Mara Carlyle

Mara’s music sounds lovely, so lovely in fact that it'll make you swoon and laugh and cry all at once. Her voice is undeniably lovely but listen a little closer and a rather darker voice can be heard, telling tales of love and loss, death and courage and of nightmares...

Mara's musical journey has been a long one. Having formed a punk band with her brothers while still at primary school, it's safe to say that she's been making music all her life. In various ensembles Mara has sung her way through church music, jazz, bluegrass, opera and electronica, elements of all of which can be found sitting harmoniously side by side on her album 'The Lovely'

Mara signed to Matthew Herbert's Accidental Records at the beginning of 2004, she arranged and produced her debut album herself which used conventional instruments such as piano and guitar appear alongside more unusual ones including ukuleles & even saws!

Reviews proclaim that ‘The Lovely is “an assured debut by one of the most talented and original singer-songwriters to emerge in recent memory” and Carlyle now finds herself name-checked alongside other artists such as KT Tunstall, Emiliana Torrini and Jem.

On the live front Carlyle has recently supported an eclectic mix of artists including Bebel Gilberto, Maximo Park, Willy Mason and most recently Will Young. It seems without question that the future for Mara will be full of weird and wonderful surprises and here at the LOCKOUT we invite you to be part of her world for a night.

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