Since playing GTSF solo in 2021, Amelia Coburn has made massive strides in her career. She returns with her band to play the main stage on Friday.

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She has a knack for making the unusual sound timeless. Her honest, occasionally hilarious and quintessentially north-eastern persona disarms and beguiles in equal measure. Drawing inspiration from gothic literature and the shadowy allure of film noir, there is a darkness at the heart of many of her songs, populated by vivid characters and nocturnal creatures that inhabit the liminal space “between the moon and the milkman”.

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2024’s Bill Ryder-Jones produced debut album gained a cult following, including praise from British music legends Paul Weller and Paul Heaton - as well as national radio play across BBC Radios 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Hailed as “one to watch in 2025” by Louder Than War and Drowned In Sound, Amelia hit the ground running with spellbinding sets at SXSW in Texas and a feature on Paul Weller’s latest album ‘Find El Dorado’.

 

Audiences continued to grow thanks to enchanting support slots with the likes of The Levellers, Rianne Downey, Hamish Hawk, Stornoway, Rumer and Katherine Priddy - not to mention her own headline UK tour and mesmerising sets at some of the UK’s best loved boutique festivals - and now she returns to GTSF.

 

"A great voice with great tunes"

Paul Weller in Mojo Magazine

 

"In a cynical, meta-obsessed world, her music is wide-eyed, guileless and fresh"

The Arts Desk (Album of the Year)

 

“Songs that feel like centuries old fairy tales”

Shindig! Magazine

 

“What a voice! Really, really lovely”

Jo Whiley, BBC Radio 2