Elysium - a new ghost story with original music by Milly Blue and Jessie Maryon Davies. 50% of proceeds go to charity!

Elysium - a new ghost story with original music 

50% of proceeds from this event will go to charities providing aid in Gaza and Lebanon: ghassan abu sittar children's fund (Gaza) and beit el baraka (Lebanon)

Welcome to Elysium Court: the exclusive gated community where the true horror is not who they're locking out, but what they're keeping in... 

Join us under Elizabethan arches for a chilling evening of modern music and timeless ghosts. The Old Church stands in Stoke Newington, set back from the road, obscured by crooked oaks and nestled amongst toppled headstones. You have to be seeking it to find it. Do you dare look?

On sale will be Gaza Cola and crafts made by women in Hebron!

Elysium is a new ghost story written by Milly Blue with original music created and performed by Milly Blue and Jessie Maryon Davies (a.k.a Ghouls Aloud). 

Set Times!

7pm doors

7.45 Elysium (approx 80 mins)

Bar open until 11pm

Cast

Vocals, Ukulele, Guitar - Milly Blue

Keys, Synth - Jessie Maryon Davies

Bios

Milly and Jessie present their first collaborative piece as Ghouls Aloud.

Milly Blue (she/they) is a multi-disciplinary creative: singer/songwriter, actor, voice artist and visual artist.

Experience includes: After appearing in her early years on two series of ITV’s ‘Children’s Ward’ Milly’s musical career started with singing for Basement Jaxx as a teenager, subsequently guesting on four tracks over two albums with the NME crediting Milly for their ‘dreamy romanticism’. Milly has since collaborated with the likes of, amongst others, Andrew Hung (of F*ck Buttons), Shlomo, Guillemots and Fyfe Dangerfield, recorded in Berlin with Noah Slee, performed alongside Kae Tempest, Billy Paul, Deniece Williams and Beck. Touring experience includes (with various acts) supporting Scissor Sisters, Erasure and Gary Numan and solo, supporting L7 (Columbia Theater, Berlin) and Little Dragon (Leeds, UK). And at the end of 2020, their vocals featured alongside Carly Simon, Jamie Lidell, Vula Malinga and others on Neil Thomas’s track ‘I’m Not Sitting Down’ to raise money for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Music brought her back into theatre, in Kneehigh associate Dom Coyote’s gig theatre piece ‘Songs for the End of the World’ (National Theatre, Battersea Arts’ Centre, Brighton Theatre Royal) and John Hoggarth’s (NYT) show ‘Fragment’. Milly has since appeared as The Blue Fairy in Creation Theatre’s ‘Pinocchio’ and in the cast for new musical in progress ‘Chisholm for President’ (Queen Elizabeth Hall, London).

As a voice over they feature regularly all over the BBC, ITV, Channels Four and Five. Currently they can be heard on the radio in campaigns for the NHS, eBay and excitedly making whale noises for British Airways.’

Jessie Maryon Davies (she/her) is a pianist, composer and musical director. She has played keys for Kate Nash (Glastonbury, B.S.T and eARTh Hackney), Ren Harvieu (Moth Club, Paper Dress Vintage) and Tone (Jazz Cafe). Jessie has arranged and conducted group vocals for Goldfrapp and Leona Lewis and is Musical Director of trans-inclusive feminist choir Lips (Hoopla, Bestival Royal Festival Hall). Jessie is musical director of multi-disciplinary theatre collective, Hooligan Art Community and co-founder of award-winning charity Girls Rock London. Recent composing commissions including The Herring Girls: greater than we are alone commissioned by hightide theatre and We Are Here for young voices commissioned by Britten Pears Arts. Jessie plays keys in 90s-inspired synth-driven pop band Glorybox and is currently developing material for a solo comedy show.