Spectrum: Kristin McClement headlines

Brighton Dome project Spectrum cultivates and supports the vibrant music scene of Brighton in partnership with Resident Records. They hold monthly gigs in the Brighton Dome Studio Theatre, and July sees local modern folk artists Kristin McClement headline.
Kristin’s music is born of two separate worlds: the vast shape-shifting landscape of her childhood South Africa engraved with the melancholic romance of old England’s sacred woodland, rivers and valleys. Her debut album The Wild Grips was released in February 2015 via Brighton-based independent label Willkommen Records. 

Produced by Christian Hardy of The Leisure Society, The Wild Grips is a wide-eyed rendering of modern folk song where the acoustic and the electronic rub alongside. Whilst making the album, Kristin and the band were influenced as much by artists like PJ Harvey and Portishead as they were by the pure sounds of Nick Drake and Leonard Cohen.
As well as touring throughout Europe, she has shared stages with Benjamin Clementine, Laura Marling, Jessica Pratt and Sam Lee, to name just a few.
In support is The Boy Who Kicked Pigs, the alter ego of Karl Bray, one-time member of Kovak.

For more information about Spectrum: its music nights, artist residencies, seminars and other ways they help to nurture the local music and arts scenes, please visit: www.brightondome.org/join_in/live_projects/spectrum.
Thurs 7 July, Brighton Dome Studio Theatre, 8pm, £5