Citizen Live, by arrangement with Ponderosa Music & Art, is happy to welcome back Demian Dorelli, in the stunning location of SJQ, Dalston, on Sunday, February 23rd. Demian Dorelli has always had music in his soul. From listening to JJ Caleand Pink Floyd as a baby while he slept in the back of a speaker,tocomposing hisown music on a synthesizer and drum machine in his bedroom.Influences range from Keith Jarrett, Madness, Tchaikovsky,Einaudi, HerbieHancock,Arvo Pärtand opera. He’s most comfortable at the pianothoughand, in 2021, released Pink Moon,A Journey on Piano, reinterpreting and paying homage to Nick Drake’sclassic album.The album was produced by his long-time friend andcollaborator, Alberto Fabris. The two have played in several bands togetherover the years and Alberto has produced all Demian’s recordings, includinghis upcoming album My Window,inspired bythewindow paintingsofartistssuch as David Hockney, Vermeer, and Menzel.

One stormy night in Ireland, Adrian Crowley's brother brought home a wounded crow. After taking care of it for a time, the crow flew away on its own, leaving an impression behind: Crowley wrote a story, which would later become the aptly titled Crow Song on this, his brand new record & ninth studio album The Watchful Eye of the Stars. He sings, And I was joyous for you, but shattered none-the-less. Suffused with a hazy and surreal quality, Crowley describes Watchful Eye's poignant narratives as those which insisted themselves upon him. After the fact, it seemed these songs came to him more or less fully formed. It's a beautiful and mysterious thing, he says. Perhaps it is a tendency to hold onto memories (It's taken me so long to write to you / Well I just couldnt find a pen, he laments in Bread and Wine), that allows him to unleash them lyrically in completion. For Crowley, the creative process is an organic event rather than a practice he feels compelled to regulate or control. He approaches lyrics much like he does short story writing. The songs straddle the conscious and subconscious world and some are even psychedelic in my mind, but to me they are all at once true stories and born of another place, he shares. In making the album, Crowley moved between studio and at home recording, while John Parish (Aldous Harding, PJ Harvey) produced. The pair worked from tracks made initially by Crowley on a charity shop ¾ size nylon string guitar or Mellotron: In this way, John wanted to keep some of the magic of that first take, says Crowley. Contradictions and complexities are left intact, initial recordings were limited to one or two takes, and the songs feel more like a dream recounted upon waking.

The Natvral is the new solo project from Kip Berman (former singer/songwriter of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart).

Vocalist/ multi-instrumentalist Anna Moss hails from the verdant forests and lush limestone of the Ozarks; yet her musical personality oozes New Orleans, the artists adopted hometown for many years. Beginning in 2020, a deep pandemic depression sent Moss spiraling inward for months. Isolated in her bedroom, almost completely shut-off from the world, she accidentally unearthed a medicinal muse: writing solo songs on guitar for the first time. Annas newfound brand of sultry stripped-down-soul is steeped in Southern R&B, Americana, porch jazz; apocalyptic love songs, gritty hymns of humanity, abolition, and compassion busked to fruition in the historic French Quarter streets. Her debut solo LP Amnesty was released in March 2024.

Pebbledash are a 6-piece shoegaze indie band from Cork, Ireland. The band incorporates elements of noise rock and dream pop to create textured and melodic soundscapes. Grumbling basslines and cries of guitars juxtaposed with a wash of synth submerge you in their introspective lyricism, stirring up emotion and catharsis. Pebbledash introduce their blend of ethereal guitar noise and Irish music with double single killer lover/ Carraig Aonair and have more to come with an upcoming EP in January 2025 Presented by Love Thy Neighbour. This is an 18+ event

Private Cathedral are a transatlantic art-pop duo dreamed up by multi-instrumentalist composers Wendy Spitzer and Genevieve Dawson. Their self-titled debut album is out May 5th on Barchan Dune Recordings - on the 26th of May they will play a one-off London show at SJQ in Dalston. Exploring questions of autonomy, apocalypse, death, and self-discovery, the 9 track self-titled LP is an explosive offering to the DIY art-pop oeuvre. Already featured on the Line of Best Fits new music playlist, East Village Radio, and praised by REM producer Mitch Easter as terrific and truly incomparable, the classically trained duo are set to make waves in the alternative and DIY scenes. Signed with Florida label Barchan Dune Recordings, the release will include a limited run of vinyl, available at the live shows. The antidote to background music, a tour-de-force of musical prowess, Private Cathedral creates music for brainy iconoclasts with big feelings. For lovers of Tune-Yards, my Brightest Diamond and Owen Pallett. Don't miss this show! With support from Welsh songwriter Emma Davidson. www.instagram.com/private.cathedral www.instagram.com/emmadavidsonmusic

Following sold out headline shows @ Jazz Café, Ronnie Scotts and Hootananny, edbl & friends are bringing your fix of feel good soulful music to SJQ, June 5th, to celebrate the release of the Archives Mixtape. Filling the stage with an acoustic setup will be frontman Jay Alexzander on lead vocals, percussionist Andrew Finney on percussion/vocals along with exclusive guest performances of unreleased tracks. This one-off show is not one to be missed. Limited tickets available.