Ma Polaine’s Great Decline

Ma Polaine’s Great Decline are an award-winning band praised by MOJO Magazine for their unique blend of pop, folk, blues, and Americana.

Ma Polaine’s music resonates as both comfortably familiar and refreshingly innovative, creating a truly engaging experience.

With airplay on BBC 6 and BBC Radio 2, and the support of Cerys Matthews, the band’s genre-defying charm unfolds through songs that explore the intricacies of human connections, weaving tales of light and dark with uplifting melodies and heartfelt storytelling.

Based in Somerset, UK, Ma Polaine have a sound that is their own. Beth and Clinton both grew up with jazz, blues and soul, using those influences and a love for individuality to write songs that are simultaneously dark and light, featuring Beth’s effortlessly distinctive vocals and evocative lyrics, coupled with Clinton’s understated guitar style.

Their recent live album release drew this comparison from Fatea magazine: “a cocktail that is one part Beth Gibbons from Portishead, a measure of Holiday edge and one part Rockabilly growl”.

MOJO – 4 stars – “Ma Polaine’s Great Decline have evolved a pop-folk-blues-americana style that is warmly familiar, yet is sufficiently unhinged to keep you guessing…”

Red Swan

Red Swan are a 4-piece experimental band located in Winchester, Hampshire. Since forming this band, Bexx Austin (vocals), Hayden Kearney (Guitar & vocals), Daniel Hornbuckle (bass) and Zoey Orchard (drums) have already begun to make a name for themselves within their local community.  If you like grunge, rock and pop-punk with a theatrical flare, they’re the band for you.