Cat Clyde

Cat Clyde, a Canadian songwriter working across blues, country and folk, plays Manchester in the new Locker space at New Century. The programme centres on the album Mud Blood Bone.

Cat Clyde is a Canadian songwriter whose fourth full-length album, Mud Blood Bone, is the first release made with Concord Records. The eleven songs trace a search for love after a demanding stretch of the artist's life, and the songwriter has described needing to set aside earlier ideas that love could restrict or confine them.

The album was produced by Drew Vandenberg, whose credits include Toro Y Moi, Faye Webster and S.G. Goodman, and it was recorded in Athens, Georgia. Its sound blends the rockabilly grit associated with Sierra Ferrell, The Deslondes and Nick Shoulders with the unsettled, vulnerable folk rock of Big Thief and Angel Olsen. Clyde credits Vandenberg with helping to assemble the players who made the record.

The concert takes place at New Century, which hosts concerts and shows in Manchester, and the evening is held in Locker, the venue's new space. It suits listeners drawn to the blues, country and folk strands of Cat Clyde's songwriting.