As part of Refugee Week, Emily is performing a benefit gig in Leeds this Friday for PAFRAS (Positive Action for Refugees & Asylum Seekers). The following night (Saturday 24 June) she is performing at The Cluny in Newcastle. Booking links for both these gigs can be found on her gigs page.
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Stables 2 sold out
Emily’s gig at The Stables in Milton Keynes tonight is sold out. If you’d like to see Emily play live, check out her tour dates or join her mailing list.
Just confirmed… tour with Me For Queen
Just confirmed… Emily will be co-headlining a Scottish tour in August with Me For Queen with warm-up gigs in Bristol and Manchester. Dates and booking links are on Emily’s gigs page.
Album review EDS Magazine
“Everything on this album commands attention…”
Another 4* review of Emily’s new album ‘A Bit Of Blue’, in EDS (English Dance & Song) Magazine’s summer issue.
BBC Radio Cornwall interview
Emily was interviewed by David White of BBC Radio Cornwall ahead of her show at The Acorn in Penzance on Saturday night (27 May).
‘Songs From My Attic’ post
Emily has posted another video in her series ‘Songs From My Attic’, this time an acoustic unplugged performance of her song ‘Back Home’ recorded at home in her attic studio.
Sell-out at Helmsley
Emily performed to a sell-out crowd at Helmsley Arts Centre near York on Saturday.
Mental Health Awareness Week
To celebrate Mental Health Awareness Week, we’ve released a video for Emily’s seminal song ‘I’d Rather Be’, written after her diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
Originally a Radio 2 single from her third album ‘Believer’, Emily recorded this piano version of ‘I’d Rather Be’ for her latest album ‘A Bit Of Blue’. Read her blog about why she wrote the song.
Mental Health Awareness Week: ‘I’d Rather Be’ music video
It’s Mental Health Awareness Week. To celebrate, we’ve made a new video for my song ‘I’d Rather Be’.
I wrote ‘I’d Rather Be’ about a year after my first psychosis when I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I’d gone through all the stages of being at first completely terrified and then chronically depressed, and I was starting to feel a bit stronger.
I was starting to realise that all this energy in my head could be something precious, it could be something I could transform into creativity if I chose to. And I was thinking when I was writing this song, we all have choices in life, and these are some of mine…
BBC Radio York interview
Emily was interviewed by Adam Tomlinson and Joanita Musisi of BBC Radio York ahead of her show at Helmsley Arts Centre.