Friday 5 December 2014, 8pm
A return to Cafe Oto for Laetitia Sadier, best known as frontwoman for Stereolab. The first night of a tour promoting new solo album Something Shines, this performance promises to be special.
Few musicians can claim to have made such a mark on the British music scene in the last thirty years. As a member of Stereolab, she’s released ten full albums, gaining along the way a large dedicated fanbase and acclaim that rightfully singles out Stereolab as "one of the most influential alternative bands of the '90s”. With influences as wide as Krautrock, bossa-nova and French pop, the band sculpted a truly original and distinctive sound, one that journalist Simon Reynolds describes as "always the same, always different".
Following the band's hiatus in 2009, Sadier went solo. Aesthetically, her solo work is a clear continuity of her time in Stereolab, whilst remaining unafraid of change. New single "Then, I Will Love You Again" draws together strings, horns and a typically driven motorik beat, to produce a beautiful building love song that is both familiar and exciting. Aside from her solo work, Laetitia Sadier has collaborated with the likes of Mouse On Mars, Atlas Sound, The High Llamas, Blur and Common. She remains one of the most innovative and influential musicians of our time, making this coming show one that's impossible to miss.
A constant on the British folk and psychedelic scenes, Jane Weaver is a shapeshifting songstress, one whose experiments have seen her drift from traditional folk to conceptual dream pop. With a new album on the horizon (one that has been described as “sax-laced space-rock” by The Quietus), Weaver is making an impressive return to the fore. Equally experimental and melodious, Jane Weaver recently performed at OTO as a perfect support for Laetitia Sadier.
A debut London show for Jenny and Rosa, the two 15 year old girls from Norwich who, together, make Let’s Eat Grandma. The schoolgirls take influence from current chart music but channel it into an approach that is truly unique and undefinable: from saxophone solos to keyboard drones, Let’s Eat Grandma deconstruct pop music and use their age and innocence to experiment in ways that most bands couldn’t dream of. Like a cross between CocoRosie, The Shaggs and Abba, the final product is a sound is as sophisticated as it is naive and one that verges on being ‘outsider’. A truly unique experience, their live show consists of clapping games, matching outfits, and often, with the girls’ hair plaited together. An unmissable performance.
