The Space Lady
The Space Lady at The Nest, Oxford
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About the show
Transcendentally beautiful, The Space Lady’s music is returning to Earth. Transmitting messages of peace and harmony, The Space Lady began her odyssey on the streets of Boston in the late 70s, then San Francisco ten years later, playing versions of contemporary pop music with an accordion and dressed flamboyantly. Following the theft and destruction of her accordion, The Space Lady invested in a then-new Casio keyboard, complete with a phase shifter and headset mic, birthing an otherworldly new dimension to popular song that has captured the imaginations of the underground and its leading exponents ever since.
In recent years The Space Lady has performed in events such as Flow Festival, Pohoda, Le Guess Who, Down the Rabbit Hole or Donau Festival to name a few.
This music has transcended genre, style and fashion, opening up hearts and minds along the way. – The Quietus
Bathed in echo and a warm blanket of hiss, Suzy Soundz’ voice is utterly without guile on her Casio covers and Outsider Art explorations – The Guardian
Heart-warming, eccentric, and unselfconscious that attends to the fact that you don’t need ego and fancy gear to make great pop music. – Dazed Digital
101 albums to hear before you die. – NME
Featuring - The Space Lady
Armed with her trusty battery-powered keyboard and wearing her winged helmet, the Space Lady's playfully ethereal cover songs and originals made her one of Boston and San Francisco's most distinctive street performers during the '80s and '90s - and later, a well-regarded outsider artist.
The money Susan Dietrich Schneider earned busking was her family's sole source of income while they hid from the U.S. government for two decades, but word of mouth about her unique, affecting music gained her a following that allowed her to tour and record in the 2010s.