Audio Foundation is pleased to present
Jennifer Reid
Jennifer Reid (UK) performs 19th Century Lancashire dialect work songs and Manchester broadside ballads (popular songs sold on paper in the streets of England), reintroducing audiences to their industrial heritage. Think rousing songs and passionate oratory for the working class.
Jennifer as a performer and writer breathes life back into these fascinating songs that vividly describe the tumultuous environment of the industrial north west. Taking their subject matter from the urban street and people the ballad effectively bridges the gap between folk and pop music as we know it today. – Jeremy Deller
Jennifer is also a researcher, educator and actor - playing the character of Barb in the BBC period drama, The Gallows Pole. She has recently supported Pulp and John Cooper Clarke, latterly for Chanel's prestigious Metiers d'Art show.
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Pumice
Pumice is the long-running, endlessly inventive project of Stefan Neville, whose shambolic music is equally reminiscent of Kiwi pop groups such as the Clean and Tall Dwarfs as well as the country's experimental noise-rock bands like the Dead C. Largely recorded solo by Neville on junky equipment, his songs typically feature blown-out guitars, wheezing chord organs, and vocals disguised by tape hiss and static. His songs might seem haphazard to the untrained ear, but they reveal a deep reverence for pop and even blues songwriting on repeated listens. Neville began recording music as Pumice in the early '90s, issuing limited cassettes, vinyl releases, and eventually CD-Rs on his own Stabbies and the Rocket Recordings lables. Pumice signed to Minneapolis-based Soft Abuse in the mid 2000s, which released the bulk of his subsequent output.
