When: 7pm on Friday 28 March 2025
Where: Low Four Studio, Deansgate Mews, Great Northern, Manchester M3 4EN

We’re delighted to present this intimate show with Helena Deland

Helena Deland is interested in how songs can hold what eludes everyday language. Her music draws inspiration from reading and walking around.

Her debut album Someone New was released on Luminelle Recording in 2020, introducing a new and resonant voice to the indie music scene. Three years later, she published the acclaimed Goodnight Summerland, with label and longtime collaborators Chivi Chivi. In parallel, she explored new soundscapes with Hildegard, her collaborative project with fellow Montreal musician Ouri. Together, they released two albums, 2021’s Hildegard and 2024’s Jour 1596. She has also worked with other renowned artists, collaborating with Men I Trust, JPEGMAFIA, Jonah Yano and Claire Rousay amongst others.

After opening for the likes of Weyes Blood, Andy Shauf, Connan Mockasin, Soccer Mommy and Iggy Pop, she toured Goodnight Summerland across North America and Europe. In 2025, she will be performing intimate solo concerts, blending existing material with new songs, foreshadowing new music to come out in the near future.

Tour support comes from Olivia Kaplan. Olivia Kaplan (b. 1992, California) is a musician based in Los Angeles. Her songs explore the secret bonds between grief and time, slowness and memory, sadness and sleep. Her latest album, Afterlife, asks how death shapes our deepest-held beliefs and rearranges our sensory experience of the world. Although each song serves as a foothold, no hold is made to last, and in this way, the listener is reminded how patternless loss can be. Made in collaboration with lo-fi innovator and producer Evan Wright, the record lives in the sonics of sparseness but finds its lifeline in Olivia’s voice – blue and sunlit – which serves as a warm anchor.

Following the release of her critically acclaimed debut LP Tonight Turns To Nothing (2021) on Topshelf Records, Olivia toured North America extensively with Billie Marten. She has also shared the stage with The War on Drugs, Miya Folick, Katie Gavin, Buck Meek, Hand Habits, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Helena Deland and Courtney Marie Andrews. Olivia studied voice and ethnomusicology at McGill University and UCLA. Her songwriting is equally inspired by Bill Callahan, Sheryl Crow and Neil Young as it has been compared to Cat Power and Cowboy Junkies.

This show takes place at Low Four – a recording studio situated on Deansgate Mews in the Great Northern warehouse. This intimate venue features a fully stocked Cloudwater bar.

This is a 14+ show. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

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