The Mermaid
The Refuge
11b Gandy street – Exeter – EX4 3LS
Doors: 7:00pm

Cabaret style seating – advance booking is recommended

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’

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 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’.

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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.

“Music of exquisite beauty” Tom Robinson – BBC Radio 6 Music

LISTEN:  https://grice.bandcamp.com/

Described as ‘a singer who is gifted with one of the finest voices in contemporary UK folk music’, Siobhan crafts songs of intensity and sweetness, recounting personal stories whilst reflecting a vivid fascination with dark folk tales and superstitions from her debut album ‘Icarus Girl’ and new material. Her first single ‘The Mermaid in Your Glass’, was on the top 10 Fresh Favs on BBC Radio 6 Music.

“Absolutely beautiful, just stunning, the voice is something else” – BBC Radio Wales

LISTEN:  https://siobhanmccrudden.bandcamp.com/album/icarus-girl

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