Amelia Coburn

With a voice set to stun and a gift for interpretation that is second to none, Amelia Coburn spends every spare moment rifling through records and filtering the findings through her punky ukulele playing to wow audiences across the North East and increasingly beyond. Think Eva Cassidy if she had spent the whole of 1976 in CBGBs.

To categorise what she plays would be futile but her main influences range from classic, sophisticated pop/rock (David Bowie, Kate Bush, early Elton John) through to Punk, New Wave and the first wave of Indie music (The Smiths, The Jam, Blondie) but she is constantly seeking out hidden gems to drop like bombs on her audiences.

Iona Zajac is an Edinburgh-born multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and vocalist who spends her time between Dublin and Glasgow. She writes of the everyday, of things that make you run faster, of things that make your eyes sting, all centred around the sensory experience of certain affects or emotions.