AMPLIFIED 06: Vera Sacra, Curbside Lambsear, Iris Inc.

'VERA SACRA is the solo project of Emily Marks, a Sheffield-raised, South London-based producer who wields her cello and synth to create songs spun from the ether. Blending field recording from the Dark Peak moorlands, honest songwriting and textural intricacy, her writing crosses a range of styles - from soft ballads to deconstructed club and surreal ambience - kept cohesive by her cello.'

Curbside Lambsear is Annabelle Mödlinger and Magdalena McLean. The collaboration explores rough textures and soft intentions, weaving together elements of pop, folk, and improvisation with influences of drone, dub, and post-punk. The project began as a way for Magdalena and Annabelle to experiment with writing music together, using early sessions to learn new instruments, the process of recording and writing on DAWs. Their musical output is the result of time spent together in the studio fusing disparate influences into collage; phone notes, little poems written on public transport, field recordings, sample loops, rehearsal voice memos and string melodies merge, realign, and sometimes coalesce into songs.

Iris Inc. takes you down a trip of Dark hoppy electronic beats.

Amplified is a night dedicated to giving up and coming local artists the limelight, it is not about spectacle - its about connection, craft and being present in the music.