Sad City (live)
Singer songwriter Maryen Cairns releases the single Sad City (live) on 4 April 2025.
Incredibly intimate with simple guitar plucking and a headset microphone bringing the emotive vocal right into focus, “Sad City” is a vision of life lost in a British town, with the entreatment “light shines brightly in the strangest place, look for it now” making it a tenderly bittersweet lament. Recorded live in Echotown Studios at the tail end of a UK tour, Maryen brings this beautiful song “Sad City” back into the present day, having first recorded it for her second album “For Eternity” back in 1994.
One Woman Band, Live at Echotown Studios, Vol 2 is the second instalment of the tracks recorded live in the studio immediately following the last date of Maryen’s 2023 UK tour, with her mentor, the acclaimed Rolling Stones producer Chris Kimsey.
Sitting amidst Chris’s array of vintage microphones, Maryen pivots between a guitar and piano, taking up and discarding percussion instruments whilst all the time singing intimately into her headset mic.
Maryen is again taking this One Woman Band show on the road, with shows in the UK supporting One Woman Band, Live at Echotown Studios, Vol 2 - The Ropemakers, Bridport 27 April; The Lescar, Sheffield 6 May; Mojo’s Music Cafe, Scarborough 7 May; Britannia Panopticon, Glasgow 10 May; Indigo, Merseyside 13 May; The Cumberland Arms, Newcastle 15 May; ending at The Troubadour, London 20 May.
This final show, at The Troubadour in London, will be the first show Maryen has played in London for 28 years. In the 90’s she was a Time Out favourite who was headlining The Borderline with her 7 piece band as well as opening for artists such as Fish at Hammersmith Apollo and The Troggs at The Astoria Theatre. The years between were spent mainly in Australia where she not only recorded albums by herself in an off the grid mountain hideaway, but also took her family band on a journey of over 18,000 km playing concerts and running songwriting workshops in remote communities.
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