Live from the Oak Room, HEARD Collective presents an afternoon of chilled acoustic music showcasing some of London's finest female LGBTQ+ writers in honour of celebrating 50 years of Pride this Summer.

This is a free event, but you must sign up to the guestlist here (where the location is also revealed): https://bit.ly/2S2AdYB

HEARD Collective is an all-female artist collective founded to promote and support women in music, to try to redress the balance of the under-representation of women in the music industry. Co-founded by multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriters Cerian and Daisy Chute after they met in the studio recording vocals for Radiohead’s latest album 'A Moon Shaped Pool', in their first year the collective has toured the UK and America, recorded a single at Abbey Road Studios for International Women's Day and has just returned from playing Glastonbury this Summer!

For their second h Club event, HEARD Collective presents will be featuring the voices of female queer writers: LAKY, Elisabeth Flett, Bella Cox and MIRI.

Come along and enjoy your Sunday afternoon with a famous h Club roast dinner, accompanied by some of the finest singer-songwriters in London!

Doors at 2.30pm for a 3pm start

PERFORMERS

LAKY

Laky is breaking the ‘cool musician’ rules with her onstage banter, crossing genres with her melody-driven songs, and crossing generations with her audiences. “I love to make people laugh. I want a crowd to understand my songs and to do that, they deserve to get to know me. Let’s keep music authentic.”

Her influencers list is too long to mention, but it spans from Queen to Fleetwood Mac, Dolly Parton, and even S Club 7. A N R Factory wrote “Stumbling across Pop artists with vocals commanding enough, parallel with what you will find in up and coming recording artist LAKY, is no easy feat. The London-based artist boasts a perceptible amount of potential in her style of soulful indie pop – we’d recommend putting her on your radar right about now.”


Elisabeth Flett, Scottish Fiddler

Elisabeth Flett is an award winning Scottish multi-instrumentalist and theatre-maker who performs both as a solo artist and as a member of several ensembles such as folk trio Solasta, (Guardian Folk Album of the Month September 2018), folk duo Shamblestone (BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Awards Semi-Finalists 2017), LGBTQ collective Bogha-Frois and medieval folk ensemble Joglaresa.


Bella Cox Performer

An internationally acclaimed spoken word artist, Bella Cox has worked for over 5 years both in the UK and in South Africa as a poet, workshop facilitator, MC and event producer. She is a two-time Barbican Young Poet Alumni and was a member of The Writing Room, London Queer Writers collective, and the Roundhouse Poetry Collective as well as the host and co-producer of two regular open-mic nights: Speak= and Pen-Ting.

Bella has featured and headlined in London and across the UK during her two years here including at Skoll World Forum, the Brighton Literature Festival and the Barbican Centre, and has been published in various on and offline spaces. She is well-known for her thought-provoking lyric poetry that often addresses the notions of home and belonging, as well as her proudly queer and feminist work that seeks to embrace difference and empower young people.


MIRI

Singer-songwriter & campaigner MIRI is known for her distinctive soulful and gritty vocal tones, spiked with socially conscious lyrics and classic British songwriting.

MIRI’s tracks have gained spins from BBC 6 Music, Radio DIVA, Soho Radio, BBC Introducing and Radio X. MIRI has co hosted ‘Get In Her Ears’ - a show supporting women and non binary artists on Hoxton Radio and recently did her first interview on BBC Introducing Beds, Herts & Bucks.

For 8 and a half years MIRI co-promoted, hosted and performed monthly live music night ‘Blue Monday’ created for LBTQ women and allies which led to 10 sold out collaborative shows with Green Note called ‘Girls To The Front’ bringing female musicians to the forefront and working towards equality on the live gig circuit.