall. (post review)

News

• 14/07/2008: DiS radio is back! (sort of)
• 05/03/2008: Girl up: Martha Wainwright to play free London show this Friday

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