Imogen Heap
Sun 31 Oct 2010 8pm
Butterworth Hall: £17.50
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CloseA singer songwriter of astonishing emotional eloquence, and one half of the art-rock band Frou Frou, Imogen Heap is the Grammy Award winning artist whose latest album, Ellipse, has had North American chart success and earned two further Grammy nominations.
Classically trained when she was younger, her own songs explore electronica, alternative pop and rock and Euro-pop.
After the leaps she made on the release of her breakthrough album Speak For Yourself, Imogen Heap remained true to her do-it yourself ethos, building her own studio in the old family home in Essex.
With 2009’s Ellipse she enlisted the help of her huge fanbase to write the biography for the new album via Tweets submitted by her 650,000 odd followers on Twitter, to contribute artwork designs, and by keeping her fans up-to-date on the recording of the new album over 38 vBlogs, all available on her website. She even invited fans to complete an unfinished track “The Song That Never Was”, providing the lyrics, with over 500 fans adding backing music for their own versions.
“Although she employs bells and whistles from equipment I can’t comprehend and instruments I can’t pronounce, the songs are so well-written, they would stand on their own” Performing Songwriter
Butterworth Hall
With a maximum capacity of 2000 standing or 1500 seated this concert hall has an outstanding natural acoustic and is the home of our International Concert Series, as well as the majority of our music gigs and big name comedians. Butterworth Hall has recently had a £6.9 million redevelopment and reopened in autumn 2009 .
3 Comments
So excited! Imogen's amazing! I'm up for a bit of a dance, it's even worth missing halloween for :)
Rachael Stott at 10:25pm on Thu 27th May 2010
Hi Rachael Stott, I'm actually going to this with you! Lol
So worth missing halloween for, it'll be amazing. I hope people dress up!
Catrin Vincent at 11:14am on Fri 3rd Sep 2010
I'll tweet Imogen, hopefully get her to suggest we all go in costume! I'll also suggest she does 'Thriller' again as she did for Radio 2 - the perfect night for it!
Charles Budd at 1:34pm on Fri 22nd Oct 2010