Vanity Fairy x Gladboy x Martin Manning

Vanity Fairy

She’s recently opened for The Last Dinner Party at their biggest headline show to date, has been championed by BBC 6, DIY, CLASH, NME, Apple Music and CHANEL: you may not know her name yet, but Vanity Fairy seems destined to transcend her underground cult status.

Between her shimmering vocal falsetto (which has been compared to everyone from Barry Gibb to Kate Bush) and onstage theatrics, the iconic disco darling is earning a reputation as one of the most mesmerising live performers around.

Following support slots for Warmduscher, Katy J Pearson, Audiobooks, Lime Garden, Insecure Men, Girl Ray, Pip Blom and more, Fairy dropped her sophomore EP ‘Top of the Pops’ on Moshi Moshi records April 2024.

The EP spins a nostalgia-laden world that plays with kitsch-pop tropes and revels in the hedonistic indulgences of classic disco. But there’s also something strange at work here. Far from content to ape her be-dazzled Studio 54 idols, Fairy adds something new to the mix. It’s a bittersweet, playful, wistful sensibility that works itself out in a sound that both reveres and toys with the music she loves with all her heart.

Though she sparkles on record, Vanity Fairy is undeniably best experienced live. ‘A spectacle in the truest sense of the word, her show spans high camp theatrics, 80’s indebted synth-pop and sultry disco bangers… unavoidably infectious and utterly joy inducing’ - DIY.

Gladboy

Junkedelic misfits Gladboy have one of the underground's most unique and frenetic live shows. Confounding, sometimes ear-piercing, but always melodic, they’ve enjoyed supports with the likes of The Orielles, The Regrettes, Laundromat, Jeffrey Lewis, The Cool Greenhouse, Willie J Healey, Starcrawler, English Teacher and Brix & The Extricated.

'This is art-pop - think Bowie, early Talking Heads or Pulp - that veers into psych and dream-pop but always has a roughness and bite that gives it an edge' - Outline Magazine

Martin Manning

Conjured from a dream, the multi-faceted Martin Manning, emerges from our subconscious.

Haunting the waterways of Yorkshire with harps and broken drum machines, they recite poetry of the mother hill. These Avant Pop Megastars forge fractured dance music with pop at its hearth, evoking shades of Cabaret Voltaire, Dean Blunt & Arthur Russell.

"What a year to be alive, as Martin Manning turns 45!"

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