About this Event

Future Perfect presents

Girl Ray

Plus Spinning Coin

The Cellar - Oxford

Monday 6th November

16+ / 7.30pm / £7.50adv



On sale now: http://bit.ly/GirlRayOxford



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Girl Ray, the North London trio comprising 19 year-olds Poppy Hankin (guitar/vocals), Iris McConnell (drums) and Sophie Moss (bass), recently announced details of debut album Earl Grey (4th August 2017, Moshi Moshi).



Recently they shared “Don’t Go Back At Ten”, a song about the enduring bonds of friendship. The band’s Poppy said the following:



“After a break-up I was super low, and as clichéd and teen-movie as it sounds, it was truly my friends who got me through it, making sure that I didn't just mope about the whole time eating pots of cottage cheese and crying. I guess I wrote this one to cheer myself up in a way - not many of the songs on the album are happy, but this one is kinda!”



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Following shows as special guests of Whitney as well as their debut performances at The Great Escape and Glastonbury, Girl Ray can now announce a full UK headline tour for October and November, in addition to their recently announced London Scala show on November 9th. The band will also play multiple festivals over the summer including a newly announced appearance at Latitude as well as Truck, Port Eliot, Green Man and End Of The Road.



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Girl Ray formed two years ago when the band were just 16 years old and in a twist of fate as symbolic as it was bittersweet, “Trouble,” their first single for Moshi Moshi, was recorded on what would have been their final day of school.



The band’s songs document the dramas of adolescence with a wit and wistfulness far beyond their years. Girl Ray are the sound of that uncertain period in everybody’s life when certain things start to loom large, when feels are felt more intensely than ever before, and when every decision seems like a fork in the road on your way to adulthood. Being a teenager is a crucible of heightened emotions and transformative confusion from which the ‘real’ you will ultimately emerge, having fallen in love (and out again), outgrown friendships you thought would last forever, and changed in ways you never thought possible. What does not typically emerge, however, is a debut album as richly evocative of the experience as Earl Grey.



Recorded with their friend (and now touring guitarist) Mike O'Malley over two "intense and insane" weeks at Ramsgate's Big Jelly studios, Earl Grey is a record of invention and ambition, whose delicate, sun-dappled melodies dance around the inside of your skull like a flickering zoetrope of memories: some fond, others less so.



Earl Grey will be available on CD, LP and digital via Moshi Moshi on 4th August 2017.