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Gwenno
Gwenno
Sat 12 Jul 2025
In-Store at Jumbo Records: Gwenno
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JUMBO RECORDS

We're extremely excited to welcome Gwenno to Jumbo for a very special in-store gig, Saturday 12th July. Gwenno will take to the Jumbo stage at 4.30pm, for a solo piano set, followed by a q+a & signing.

For entry to the gig, pre-order 'Utopia' here on Dinked Edition LP, Dusty Pink LP or CD

Having released three albums in Welsh and Cornish, 'Utopia' is Gwenno Saunders' first album recorded predominantly in English, and presents a very different side to her life and songwriting. Forty-three years into her life, Saunders has been many people. The disaffected Cardiff schoolgirl; the teenage Las Vegas dancer; the singer in indie pop group The Pipettes. There was a turn in a Bollywood film, a nightclub tour, a stint cleaning floors in an East London pub. Long before she would become an acclaimed solo songwriter in both Welsh and Cornish, a winner of the Welsh Music Prize, a nominee for the Mercury, a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedh, there were the days of Nevada, London, Brighton; of Irish dancing, techno clubs, messiness and chaos. 'Utopia', Saunders' fourth solo album, is an extraordinary exploration of all of these selves. If the singer regards her first three solo records,- 2014's Y Dydd Olaf, 2018's Le Kov and 2022's Tresor as 'childhood records', rooted in her upbringing, her parents, her formative identity, then Utopia captures a time of self-determination and experimentation. These are songs of discovery, of the years between being someone's daughter and becoming someone's wife and someone's mother. They range from floor-fillers to piano ballads, via contributions from Cate Le Bon and H. Hawkline, and encompass William Blake, a favourite Edrica Huws poem, and the Number 73 bus. It is her finest work to date.

Jumbo Records

1-3 Merrion Centre
LEEDS
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United Kingdom

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    Date
    Sat 12 Jul 2025
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    Sat 12 Jul 2025
    16:30:00

    Ticket price

    Free
    Accessibility
    Buggy friendly
    Wheelchair access
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