Hayden Thorpe: Performing the Songs of Wild Beasts

A solo show by the English singer and songwriter Hayden Thorpe, revisiting the songs of Wild Beasts, the band in which he performed, with voice and instrument alone.

Hayden Thorpe is an English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, born in Kendal, Cumbria, and active since 2002. His first solo album, Diviner, was released in 2019 on Domino Records. In this show he returns to the Wild Beasts repertoire, performing it for the first time in several years.

The concerts are played entirely solo, with Thorpe singing and playing the songs himself in their most stripped-back form. The programme marks the anniversary of the release of Wild Beasts'first single, Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants, and Thorpe has described it as a way of celebrating the band's shared history with its audience.

Hoxton Hall, which hosts concerts and shows in London, is one of the venues chosen for the dates. Thorpe links it to the band's past, as it was the setting for a breakthrough show for the album Two Dancers. Other venues on the tour also held significance for the band's early years.