The Peters Cellars Alternative Folk Club
Friday 27 November 2026
The Mermaid (The Refuge) | 11b Gandy street | Exeter | EX4 3LS
Doors: 7:30pm
Hosted by The Peters Projection
Folk Here Tonight

Devon-based folk duo Folk Here Tonight, holding space for exultation and grief, performing songs around Love and Death.
Amerie Rose and Harry Key are multi-instrumentalist performance artists, and the co-founders of Folk Preservation Society. They explore alternative, acoustic, industrial and experimental interpretations of traditional and original folk music.
Mireia Mussons
New on the scene, Catalan-English folk singer Mireia Mussons is fresh off the back of making her festival debuts this summer. Combining traditional ballads, modern folk and original tunes, she will entice you into her intimate world of mystical tales, where trees talk, snow dances, and blankets are woven from strands of love.
‘Her voice is sweet and true. I feel like we’re witnessing the beginning of something special.’ ‘She effortlessly balances the sweet and the bitter, the dark and the light.’
The Peters Projection

Acclaimed London-born brothers Grice Peters (GRICE) and Jim Peters (Invisible Opera Company of Tibet) announce a second musical outing to mark their musical and vocal reunion under their new moniker, ‘The Peters Projection’. Previously performing together across the UK in earlier incarnations like The Burning Martyrs, The Martyrs, and Swanston, the electro-acoustic duo revives a lifetime of shared musical history, returning to the stage to showcase their acclaimed, intuitive “blood harmonies”.
The Peters Projection performs a rich tapestry of original material spanning the past 30 years, alongside obscure covers and hidden gems from their extensive back catalogs. Grice Peters continues his track record of emotive song-writing and high-production art rock following 7 successful album releases on hungersleep records, while Jim Peters brings his deep psychedelic and progressive-folk sensibilities from his tenure with the Invisible Opera Company of Tibet.
Alternative Music for Alternative Folk!
The Peters Cellars Alternative Folk Club is a regular live music event showcasing under the radar and established singer-songwriters and artists ranging from Modern Indie Folk, Americana, Art Rock, Eastern European, Acoustic, Folk Noir & more.
presented by Sound Gallery Studios & hungersleep records






JOHN MATTHIAS

John Matthias is an award-winning musician and composer. He has released eight albums via Accidental, Ninja Tune, Nonclassical, Village Green, Sony, Welfare State and Cognitive Shift and he has collaborated with many artists including Radiohead (The Bends) and Coldcut (Man in a Garage).
His music has been remixed by many artists including Thom Yorke, Matthew Herbert and Jem Finer (The Pogues) and in 2008 he won the UK PRS for Music Foundation New Music Award (The ‘Turner Prize for Music’) with Jane Grant and Nick Ryan for ‘The Fragmented Orchestra’ which led to the development of The Neurogranular Sampler Audio Unit and the ‘Plasticity’ sound installation at the BFI and Google Campus Building, London.
He has performed Internationally at many venues including The Royal Opera House London, The Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris) and Le Poisson Rouge (New York City), has contributed music to 12 feature film scores and several dance theatre works including with the Rambert Dance Company and Company Chameleon. He is currently published by Faber Music.
John will be performing songs from the albums ‘Smalltown, Shining’, ‘Stories from the Watercooler’ and ‘Geisterfahrer’
AMANES

Soul-stirring and truly awesome folk music from across Europe. Come and be transported across space and time by the duo’s melodies and songs with this enchanting blend of Easter European, Roma and Balkan music from Lisa Rowe on accordion and Anita Munson on clarinet.
GRICE

GRICE (Grice Peters) is an award-winning art rock artist from South London. He has released 6 albums on hungersleep records and he has collaborated with notable musicians including Richard Barbieri (Japan, Porcupine Tree), Steve Jansen (Japan), Raphael Ravenscroft (Baker Street/Gerry Rafferty, Vangelis, Pink Floyd), Paul Gray (The Damned), Hossam Ramzy (Peter Gabriel, Led Zeppelin), David Torn (David Bowie, David Sylvian) & more. His album ‘ Polarchoral’ (2022) was voted Best Album (Indie Prog Awards, NY) and was featured on PROG magazine’s top 20 albums. ‘one thousand birds symphony ’ album and film have won international awards leading to an immersive live performance at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (2025).
Grice will be performing songs from ‘Propeller’, ‘one thousand birds’, ‘ Polarchoral, ‘Mordant Lake’ and a track from his new album ‘Filter ’.
The Peters Cellars Alt Folk Club
22 November 2024
THE PETERS PROJECTION

Electro-acoustic duo, London-born brothers Grice Peters (GRICE) and Jim Peters (Invisible Opera Company of Tibet) mark their vocal reunion after several years with a new outfit ‘The Peters Projection’.
Previously known as The Burning Martyrs, The Martyrs and Swanston, they have gigged extensively and have impressed audiences with the signature sound of their ‘blood harmonies’ which exude emotional power mixing a Beatle-esque/CSN sweetness with a left-field John Martyn sonic intensity.
The Peters Projection will be joined by harmony brother Dave Costello to perform original songs written over the past 20 years as well as some obscure covers and hidden gems from the back catalogue.
SIOBHAN McCRUDDEN

Noted as ‘One to watch’ by Newsoundwales, Siobhan McCrudden has been described as ‘a singer who is gifted with one of the finest voices in contemporary UK folk music’. Raised in London to parents with Scottish and Irish roots, Cardiff-based singer songwriter McCrudden, crafts songs of intensity and sweetness, recounting personal stories whilst reflecting a vivid fascination with dark folk tales and superstitions.
Her first single ‘The Mermaid in Your Glass’, was on the top 10 Fresh Favs on BBC Radio 6 Music – Fresh On The Net and was played on BBC Radio Wales (Bethan Elfyn, Adam Walton), Radio Cardiff, newsoundwales, The Folk Pilot, CuillinFM, PhonicFM, Lonely Oak Radio, Symfozone Radio and Spotify playlists Double J, Big Tune IMR, Sweater Weather and more..
LISTEN: https://hungersleeprecords.bandcamp.c…
“Her voice is rich and evocative” – BBC Radio 6 Music
“A glowing lamp on a string that loops back to Shelagh McDonald and Joni Mitchell” – R’n’R Magazine
MAZ McNAMARA

Maz McNamara’s pensive original songs emerge from the undergrowth and waysides of her life as a travelling musician and circus performer. Striking lyricism, full of dreamlike imagery, journeys between the wistfully melancholic and the quietly hopeful. Her first solo set in Exeter in over a decade will bring together songs she has written over the last few years, as well as some of her dark and earthy arrangements of trad folk songs.
“Very bright and very promising” Steve Lamacq – BBC 6 Music
LISTEN: https://mazmcnamara.bandcamp.com/album/in-swords-and-silence

