6.00pm Shamanka Phoenix 

With vocal training in Bel Canto, ex recitalist, Shamanka Phoenix, is both poet and songwriter, producer and artist. Her repertoire spans multiple genres including opera, renaissance, folk, electronic and spoken word. Her music career includes performing weekly to crowds of 10,000 at Privilege NightClub, Ibiza, at the Manumission parties, collaborations with DJ Taucher (Millennium Bitch, 2002), composer Chris Le Blanc (Karma Loft, Munich), Assassin of Sound, Human Concept, to name a few. Now based in Chesterfield, Phoenix’s music features her distinctive vocals, as well as spoken word, over piano, ambient sounds, electronic beats and soundscape and orchestral elements. With influences traversing Penelope Trappes, Gazelle Twin, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Kate Bush, Eric Satie, Joan as Policewoman and Bowie, she creates a genre-bending fusion of songwriter, classical, ambient, indie and electronic.

8.00pm Ben McElroy 
Ben McElroy first made music as a teenager, experimenting with cassette recorders. His adult process may have upgraded to a laptop, but his primary tools remain doggedly lo-fi: accordions in such a state of distress that they fall apart before the end of a song, disintegrating audio equipment, plus well-worn string instruments, whistles and guitars