Apparently it’s been ten years since Thomas White last played a solo gig. It’s not like he hasn’t been busy since – In that time there’s been a couple of Electric Soft Parade albums, the formation and retirement of The Fiction Aisle, unexpected ambient side project Queer Drone Freedom Ensemble, and drumming duties with Rose Elinor Dougall (and more recently with The Waeve). For much of the latter years of that period though, as he explained onstage last night, he was beset with writers block, which only lifted when his father passed away. He’s back writing songs again now, with a new EP on it’s way shortly, and this was intimate gig was the first opportunity to play some of those songs, as well as highlights from his extensive back catalogue and the odd cover.

Support came from M. Butterfly, Unholy Jo (who was responsible for encouraging Thomas to play live again) and 3D Jesus.

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