Like a textile artist, Flora Hibberd weaves layers of meaning into her music. Born in London, she has called Paris home since the age of eighteen. As likely to veer into guitar or synth-driven pop as to take up a 17th century traditional, the songs pulse with surreal allusions and mundane emotions, a tapestry of everyday life shot through with cosmic signs. Hibberd sees her songwriting as a walk in a strangely familiar neighbourhood, revealing and reveling in the oblique and the mystic.

Her acclaimed debut album Swirl (2025, 22TWENTY) was recorded in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and praised by press internationally, including Le Monde, who hailed it as one of the standout indie-folk releases of the year, and KEXP, who hailed her last release as ‘a timeless collection of sweeping folk-pop’. With her haunting melodies, literary lyricism, and magnetic live presence, Flora has quickly established herself as one of the most compelling new voices on the scene.

Hot on the heels of her acclaimed 2025 album, Flora’s new record Mammoth gets weirder. Produced by The National’s Ben Lanz between a Basque mountain and the Paris suburbs, the album is peopled with ghosts of history and prehistory that roam the present, to stare into the future with a clear and unblinking eye. Echoes of Lanz’s trombone and longtime collaborator Victor Claass’ feverish guitar, and whispers of familiar voices drift down from the hill, the swirling mists of an album that is at once more energetically pop, and more odd and disquieting, than what came before.

Local support comes from Run Remedy. New Jersey-born, Manchester-based songwriter and violin nerd Robin Koob makes lo-fi alt-indie as Run Remedy, wobbly guitars, scruffy edges, emotionally precise songs and a healthy dose of grief and goof. Somewhere between Wilco and Mitski, with a little stand-up-comedy energy thrown in.

She’s had BBC 6 Music spins and even been hailed ‘an amazing songwriter’ by her champion Guy Garvey. She’s played everywhere from New Colossus NYC to Kendal Calling, across the pond and tip to tail of the UK (but mostly in Manchester), earning an ‘utterly beautiful’ from Record of the Day and an ‘on the rise’ from The Line of Best Fit. After years of being everyone else’s strings and sings, she’s finally letting her scruffy Jersey girl energy take the spotlight. She’s currently performing songs from her latest release, Not at the Table, five tunes about uncomfortable conversations, finding the right words, and getting them out before the end of the meal.

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