Photo cred: Sarah Howells & Jamie Ahye
Bryde shares video for new single To Be Brave
Debut LP Like An Island on 13th April
Bryde reveals the video for new single To Be Brave. Shot in Dungeness, a place that has held a great deal of fascination for the Welsh artist, she explores themes of retreat and solitude.
“I’m low-grade obsessed with Dungeness.
We spent three days moving about and chatting to a handful of residents about their experience of living or growing up in a remarkable landscape such as this and then asked them to feature in the video. There’s a feeling of being a small dot on the horizon here and our aim was to honour the place as much as possible and highlight the striking landmarks and scale of the place while avoiding the clichès that have formed from the lifestyle magazine and fashion shoots that have been there before us.
I also wanted the video to reflect one of it’s subject matters about the way we present our lives via photographs on social media and how edited and selected they are and therefore never an entirely whole picture of reality. Ironically, we got rid of scenes in which I didn’t think I looked particularly attractive. ”
Bryde releases her debut LP Like An Island on the 13th of April via Seahorse Music, a label she set up to publish records by like-minded women to help make them more visible in a male-dominated industry.
Mixed by Catherine Marks (Wolf Alice, PJ Harvey and St Vincent), and mastering by Mandy Parnell, it’s a record of catharsis which gives a voice to bad times.
As she says: “To Be Brave was written as kind of a soft squeeze of the hand to many friends who have, like me, been through many a dark period and put on a brave face and just got on with it. It’s a comment about how we all live out certain episodes of our lives in such a public setting these days that I feel we almost edit them to appear flawless, nothing but smiles.”.
So far industry support for Bryde has come from Nylon, DIY, TLOBF, the Sunday Times (“feral guitar, torn-from-the-chest lyrics… sensational”) and Consequence of Sound, who’ve called her “a voice that deserves attention”. She was one of the stand out acts at last year’s Live At Leeds where her audience “…looked on in awe” (The Independent) and had people queuing round the block for an stunning early performance on day 3 at The Great Escape festival. In support of the release Bryde will set off on her biggest UK, IRE and EU 29 date tour so far in April and May.
Credits
Crew
Mandy Shannon – Director
Abigail Beeley – Assistant
Lacy Mardle – Make up artist and Runner
Bryde – Producer
Jamie Ahye – Producer
Local Dungeness people in the video:
Lacy Mardle
Niko Miaoulis
Paddy Hamilton
Bridget Wilkins
Stuart Adams
Natalie Adams
Jason Adams
Preorder Like An Island: https://www.musicglue.com/brydemusic/shop
Bryde Live – tickets here: www.brydemusic.com
Track List
1. To Be Brave
2. Less Private
3. Flesh, Blood And Love Private
4. Peace Private
5. Fast Awake Private
6. Euphoria Private
7. Handstands Private
8. To Be Loved Private
9. Desire Private
10. Transparent Private
11. Steady Heart
Bryde Live – tickets here: www.brydemusic.com
April 2018
10 – DUBLIN Solo Set @ Ruby Sessions
11 – GALWAY , Monroe’s
12 – LIMERICK, Kasbah Social Club
13 – DUBLIN Whelans
15 – NEWCASTLE – Cluny 2
16 – EDINBURGH – Sneaky Petes
17 – LEEDS – Oporto
19 – SHEFFIELD – Cafe Totem
20 – MANCHESTER – Gullivers
21 – NOTTINGHAM – Bodega
22 – BIRMINGHAM – The Cuban Embassy
23 – BRISTOL – Exchange
25 – CARDIFF – Clwb Ifor Bach
26 – SOUTHAMPTON
27 – BEDFORD – Esquires
30 – BRIGHTON – Komedia
MAY 2018
01 – LONDON – Omeara
04 – PARIS – Supersonic
05 – GHENT – Blond
06 – AMSTERDAM – Paradiso
08 – HAMBURG – Astra Stube
09 – BERLIN – Kantine Am Berghain
10 – COLOGNE – YUCA
11 – NYON – La Parenthese
12 – ZURICH – Exil
13 – VIENNA – B72
15 – MILAN – Serraglio
17 – BARCELONA – Nau
18 – MADRID – Costello
Bryde Online
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