Get ready for a night in of music of the highest caliber! Live streaming from her home in London Bryde will be playing songs from her latest album The Volume of Things along with support from the three piece band Varley.
Pembrokeshire-born, London-based Bryde aka Sarah Howells, is a girl and an electric guitar playing fierce, fragile and euphoric songs. Swaying from vulnerable to glorious within one verse and chorus, Bryde’s music is honest and authentic.
BRYDE returns with her new album ‘The Volume of Things’, released on Easy Life Records on 29th May. The title refers to the bombardment of modern life. Each day we’re overloaded with new information, and distracted by notifications pinging on phone screens. Everywhere we turn, there are millions of choices to be made: what to do, what to buy, what to believe. Despite being hyper-connected through the tiny portals in our pockets, finding raw, uninterrupted connection remains just as difficult, if not more so.
Lead single ‘The Trouble Is’ explores the grip of the midnight worries that keep us awake long after dark. “Looking for some way to get it right,” Bryde sings, “the things you think to yourself at night”. Despite the pang of regret that surges through the core of this song, there’s also something strangely comforting about everybody experiencing similar anxieties, no matter how lonely it feels. ”What we have in common can often be what keeps us apart,” Bryde says. “I’m a terrible insomniac and I have various coping methods, mostly involving trying to calm my overactive brain. I hope people can really resonate with that line.”
Now based in Hackney, she released her debut solo album ‘Like An Island’ in 2018 – written amid a break-up, it was a record about emancipation and learning to exist alone again. She toured the album – which was nominated for the Welsh Music Prize – playing alongside the likes of Fatherson, Rufus Wainwright, The Joy Formidable, and she performed at Dot to Dot, Green Man, Live At Leeds, The Great Escape, Latitude, Boardmasters, and 2000 Trees.
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