Hayden Thorpe & Propellor Ensemble perform Ness
plus Helen Ganya
Evolutionary. Paradoxical. Wild Beasts’ vocalist on nature.
Hayden Thorpe is best known as the former frontman and chief songwriter for the much-loved band Wild Beasts. After being an Artist in Residence at The Glasshouse for 2023/24 he’s back, this time taking to the Sage Two stage to showcase his beautifully singular third album Ness, made in collaboration with best-selling nature writer Robert Macfarlane.
Hayden will perform Ness alongside members of Propellor Ensemble, promising to be a sonically spectacular and transformational live show.
Need to know
Venue: Sage Two (Theatre Layout)
Price: £24.80
Stage Times:
7.30pm Doors to Sage Two
8pm – 8.30pm Helen Ganya
8.30pm – 9pm Interval (30mins)
9pm – 10.15pm Hayden Thorpe
Timings are subject to change.
Age: Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult
What they say about the album
“Using a process of redaction, Thorpe brings songs to life from the pages of best-selling author Robert Macfarlane’s book of the same name. Ness is inspired by Suffolk’s Orford Ness, the former Ministry of Defence weapons development site during both World Wars and the Cold War. Acquired by the National Trust in 1993 and left to re-wild, it to this day remains a place of paradox, mystery and constant evolution. Thorpe’s Ness is an ode to Orford Ness, the physical place and the book it inspired, both featuring the words of Robert Macfarlane and the artwork of Stanley Donwood.” – Domino Records
Watch and listen
Plus Helen Ganya
In the summer of 2021, Brighton-based, Scottish-Thai songwriter Helen Ganya’s grandmother passed away. The grief hit the artist hard, not only because it marked the loss of her last remaining grandparent, but also because it felt like her links to being half-Thai were disintegrating. Ganya grew up in Singapore, but spent her summers in the northeast of Thailand where her mum’s side of the family is from, visiting her grandmother. Where would all those memories go now that the person at the centre of them was gone? What was her relationship to this place without that glue? And so, in an attempt to process it all, Ganya began to write.
The result; her arresting upcoming album Share Your Care. Ganya has been releasing music since 2015 (formerly under the moniker Dog in the Snow). In the records she’s put out over the years, she’s leaned towards dark and artful rock and off-kilter sounds, getting praise from the Sunday Times, Uncut, Clash, Loud & Quiet and more. But Share Your Care marks a new era, building on Ganya’s past sonic worlds and interspersing them with traditional Thai instrumentation, resulting in a plush, luminous, psych-tinged affair that is full of feeling.
