by the Leisure Society, Dark Dark Dark, Sean Keavney, Tom Robinson, Emmy the Great, Ellen & the Escapades, Michele Stodart, Tom McRae, Broadcast 2000, Anika Mottershaw, Georgia Ruth, Natalie Roberts

My first encounter with Michele Stodart was at London’s Apple Cart Festival in 2011. Brandishing a steel string guitar which she performed her stunning renditions of love, loss and wise experience: she takes you to a place which could just as easily be a dusty highway somewhere deep in the wild west. To say...
Remember Michele Stodart? Sure you do, she’s the bass player from mid-noughties indie-pop heroes The Magic Numbers. Michele has been playing solo shows around London for a while now, and is soon to release her debut album, The Wide-Eyed Crossing. You can hear a few tracks from the new record exclusively, here: On the...
If The Magic Numbers are a little too ‘shiny happy people’ for you, bassist Michele Stodart’s solo foray into country and blues territory is a far grittier prospect. We may be at the underpopulated, family-orientated Apple Cart festival (littler, more polite sister of previous day’s hipster festival, Field Day) but we could’ve stopped off...