Laura J Martin Tickets

Following the release of her acclaimed sophomore album Dazzle Days, Liverpudlian singer-songwriter Laura J Martin is back with new album On The Never Never, released in March on Shape Records via Kartel Music Group.

On The Never Never tells of the disconnect Martin felt when returning home to Liverpool to find that all individuality had been erased and replaced by gleaming empty flats. With former thriving communities dissolved, Paul Kingsnorth’s 2009 study of a nation losing its identity, Real England, loomed large in her mind when writing the album: ‘Everywhere is becoming the same as everywhere else.’

What better antidote to the homogenisation of culture, communities and individuality than ripping up your own rule book and ‘veering from the norm to truly experience life’. A different approach was needed so she flew to the USA to make the album. ‘It was written on the piano with the intention of getting other players involved as I wanted to make this record differently than I had before,’ Laura says.