Dear blog readers,
I am curious to know firstly if anybody out there has heard of Laura Marling? Secondly have you been to see her perform?
For the benefit of those who dont know, she is 20 years old from Reading and a rising folk singer and guitarist. She is strongly associated with Noel and the whale and they backed her on her first solo album. Her music draws comparisons to Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and folk music in general from the late sixties and early seventies.
Having read about her in an article in the Sunday Times, I downloaded her album and a few rare live tracks and immediately was impressed with her style of music, in particular lyrically. I believe she is a stand out artist, who although may seem slightly old fashioned in todays RnB/Hip Hop music world but I am a true admirer of her talents and attempts to put folk back on the centre stage.
I went to see her perform at the Rescue Rooms in Nottingham, November 2008. There were 300 people in a very small room, but it was amazing to stand so near to her. She was a lot of smaller than I imagined! A real modesty about her on stage, but her performance blew me away. I especially remember a track which she said she had not long begun writing for her next album called "Rebecca" however I havent seen or heard this track again? I would love to quiz her on music, influences to learn more but just to be there to listen so closely to her perform that day was mesmerising!
Perhaps in the future, those small venues will be a thing of the past. Maybe I will get to see her perform again? I only wish I had taken a camera with me! But the memories will remain with me always.
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