Tamzene

Tamzene performs at Bush Hall in London. The pop, rock and indie artist is presenting songs from the debut EP Details, which deal with heartbreak, distance in love and identity.

Tamzene is a pop, rock and indie artist whose debut EP, Details, gathers six introspective songs. Its subjects range from love and long-distance relationships to questions of race and identity in a social media age. Cut Me Out Your Photos is a heartbreak song with a haunting vocal about loneliness, while New Beginnings is its brighter counterpart, a self-care anthem with a gently uplifting tone, developed on a sunny afternoon in East London.

Tamzene grew up in Cromarty, a small town in the Scottish Highlands with few young people and few places to gather, which left plenty of time for music. A mother's record collection, featuring Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin and Tina Turner, and the Sunday radio programme Steve Wright's Sunday Love Songs shaped that early interest. To raise money for a college service project in Thailand, Tamzene busked in nearby Inverness on a guitar belonging to their mother, playing covers such as Stand By Me, True Colours and Somewhere Over the Rainbow, alongside Great American Songbook standards.

The concert takes place at Bush Hall, a London concert venue. The evening suits listeners drawn to introspective pop, rock and indie songwriting, and to the blend of influences from soul, classic songbook and love songs that Tamzene's own writing draws on.